Gaza Strip, 12hrs Black Out Everyday
Om Sameer, 90, lights a candle in her room during a blackout in Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, on Feb. 11, 2012. Electricity is reported to be cut for 12 hours every day as part of a main power crisis due to the unstable political and economic situation in the Gaza Strip. <Photo: Xinhua/Wissam […]
Aung San Suu Kyi Starts her Campaign Trail
Chairwoman of Myanmar’s National League for Democracy (NLD), Aung San Suu Kyi, speaks to supporters during her tour of canvassing for vote in Kawhmu township, constituency of Yangon region, Myanmar, Feb. 11, 2012. Aung San Suu Kyi started her campaign trail for parliamentary by-elections on Saturday. <Photo: Xinhua/U Aung> news@theasian.asia
“Kiss Me, Darling”
Changmao, a male sheep, plays with its partner Chunzi, a female spotted deer, in Yunnan Wild Animal Park in Kunming, capital of southwest China’s Yunnan Province, Feb. 10, 2012. Changmao and Chunzi fell in love with each other after living together for a long time. The park will hold a wedding for the couple on […]
World Press Photo Contest Announces Winners
A handout picture released on Feb. 10, 2012 by World Press Photo shows the work of Samuel Aranda with the caption “a woman holds a wounded relative in her arms, inside a mosque used as a field hospital by demonstrators against rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, during clashes in Sanna, Yemen, on Oct. 15, […]
Syria Aleppo Blasts, 28 Dead
Photo taken on Feb. 10, 2012 shows the explosion site of a law-enforcement force in Hanano area in Aleppo, northern Syria. Twin deadly blasts caused by car bombs hit two sites of Syrian government forces in northern Aleppo province Friday, leaving 28 people killed and other 235 injured, said Syria’s official media, blaming the attacks […]
NY Fashion Week ‘Concept Korea’ Fashion Show
Models display creations during the Concept Korea presentation at Lincoln Center during the Fall 2012 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York, Feb. 10, 2012. <Photo: Xinhua/Shen Hong> news@theasian.asia
China targeting poverty reduction by family planning
China will further promote family planning policies in a bid to steady birth rates and alleviate poverty in its less affluent counties, according to a new plan on poverty reduction. Under to the plan, China aims to keep population growth rates within 0.8 percent in key poverty-relief counties by 2015, a move that it hopes […]
Children’s Theater Festival kicks off in Nepal
The third Children’s Theater Festival kicked off in Nepali capital Kathmandu on Friday, with Russian Writer Anton Checkov’s famous story Vanka adopted as a play in the inauguration. The week-long theater festival was organized by Nepal’s Shailee Theater with the support of Russian Culture Center Nepal. It aims to advocate child rights and help in […]
25 dead, 175 wounded in Syria’s Aleppo blast
At least 25 people were killed and another 175 wounded in Friday’s twin bombings that targeted security and law-enforcement forces’ bases in Syria’s northern Aleppo city, according to the health ministry. Xinhua’s correspondent in Damascus reported initial information showed that at least 19 government troops were among the dead, including 11 security agents died in […]
Fortune Whaleshark Left
A boy lies on a dead whale shark in southern Pakistani port city of Karachi on Feb. 9, 2012. The 40-foot whale shark was found dead at a coastal area of Karachi in the Arabian Sea. <Photo: Xinhua/Toheed> news@theasian.asia
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