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East Asia
Japanese PM Abe shakes hands with NATO Secretary-General Rasmussen
NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, left, shakes hands with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe after they exchanged documents of joint political declaration between Japan and the NATO during a signing ceremony at Abe’s official residence in Tokyo Monday, April 15, 2013. <AP Photo/Toru Hanai, Pool>
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East Asia
N. Korea’s bluffing works again
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING North Korea has scored another brilliant diplomatic success. It has scared the world and created a sense of acute international crisis out of nothing. In the last two weeks, Seoul has been flooded with international journalists most of whom have come to report on the “growing…
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East Asia
Bird flu spreads to central China
The total number of cases of humans infected with bird flu in China has reached 60 and it is spreading to the central region. Eleven new cases of H7N9 bird flu infection were confirmed, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 60, while Shanghai reported two…
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Taiwan sets to manage Korean risks
To cushion the blow of possible Korean Peninsula fallout on its economy and trade, Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has readied a package of countermeasures, according to an MOEA report to be delivered at the Legislative Yuan on Apr 15. The Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committees of the…
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East Asia
Suu Kyi visits Japan for the first time in 27 years
Nobel laureate and Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was greeted by dozens of flag-waving well-wishers, including people from her home country, as she arrived in Japan on Saturday for a weeklong visit. She later met with other people from Myanmar, packing a Tokyo hall, and answered their questions…
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West Asia
Lebanese pro-Syrian fighters patrol at Lebanon-Syria border
In this Friday, April 12, 2013 photo, members of the Lebanese pro-Syrian Popular Committees pose for a photograph at the Lebanon-Syria border, near the northeastern Lebanese town of al-Qasr, Lebanon. Masked men in camouflage toting Kalashnikov rifles fan out through a dusty olive orchard, part of a group of Hezbollah-backed…
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South East Asia
New Year in Myanmar: people celebrate water festival
Vehicles carrying revelers line up towards a pavilion from where another group of revelers spray water during the traditional Thingyan celebrations in Yangon, Myanmar, Sunday, April 14, 2013. Myanmar celebrated its annual water festival, known as Thingyan, from Saturday, marking the start of the New Year according to the traditional…
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South Asia
Indian children lie on the ground as a ritual for Hindu festival
Children are laid on a road as Hindu devotees step over them as part of a ritual during celebration of Shiva Gajan, a Hindu festival in Kolkata, India, Sunday, April 14, 2013. Devotees of Hindu god Shiva believe performing this ritual will ensure fulfillment of their wishes. Children are laid…
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South Asia
Bangladesh Hindu devotees perform at Charak Puja festival
A Bangladeshi Hindu devotee prepares to hang from a rope with hooks pierced in his back as part of a ritual during the Charak Puja festival in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, April 14, 2013. A Bangladeshi Hindu devotee carries a child as he hangs in a rope with hooks pierced in…
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South East Asia
Lion Air jet crashes into sea as all 108 passengers and crew survive
The wreckage of a Lion Air jet sits in the ocean near the airport in Bali, Indonesia on Sunday, April 14, 2013. All 108 passengers and crew survived after the new Lion Air jet crashed into the ocean and snapped into two while attempting to land Saturday on the Indonesian…
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