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East Asia
Boao Forum claims to be ‘Asia’s Davos’
Chinese President Xi talks of peace, openness and common development Asia has become a major growth engine for the world economy but needs to transform its development model, Chinese President Xi Jinping said. Xi also expressed China’s wish to work with regional leaders to build a better future for Asia…
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China offers to reduce friction over hotspots
With pressure growing on Beijing to get North Korea to step back from its war-like footing, Chinese President Xi Jinping said that no one country should be allowed to upset world peace and added China would work to reduce tensions over regional hotspots. In a speech to a regional business…
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East Asia
Paper submission for Indonesian students conference extended
Conference of Indonesia Student in Korea 2013 – Extension of Paper Submission Deadline to April 28 Around 500 Indonesian students currently studying in the country of ginseng, South Korea. Despite living away from the homeland, the sense of togetherness and nationalism inspire them to actively participate in the Indonesian Students…
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Visitors pass by weapons at Korea War Memorial Museum as tensions escalate between the two Koreas
Visitors pass by weapons deployed in the Korean War era at Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, April 7, 2013. South Korea’s top security official said Sunday that North Korea may be setting the stage for a missile test or another provocative act with its warning that…
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Chinese President Xi meets Mongolian Chairman of State Great Hural
Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) shakes hands with Chairman of State Great Hural of Mongolia Zandaakhuu Enkhbold during their meeting on the sidelines of Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) Annual Conference 2013 in Boao, south China’s Hainan Province, April 7, 2013. <Xinhua/Li Xueren>
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East Asia
Despite doomsday warnings, life continues in Pyongyang
Editor’s note: North Korea’s bellicose rhetoric and actions over the past few weeks have gone too far. It has been extraordinary. It has threatened the United States with nuclear weapons with the promise to rain missiles on mainland America and military bases in Hawaii and Guam and declared a “state…
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East Asia
A North Korean vehicle carries a missile during a mass military parade
In this Sunday, April 15, 2012 file photo, a North Korean vehicle carrying a missile passes by during a mass military parade in Pyongyang’s Kim Il Sung Square to celebrate the centenary of the birth of the late North Korean founder Kim Il Sung. North Korea has moved a missile…
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East Asia
Red Cross officials and students plant trees in NK’s reforesting campaign
Red Cross officials and North Korean students dig holes on a mountain to plant young trees during an event by the Red Cross Society in Ryongchol-ri, Kujang County, North Phyongan Province, North Korea, Thursday, April 4, 2013. North Koreans have been carrying out tree-planting campaigns in line with leader Kim…
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N. Korea bars S. Korean workers from entering Kaesong industrial complex
South Korean trucks turn back their way as they were refused to enter North Korea’s city of Kaesong, at the customs, immigration and quarantine office in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Thursday, April 4, 2013. North Korean border authorities refused to allow entry to South Koreans…
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East Asia
Qatari PM receives China’s special envoy to the Middle East
Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim al-Thani (R) meets with Wu Sike, China’s special envoy to the Middle East, in Doha, Qatar, April 3, 2013. <Xinhua>
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