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East Asia
Anti-Japan Protests Continue In Major Chinese Cities
A Chinese demonstrator throws a teargas canister back to riot policemen during a protest against Japan in Shenzhen, China Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012. Protesters in China have begun another day of demonstrations against Japan, after protests over disputed islands spread across numerous cities and at times turned violent. <AP Photo/Apple…
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East Asia
Chinese Quake Victims Get Food In Relocation Area
People get food at a relocation area in Luozehe Township in Yiliang, southwest China’s Yunnan Province, Sept. 16, 2012. A dining center was set up at a relocation area in Luozehe Township after multiple earthquakes struck Yiliang county and neighboring areas in Yunnan on Sept. 7, killing at least 81…
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World
Lybian President Speaks Of Killing Of Four Americans
Libyan President Mohammed el-Megarif , speaks during his interview with the Associated Press at his resident, regarding the attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens on Tuesday night, in Benghazi, Libya, Friday, Sept. 16, 2012. “At least some of them, not necessarily the Militia as a whole, there…
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East Asia
Senior Member Of Chinese Congress Visit Container Wharf In Colombo
Wu Bangguo (L front), chairman of the Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress (NPC), visits the south container wharf at the Port of Colombo in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sept. 16, 2012. <Xinhua/Li Tao> news@theasian.asia
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West Asia
A Syrian Family Takes Shelter At School Classroom
A Syrian man and his children who fled their home in Aleppo due to government shelling, sleep in a classroom of a school where they take refuge, in Suran, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012. A book is left on the ground at the yard of…
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World
Pope Benedict Ends His Three-Day Visit To Lebanon
Pope Benedict XVI waves as he boards the plane back to Rome, at Rafik Hariri International airport, in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday Sept. 16, 2012. Pope Benedict XVI end his three days visit to Lebanon after he celebrated an open-air mass for tens of thousands of pilgrims from across the Middle…
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East Asia
U.S. Defense Chief In Tokyo To Talk With Japanese FM
U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, left, meets with Japan’s Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba, right, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tokyo, Monday, Sept. 17, 2012. <AP Photo/Larry Downing, Pool> news@theasian.asia
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China angered by NK move to usurp Chinese mining company
Over the last one and a half months, the outside world has been exposed to a rather unusual sight, that of China and North Korea (or rather a large Chinese company and the North Korean government) openly quarrelling. It has always been an open secret that China and North Korea are…
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Politics
Roh confidant rises from humble origins
Moon Jae-In, former presidential chief of staff to the late President Roh Moo-hyun, is a novice in politics. The 59-year-old entered politics by winning the April 11 parliamentary election in Busan. The first-term lawmaker may lack political experience, but he has a deep insight into running the country as he…
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Column
Blasphemy in Pakistan
It was a welcome change from the usual dreary story: a Christian or a Hindu Pakistani accused of blasphemy on flimsy grounds, tried, and sentenced to prison ― or found innocent, set free and then murdered by some Muslim fanatic. This time was different. The victim this time was a…
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