Flags and flowers on Lunar New Year in North Korea
Soldiers and children, all bundled up against the freezing cold, lined up Monday at Pyongyang's main plaza to pay their respects again to late leader Kim Jong Il on the first day of the Lunar New Year holiday.
N. Korea marks New Year with 'kimjongilia' flowers
PYONGYANG, North Korea - Bundled up against the freezing cold, soldiers and children lined up Monday at Pyongyang's main plaza to pay their respects again to late leader Kim Jong Il.
'Warriors' left to fly the flag for Asia at Oscars
While Greater China gears up for the Lunar New Year box office season, the big film news in Asia this week has been the fact that there is only one Asian production left in the running for this year's foreign language Oscar.
Lively NKorean capital celebrates Lunar New Year
North Koreans bundled against the freezing cold paid respects again to late leader Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang's main plaza Monday and celebrated the Lunar New Year holiday with colorful flowers and children's games.
JoePa statue items to 'dry out,' family to review
The dozens of signs, bouquets of flowers and other items left by fans at the Joe Paterno statue outside Penn State's Beaver Stadium in honor of the late Hall of Fame coach have been removed and stored inside the stadium to dry out.
Existing policy bans glass, balloons, potted flowers and more
A growing number of large potted plants, long potted flower boxes and other grave site decorations that are hazardous to workers and are cluttering the grounds have prompted the Santa Maria Cemetery to step up enforcement of its rules about what can and cannot be left at grave sites.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II marks 60 years on throne
KING'S LYNN - Queen Elizabeth II marks 60 years as monarch on Monday with a deliberately low-key program of visits to eastern England, kicking off five months of diamond jubilee celebrations.
Penn State removes Paterno statue memorial items to 'dry out;' family to review
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - The dozens of signs, bouquets of flowers and other items left by fans at the Joe Paterno statue outside Penn State's Beaver Stadium in honour of the late Hall of Fame coach have been removed and stored inside the stadium to dry out.
Compromised epic on Rape of Nanking
The Rape of Nanking, the 1937 rape and murder rampage by Japanese troops, comes so vividly to life in The Flowers of War that you wish the great Chinese director Zhang Yimou had a better movie to put in front of it. Japan, both officially and informally, has spent the intervening 74 years ignominiously denying that this slaughter of Chinese women and children in that city ever happened.
