CNN Site Map for Section Asia (Galleries) for June - 2013
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- 2013-06-27Conceived as an alternative to the overloaded Trans-Siberian Railway, the Southern Route is a length of track stretching from Chongqing in southern China to Duisburg, Germany. Pictured, Dostyk, Kazakhstan, is a small town on Kazakh-China border that serve
- 2013-06-27Chinese astronauts Zhang Xiaoguang, Nie Haisheng and Wang Yaping (L-R) wave in Inner Mongolia after exiting the return capsule of the Shenzhou 10 spacecraft on Wednesday, June 26.
- 2013-06-25Pedestrians run from water splashing over a sea wall in Mumbai on Monday, June 24. Authorities are scrambling to rescue thousands of people trapped after floods and landslides ravaged north India, leaving up to 1,000 feared dead.
- 2013-06-24Students wear masks as haze shrouds Kuala Lumpur on June 23. Many schools in Malaysia were closed on Monday after air pollution caused by forest fires in Indonesia spiked to hazardous levels.
- 2013-06-17The Red Brigade is a group of young girls from one of India's poorest states who patrol the streets of their neighborhood ensuring women and girls are safe.
- 2013-06-15Several hundred protesters took to Hong Kong's streets on Saturday to support Edward Snowden, a week after the 29-year-old whistleblower behind the U.S. National Security Agency's mass surveillance program revealed he was hiding out in the city.
- 2013-06-14Friends and comrades: Former Gurkha soldiers Tamang, Limbu, Limbu and Kumar pictured together in Kathmandu recently.
- 2013-06-12Kyaw Thu turned his back on the film industry after seeing a need in Myanmar for burial services for the poor. He co-founded the Free Funeral Service Society in 2001.
- 2013-06-11China's Shenzhou 10 rocket blasts off from the Gobi Desert in the city of Jiuquan, in China's Gansu province, on Tuesday, June 11. The craft is scheduled to dock with the Tiangong-1 space module, where the three crew members will transfer suppl
- 2013-06-11Made famous in the latest James Bond movie, "Skyfall," Hashima Island is home to a ghostly uninhabited collection of apartment blocks -- all are ruined and crumbling.
- 2013-06-11Chandni (left) with other members of the Balaknama quarterly working on their 10th Anniversary Edition.
- 2013-06-10Blackouts are common in Myanmar due to an old and neglected energy network that only reaches a quarter of the country's population of 60 million people. Aye Kyaing (L), who rents out a pool table in the front room of his house in Yangon, says the sit
- 2013-06-06A South Korean soldier stands on a road linked to North Korea at a military checkpoint in Paju on Wednesday, April 3. North Korea has asked for talks to reopen the industrial complex, which is an important symbol of cooperation between the two countries.
- 2013-06-06The shelter on the Thai border with Laos is home to hundreds of animals rescued from the cruel and inhumane dog smuggling trade.
- 2013-06-03Smoke billows from a large poultry processing plant in Mishazi Township of Dehui City in northeast China's Jilin Province on Monday, June 3. More than 300 workers were inside the plant when the fire broke out about 6 a.m., the state-run Xinhua news a
- 2013-06-03"They (police) pushed me down and I started bleeding. Later the doctors told me I had lost my baby." Oum Srey Saut, 20, was three months pregnant when she lost her baby during clashes with the police at Sabrina Factory on Monday, May 27, 2013.