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East Asia
South African couple purchase pottery at 113th Canton Fair
South African couple Tony Smily and Sally Smily purchase pottery at the 113th China Import and Export Fair, or Canton Fair, in Guangzhou, capital of south China’s Guangdong Province, April 24, 2013. Nearly 25,000 companies, including 562 from 38 countries or regions are attending the fair, China’s largest, attracting over…
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Chinese FM Yi meets with ASEAN Secretary-General Le Luong Minh
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (R) meets with ASEAN Secretary-General Le Luong Minh in Jarkata, Indonesia, May 2, 2013. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (L) shakes hands with his Indonesian counterpart Marty Natalegawa prior to their meeting in Jarkata, Indonesia, May 2, 2013. <Xinhua/Jiang Fan>
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RCEP vs. TPP: Choice between China and America?
Editor’s note: A trade talk for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership(RCEP) is scheduled to open from May 9 to 13 in Brunei. The RCEP covers more than half of the world’s population involving 16 countries in the Asia-Pacific region. It aims to become a platform for the integration of trade…
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Japanese PM Shinzo Abe visits UAE to enhance economic ties
In this image released by the Emirates News Agency, WAM , Sheik Hazza bin Zayed Al Nahyan, center right, escorts Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, upon his arrival in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, May 1, 2013. Abe vowed Wednesday to promote exports of Japan’s nuclear infrastructure to the…
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Dozens of Chinese people fall into water from tilted suspension bridge
Photo taken on May 2, 2013 shows the tilted suspension bridge in Fenghuang County, central China’s Hunan Province. About 40 people, who returned from a bonfire party, were on the bridge when the bridge floor suddenly tilted in Fenghuang at around 9:10 p.m. on May 1, and more than 20,…
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Chinese communications satellite successfully launced in Xichang
A Long March-3B carrier rocket is launched in Xichang, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, May 2, 2013. China successfully sent a communications satellite, “Zhongxing-11”, into orbit with a Long March-3B carrier rocket launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center on Thursday. <Xinhua/Han Yuqing>
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Villagers of Zhuang ethnic group perform for tourists in Yunnan
Villagers of Zhuang ethnic group stage a dance during a performance held for tourists in Bamei Village, Guangnan County, southwest China’s Yunnan Province, April 30, 2013. The county arranged the performance in the hope of displaying local cultural and landscape, and drawing tourists during the three-day May Day holidays. Villagers…
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Gaeseong turns out failure in opening N. Korea
The Gaeseong Industrial Complex, being the most recent issue at stake, was the subject of conversation but turns out a failure in leading North Korea to an open country, Kurt Campbell, former assistant U.S. secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, stated. During the ‘Asan Plenum’ forum hosted…
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Activists gear up for annual North Korea Freedom Week
As tensions continue to grow on the Korean peninsula in light of recent nuclear developments, the international community has began to shift its focus to the Hermit Kingdom. Many activists are arguing that reports of Kim Jong-eun’s nuclear provocations are actually overshadowing the more important issue in North Korea: human…
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Fully loaded South Korean vehicles evacuate from Gaesong
South Korean soldiers patrol on Grand Unification Bridge, leading to the Gaesong Industrial Complex inside the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, April 29, 2013. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Monday allowed all but seven South Koreans to return home…
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