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West Asia
Israel Airsrike Palestine, 1 Person Dead
Palestinians inspect a car targeted in Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, on Dec. 27, 2011. Eight Palestinians were moderately injured in an Israeli airstrike on the Gaza city on Tuesday night, hours after an earlier air raid killed an Islamic Jihad militant in the area, medical sources said. <Photo: Xinhua/Wissam Nassar>…
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World
“Stop Sexual Harassment!”
Egyptian protestors shout slogans during a protest against the military council violations and virginity tests on women, outside the State Council court in Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 27, 2011. A Cairo court ordered the Egyptian army to stop forced virginity tests on female detainees, months after the practice sparked a…
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East Asia
Soft Power is Telling on the Generation Y
North Koreans are in deep mourning, bereaved of their father figure Kim Jong Il. They have grown up knowing only one leader, first Kim Il Sung, the founder of the political dynasty,and then his son Kim Jong Il, who died last week. The leadership mantle has been handed down…
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East Asia
Lee-Hyun Meets Kim Yong-nam
Kim Yong-nam (7th L), president of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), poses for group photos with Lee Hee-ho (6th L), widow of former South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, and Hyun Jeong-eun (8th L), chairwoman of the Hyundai Group, in…
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East Asia
Lee-Hyun Meets NK Kim Yong-nam
Kim Yong-nam (R, Front), president of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), greets Lee Hee-ho (C, Front), widow of former South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, and Hyun Jeong-eun (L, Front), chairwoman of the Hyundai Group, in Pyongyang, DPRK, Dec. 27,…
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East Asia
“Would You Try Korean Style Bacon?”
Children try Korean food in Yongju, South Korea, Dec. 21, 2011. To promote the youth cultural exchange between Qinhuangdao of China and Yongju of South Korea, a delegation composed of 34 children from Qinhuangdao Bright Love Orphanage, led by their “father” Shen Xuedong, visited Yongju recently. As the president of…
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East Asia
“Let’s be the Bride and Groom”
Children experience local culture in Yongju, South Korea, Dec. 20, 2011. To promote the youth cultural exchange between Qinhuangdao of China and Yongju of South Korea, a delegation composed of 34 children from Qinhuangdao Bright Love Orphanage, led by their “father” Shen Xuedong, visited Yongju recently. As the president of…
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East Asia
“Shall We Dance?”
Residents practise a dance of Va ethnic group in Shuiping Village of Gengma County in Lincang City, southwest China’s Yunnan Province, Dec. 24, 2011. Ninety-one percent of the population in Shuiping Village is of Va ethnic group. The folk dancing of Va ethnic group performed by local residents attracts many…
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South Asia
4th Anniversay of Bhutto’s Death
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) workers light candles on the eve of the fourth death anniversary of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in Lahore, eastern Pakistan, Dec. 26, 2011. Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on Dec. 27, 2007 following an electioneering rally at Liaqat Bagh park in Rawalpindi. <Photo: Xinhua/Sajjad> news@theasian.asia…
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East Asia
Lee & Hyun Returned from P’yang
Photo released by Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shows Lee Hee-ho (7th, L), widow of former South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, and Hyun Jeong-eun (6th, R), chairwoman of the Hyundai Group, arrive in Pyongyang to offer condolences to late top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)…
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