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    Japanese women”We Apologize for the Sexual Slavery Issue”

    Japanese members of Unification Church gather at a rally ahead of an anniversary celebration of Korea’s liberation from Japan’s colonial rule, in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012. 500 Japanese residing in South Korea took part in the rally to promote good mutual relationship between the two countries amid…

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    Ban Ki-moon In Seoul For Four-Day Visit

    UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speaks during a press conference after a ceremony to launch the Development Alliance Korea, a coalition of local civic groups to promote overseas development aid, at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Aug. 13, 2012. Ban is on a four-day visit to South…

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    Fire Fighting Drill Held In Shanghai Port For Passenger Liner

    SHANGHAI — People escape from danger during a drill in Shanghai, east China, Aug. 13, 2012. A drill was held at a waiting hall of a port and the nearby passenger liner in Shanghai to improve the fire control ability of local departments. <Xinhua/Chen Fei> news@theasian.asia

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    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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