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East Asia
Chinese Premier Li meets with Palestinian President Abbas
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (R) shakes hands with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during their meeting in Beijing, capital of China, May 6, 2013. <Xinhua/Liu Weibing>
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East Asia
Grading America’s ‘Pivot to Asia’
Editor’s note: The ‘Pivot to Asia’ has been understood as one of the Obama Administration’s central foreign policy initiatives. Simply put, the pivot is meant to be a strategic ‘rebalancing’ of U.S. interests from Europe and the Middle East toward East Asia. But there are still lots of controversy over…
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East Asia
How long will N. Korea’s regime last?
Three problems of young leader How stable is the North Korean government? Is it going to continue indefinitely? And if it does not, what is its life expectancy? The present author encounters those questions nearly every day. The only honest answer to such questions is that we do not know.…
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South East Asia
Malaysia’s governing coalition extends rule despite worst electoral showing
Malaysia’s governing coalition extended its half-century rule despite its worst-ever performance in a general election, a result that exposes growing racial polarization in the Southeast Asian nation and could undermine Prime Minister Najib Razak. With just one result left to declare, the National Front had won 133 seats in the…
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South East Asia
Hilltribe people hold King’s flags at Thailand’s coronation day celebration
Hilltribe people in their costumes hold Thai and the King’s flags as they gather to honor Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej during the coronation day celebrations in Bangkok, Thailand Sunday, May 5, 2013. The 85-year-old King Bhumibol, the world’s longest-reigning monarch, was formally crowned on May 5, 1950. <AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong>
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West Asia
Palestinian Orthodox Christians take part in Holy Fire ceremony
Palestinian Orthodox Christians take part in the Holy Fire ceremony at the Saint Porfirios church in Gaza City early on May 5, 2013. Christians believe Jesus was crucified and buried at the site where the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, traditionally believed to be the site of the crucifixion of…
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South Asia
Sri Lankan navy retrieves debris of aircraft gunned down in 1998
Sri Lankan navy personnel and police officers look at the debris of a Russian-built Antonov passenger aircraft they retrieved from the sea in Iranativu, off Mannar coast, about 180 kilometers (110 miles) north of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday, May 5, 2013. Sri Lankan police and navy began salvaging the passenger…
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South Asia
An Indian polling officer applies indelible ink mark on voter’s finger
An Indian Muslim woman arrives with her child at a polling station to caste her vote in Bangalore, India, Sunday, May 5, 2013. The southern Indian state of Karnataka which has 41.8 million voters including 21.3 million women headed to the polls Sunday. There are 2948 candidates contesting for 224…
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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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