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East Asia
Chinese passengers line up for train tickets for 3-day May 1st holidays
Passengers line up to buy train tickets in Yinchuan Railway Station in Nanchang, capital of east China’s Jiangxi Province, April 28, 2013. China sees a travel rush around the country as the three-day May First national holiday comes around the corner. Passengers line up to board a train in Yinchuan…
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Chinese villagers plough fields at pig farm demolished for clean water
Villagers plough the fields at the site of a pig farm after it was demolished at Liujin Village of Dahu Township in Fuzhou City, capital of southeast China’s Fujian Province. As an effort to clean the water source, the neighboring livestock and poultry farms have been relocated or demolished. Villagers…
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Exile Tibetan monks carry portraits of self-immolators in candlelit protest
Exile Tibetan Buddhist monks carry portraits of Tibetan self-immolators and of their religious leader Panchen Lama during a candlelit protest gathering in Dharmsala, India, Thursday, April 25, 2013. Reports say three Tibetans have died after setting themselves on fire to protest Chinese rule in a western region where authorities have…
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N. Korean soldiers take photo at Kumsusan Palace in Pyongyang
North Korean soldiers pose for souvenir photos as they tour the grounds of Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, the mausoleum where the bodies of the late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il lie embalmed, in Pyongyang on Thursday, April 25, 2013. North Korean soldiers and civilians pose for…
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Chinese President Xi and French President hold press conference
Chinese President Xi Jinping (L, front) holds a welcoming ceremony for French President Francois Hollande in Beijing, capital of China, April 25, 2013. Xi held talks with Hollande here on Thursday. <Xinhua/Ju Peng> Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) and French President Francois Hollande meet with journalists in Beijing, capital of…
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N. Korean soldiers stand on steps overlooking border village Panmunjom
North Korean soldiers stand on steps overlooking the border village of Panmunjom, North Korea, which has separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, Wednesday, April 24, 2013. For weeks, North Korea has threatened to attack the U.S. and South Korea for holding joint military drills and for supporting U.N.…
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A N. Korean boy rides in bike’s basket as spring flowers bloom
A North Korean woman sells cigarettes and snacks along a rural road near the demilitarized zone which separates the two Koreas in south of Kaesong, North Korea on Wednesday, April 24, 2013. A North Korean boy rides in a bicycle’s basket on a road north of Kaesong, North Korea on…
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Buddha’s lamp carried to Korea to ease tensions
The ‘peace lamp’ kindled in the Buddha’s birthplace Lumbini has been travelling to the nuclear crisis-ridden Korean Peninsula. Nepali President Ram Baran Yadav and the Buddhist community of Lumbini presented a perennial holy peace lamp on April 19 to South Korean Buddhist monks to appease the winds of war between…
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Chinese students set up tents for study in quake-hit Lushan County
Students of Tianquan Middle School put up tents for study, in Tianquan County, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, April 22, 2013. Due to frequent escape drills, no injuries and deaths were reported in the school after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake jolted Lushan County of Ya’an in the morning on April 20. At…
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Hong Kong port workers on strike at billionaire Li Ka-shing’s headquarters
A defaced portrait of Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing is placed outside Li’s headquarters, Cheung Kong Center during a protest in Hong Kong Tuesday, April 23, 2013. Hundreds of striking port workers began camping outside the headquarters last Wednesday to force a concession over a pay dispute against Hong Kong…
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