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East Asia
Japanese PM Abe shakes hands with NATO Secretary-General Rasmussen
NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, left, shakes hands with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe after they exchanged documents of joint political declaration between Japan and the NATO during a signing ceremony at Abe’s official residence in Tokyo Monday, April 15, 2013. <AP Photo/Toru Hanai, Pool>
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East Asia
N. Korea’s bluffing works again
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING North Korea has scored another brilliant diplomatic success. It has scared the world and created a sense of acute international crisis out of nothing. In the last two weeks, Seoul has been flooded with international journalists most of whom have come to report on the “growing…
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East Asia
What N. Korea means to America and China
Editor’s note: In the wake of the recent crisis on the Korean Peninsula, shifting politics between U.S. and China has been a center of attention. Following article published on the April 13 issue of The Economist is one way to look at this issue. While neither America nor China wants a…
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East Asia
Grandson Kim: Who laughs last?
In the 1940s, the German leader Adolf Hitler was going on building his Greatest Germania; a target that was not accepted by his far enemies or by his competing neighbors. The survival of the better economically and scientifically Hitler, compared by Europe’s countries, meant that there will be a fierce…
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Ending North Korea’s gamesmanship
Editor’s note: The crisis on the Korean peninsula has heightened to the bitter end. Here’s a view from Singapore’s The Strait Times to address the issue. It never is wise to discount renewed conflict on the Korean peninsula, despite the latest brinkmanship showing a familiar pattern. If the military moves…
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East Asia
Chinese President Xi puts on traditional bamboo hat in Hainan Province
Chinese President Xi Jinping (C) puts on a bamboo hat given by local residents of Li ethnic group during his visit to a rose farm at Yalong Bay in Sanya City, south China’s Hainan Province, April 9, 2013. Xi Jinping made an inspection tour to Hainan Province from April 8…
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South Asia
German Chancellor Merkel welcomes India PM Singh in Berlin
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, welcomes India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for talks at the chancellery in Berlin, Wednesday, April 10, 2013. <AP Photo/Markus Schreiber>
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NK bellicose rhetoric defers arrival of spring
Spring has apparently come as it is already the second week of April, but nobody really feels like it has. It may be because of the drastic temperature fluctuation between day and night. However, it seems that the lingering cold is not all that makes people feel the unseasonal chill…
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South Asia
Pakistani court adjourns high treason trial against Musharraf
Pakistani lawyer Tofiq Asif, who petitioned the Supreme Court against former president Pervez Musharraf, speaks with media outside the Supreme Court in Islamabad, capital of Pakistan, April 9, 2013. Pakistan’s top court Tuesday adjourned until April 15 hearing of petitions, seeking high treason proceedings against former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf,…
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West Asia
Kuwait hosts 19th Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union conference
Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah (L, front) and Kuwaiti Parliament Speaker Ali al-Rashed (R, front) attend the opening of the 19th Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union (AIPU) conference in Kuwait City on April 9, 2013. Kuwaiti Parliament Speaker Ali al-Rashed addresses the opening of the 19th Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union (AIPU) conference…
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