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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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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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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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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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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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Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang consoles veteran soldiers visiting a facility for them in Inner Mongolia
Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang (2nd L) visits the home of resident Zhang Zhilan (2nd R) in Beiliang Community, a shantytown in Baotou, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Feb. 3, 2013. Li visited the city of Baotou and Xing’an League in Inner Mongolia from Feb. 3 to 5, 2013.…
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‘The AsiaN’ Makes Its Debut on Turkish Mag
▶Link The AsiaN, the Internet news portal covering diverse Asian issues, made its debut on a recent issue of Turkish bi-monthly magazine Cihan Dergi published by Cihan News Agency. The title of the article by Alpago Sinasi, correspondent for Cihan News Agency in Korea says “through The AsianN network, we…
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Latern show opens to greet upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year in Changsha
Children play in front of festive lanterns during a lantern show in Changsha, capital of central China’s Hunan Province, Feb. 5, 2013. The lantern show was held to greet the upcoming Spring Festival, or the Chinese Lunar New Year, which falls on Feb. 10 this year. Visitors view the laser…
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Chinese Perform Various Traditional Activities To Celebrate Beginning Of Spring
Villagers are about to kill a pig for a feast in Jiangwan Village of Wuyuan County, east China’s Jiangxi Province, Feb. 4, 2013. Various traditional activities were held in Wuyuan to celebrate “Lichun”, literally meaning the beginning of the spring, as well as the Xiaonian Festival which falls on the…
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