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The Arab Spring Elections: The Season for All Islamists!
At 15:09 Cairo local time, on 12 October 1992, with an epiccenter near the small city of Dahshur, 35km south of the Egyptian capital, with a magnitude of 5.8, but was unusually destructive for its size, came the devilish earthquake causing 545 deaths, injuring 6512 and making 50,000 people homeless. It was…
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World
Egypt Reinforces its Security
Photo released by the Middle East News Agency on Feb. 8, 2012 shows armored vehicle patrolling on the road in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt decided on Wednesday to dispatch more army soldiers across the country for intensive security measures. <Photo: Xinhua> news@theasian.asia
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West Asia
Israel Military Drill “Missile Equipment Test”
A reserve soldier of Israel Defense Forces (IDF) operates an equipment which can track rockets’ direction and instantly analyze exactly where they will fall during a military drill monitoring the skies for falling rockets in Ashkelon, near the border of Israel and the Gaza Strip, on Feb. 8, 2012. <Photo:…
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East Asia
“Nowhere to Go”
A harbor seal swims in ice water at the ecological seal bay near Yantai City, east China’s Shandong Province, Feb. 8, 2012. Affected by a cold wave, the seal bay iced up recently, trapping the harbor seals living in this water area. Workers of the scenic area started breaking ice…
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Asia’s economic power-houses eye Arctic el dorado
Asia’s economic power-houses eye Arctic el dorado With global warming bringing nearer the likelihood of opening up sea lanes and spurring exploitation of vast natural resource across the Arctic, an exciting political chess game is unfolding in the ice-melting polar region where China, Japan and South Koreas as well as…
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West Asia
Consumer Price in Iran Skyrocket
A blind man plays accordion as people shop at Tehran’s old main bazaar, in downtown Tehran, Iran, Feb. 7, 2012. As western sanctions on Iran intensify, prices of commodities in Iran have experienced sharp increase in the past several months. (Xinhua/Ahmad Halabisaz) news@theasian.asia
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South East Asia
Singapore’s Former DPM ‘Toh Chin Chye’ Died at 90
Students of Raffles Girl’s Primary School line along the street to send off Singapore’s former deputy prime minister Toh Chin Chye, Feb. 7, 2012. His funeral was held on Tuesday as all government buildings flew the national flag at half-mast. Toh Chin Chye, known as one of the most important…
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World
Chinese Workers Abducted in Sudan Released
Freed Chinese wokers arrive at the Intercontinental hotel in Nairobi, Feb. 7, 2012. Twenty-nine Chinese nationals abducted by local rebels in Sudan last month arrived on Tuesday afternoon at the Wilson Airport in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, where they were handed over to the local Chinese embassy. <Photo: Xinhua/Jiang…
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Biting Wind on the Street
A woman walks in snowstorm in Rousse, Bulgaria, Feb. 7, 2012. Roads out of Rousse were closed Tuesday, as a snowstorm hit Rousse. <Photo: Xinhua> news@theasian.asia
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Central Asia
Kazakhstan on 8 February 2012
Kazakhstan on 8 February 2012 <Tengri News> : “Nazarbayev on official visit to Germany” news@theasian.asia
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