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South Asia
Hindu devotees gather at a temple in Mumbai to celebrate Maha Shivaratri festival
Hindu devotees queue to attend an event at the Babulnath Temple in Mumbai, India, March 10, 2013. A lot of Hindu devotees gathered at the Babulnath Temple Sunday to offer milk and flowers to celebrate the Maha Shivaratri festival. Maha Shivaratri which can be translated into “great night of Lord…
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East Asia
Anti-nuclear protest held in Tokyo in time for the second anniversary of tsunami
Protesters hold an anti-nuclear demonstration in front of the National Diet building, background center, in Tokyo Sunday, March 10, 2013. Thousands of people gathered in downtown Tokyo, marching to the prime minister’s official residence and the National Diet in protest against the government’s nuclear policy. Japan will mark the second…
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West Asia
Syrian children play at a desolate refuge camp in southern Lebanon
Syrian refugee children play outside camps at a town in south Lebanon, March 10, 2013. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said Friday that the number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon has reached to 336, 000. <Xinhua>
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West Asia
Yemeni girl swallows anti-schistosomiasis pill in a gov’t campaign to fight the diesase
A Yemeni girl swallow an anti-schistosomiasis pill at a school in Bait Khairan, 30km north of Sanaa, Yemen, on March 10, 2013. Financed by the World Bank, the Yemeni government started Sunday the national campaign to fight schistosomiasis that will cover 160 districts in 12 governorates, and targeted about 45…
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Deconstructing territorial disputes from outsider’s perspective
* Editor’s note: As the security tension is hightening in East Asia, Korean and international journalists and scholars gathered on Feb. 28 at a seminar hosted by the Asia Journalist Association and discussed the “Asian media’s role for the peaceful resolution of territorial disputes.” Following is the presentation at the seminar by Michael…
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East Asia
DPRK top leader Kim Jong Un inspects a front-line army unit stationed on two southwestern islands
Photo released by Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shows top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong Un (C) inspecting a front-line army unit stationed on two southwestern islands in DPRK. Kim Jong Un said on Thursday that the DPRK military was ready to fight an…
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East Asia
Pedestrians walk in Tokyo as 0.2 percent economic growth reported
Pedestrians walk on the crosswalk in Tokyo, Japan, on March 8, 2013. The Japanese economy expanded at an annualized rate of 0.2 percent in the three months through December in inflation-adjusted terms, up from preliminary data, the government data showed Friday. <Xinhua/Kenichiro Seki>
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South East Asia
Accident scene where 11 people were killed in Khanh Hoa, Vietnam
Photo taken on March 8, 2013 shows the debris at the accident site in Khanh Hoa province, Vietnam. At least 11 people were killed and another 49 injured as two coaches collided with each other on Highway 1A in Vietnam’s central Khanh Hoa province early Friday morning, local VnExpress reported.…
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South East Asia
A man carries mattress in unemployment stricken Myanmar
A man carries mattress on his shoulder at a railway station in Yangon, Myanmar, March 8, 2013. Nearly 350,000 or 56 percent job-seeking workers out of 810,000 registered with Myanmar’s labor department were employed at home and abroad as of the end of 2012, leaving over 500,000 still unemployed, local…
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South Asia
A Pakistani girl lights candles during a vigil for the bombing victims
A Pakistani Shiite Muslim girl lights candles during a vigil for the 45 victims killed in a massive bombing last weekend in southern Pakistani port city of Karachi on March 8, 2013. About 397 people were killed and over 800 others injured in many bomb blasts that ripped through different…
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