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East Asia
Seoul, Mexico City ink pact on strategic, mutually beneficial relationship
The mayors of Seoul and Mexico City agreed Tuesday to elevate the friendly relationship between the two capitals to a strategic and mutually beneficial one. Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon met with Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum at her office in the Mexican capital and signed an agreement to strengthen cooperation…
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Korean man who died in Mexico returned with missing organs
The body of a Korean man who died in Mexico has been returned to his family ― without his brain, stomach and heart. Mexican authorities claim that the man, 35, surnamed Kim, died of natural causes despite a scuffle with other people just before his death. His widow fears that…
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Enrique Pena Nieto Elected as Mexican President
Enrique Pena Nieto, presidential candidate for the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI), left, speaks to supporters accompanied by his wife Angelica Rivera at the party’s headquarters in Mexico City, early Monday, July 2, 2012. Mexico’s old guard sailed back into power after a 12-year hiatus Sunday as the official preliminary vote…
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“Let’s Take Bicycle”
Cyclists, some naked, ride their bikes with other bicycle enthusiasts in Mexico City, Saturday, June 9, 2012. Cyclists demonstrated naked to promote the use of bicycles and to highlight the damage caused by car dependency in the capital. <AP/NEWSis> news@theasian.asia
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A Show Of Protest By Pro-Life Group
MEXICO CITY — The Angel of Independence monument steps are lined with black boxes imprinted with white crosses representing coffins, placed there by members of the pro-life group Comit Nacional Pro-Vida, in an anti-abortion demonstration to protest the capital’s law that allows the termination of a pregnancy within the first…
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World
Mexicans Enjoy ‘Rosca de Reyes’
People gather around a large-size traditional sweet bread Rosca de Reyes, or Three Kings Bread at the Zocalo Square in downtown Mexico City, capital of Mexico, on Jan. 4, 2012. A 9,375-kilogram-weight and 720-meter-long Rosca de Reyes made by some Mexican bakers was shown in the square and cut into…
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“Don’t Trade Your Pets”
An activist from an animal rights organization protests against the purchase and sale of animals in Mexico City, capital of Mexico, Jan. 3, 2012. (Xinhua/Claudio Cruz) (dtf)
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