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East Asia
A Scenery of Chinese Art Exhibition
Visitors view Chinese painter Zhao Xucheng’s inkwash paintings at Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum in Nanjing City, east China’s Jiangsu Province, Jan. 13, 2012. 2012 Jiangsu Traditional Chinese Painting Institute Art Exhibition and Zhao Xucheng Inkwash Painting Exhibition were held simultaneously in Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum, showing more than 400 works.…
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World
Burma Grants Amnesty for Political Prisoners
A released prisoner walks out of the Insein jail in Yangon, Myanmar, on Jan. 13, 2012. Myanmar former Prime Minister U Khin Nyunt was among as many as over 600 prisoners being freed by the government Friday under Thursday’s amnesty order endorsed by President U Thein Sein, official sources confirmed. <Photo:…
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West Asia
Iranian Nuke Scientist Funeral
People carry the coffin of Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan during a funeral ceremony in Tehran, on Jan. 13, 2012. Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan was killed in a car bomb attack in northern Tehran on Wednesday. <Photo: Xinhua/Ahmad Halabisaz> news@theasian.asia
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West Asia
Ban Ki-moon Visits Lebanon
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (L) meets with Lebanese President Michel Suleiman in Beirut, Lebanon, Jan. 13, 2012. Ban Ki-moon arrived in Beirut on Friday with the aim of discussing a UN-backedp tribunal robing the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister, the unrest in Syria and the attacks on the…
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East Asia
China-Turkmenistan, 20th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relationship
Chinese President Hu Jintao’s special envoy Chen Zhili makes a speech at a reception in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, Jan. 13, 2012. Chen Zhili held the reception to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Turkmenistan Friday. <Photo: Xinhua/Lu Jingli> news@theasian.asia
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World
Haitians Mark 2nd Anniversary of Catastrophe
A woman prays at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Port-au-Prince, capital of Haiti, on Jan. 12, 2012. Haitians on Thursday marked the second anniversary of the catastrophic earthquake that killed more than 222,000 people and left 1.5 million people homeless on January 12, 2010. <Photo: Xinhua/Andres Martinez Casares> news@theasian.asia
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East Asia
Katsuya Okada Accepts Japanese DPM
Katsuya Okada (L), a former secretary general of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), arrives at the prime minister’s official residence in Tokyo, Japan, on Jan. 13, 2012. Katsuya Okada was appointed as the deputy prime minister on Friday. Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda reshuffled his Cabinet Friday to…
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Column
Park v Chun, Where They Stayed
On 25th anniversary of the death of student Park Jong-chul A cell in a police detention centre where a student died from torture. And a cell in a Buddhist temple where a general did his penance. In stark symbolic contrast, these sites have been associated with key episodes in the…
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World
Brazil Landslide Casualties Funeral
Relatives of five victims of a landslide that occurred on Jan. 9, carry a coffin during a funeral in Sapucaia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Jan. 12, 2012. The victims, a man, his wife, two daughters and his nephew died inside their vehicle buried by the landslide. The total victims’…
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West Asia
Iranian President Waves to Equador People
Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa (L) and his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad greet residents from the balcony of the Carondelet Palace, in Quito, capital of Ecuador, on Jan. 12, 2012. Ahmadinejad arrived in Ecuador Thursday on the last leg of his Latin American tour. <Photo: Xinhua/Santiago Armas> news@theasian.asia
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