New Year&#39;s Parties in Asia, Australia Take Somber Tone
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All around Asia, New Year&#39;s Eve celebrations are being cancelled, replaced by services to remember the more than 120,000 people killed in the earthquake and tsunami that it sent out.
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Amid the countless tales of life and death emerging in the wake of Asia&#39;s deadly tsunami, an Australian mother&#39;s split-second decision encapsulates the horror of the tragedy.
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For Sweden's prime minister, celebrating New Year's after the Asian tsunami felt "completely wrong." Paris, its gay heart heavy with the tragedy, draped black cloth along a favorite haunt for romantic reveling ...
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SYDNEY, Australia  - Australia on Sunday marked 40 years since a historic referendum granted Aborigines citizenship, but celebrations were muted by stark reminders of the hardships facing the continent's original inhabitants.
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SYDNEY : More than a million people are expected to turn out for the annual fireworks show in Sydney on Friday as Australia&#39;s biggest city brings in the New Year in a celebration subdued by tragedy and turned into a fundraiser for tsunami victims.
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By ROHAN SULLIVAN  SYDNEY, Australia - A saloon-style striptease, complete with corsets and balloons, at an Australian government-sponsored conference on global warming left some scientists hot and bothered and the organizers in boiling water.
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After the earthquake and tsunami hit countries in South Asia, New Year celebrations have been cancelled in Jakarta, capital of Indonesia, the country, which suffered the greatest loss of life.
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KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia said Wednesday it is scrapping its grand New Year celebration as it counts the cost of the destruction wreaked by the Asian tsunami that has killed at least 65 people in the country.
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Australia and New Zealand observe a day of national mourning for victims of the Asian tsunami.
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STOCKHOLM -- People in Scandinavia and Germany, fond of viewing Asia as a winter refuge, faced up to the possibility that a tsunami had turned a tropical paradise into hell for hundreds of friends and loved ones.
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A thin winter green  carpets Australia&#39;s southeast hills and plains, camouflaging  the onset of a drought catastrophe in the nation&#39;s food bowl.
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The unprecedented crisis in Asia has left governments struggling to catch up with public opinion, says Paul Reynolds
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The traditional party of the year will  be a somber affair across the globe.
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A Kentucky widow, moved by the cries of grief she heard in reports about the tsunami disaster in south Asia, invited her entire town to a New Year's Eve bash to raise money for the victims. In California, a college offered free basketball tickets, with a gift for relief efforts the only price of admission.
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A million revelers cheered fireworks in Sydney, Australia - one of the first cities to celebrate the New Year. via News Observer
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As the new year approaches, there is good news and there is bad news for English-language print media in Asia.
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AUSTRALIA&#39;s Olympic sports have begun to prepare for the Asian onslaught they expect when Beijing hosts the next Games in 2008.