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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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East Asia
Japanese Major Political Parties Have Gone Into Election Footing
An elderly woman walks by candidates’ poster boards for parliamentary elections, left, and Tokyo Gubernatorial election in Tokyo Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012. Leaders for Japan’s biggest political parties kicked off Tuesday the campaign for parliamentary elections to be held in less than two weeks with visits to nuclear crisis-hit Fukushima…
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West Asia
Iranian Parliament Speaker Urges NATO Not To Deploy Missile In Turkey-Syria Border
Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani speaks at a news conference in Tehran, capital of Iran, on Dec. 3, 2012. Iranian Majlis (parliament) speaker on Monday urged NATO not to be engaged in regional conflicts by deploying air defense missiles in Turkey-Syria border. <Xinhua/Ahmad Halabisaz>
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East Asia
Chinese Legislators Visit Cambodia To Strengthen Bilateral Ties
President of Cambodia’s National Assembly Heng Samrin (R) shakes hands with Chairman of the Legal Affairs Committee of the China’s National People’s Congress Hu Kangsheng in Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia, on Dec. 3, 2012. A group of Chinese legislators led by Hu Kangsheng is visiting Cambodia to strengthen and…
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South East Asia
[Indonesia Report] Death of human rights activist 8-year ago still remains unresolved
After 8 years of the death of Indonesian prominent Human Rights Activist, the probe of the case has not been completed and the mystery behind the murder remain. Metrotvnews.com published an article on a remembrance of the activist’s fights and his mysterious death. According to the article, law enforcers have sentenced number of those related…
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