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East Asia
Chinese Military Leader Arrives In Myanmar For Strategic Security Consultation
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Myanmar U Shwe Mann (R) meets with visiting Deputy Chief of General Staff of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Qi Jianguo in Nay Pyi Taw, capital of Myanmar, on Jan. 20, 2013. Qi jianguo arrived here Saturday for the first China-Myanmar strategic security…
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Ethnic Mongolians In Traditional Costume Attend Winter Nadam Fair In Xilingol, China’s Inner Mongolia
Women and children of the Mongolian ethnic group in traditional ethnic costume attends the winter Nadam fair in Xilingol, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Jan. 20, 2013. Nadam, meaning entertainment and playing in Mongolian language, is a folk festival of the Mongolian ethnic group. During the event, local residents…
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Japan’s Self-Defense Force Personnel Attend Flag Returning Ceremony In Tokyo Upon Returning From Peacekeeping Mission In Golan Heights
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, right, and Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera attend the flag returning ceremony by Japan’s Self-Defense Forces involved in U.N. peacekeeping operations in the Israeli-held Golan Heights at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013. The 47-member unit returned the team’s flag upon coming back…
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Winter Fishing Cultural Festival Opens On Frozen Wolong Lake In Liaoning Province, Northeast China
Cooks make fish soup during the opening ceremony of Winter Fishing Cultural Festival at Wolong Lake, Kangping County, northeast China’s Liaoning Province, Jan. 16, 2013. Performers here will hold an ancestor worship ritual and fish in traditional ways during the eight-day festival. The first fish is caught from the frozen…
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Exhibition Of Photos Shot By Pulitzer Prize Winners Opens In Taipei, Taiwan
Guests attend the opening ceremony of the photo exhibition “Capture the Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs” in Taipei, southeast China’s Taiwan, Jan. 17, 2013. The exhibiton displays 151 photographs shot by the Pulitzer Prize winners since the award was established in 1942. A visitor watch photographs exhibited during the photo…
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Minister lobbies to retain part of trade functions
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Affairs (MOFAT) began a belated effort Friday to keep its trade related division. In proposed government apparatus changes, the ministry is supposed to be stripped of trade policy-setting and negotiating functions, which will be handed over to the Ministry of Industry, Trade and…
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‘Burberry men’ may get heavier penalty
An appellate court has found a man guilty of child abuse for having a seven-year-old girl watch him sexually stimulate himself. It was the first recognition of such an act as child abuse. What appears to be legally more important is that the ruling is likely to influence similar cases…
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Final message before the ship went down
“Someone will probably have to die before they stop work on these treaturous conditions,” a message sent to a friend sent on an assignment off the rough seas off the coast of Ulsan, South Gyeongsang Province. One hour later, the vessel on which he was performing repairs in a coastal…
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Chinese People Buy Dried Goods On A Shopping Festival For Coming Spring Festival in Yinchuan
Local citizens come to a shopping festival for the coming Spring Festival in Yinchuan, capital of northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Jan. 18, 2013. The 3rd Yinchuan shopping festival for the Spring Festival , which will fall on Feb. 10, 2013, lasts from Jan. 18 to Feb. 4. People…
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Moktar Belmoktar Is Leader Of A Militant Group Who Took 41 Foreigners Hostage In Sahara Desert
This image from video provided by the SITE Intel Group made available Thursday Jan. 17, 2013, purports to show militant militia leader Moktar Belmoktar. Algerian officials scrambled Thursday Jan. 17, 2013 for a way to end an armed standoff deep in the Sahara desert with Islamic militants who have taken…
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