• East Asia

    China Wins Bid To Build Suway In Ankara

    ANKARA — Binali Yildirim, Turkish minister of transport and communication, addresses the signing ceremony to provide cars for the subways in the Turkish capital of Ankara, Aug. 13, 2012. The China South Locomotive & Rolling Stock Co. Ltd, China’s largest train manufacturer, won the bid of US$391.2 million to provide…

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    Scene Of NK Workers Repairing Flood Damage

    A North Korean man cooks at a makeshift shelter set up in a riverbed on Monday, Aug. 13, 2012 as he and others from his village work to rebuild the road and riverbank that was destroyed by July flooding in Songchon County, North Korea. Floods killed at least 169 North…

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    NK Kid Being Moved From Flood-Stricken Region In A Truck

    A North Korean boy and soldiers ride in a truck in a riverbed during near Songchon County, North Korea on Monday, Aug 13, 2012. Floods killed at least 169 North Koreans nationwide and destroyed tens of thousands of homes. <AP/NEWSis/David Guttenfelder> news@theasian.asia

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    Women On Bicycles In Street Of A NK City

    In this Aug. 30, 2011 file photo, North Korean women push bicycles on the streets of Rason city in North Korea. North Korean state media said Monday, Aug. 13, 2012, that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s uncle Jang Song Thaek will meet Tuesday, Aug. 14, with senior Chinese officials…

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    “Being Legless Seems Nothing But Inconvenient”

    (120813) — XI’AN, Aug. 13, 2012 (Xinhua) — Legless man Chen Zhou climbs the Huashan Mountain in Huayin, northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, Aug. 12, 2012. Legless 29-year-old man Chen Zhou from Cangshan County of Shandong Province  climbed by arms to the top of Huashan Mountain in ten hours on Sunday.…

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    Typhoon Affects Over 1 Mil. People In China

    (120813) — LEPING, Aug. 13, 2012 (Xinhua) — Villagers clean furniture in a flooded courtyard after the wallop of Tyhpoon Haikui in Luojia Village of Lin’gang Town in Leping City, east China’s Jiangxi Province, Aug. 11, 2012. The typhoon have had an impact on 1.13 million people in the province…

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    Exhibition Of China’s Space Technology Held In Hong Kong

    (120812) — HONG KONG, Aug. 12, 2012 (Xinhua) — Chan Ka Keung (1st, R), Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government,  and Tiangong-1/Shenzhou-9 space mission delegation comprising of Chinese astronauts and scientists tour at the Exhibition on China’s First Manned Space…

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    Pesenam Korea Selatan Bangkit Dari Kemiskinan

    Halo! Saya Meidyana Rayana dari Indonesia, sedang bermagang untuk The AsiaN. Kisah kemenangan dan kehidupan peloncat indah asal Korea Selatan menyentuh hati rakyat Korea. Yang Hak Seon terus mengatakan bahwa mimpinya adalah untuk memenangkan Olimpiade dan membangun rumah bagi orang tuanya yang kurang mampu yang saat ini tinggal di sebuah…

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    Okpomoku Nkem Uwa Bu Eziokwu

    Okpomoku nkem uwa bu eziokwu, nkea bu ihe onyeisi ndi nelekete maka ihe batere uwa nke anakpor NASA Kuru. Osiri na okpom’uku nke ndi madu nahu ugbua bu ihe negosi si na Okpom’uku nkem uwa nke  Ndi Beke nakpor Global Worming bu eziokwu. Onyeisi ndi Nasa bu Mazi James E.…

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    Pemanasan Global Nyata

    Halo! Saya Meidyana Rayana dari Indonesia. Berikut adalah berita mengenai pemanasan global yang semakin dirasakan oleh warga Korea Selatan. Gelombang panas yang telah berlangsung selama 10 hari, meninggalkan kesuraman di Korea. Beberapa orang meninggal dunia dan hewan-hewan mati, merusak waduk-waduk penampungan air dan menyebabkan mati lampu. Ahli iklim mengatakan bahwa…

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