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East Asia
World Press Photo Contest Announces Winners
A handout picture released on Feb. 10, 2012 by World Press Photo shows the work of Samuel Aranda with the caption “a woman holds a wounded relative in her arms, inside a mosque used as a field hospital by demonstrators against rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, during clashes in…
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NY Fashion Week ‘Concept Korea’ Fashion Show
Models display creations during the Concept Korea presentation at Lincoln Center during the Fall 2012 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York, Feb. 10, 2012. <Photo: Xinhua/Shen Hong> news@theasian.asia
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China CPI Increase 4.5%
Citizens buy vegetable at a supermarket in Chongqing, southwest China, Jan. 27, 2012. China’s consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose 4.5 percent year-on-year in January, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Feb. 9, 2012. <Photo: Xinhua/Li Jian> news@theasian.asia
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Japan on 10 February 2012
Japan on 10 February 2012 <NIKKEI> : “CGPI Rises 0.5% On Year In Jan” news@theasian.asia
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China on 10 February 2012
China on 10 February 2012 <People’s Daily> : “China, Canada boost strategic partnership” news@theasian.asia
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China on 9 February 2012
China on 9 February 2012 <CNTV>: Freeze affects 40,000 in Northern China
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Japan on 9 February 2012
Japan on 9 February 2012 <Japan Times>: U.S. Marines to move; base row will drag on···
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“Nowhere to Go”
A harbor seal swims in ice water at the ecological seal bay near Yantai City, east China’s Shandong Province, Feb. 8, 2012. Affected by a cold wave, the seal bay iced up recently, trapping the harbor seals living in this water area. Workers of the scenic area started breaking ice…
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China on 8 February 2012
China on 8 February 2012 <China Daily> : “Former tycoon’s death sentence weighs heavily” news@theasian.asia
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Japan on 8 February 2012
Japan on 8 February 2012 <Japan Today> : “U.S., Japan begin talks on sending 4,700 Marines to Guam” news@theasian.asia
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