The world welcomes 2012
New Year revelers around the planet welcomed 2012 in a blaze of fireworks and parties, temporarily banishing the misery of extreme weather which has struck countries across the world.
The bell was found 30 meters away amid debris from the March 11 tsunami.
Seputis, a project manager for EDG, said the last several years the Peach only had one leaf and this year a second was added.
New Year was the biggest informal holiday of the year in the former Soviet Union, and remains very popular in the predominantly Muslim Central Asian nation.