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West Asia
Palestinian President Appeals Arab Nations For Financial Help
In this Friday, Nov. 16, 2012 file photo, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting of the Palestinian leadership at his compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah. The Palestinian president is urging Arab nations to provide major financial assistance to cover a new monthly $100 million budgetary…
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Economic growth leads China to worry about “Icarus paradox”
From wretched and mocked place to a great country; from the docile dragon of Asia to big brother of Asia; from a mocked country, mocked people, undermined and even forgotten super power to an incredible economic growing country. A place where about six hundred million people migrated from abject poverty…
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Game-changing move or too little, too late?
Moments after Ahn Cheol-soo ended his multi-week circus of flip-flopping and committed to the campaign of Democratic United Party (DUP) candidate Moon Jae-in, Woo Sang-ho, Moon’s spokesman, was caught grinning like a Cheshire cat. “This is s whole new ballgame,’’ said the beaming lawmaker, whose expression was notably gloomier earlier…
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East Asia
Foreigners view moral standing as key quality
Foreign tourists and residents say the most important quality for a leader and by extension the next Korean president is “moral standing,” according to a recent survey published Thursday. They also think inter-Korean relations will be the new leader’s biggest challenge. The survey by travel agency Cosmojin Tour, coming ahead…
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South Asia
India Decides To Open Up Huge Retail Sector To Foreign Companies
Samajvadi Party leader Mulayum Singh Yadav (C) and his party lawmakers talk to media before the voting on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in New Delhi, India, Dec. 5, 2012. India’s ruling Congress Party-led coalition government won a crucial vote on Wednesday in favor of its decision to open up the…
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East Asia
Singapore Asked By Hong Kong Labor Union To Release Chinese Bus Driver In Detention
A representative of the Singapore Consulate General, left, receives a letter from members of a labor union outside the Singapore Consulate General in Hong Kong Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012, as they demand the Singapore government to release a Chinese immigrant bus driver. Singapore sentenced a Chinese immigrant bus driver to…
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Central Asia
Summit Of Commonwealth Of Independent States Opens In Turkmenistan
The summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is held in Ashgabat of Turkmenistan on Dec. 5, 2012. <Xinhua/Lu Jingli>
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West Asia
Tunisian Ruling Party Head Speaks In Press Conference
Rached Ghannouchi, head of the ruling Islamic Ennahdha party, gives a press confrence in Tunis, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012. Five days of anti-government rioting marked by police gunfire and teargas ended with hundreds of wounded in Tunisia’s poor interior region and left behind a seething bitterness that is a warning…
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East Asia
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Pays An Official Visit To Kyrgyzstan
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (L) meets with Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev in Bishkek, capital of Kyrgyzstan, Dec. 4, 2012. Wen Jiabao arrived here Tuesday to attend the 11th prime ministers’ meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and pay an official visit to Kyrgyzstan. <Xinhua/Xie Huanchi> Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao…
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East Asia
Ban Ki-moon Speaks In Opening Of UN Climate Change Conference
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks during the opening session of the high-level segment of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Doha, Qatar, on Dec. 4, 2012. UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres speaks during the opening session of the high-level segment of the…
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