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East Asia
Sunrise festivals in Korea
With the clock ticking toward 2013, meaning it will be 888 years before digital clocks can display consecutive date numbers in month, day and year order (01/01/01 etc.) many are making the most of Korea’s many sunrise festivals to be held on New Year’s Eve at selected eastern costal locations.…
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CNBLUE’s ‘Robot’ ranks No. 2 in Oricon chart
Four-member band CNBlue has climbed to the No. 2 position on the Japanese Oricon Charts with their latest single as of Tuesday. The band’s FNC Entertainment said Tuesday that the single titled “Robot” from their latest EP scaled the charts after selling 24,000 on the day of its release on…
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Joseon’s maps used as means of control
Exhibit shows cartographic history of last kingdom In Park Bum-shin’s novel “Gosanja (Man of the Mountain),” Kim Jeong-ho, a cartographer and geographer of the Joseon Kingdom (1392-1910), struggles to make accurate maps despite opposition from the aristocracy. It portrays the cartographer’s difficulties in delivering the exact topographic information as the…
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Carriers launch new Kakao challenger
Domestic mobile carriers SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus will jointly launch their much-anticipated “Joyn” communication platform service today. The service is a joint project of mobile operators associated with the Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA) to share a common platform available across the world. It is what…
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India-Pakistani Cricket Match Helps Thaw Bitter Rivalry Between The Two Nations
An Indian cricket fan is joined by others as he waves the Indian flag outside the Chinnaswamy Stadium, the venue of first Twenty20 cricket match between India and Pakistan, in Bangalore, India, Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012. Four years after Pakistani gunmen laid siege to India’s financial capital of Mumbai, South…
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Abe Who Led LDP To Victory In Diet Election Becomes Japanese Prime Minister
Japan’s prime-minister-to-be Shinzo Abe arrives at the parliament for the special diet session in Tokyo, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. Capitalizing on the Democrats’ failure to improve the economy and its perceived lack of strong leadership, Abe led the Liberal Democratic Party to victory in parliamentary elections Dec. 16. Abe was…
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Zhang Gaoli Discusses With Citizens About Project To Improve People’s Livelihood In Tianjin, China
File photo taken on June 18, 2008 shows Zhang Gaoli (1st L) discusses post-disaster reconstruction work with local officials at Wulipo Group in Kangjiadong Village of Hanyuan Township in Ningqiang County, northwest China’s Shaanxi Province. Ningqiang County was one of the hardest hit areas during the Wenchuan earthquake and Tianjin’s…
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Xi Jinping Meets With Leaders Of Chinese Commerce And Industry Circles
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, and Yu Zhengsheng, a Standing Committee member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of CPC, meet the new leaderships of China’s eight non-communist parties and the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (ACFIC) on Dec.…
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Beijing-Guangzhou High-Speed Railway Put Into Operation
A stewardess wait to serve passengers in high-speed train G502 at the Changsha South Railway Station in Changsha, capital of central China’s Hunan Province, Dec. 26, 2012. The Changsha South Railway Station is one of the stops of the 2,298-kilometer Beijing-Guangzhou High-speed Railway, the world’s longest, which was put into…
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Finishing Touches Underway To Open Harbin Ice And Snow World Next Week
Photo taken on Dec. 23, 2012 shows the night scene of the Harbin Ice and Snow World in Harbin, capital of northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. The 14th Harbin Ice and Snow World will open to the public on Jan. 5, 2013. Photo taken on Dec. 23, 2012 shows the scene…
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