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South Asia
Thousands Of Indians Play Traditional Instrument To Create A Guinness Record
Indians wearing traditional Assamese attire play the khol, a traditional percussion instrument of Assam, in an attempt to create a Guinness record, in Titabar, about 350 kilometers (219 miles) east of Gauhati, India, Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013. A total of 14,833 people participated in the event, according to officials. A…
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West Asia
Egyptian Christians Attend Mass For Orthodox Christmas At St. Mark’s Cathedral In Cairo
Egyptian Christians pray during a midnight Mass on the eve of Orthodox Christmas at St. Mark’s Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt, late Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013 . Pope Tawadros II, the 118th pope of the Coptic Church of Egypt, left, leads a midnight Mass on the eve of Orthodox Christmas at…
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South East Asia
Gunbattle Takes Place Between Police And Criminals In Atimonan, Philippines
In this photo released by the Philippine National Police Quezon Provincial Director’s Office, police officers gather evidence as bodies of suspected criminals lay on the road after a shootout with army and police at a checkpoint along a road in the town of Atimonan in Quezon province, about 140 kilometers…
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Culture
Russia Orthodox Believers Attend Mass For Christmas Which Falls On Jan. 7
Russian Orthodox believers attend the Christmas Mass at the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow, Russia, early Monday, Jan. 7, 2013. Christmas falls on Jan. 7 for Orthodox Christians in the Holy Land, Russia and other Orthodox churches that use the old Julian calendar instead of the 16th-century Gregorian calendar…
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West Asia
Afghan Women Walk Along A Road In Kabul
Afghan women walk along a road in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Jan. 6, 2013. Afghans walk at a dusty road in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Jan. 6, 2013. <Xinhua/Ahmad Massoud>
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East Asia
Brazil, Korea seek synergy over next five years
“May the best man win”- so the old saying goes. But coming from Brazil, presently governed by a lady president, and living in Korea, whose citizens have recently chosen a woman for the highest office, I never doubted that to be successful in the globalized world of today is not…
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East Asia
Politics of food
Lawmakers halt MB’s ‘hansik’ globalization project Bureaucratic ambitions to foster “hansik,’’ or traditional Korean food, as the newest star in global cuisine appears to be on hold as lawmakers vow to look into allegations that the existing government investment has been wasted and abused. Representatives of the governing Saenuri Party…
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East Asia
‘Madam is more appropriate’
How should President-elect Park Geun-hye be addressed in English? An official from Park’s transition team said the nation’s first female president could be addressed as either Madam or Ms. The Foreign Ministry also confirmed there was no preference but pointed out that Ms. was used more frequently than madam in…
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East Asia
Choi Jin-sil tragedy relived
Ex-husband hangs himself The apparent suicide of Cho Sung-min, the ex-husband of the late movie and television star Choi Jin-sil, is more than another tragedy involving a celebrity. The 39-year-old ex-pitcher of Japan’s Yomiuri Giants marked the third “connected suicide” after his ex-wife and her younger brother Jin-young. The late…
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East Asia
Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang Meets With Model Rural Doctors In Beijing
Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang, who is also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, shakes hands with Zhong Jing (L), a rural doctor from a village in Guizhou Province, during his meeting with Zhong and 17 other…
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