• South East Asia

    Suu Kyi Arrives In Troubled Copper Town To Hear People’s Grievances

    Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi waves to her supporters as she arrives in Monywa town, northwestern Myanmar, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. Security forces used water cannons, tear gas and smoke bombs Thursday to clear protesters from a copper mine in northwestern Myanmar, wounding villagers and Buddhist monks just hours…

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  • East Asia

    Xi Jinping And Other New Chinese Leaders Inspect Exhibition In Beijing

    Xi Jinping (2nd R, front), general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission (CMC), views “The Road Toward Renewal” exhibition along with other members of the Standing Committee of Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee including Li Keqiang…

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  • West Asia

    President Of COP18/ CMP8 Speaks At Youth Day Celebration In Doha, Qatar

    President of the COP18/CMP8 Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah speaks to youth delegates as part of Youth Day at the Qatar National Convention Center in Doha, Qatar, Nov. 29, 2012. <Xinhua>

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  • East Asia

    Head Of AIG Speaks In AmCham General Membership Meeting In Seoul

    President & CEO of American International Group (AIG) Robert Benmosche delivers a speech during the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) general membership meeting in Seoul, South Korea, Nov. 30, 2012. <Xinhua/Park Jin-hee>

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  • Human rights in N. Korea

    Seoul’s pure but positive involvement needed A key U.N. committee adopted a resolution Tuesday denouncing North Korea’s rampant abuse of human rights, “by consensus and without a vote” for the first time. It shows the international community is one and the same in condemning the systematic, widespread and grave human…

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  • Preparing for the end of the Afghan war

    International combat operations in Afghanistan, now involving mostly U.S. troops, are to come to a formal end at the close of 2014, at roughly 13 years by far America’s longest-running war. The families of the returning troops will be delighted to see them come home; the rest of the country…

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  • World

    Ukraine’s missed opportunity

    As expected, Ukraine’s recent election was reportedly riddled with massive fraud, albeit on an arguably lesser scale than the corruption which triggered the 2004 Orange Revolution. Meanwhile, the charismatic Yulia Tymoshenko, one of the leaders of the Orange Revolution remains locked up. Tymoshenko’s incarceration is indicative of the price she…

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  • East Asia

    Celebs join campaign trail

    Entertainers, sports stars livening up election atmoshpere Since official campaigning for the presidential poll began this week, a number of celebrities have joined forces to support the leading candidates, Park Geun-hye and Moon Jae-in, in order to charm undecided voters. Members of the celebrity cast have different supporting roles in…

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  • East Asia

    NK sacks defense minister

    North Korea has sacked its defense minister in a shake-up apparently aimed at bolstering loyalty to its young leader Kim Jong-un among the military elite, reports said Thursday. The regime replaced Kim Jong-gak as minister of the People’s Armed Forces after just seven months in the position. He is replaced…

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  • East Asia

    Envoy in China to discuss NK

    Seoul’s top nuclear envoy Lim Sung-nam left for Beijing Thursday to discuss North Korea as speculation mounted over a possible long-range missile launch by Pyongyang. Recent satellite images have shown preparations being made at a launch site at the North’s Sohae Satellite Launch Station on the nation’s West Coast, raising…

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