• South East Asia

    Philippine Stock Market Ends with 0.81% Higher

     Traders blow horns to celebrate the last trading day of the year inside the Philippine Stock Exchange in Makati, the Philippines, on Dec. 29, 2011. Philippine shares closed 0.81 percent higher as they ended the trading of the year. (Xinhua/Rouelle Umali)

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  • East Asia

    Kim Yong-nam Delivers Funeral Oration

    This TV grab shows that Kim Yong-nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), addresses a national memorial service to mourn late leader Kim Jong Il, in Pyongyang, the DPRK, Dec. 29, 2011. <Photo: Xinhua> news@theasian.asia  

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  • East Asia

    Kim Jong-un Era Opens

    This picture of TV live broadcast shows that Kim Jong Un (2nd L), vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Workers’ Party of Korea, attends a national memorial service to mourn late leader Kim Jong Il, in Pyongyang, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), Dec. 29, 2011. <Photo:…

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  • East Asia

    Kim Jong-un Attends the National Memorial Service

    This picture of TV live broadcast shows that Kim Jong Un (3nd L), vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Workers’ Party of Korea, attends a national memorial service to mourn late leader Kim Jong Il, in Pyongyang, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), Dec. 29, 2011. <Photo:…

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  • East Asia

    UN Raises a Flag at Half-Mast for Kim

    The United Nations flies its blue and white flag at half-mast to mourn the death of Kim Jong Il, the late leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), at the UN Headquarters in New York, the United States, Dec. 28, 2011. <Photo: Xinhua/Shen Hong> news@theasia.asia  

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  • East Asia

    Used Cloth Helpful for Funeral Vehicles

    A local resident lays a piece of used cloth on the road, which is helpful for the passing of the vehicles on snowy road during the farewell to Kim Jong Il, late top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), in Pyongyang, Dec. 28, 2011. DPRK bid farewell…

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  • West Asia

    Israel Airsrike Palestine, 1 Person Dead

    Palestinians inspect a car targeted in Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, on Dec. 27, 2011. Eight Palestinians were moderately injured in an Israeli airstrike on the Gaza city on Tuesday night, hours after an earlier air raid killed an Islamic Jihad militant in the area, medical sources said. <Photo: Xinhua/Wissam Nassar>…

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  • East Asia

    Soft Power is Telling on the Generation Y

      North Koreans are in deep mourning, bereaved of their father figure Kim Jong Il. They have grown up knowing only one leader, first Kim Il Sung, the founder of the political dynasty,and then his son Kim Jong Il, who died last week. The leadership mantle has been handed down…

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  • East Asia

    Lee-Hyun Meets Kim Yong-nam

    Kim Yong-nam (7th L), president of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), poses for group photos with Lee Hee-ho (6th L), widow of former South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, and Hyun Jeong-eun (8th L), chairwoman of the Hyundai Group, in…

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  • East Asia

    Lee-Hyun Meets NK Kim Yong-nam

    Kim Yong-nam (R, Front), president of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), greets Lee Hee-ho (C, Front), widow of former South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, and Hyun Jeong-eun (L, Front), chairwoman of the Hyundai Group, in Pyongyang, DPRK, Dec. 27,…

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