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East Asia
[ASEAN Report] Indonesian President SBY asks Obama to push for peace in Gaza Strip
The 21st ASEAN Leaders Meeting took place on Nov. 18-20 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It also marked as a symbolic handover of the Asean chairmanship for 2013 between Cambodia and Brunei. During the ASEAN Summit on Monday, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono asked US President Barack Obama to stop violence on Palestinians in…
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[The AsiaN Video for Indonesian] Akankah Pemerintah Korea Setuju Untuk Membunuh Pertanian Tembakau?
Halo! Saya Meidyana Rayana dari Indonesia. Berikut adalah berita mengenai pertemuan WHO di Seoul untuk pengendalian tembakau. Petani tembakau di seluruh dunia akan mengalihkan perhatian mereka ke Seoul pekan ini ketika para pejabat yang mewakili lebih dari 170 pemerintah bertemu untuk menentukan masa depan mereka. Kesempatan itu adalah pertemuan dua…
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Mongolian President And People Cast Vote To Elect Provincial Council Representatives
Mongolian President Tsakhia Elbegdorj participates in the local elections at a polling station in Ulan Bator, Nov. 21. Polls opened Wednesday with more than 19,400 candidates running for 8,031 seats in Mongolia’s provincial, county and district councils. Mongolian President Tsakhia Elbegdorj (L) participates in the local elections at a polling…
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Chinese Premier In Bangkok To Sign Document On Bilateral Cooperation With Thailand
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (L back) and Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra (R back) attend a signing ceremony of documents on bilateral cooperation in Bangkok, Thailand, Nov. 21, 2012. <Xinhua/Ma Zhancheng> Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, left, and Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra walk together during a welcome ceremony at the…
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More Than 1,000 Siberian Tigers Protected At Park In Harbin, Northeast China
A Siberian tiger with an ear marked with a code lies on the ground at the Siberian Tiger Park in Harbin, capital of northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, Nov. 19, 2012. The Siberian Tiger Park, world’s largest artificially Siberian tigers breeding base, announced that its 1,067 Siberian tigers had all received…
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Search for identity
Some say that politicians and entertainers are similar in that both have a flair for the stage and a superb appeal to the public that enables them a “public” life in the literal sense. The three leading contenders for the Dec. 19 presidential elections are vibrantly successful people with a…
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Living with my name in globalizing world
I’ve long held my parents accountable for naming me what they named me. My name carries a heavy load of over- and undertones, and I like none of them. I, of course, did not ask my parents to bestow this name upon me. Like almost everybody else on this globe,…
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Beatles vs. Girls’ Generation
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan getting their start in the music business. It was in 1962 that the Beatles signed their first record contract, the Rolling Stones had their first hit single (fun fact: it was written for them by…
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‘Japan should admit sexual enslavement of Korean women’
The aftermath of Japanese colonization (1910-1945) still reverberates in Korean society and this painful part of Korea’s modern history is a frequent source of friction in Seoul-Tokyo ties. Kevin N. Cawley, director of the Irish Institute of Korean Studies at University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland, said in a recent…
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