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East Asia
Tibetans carry out candlelit vigil for self-immolation by 20-year-old woman
Exile Tibetans carry flags and portraits of their spiritual leaders Dalai Lama, center and Panchen Lama, left during a candlelit vigil in Dharmsala, India, Wednesday, April 17, 2013. Exiles claim that another Tibetan, a 20-year-old woman, died after self-immolating in Eastern Tibet on Tuesday. <AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia>
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Chinese and Senegalese officials attend solar street light project ceremony
(L to R) Economic and Commercial Counsellor of the Chinese Embassy in Senegal Huang Mingyuan, Chinese ambassador to Senegal Xia Huang, Senegal’s Transport and Infrastructure Minister Thierno Alassane Sall and President of the Commission of Urban Planning, Housing, Infrastructure and Transport of Senegal’s National Assembly Ndeye Lucie Cisse, attend the…
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Aung San Suu Kyi meets with Japanese FM Fumio Kishida
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (L) poses with Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida prior to their meeting at Foreign Ministry’s Iikura Guesthouse in Tokyo, Japan, April 16, 2013. <Xinhua/Ma Ping>
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A Fudan Univ. medical student dies after drinking poisoned water
Photo taken on April 16, 2013 shows the entrance to Fudan University’s medical school in Shanghai, east China. Huang Yang, 28, a postgraduate student in the medical school, died Tuesday, more than two weeks after he drank water that was allegedly poisoned by his roommate. On April 11, police found…
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Selling poultry banned in Beijing for fear of widespread bird flu
In this Saturday, April 13, 2013 photo, journalists film a seven-year-old girl, being treated for the H7N9 virus, through a television screen during a news conference at the Ditan Hospital in Beijing. A new case of bird flu in China’s capital, a 4-year-old boy who displayed no symptoms, is adding…
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East Asia
Japan’s excess liquidity worries neighbors
Editor’s note: Japan ushered in a new era of economic policy with new governor of the Bank of Japan Haruhiko Kuroda at the helm, while Asian neighbors looked on warily. Kuroda came up with plans to unleash a torrent of liquidity designed to wash away decades of Japan’s economic underperformance.…
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Pyongyang residents celebrate birthday of late Kim Il Sung
A man, center, supervises a dancing group during a mass folk dance in front of the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, April 15, 2013. Oblivious to international tensions over a possible North Korean missile launch, Pyongyang residents spilled into the streets Monday to celebrate a major national…
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East Asia
Japanese PM Abe shakes hands with NATO Secretary-General Rasmussen
NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, left, shakes hands with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe after they exchanged documents of joint political declaration between Japan and the NATO during a signing ceremony at Abe’s official residence in Tokyo Monday, April 15, 2013. <AP Photo/Toru Hanai, Pool>
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East Asia
N. Korea’s bluffing works again
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING North Korea has scored another brilliant diplomatic success. It has scared the world and created a sense of acute international crisis out of nothing. In the last two weeks, Seoul has been flooded with international journalists most of whom have come to report on the “growing…
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East Asia
Bird flu spreads to central China
The total number of cases of humans infected with bird flu in China has reached 60 and it is spreading to the central region. Eleven new cases of H7N9 bird flu infection were confirmed, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 60, while Shanghai reported two…
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