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East Asia
Female Giant Panda “Yaya” Climbs A Tree In Foping County, Northwest China
Three-year-old female Giant Panda “Yaya” climbs a tree in the Qinling Giant Panda Field Training Base in Foping County, northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, Jan. 28, 2013. “Yaya” was brought here a month ago to get trained in food seeking and climbing in the wilderness. <Xinhua/Ding Haitao>
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South Asia
India Successfully Blasts Off Ballistic Missile From Underwater Platform In The Bay Of Bengal
In this Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013 photo, India’s ballistic missile, with a range of 700 kilometers (435 miles), is launched in the waters off the Visakhapatnam coast, India. An Indian news report says India has successfully tested a medium-range, nuclear-capable ballistic missile fired from an underwater platform in the Bay…
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South Asia
An Indian Man Stages Sit-In Seeking Separate Statehood To Telangana At The Indira Park In Hyderabad, India
An Indian man sits near a banner during a protest at the Indira Park in Hyderabad, India, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. Protests continued for the second day Monday after the central government postponed its decision on granting a separate statehood to Telangana. Banner reads, “Delhi do not delay, declare Telangana…
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East Asia
U.S. Envoy For NK Shakes Hands With His Japanese Counterpart In Tokyo
U.S. envoy for North Korea Glyn Davies, left, poses with his Japanese counterpart Shinsuke Sugiyama prior to their talks at Sugiyama’s office in Tokyo on Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. Davies was in Tokyo on a four-day visit. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un convened top security and foreign affairs officials…
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West Asia
Egyptians Attend Funeral For Victims Of Violence In Port Said That Left 44 Dead
Egyptians attend the funeral of several Sunday victims of ongoing violence in Port Said, Egypt, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. The worst violence in Egypt this past weekend was in the Mediterranean coastal city of Port Said, where at least 44 people died in two days of clashes. The unrest was…
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East Asia
Japanese Lawmakers In Kimono Attend Opening Ceremony Of Ordinary Diet Session
Japanese lawmakers clad in kimono participate in the opening ceremony of the ordinary diet session at the upper house of parliament in Tokyo Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. About 80 lawmakers who belong to a non-partisan parliamentary group to promote the Japanese traditional attire customary attend the first diet session in…
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South East Asia
Bodies Of Nine People Killed In An Ambush By Gunmen Lie Along The Road In Central Philippines
In this Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013 photo released by the Philippine National Police Region 6 Public Information Office, the bodies of nine people, including civilians, village guards and police, lie along a dirt road after being ambushed by gunmen hiding in a sugarcane field in La Castellana township, Negros Occidental…
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East Asia
President Lee Myung-bak Talks With Aung San Suu Kyi At The Blue House In Seoul
Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, center, is greeted by Myanmarese who lives in South Korea upon her arrival at Incheon International Airport in Incheon, west of Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. Suu Kyi arrived in South Korea for her five-days trip to attend the opening ceremony…
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NHRC urges all concerned parties to complete probe on 2004 murder of journalist
KATHMANDU – The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has urged all stakeholders concerned to complete investigations into the 2004 murder of journalist Dekendra Thapa by following the due processes. In a statement on Thursday, the only constitutional human rights watchdog expressed concern over a clash between cadres of the ruling…
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East Asia
Restoring Seoul City Wall
Over the past several years, the city government of Seoul has taken a new interest in the Seoul City Wall that surrounded the old city. Built in 1396 four years after the selection of Seoul as the capital of the Joseon Dynasty, the wall is one of Seoul’s grandest historic…
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