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East Asia
Yi ethnic group celebrates Torch Festival in southwest China’s Baoshang Village
A man of Yi ethnic group attends an activity celebrating the Torch Festival in Baoshang Village of Longlin Autonomous County of All Nationalities, southwest China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, July 31, 2013. The Torch Festival, which falls around the 24th day of the sixth Chinese lunar month every year, is…
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West Asia
[Novel] The Road to Shamawes ⑮
[23] When Hisham left the café he looked a different person. Omar’s amusing anecdotes and jokes, bold views and sarcastic words, Terter’s hookah smoke, cardamon-added coffee, the crowded café noise made Hisham forget or ignore the person he invited to see, Omar. He doesn’t regard himself as spoilt as he…
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East Asia
Bulls fight against each other in torch festival in China’s Yunnan Provance
Two bulls fight with each other in the torch festival of Yi ethnic group in Yi Autonomous County of Shilin, southwest China’s Yunnan Province, July 30, 2013. Working staff pull back a bull which chases after another defeated bull during the torch festival of Yi ethnic group in Yi Autonomous…
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South Asia
Indian artists perform in Hindu goddess Kali costume during Bonalu folk festival
Indian security men watch artists dressed like Hindu goddess Kali perform during Bonalu festival in Hyderabad, India, Monday, July 29, 2013. Bonalu is a Hindu folk festival of the Telangana region in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. <AP Photo/NEWSis/Mahesh Kumar A.> An Indian artist dressed like Hindu goddess Kali…
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East Asia
North Korea celebrates 60th anniversary of armistice ending Korean War
Goose-stepping soldiers, columns of tanks and a broad array of ominous-looking missiles poised on mobile launchers paraded through Pyongyang’s main square on Saturday in a painstakingly choreographed military pageant intended to strike fear into North Korea’s adversaries and rally its people behind young ruler Kim Jong Un on the 60th…
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South Asia
Tracing history of Buddhism in Sindh
I had always found myself very close to Buddhism. May be it was because we Sindhis (natives of Sindh, the land of great Indus civilization, now a province of Pakistan) are by nature Sufis (Mysticism) believing in inter-faith harmony, brotherhood, non-violence and wishing best for progress and prosperity of the…
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East Asia
Participants march to mark N. Korea’s 60th anniversary of end of Korean War
North Korean military band performs during a ceremony prior to an international peace march at the Three Charters for National Reunification Memorial Tower in Pyongyang, North Korea on Wednesday, July 24, 2013. Overseas Koreans and delegations of international organizations are in the city as the country prepares to mark the…
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[Malaysia Report] Georgetown, a lifeful ‘mirroring art street’
Penang is an island off that northwestern coast of Penisular Malaysia, which has nice beaches though a little lackluster when compared to some other states in Malaysia. Penang is rich with multicultural histories of Malay, Chinese, Indian and European influences as well as known as “food paradise” of Malaysia. Georgetown…
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Culture
UK’s Prince William and Kate pose with their new-born baby boy at hospital
Britain’s Prince William, right, and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge hold the Prince of Cambridge, Tuesday July 23, 2013, as they pose for photographers outside St. Mary’s Hospital exclusive Lindo Wing in London where the Duchess gave birth on Monday July 22. The Royal couple are expected to head to London?s…
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Politics
“It’s a boy!” UK’s Duchess of Cambridge finally gives birth to royal baby
Champagne bottles popped and shouts of “Hip! Hip! Hooray!” erupted outside Buckingham Palace on Monday as Britain welcomed the birth of Prince William and his wife Kate’s first child, a boy who is now third in line to the British throne. Hundreds of Britons and tourists broke into song and…
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