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U.S. Deputy Secretary of State talks with Cambodian FM over human rights

Cambodian deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong (L) shakes hands with visiting U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Michael Posner during their meeting in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Feb. 19, 2013. The United States said on Tuesday that they wanted to see the participation…
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Double-digit growth continues for home appliances market in SE Asia

The rising affluence of consumers is stimulating sales of major domestic appliances in Southeast Asia. According to the survey conducted last December by GFK Asia based in Singapore, the consumer market in the sector worth of the washers, air-conditioners, refrigerators and microwave ovens has grown by a healthy 13 percent…
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South East Asia

Philippine activists protest destruction of coral reef by a U.S. minesweeper in Manila

A Filipino protester wears a headband with a sea turtle and a slogan during a rally near the U.S. Embassy in Manila, Philippines on Monday, Feb. 18, 2013. Activists protested the alleged destruction of the coral reef by the USS Guardian, a U.S. minesweeper, which ran aground off Tubbataha Reef,…
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South East Asia

A Myanmar lawyer asks punishment of those responsible for crackdown at copper mine

Aung Thein, a founding member of Myanmar Lawyers Network, talks during a press conference on the investigation about the Nov. 29 crackdown at Letpadaung copper mine in central Myanmar, Thursday, Feb.14, 2013, at Royal Rose restaurant in Yangon, Myanmar. Activists in Myanmar are insisting that those responsible for breaking up…
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South East Asia

A couple celebrates after winning world’s longest kiss contest in Pattaya

Celebrating their world record longest kiss, are Akechai Tiranarat, left, and Laksana Tiranarat, after winning the World’s Longest Continuous Kiss contest, with a Guinness World Record time of 58 hours, 35 minutes, 58 seconds, in Pattaya, southeastern Thailand, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. <AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit>
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South East Asia

Ethnic Kachin people in Myanmar still live in a camp for minority groups

Ethnic Kachin women gather as children play at a camp for internally displaced people in Myitkyina, northern Kachin state, Myanmar, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013. Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi offered to help negotiate an end to conflicts between the government and ethnic minority groups, a challenge the country’s…
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South East Asia

Press Freedom in Digital Era – Promises & Perils

*Editor’s Note: Ivan Lim, President of Asia Journalist Association, gave keynote speech at the 13th ICT Conference in Kathmandu, Nepal on February 9. The conference was hosted by the Computer Association of Nepal and the Internet Society of Nepal in an attempt to promote “E-democracy in Nepal.” Participants include experts from Nepali parliaments,…
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South East Asia

Aung San Suu Kyi attends Union Day event for ethnic minorities

Myanmar President Thein Sein during a dinner to mark Union Day Tuesday, Feb.12, 2013, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi offered Tuesday to help negotiate an end to conflicts between the government and the country’s ethnic minority groups, a challenge the country’s president has called essential to…
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South East Asia

Firefighters extinguish fire in west Jakarta that affected 2,284 residents

Firefighters try to extinguish the fire at Duri Selatan, Tambora, west Jakarta, Indonesia, Feb. 7, 2013. About 70 tenements were burnt in the fire, affecting 2,284 residents, according to Isnawa Adji, Head of the Subdistrict of Tambora. <Xinhua/NEWSis/Veri Sanovri>
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East Asia

Chinese New Year celebrated across Asia

Red lanturns, dragon dance decorate streets Billions of Asians throughout the world are setting off home for the start of the 2013 Chinese New Year in celebration of the year of the snake. Folk artists prepare to perform a traditional fire dragon dance along the major Chinatown streets as part of the…
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