• West Asia

    Jerusalem Holds 1st ‘Ice Festival’

    Israeli groom Moshe and his bride Shelit pose for wedding pictures at the site of the upcoming First Ice Festival in Jerusalem on March 5, 2012. A 1,500-square-meter arena was carried from Belgium for the ice festival, which will be held from March 6 to April 30. 35 Chinese artists…

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  • South Asia

    “Let’s Make our Street Bright”

    A Pakistani art student paints a wall along a street in Lahore, Pakistan on March 5, 2012. More than 300 art students and youths participate in a street art painting competition run by a local youth organization with the aim of improving the city vista. <Photo: Xinhua/Jamil Ahmed> news@theasian.asia

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  • South Asia

    Afghan Women Thrown in Workplace

    Two Afghan women work at a women bakery in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 5, 2012. Many women across the war-torn country who lost family members during the war have to work to support their families. <Photo: Xinhua/Maryam Khamosh> news@theasian.asia

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  • East Asia

    Just for Good Fortune

    A villager runs barefoot past a bonfire to pray for good fortune in Binhe Village, Liezhou City of south China’s Guangdong Province, March 4, 2012. Local villagers step on fire to showcase their courage and pray for good luck in such a traditional activity. <Photo: Xinhua/Cai Cheng> news@theasian.asia

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  • South East Asia

    “Drop the Nuclear Energy Plans!”

    Activists from Greenpeace Indonesia wear radiation suits to commemorate the first anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and to demand the government to drop their nuclear energy plans, outside Indonesia’s Ministry of Research and Technology, in Jarkarta, Indonesia, March 5, 2012. Greenpeace Monday launched a week-long series of activities across…

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  • South Asia

    “Give me my Home Back”

    Residents of different villages located along both sides of railway track in Larkana district of Southern Sindh province of Pakistan staged demonstration, blocked railway track by setting ablaze old tyres and wood and halted the train for many hours to lodge protest against razing of their homes by Pakistan Railway…

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  • East Asia

    Japan on 5 Mar 2012

    Japan on 5 Mar 2012 <NHK>: China’s defense budget up 11.2% in 2012

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  • East Asia

    China on 5 Mar 2012

    China on 5 Mar 2012 <People’s Daily Online>: Opening Session of 5th Session of 11th NPC  

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  • East Asia

    Mongol on 5 Mar 2012

    Mongol on 5 Mar 2012 <Ubpost>: Electronic id cards on pace to be produced before the election

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  • South East Asia

    Vietnam on 5 Mar 2012

    Vietnam on 5 Mar 2012 <Vientiane Times>: China to help Laos switch to digital radio, TV

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