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East Asia
Palace Museum received 16 million visitors in 2016
The number of visitors to the Palace Museum in Beijing for 2016 hit 16 million when an 18-year-old student from northeast China’s Liaoning Province bought a ticket on Saturday Morning. The record number of visitors is an increase of 6.19 percent from 2015. More than 15 million visitors have visited…
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East Asia
2017 New Year in Seoul
New Year is approaching fast and there is a variety of events that you could attend to for New Year’s Eve here in Seoul. There are some cultural events for New Year’s Eve that are worth looking out for. One of the main NYE events is the Bosingak Watch-Night bell…
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Central Asia
Defense contractors deliver over 100 warplanes to Russian troops in 2016
The Russian Armed Forces have received 100 warplanes and 180 combat helicopters from the defense industry this year, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said in an interview with Rossiya-24 TV Channel. “For the civil aviation, 30 passenger planes and 22 helicopters have been produced this year. If we speak about…
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East Asia
Images back to 1917 from 2017
Lee Sun-ho / The Korea Times At the dawn of the year 2017 it is intriguing to look back on the last century of human history to see how things have progressed since 1917, a typical common year of the snake, in contrast to 2017, the year of the rooster…
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East Asia
Alphonse Mucha-Pioneer of Modern Graphic Art
Alphonse Mucha (24 July 1860 – 14 July 1939) was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist. Mucha was famous for his commercial posters, which had a broad audience, but he also worked in a variety of other media, including furniture, jewelry, and theatrical sets. He essentially worked in…
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East Asia
1 year later, sex slavery deal on shaky ground
The agreement between Korea and Japan over compensation for women forced into sexual slavery before and during World War II is now on shaky ground with the opposition calling for its renegotiation or abolishment. On the first anniversary of the deal, Wednesday, the opposition parties asked for Japan to make…
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East Asia
Pictures revealed of China’s improved stealth fighter J-31
Recently, pictures of the improved edition of China’s stealth fighter J-31 were posted online, indicating a new stage of development for the aircraft. However, Chinese military expert Yin Zhuo told CCTV that it would still be some time before the design is finalized. The J-31 is a fourth-generation fighter developed…
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Central Asia
Uzbekistan’s new president focuses on improving regional relations
As international attention is being focused on new foreign policy and economic priorities of the new Uzbek president, we are republishing this article by Umida Hashimova, originally published by The Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Daily Monitor: The fifth presidential election in the history of independent Uzbekistan on December 4 has ended…
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East Asia
David LaChapelle – Inscape of Beauty
David LaChapelle is a well-known American photographer and a video artist. He is also known internationally for his outstanding talent on combining a unique hyper-realistic aesthetic with thorough social messages. You can recognize his commercial fashion portraits of celebrities as well as his signature blend of colorful, conceptual imagery, which…
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