JAPAN PARLIAMENT APPROVES CONTENTIOUS SECRETS LAW
By ELAINE KURTENBACH Anti-state secrets law protesters holding “abolish secrets bill” placards shout “shame on you” in front of the Diet building in Tokyo after learning the upper house lawmakers…
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DILIGENT ASIAN STUDENTS DOMINATE GLOBAL EXAM
By DIDI TANG FILE – In this Nov. 7, 2013 file photo, South Korean students cheer their seniors’ success in the Scholastic Aptitude Test in front of the main gate…
BIDEN: US-CHINA TIES RELY ON TRUST, GOOD MOTIVES
By JOSH LEDERMAN U.S. Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao at the Great Hall of the People on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013,…
BIDEN: CHINA AIR ZONE RAISES RISK OF ACCIDENTS
By JOSH LEDERMAN U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, left, is welcomed by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe prior to their talks at Abe’s official residence in Tokyo Tuesday, Dec. 3,…
ENVOY SAYS CHINA HAS RIGHT TO SET ANOTHER AIR ZONE
By JIM GOMEZ Philippine Red Cross Chairman Richard Gordon, right, welcomes Chinese Ambassador Ma Keqing, center, before turnover rites of payloaders donated by Chinese companies in Manila, Philippines on Monday,…
CHINA SENDS FIGHTERS TO ID FLIGHTS BY US AND JAPAN
A Chinese man reads a newspaper which reports that U.S., Japan and South Korea sent flights through China’s newly declared maritime air defense zone, in Beijing, China Friday, Nov. 29,…
CHINA SETS AIR DEFENSE ZONE OVER EAST CHINA SEA
In this Sept. 2012 photo, the tiny islands in the East China Sea, called Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese are seen. The Chinese Defense Ministry on Saturday, Nov.…
Rio’s Olympic waterways full of trash, sewage
By JENNY BARCHFIELD Small boats sit on the shore of Guanabara Bay in the suburb of Sao Goncalo, across the bay from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013.…