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South Asia
Trilateral Summit Of Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan Held In Ankara
From left to right, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Turkish President Abdullah Gul and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari pose for group photo after their meeting in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012. Zardari, Gul and Karzai attend the 7th Trilateral Summit of Afghanistan, Pakistan…
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East Asia
Horsetail Embroidery Passed Down By Shui Ethnic Group Women In China
Wei Taohua, horse-tail embroidery craftswoman of Shui ethnic group, picks horsetail hairs in Sandu, southwest China’s Guizhou Province, Dec. 12, 2012. Horsetail embroidery is a traditional embroidery handicraft that uses horsetail hairs as raw materials and has been passed down by Shui women for generations. It was listed in China’s…
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West Asia
Yemenis Clean A Street During National Cleaning Campaign In Sanaa
A Yemeni soldier cleans a steet during a national cleaning campaign in Sanaa, Yemen, on Dec. 12, 2012. The Yemeni government launched the first and biggest ever cleaning campaign in the capital Sanaa on Wednesday. The campaign may allow Yemen to enter the race to break a Guinness World Record…
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West Asia
Syrian Opposition Forces Recognized As People’s Representative In Meeting
British Foreign Secretary William Hague (R, front) and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns (2nd R, Front) attend the meeting of Friends of Syria in Marrakech, Morocco, on Dec. 12, 2012. The meeting of Friends of Syria held here Wednesday recognizes the National Coalition for the Opposition Forces, which…
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South Asia
Indian Students Vow To End Practice Of Aborting Female Fetuses In Mumbai
Indian students hold placards as they take an oath vowing to eliminate the practice of aborting female fetuses in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012. In India, daughters are often seen as a burden because tradition requires that a bride’s family pay the groom’s family a large dowry of cash…
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West Asia
Egyptians Living In Jordan Vote For Constitutional Referendum
An Egyptian man who lives in Jordan casts his vote during the referendum for the Egyptian new constitution, at the Egyptian embassy in Amman, Jordan on Dec. 12, 2012. Egyptian expatriates started Wednesday morning casting their votes in the constitutional referendum, official news agency MENA reported. About 589,000 Egyptians are…
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East Asia
North Korean rocket technology progressing
There appears to be a new North Korean satellite lurking in orbit. The real statement out of Pyongyang was how its rocket achieved the desired height and speed, according to the head of South Korea’s space agency. Whether the intention is to boost its long-range weaponry or jump into the…
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East Asia
Who will benefit from high overseas voter turnout?
The high turnout rate in overseas absentee voting, which was wrapped up on Tuesday, stirred speculation about which candidate was likely going to benefit from it. According to the National Election Commission (NEC), more than seven out of every 10 registered overseas voters cast their ballots in polling stations in…
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East Asia
Red ginseng effective against HIV virus: study
A Korean research team said Wednesday it found that a stable dose of red ginseng given to people infected with HIV prevented it from developing into AIDS. The team, led by Prof. Cho Young-keol of the College of Medicine at the University of Ulsan, conducted the research on three HIV…
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East Asia
2 candidates condemn NK but slightly differently
The camps of the two main presidential candidates slammed North Korea, Wednesday, for the launch of a long-range Unha-3 rocket that allegedly put a satellite into orbit. Experts say that it’s hard to know which of the two will benefit more from the launch, although it was agreed no major…
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