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Maliki-Obama, Joint News Conference
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (L) and U.S. President Barack Obama hold a joint news conference in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House in Washington D.C., the U.S., Dec. 12, 2011. President Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki spoke to journalists after a meeting at…
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Hazare Fasts for Anti-Corruption Bill
India’s anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare sits a day long fast to press for a strong Lokpal (Ombudsman) anti-corruption bill in New Delhi, India, Dec. 11, 2011. The 74-year-old Gandhian began his fast on Sunday morning in central New Delhi, where hundreds of his supporters gathered to show solidarity with him.…
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East Asia
China Holds WTO High Level Forum
Chinese President Hu Jintao delivers a speech during the high level forum on the 10th anniversary of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 11, 2011. <Photo=Xinhua> news@theasian.asia
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East Asia
Hu Jintao Delivers Speech in WTO Forum
Chinese President Hu Jintao delivers a speech during the high level forum on the 10th anniversary of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 11, 2011. <Photo=Xinhua> news@theasian.asia
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East Asia
Hu Jintao Attends WTO High Level Forum
Chinese President Hu Jintao (Front), Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Pascal Lamy (Left), Secretary-General of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Supachai Panitchpakdi (3rd L) and Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan (4th L) arrive for the high level forum on the 10th anniversary of China’s accession to…
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Vivid Reminder of Violence Against Women
The shoe memorial in Vancouver, Canada reminds the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women(December 6). Hundreds of shoes are collected to represent those women who have been killed or are missing. <Xinhua=AsiaN>
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Column
Coolgogi···Internationalising Asian Flavours the Korean Journey
Eat a branding exercise A cliché for starters – the world is getting smaller. In one fell swoop and with one great invention called the internet – physical and imaginary mysterious social borders have all come crashing down. Everyone on the net wants to be a cool citizen of the…
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Politics
Libyan Revolution and North Korea
So,Colonel Gaddafi is dead, and the Libyan revolution has succeeded. Its triumph is usually presented in the Western media as another great victory of democracy. It remains to be seen to what extent this optimism is warranted. But there is little doubt that news from Libya has further complicated the…
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World
The Fallen Four of the Middle East
With the scene of (previous) Yemeni president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, signing the agreement of authority transfer in his own country, we come to an end for the fourth dictator of the famous photo, taken in Libya, representing him, with his colleagues; the escaping president of Tunisia; Bin Ali, who fled…
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Politics
Bush and Blair guilty of ‘Crimes against Peace’
The former US President George W. Bush and the former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair found guilty of ‘Crimes against Peace’ on 22 by a moot court in Malaysia. The former Prime Minister of Malaysia Mahathir Mohamad set up the court in Kuala Lumpur in 2007 strongly criticizing…
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