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East Asia
Chinese film festival opens in New Delhi, India
Chinese Hollywood actor Jackie Chan talks during a press conference at the opening of the Chinese film festival, in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. <AP Photo/NEWSis/Manish Swarup> Actor Jackie Chan attends the news conference of the Chinese film festival in New Delhi, India, on June. 18, 2013. The…
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G8 leaders call for coalition government in Syria
President Barack Obama, Russian President Vladimir Putin and other G-8 leaders took a united stance Tuesday on seeking a negotiated Syrian peace settlement to forge a “united, inclusive and democratic” government – but couldn’t agree on whether this means President Bashar Assad must go. Their declaration at the end of…
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East Asia
N. Korea: player in the Gwangju Democratic Uprising?
Korean history as seen in South Korea is deeply contentious. It is not incidental that many school textbooks prefer to stop their narrative around 1960, quietly assuming that what happened after is too controversial for anything resembling an impartial judgment to emerge. Most of the prominent historical events and figures…
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A banner supporting Snowden displayed in Hong Kong
People walk past a banner supporting Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping U.S. surveillance programs, at Central, Hong Kong’s business district, Monday, June 17, 2013. Top officials from the Obama and Bush administrations say the government’s newly exposed secret surveillance programs have been essential…
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North Korea proposes senior-level talk with US
After months of threatening to wage a nuclear war, North Korea did an about-face Sunday and issued a surprise proposal to the United States, its No. 1 enemy: Let’s talk. But the invitation from North Korea’s National Defense Commission, the powerful governing body led by leader Kim Jong Un, comes…
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International students gather to promote foreign investment in Korea
Hailing from 22 countries and speaking over 30 languages, Invest Korea recently welcomed 35 international students into its inaugural youth ambassador program. These students will be the faces of the first-ever Friends of Invest Korea program. Over the next four months, they will attend a series of workshops, featuring guided…
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China’s 5th manned spacecraft Shenzhou 10 launched successfully
A Chinese spacecraft blasted off to begin the country’s fifth and longest manned space mission, taking three astronauts to an orbiting space lab from where they will give science lessons to youngsters. A Long March 2F rocket carrying the Shenzhou 10 astronaut capsule lifted off as scheduled at 5:38 p.m.…
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World’s oldest Japanese man dies of natural causes at 116
In this file photo taken Oct. 15, 2012 and released by Kyotango City, Jiroemon Kimura smiles after he was presented with the certificate of the world’s oldest living man from Guinness World Records Editor-in-Chief Craig Glenday at his home in the city, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. Japanese media report that Kimura…
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Myanmar’s Buddihists receive tooth-relic stupa donated by China
People carry Sakyamuni tooth-relic stupa donated by China at Maha Myat Muni Pagoda in Mandalay, Myanmar, June 10, 2013. China has donated three Sakyamuni tooth-relic stupa replicas to Myanmar to enhance ties between the two countries’ Buddhist circles and people. The three stupa replicas will be displayed in the cities…
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Chinese children wearing Han ethnic costume at Dragon Boat Festival
Children wearing “Hanfu”, an ancient costume of the Han ethnic people, take part in a gathering to commemorate Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet during the Warring State Period (475-221 BC), in Wuhan, capital of central China’s Hubei Province, June 10, 2013. The Dragon Boat (Duanwu) Festival, which is celebrated across…
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