By: Abdullah Hizam
Translated by: Mahmoud Assamiee

By Eliswan Azly

Astana, 02 January 2008, (Khabar) - Astana residents celebrated New Year under the motto “Let’s be Healthy!” people skates, drove quadrocycles and bathed in ice hole.

Almaty, 02 January 2008, (Khabar) - 36 000 babies were born in Almaty in 2008. Maternity hospitals were full of pregnant women. Demographers say the number of born babies will increase in 2009.

Sagar Kulkarni

Astana, 1 January 2008, (Khabar) - According to the tradition, adults and children recollect all the best of passing away year and think wishes ahead.

(ATTN: ADDS statement from pro-Pyongyang newspaper in Japan)
By Kim Hyun
SEOUL, Jan. 1 (Yonhap) -- North Korea greeted the New Year on Thursday with an

By Kim Hyun
SEOUL, Jan. 1 (Yonhap) -- North Korea greeted the New Year on Thursday with an
increased focus on its ailing economy and a commitment to denuclearization, a

By Yuri Alfrin Aladdin

by Fardah