• East AsiaHEADS OF STANDING COMMITTEES APPOINTED

    Mongolia on 13 February 2012

    Mongolia on 13 February 2012 <Montsame>: HEADS OF STANDING COMMITTEES APPOINTED   news@theasian.asia

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  • East AsiaFormer tycoon's death sentence weighs heavily

    China on 13 February 2012

    China on 13 February 2012 <People Daily>: With imminence of Valentine’s Day, rose price up in China’s Yinchuan news@theasian.asia

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  • East AsiaU.S., Japan begin talks on sending 4,700 Marines to Guam

    Japan on 13 February 2012

    Japan on 13 February 2012 <Japan Today>: Air New Zealand flight from Tokyo held on tarmac over flu scare news@theasian.asia

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  • South Asia

    Valentine’s Day in Pakistan

    A Pakistani woman chooses gifts for the upcoming Valentine’s Day in a shop in northwest Pakistan’s Peshawar on Feb. 11, 2012. <Photo: Xinhua/Umar Qayyum> news@theasian.asia

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  • East Asia

    “Kiss Me, Darling”

    Changmao, a male sheep, plays with its partner Chunzi, a female spotted deer, in Yunnan Wild Animal Park in Kunming, capital of southwest China’s Yunnan Province, Feb. 10, 2012. Changmao and Chunzi fell in love with each other after living together for a long time. The park will hold a…

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  • East Asia

    World Press Photo Contest Announces Winners

    A handout picture released on Feb. 10, 2012 by World Press Photo shows the work of Samuel Aranda with the caption “a woman holds a wounded relative in her arms, inside a mosque used as a field hospital by demonstrators against rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, during clashes in…

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  • West Asia

    Syria Aleppo Blasts, 28 Dead

    Photo taken on Feb. 10, 2012 shows the explosion site of a law-enforcement force in Hanano area in Aleppo, northern Syria. Twin deadly blasts caused by car bombs hit two sites of Syrian government forces in northern Aleppo province Friday, leaving 28 people killed and other 235 injured, said Syria’s…

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  • East Asia

    NY Fashion Week ‘Concept Korea’ Fashion Show

    Models display creations during the Concept Korea presentation at Lincoln Center during the Fall 2012 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York, Feb. 10, 2012. <Photo: Xinhua/Shen Hong> news@theasian.asia

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  • South Asia

    Fortune Whaleshark Left

    A boy lies on a dead whale shark in southern Pakistani port city of Karachi on Feb. 9, 2012. The 40-foot whale shark was found dead at a coastal area of Karachi in the Arabian Sea. <Photo: Xinhua/Toheed> news@theasian.asia

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  • East Asia

    China CPI Increase 4.5%

    Citizens buy vegetable at a supermarket in Chongqing, southwest China, Jan. 27, 2012. China’s consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose 4.5 percent year-on-year in January, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Feb. 9, 2012. <Photo: Xinhua/Li Jian> news@theasian.asia

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