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East Asia
Veteran goalie calls it quits
Veteran football goalkeeper Lee Woon-jae on Monday paid tributes to his fans for their support as he bid farewell to a 17-year playing career. “My body will leave the football pitch, but my heart will always be there,” Lee said at a press conference in Seoul. “And it’s all thanks…
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South Asia
Ancient form of Pakistani sport developed to Greco-Roman wrestling
Malakhro is the South Asian form of sport wrestling, mostly played in Pakistan and parts of India. The match begins with both wrestlers tying a twisted cloth, called Sandhro, around the opponent’s waist. Each one then holds onto the opponent’s waistcloth and tries to throw him to the ground. Malakhro…
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East Asia
LG pokes fun at Apple
Firm’s marketing strategy against iPhone maker questioned LG Group’s subsidiaries have taken jabs at Apple with aggressive newspaper ads and posters targeting the U.S. technology giant but industry observers believe it will not help the group’s short-term growth as well as its long-term globalization strategy. Such moves seem to go…
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East Asia
Chinese Communist Party Official Greets Taiwanese Attending Congress In Beijing
Yu Zhengsheng, a Standing Committee member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, shakes hands with delegates attending the 9th national congress of Taiwan compatriots in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 17, 2012. <Xinhua/Li Tao>
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South Asia
Two Separate Gunshots In Quetta, Pakistan, Leave Four Dead
People gather around a body of a government official at the shootout site in southwest Pakistan’s Quetta, Dec. 17, 2012. At least four people including one official and three policemen were killed in two separate firing incidents in Pakistan’s southwest city of Quetta on Monday morning, reported local media Samaa.…
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East Asia
Kim Jong-un likely to be chosen as TIME’s new “Person of the Year”
2012 seems to be a good year for Kim Jong-un, beside succeeding his late father, Kim Jung-il, in ruling North Korea, he appeared on TIME magazine’s cover before and even been named “sexist man alive” although the later one was a prank done by satirical newspaper “The Onion”, and some…
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East Asia
Kim Jong-un Inaugurates Renovated Kumsusan Palace Of The Sun In Pyongyang
Top leader Kim Jong Un (L) attend the inaugural ceremony for the renovated Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, where the embalmed bodies of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il are laid in Pyongyang, capital of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), on Dec. 17, 2012. DPRK held various…
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West Asia
Bahraini Anti-Gov’t Protesters Run Away From Police Chase In Manama
Bahraini anti-government protesters run from riot police, unseen, run in Manama, Bahrain, Monday, Dec.17, 2012. Security forces in Bahrain have fired tear gas and stun grenades to break up protest marchers after calls by anti-government groups to snarl the Gulf nation’s capital with demonstrators. Bahraini human rights activist Sayed Yousef…
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West Asia
Israeli Soldiers Intervene Fighting Between Palestinians And Jewish Settlers In West Bank
An Israeli soldier detains a Palestinian farmer from the northern West Bank village of Madama, on Dec. 17, 2012, in the West Bank, near city of Nablus. Israeli soldiers came to the area to intervene in the fighting which left tree Palestinian and one settler wounded. Armed Israeli settlers from…
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West Asia
Newly Appointed Egyptian Prosecutor General Tenders Resignation
Undated file photo shows Egypt’s newly-appointed prosecutor general Talat Ibrahim Abdullah. Egypt’s newly-appointed prosecutor general, Talat Ibrahim Abdullah, submitted his resignation to the head of Supreme Council of Justice on Monday, state TV reported. <Xinhua/STR>
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