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South Asia
Pakistan’s opposition supporters cheer Nawaz Sharif at election campaign
In this Monday, April 29, 2013 photo, Pakistani villagers listen to an activist from the Association for Gender Awareness & Human Empowerment lecturing about the benefits of voting in Mateela village near Sargodha, Pakistan. As the country gets set to vote in the upcoming nationwide election that will see a…
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South Asia
Bangladeshi activists throw stones in protest against anti-blasphemy law
Bangladeshi protesters throw stones at policemen during a protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, May 5, 2013. Police in Bangladesh’s capital fired rubber bullets to disperse stone-throwing Islamic activists Sunday during a protest to demand that the government enact an anti-blasphemy law. <AP Photo/Ashraful Alam Tito>
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East Asia
Chinese pupils sell their books at secondhand book fair in Nanjing
Pupils sell their secondhand books at the secondhand book fair in Nanjing, capital of east China’s Jiangsu Province, May 5, 2013. During the fair, pupils and middle school students could sell or exchange their idle books, stationery and toys as well, by which they were expected by the organizer to…
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East Asia
A N. Korean pharmacist waits for customers at traditional medicine pharmacy
Family members of a hospital patient bring a blanket and other items during a visit to Pyongyang Medical College in Pyongyang, North Korea on Feb. 21, 2013. A pharmacist waits for customers at the Man Nyon Pharmacy, the nation’s largest dispensary of traditional “Koryo” medicine, in Pyongyang, North Korea on…
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East Asia
Baby monkey, tiger and lion cuddle at ‘animial kindergarten’
A triplet of baby monkey, tiger and lion cuddle at the “animial kindergarten” of a zoo in Shenyang, capital of northeast China’s Liaoning Province, May 1, 2013. <Xinhua/Zhang Wenkui>
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West Asia
A Palestinian refugee girl eats bread in poverty-stricken Gaza Strip
Palestinian Palestinian refugee children play in front of their family house in a poverty-stricken quarter in northern Gaza Strip town Beit Lahiya on April 28, 2013. Reports said that an increasing number of Gazan families are falling further into poverty, with unemployment rates at over 30 percent according to 2012…
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Central Asia
Turkmenian President demonstrates his equestrian skills
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov demonstrates his equestrian skills in Ashkhabad, Turkmenistan, April 27, 2013. <Xinhua/Lu Jingli>
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South Asia
India celebrates 100 years of filmmaking
New Delhi – Four top Indian filmmakers have come together to make “Bombay Talkies,” a film that celebrates 100 years of Indian cinema. The film hits theaters Friday. India’s first full-length feature film, “Raja Harishchandra” or “King Harishchandra,” was released in 1913. That film was produced and directed…
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East Asia
A N. Korean boy looks at wallposter full of bellicose rhetorics
A boy looks at a poster reading “Severe punishment to the U.S. and their followers” in the central district of Pyongyang, North Korea, on Thursday, May 2, 2013. <AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin>
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South East Asia
Visitors pose for photo during Trick Art Exhibition in Jakarta
A visitor poses for a photo in front of a three-dimensional painting during the Trick Art Exhibition held at a shopping mall in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 29, 2013. A total of 72 creative works from South Korea and Indonesia were displayed at the exhibition. Two visitors pose for a photo…
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