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East Asia
Contestants play ‘Lusheng’ at China’s Guangxi Spring Festival
A contestant plays Lusheng, a traditional musical instrument of Miao ethnic group, during a competition in Danian Township, Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Feb. 12, 2013. The competition was held to celebrate the Spring Festival, or Chinese Lunar New Year. The contestant, who could make…
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NK’s Nuclear Test Sparks International Condemnation
The nuclear test conducted by North Korea on February 12 has been triggering extensive criticisms including one from its main ally China increasing international action against Pyongyang. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned North Korea’s nuclear test, saying it was a “clear and grave violation” of U.N. Security Council resolutions. The…
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East Asia
Starlight in the Desert: Recommendations for ‘Kuwaiti Woman’ by Souad Al Sabah
– Poet Ko Un My eyes suddenly opened! Souad Al Sabah’s poems float upon the long river of time. The sounds of truth are sloshing about. Souad Al Sabah’s poems conceive the sunset’s horizon reminiscing over the midday sun. The cries of her poems are only possible as a mother.…
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East Asia
‘Arabic Scent of Poetry’ Delivered in Korean
Kuwaiti Woman by Dr. Souad Al Sabah: the First Kuwaiti Poems Published in Korea “My eyes suddenly opened! Souad Al Sabah’s poems float upon the long river of time. The sounds of truth are sloshing about. Souad Al Sabah’s poems conceive the sunset’s horizon reminiscing over the midday sun. ……
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East Asia
Why Nuclear Test Now?
*Editor’s note: North Korea’s third nuclear test must pose the first challenge for the Obama administration’s second term foreign policy. Not to mention the newly elected leadership of South Korea, China and Japan. Foreign policy expert Andrew Natsios, an executive professor at the George H.W. Bush School of Government and…
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East Asia
Children sit by life materials saved from fire in a Chinese village that gutted 92 homes
Children sit by life materials saved from a scene of fire in Heiduo Village of Diebu County in northwest China’s Gansu Province, Feb. 7, 2013. The fire broke out in Heiduo Village around 8 p.m. and was put out Thursday morning, leaving destruction of 92 homes and no casualties. <Xinhua/NEWSis/Liu…
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East Asia
People jampack a supermarket in Huaibei City to prepare for coming Spring Festival
People select goods at a supermarket in Huaibei City, east China’s Anhui Province, Feb. 7, 2013, to prepare for the coming Spring Festival, which falls on Feb. 10 this year. <Xinhua/NEWSis/Wang Wen> A girl selects toys at a supermarket in Sanhe City, north China’s Hebei Province, Feb. 7, 2013, to…
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A Chinese leader encourages cast, crew of the CCTV’s Spring Festival gala show
Liu Yunshan, a member of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, poses for a group picture with cast and crew of the 2013 China Central Television (CCTV)’s Spring Festival gala show during a visit…
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East Asia
Chinese New Year celebrated across Asia
Red lanturns, dragon dance decorate streets Billions of Asians throughout the world are setting off home for the start of the 2013 Chinese New Year in celebration of the year of the snake. Folk artists prepare to perform a traditional fire dragon dance along the major Chinatown streets as part of the…
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East Asia
Chinese Art performers prepare gala show to celebrate lunar New Year in Stockholm
Performers from China’s Jiangsu Overseas Chinese Art Group prepare before a gala to celebrate the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year in Stockholm, Sweden, Feb. 6, 2013. <Xinhua/Liu Yinan>
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