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East Asia
Korean President Park meets UN Secretary-General Ban at UN HQ
South Korean President Park Geun-hye, left, poses for photos with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at United Nations headquarters, Monday, May 6, 2013. South Korean President Park Geun-hye lower right, and her delegation meet with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, upper left, at United Nations headquarters, Monday, May 6, 2013.…
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Hong Kong dockworkers gain 9.8% pay increase after 40-day strike
A dockworker takes a rest outside Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing’s headquarters, Cheung Kong Center during a protest in Hong Kong Monday, May 6, 2013. Hong Kong dockworkers have accepted a 9.8 percent pay increase, ending a 40-day strike that slowed traffic at one of the world’s busiest ports. The…
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Chinese Premier Li meets with Palestinian President Abbas
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (R) shakes hands with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during their meeting in Beijing, capital of China, May 6, 2013. <Xinhua/Liu Weibing>
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Grading America’s ‘Pivot to Asia’
Editor’s note: The ‘Pivot to Asia’ has been understood as one of the Obama Administration’s central foreign policy initiatives. Simply put, the pivot is meant to be a strategic ‘rebalancing’ of U.S. interests from Europe and the Middle East toward East Asia. But there are still lots of controversy over…
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How long will N. Korea’s regime last?
Three problems of young leader How stable is the North Korean government? Is it going to continue indefinitely? And if it does not, what is its life expectancy? The present author encounters those questions nearly every day. The only honest answer to such questions is that we do not know.…
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Chinese pupils sell their books at secondhand book fair in Nanjing
Pupils sell their secondhand books at the secondhand book fair in Nanjing, capital of east China’s Jiangsu Province, May 5, 2013. During the fair, pupils and middle school students could sell or exchange their idle books, stationery and toys as well, by which they were expected by the organizer to…
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A N. Korean pharmacist waits for customers at traditional medicine pharmacy
Family members of a hospital patient bring a blanket and other items during a visit to Pyongyang Medical College in Pyongyang, North Korea on Feb. 21, 2013. A pharmacist waits for customers at the Man Nyon Pharmacy, the nation’s largest dispensary of traditional “Koryo” medicine, in Pyongyang, North Korea on…
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Baby monkey, tiger and lion cuddle at ‘animial kindergarten’
A triplet of baby monkey, tiger and lion cuddle at the “animial kindergarten” of a zoo in Shenyang, capital of northeast China’s Liaoning Province, May 1, 2013. <Xinhua/Zhang Wenkui>
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A N. Korean boy looks at wallposter full of bellicose rhetorics
A boy looks at a poster reading “Severe punishment to the U.S. and their followers” in the central district of Pyongyang, North Korea, on Thursday, May 2, 2013. <AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin>
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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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