• East Asia

    Flags Of Two Koreas Confuse Olympic Organizers

    This mobile phone photo provided by James Crossan, shows a mistakenly displayed South Korean flag on a jumbo screen instead of North Korea’s, before a women’s soccer match which prompted the North Koreans to refuse to take the field for nearly an hour on Wednesday, July 25, 2012, in Glasgow,…

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  • Lifestyle

    [Indian Cooking] Ilish Macher Paturi, a popular Bengali dish

    In the eastern India, the Bengali style of cooking is noticeable. The staple food of Bengalis is the yummy combination of rice and fish. Usually the Bengalis love eating varieties of fishes. A special way of preparing the delicacy known as ‘Hilsa’ is by wrapping it in the banana or…

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  • South Asia

    Shorbonimno somorthon prapto rashtropati lee

    Nomoskar,ami Sudhanya Ghosh,Asia Journalist Association,AJA. July masher tritiyo soptahe songothito ekti somikhhaye jana gache j rastropati Lee Myung-baker karjokaritake matro atharo shotangsho manush somorthon korechen, ebong bashotti shotangsho manush tar birodhita korechen. Sombhobonamoye rashtropatider modhye shaitirish sotangsho somorthon peye sorbadhik jonopriyota labh korechen Park Geun-hye. Tar por ekush o ponero…

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  • Society

    [India Report] New Indian President Mukherjee sworn in

    Mr. Pranab Mukherjee became the 13th President of India on Wednesday after a five decade of political life. He is the first Bengali to become the prime minister of India. The 76-year-old veteran leader took oath in the name of God in the presence of dignitaries including outgoing President Pratibha…

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  • East Asia

    Mysterious Woman Found To Be Kim Jong-un’s Wife

    This photo released on July 25, 2012 by KCNA, State media of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), shows Kim Jong Un, accompanied by his wife Ri Sol Ju, inspects an amusement park in Pyongyang, capital of DPRK. The official KCNA news agency confirmed Wednesday that top leader Kim…

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  • West Asia

    Syrian Refugees Arrive At Iraqi Town

    Syrian refugees arrive at the border crossing by the Iraqi town of Qaim, located in the Euphrates river valley 200 miles (320 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July 25, 2012. <AP/NEWSis> news@theasian.asia

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  • tobechecked

    Suspected al-Qaida Members Captured In Iraq

    Iraqi army soldiers bring in a blindfolded and handcuffed suspected al-Qaida member to detention centers in an Iraqi army base in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July 25, 2012. Iraqi security forces raided some villages in Arab Jabour, south of Baghdad, and detained 16 men suspected members of al-Qaida. <AP/NEWSis> news@theasian.asia

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  • South Asia

    Evicted From Home Due To Ethnic Violence

    An ethnic violence affected Bodo woman holds her baby at a relief camp at Kambari Beel in Kokrajhar, Assam state, India, Wednesday, July 25, 2012. Thousands of Indian troops marched through a northeast region Wednesday to quell ethnic violence that has killed at least 38 people, but roving bands of…

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  • tobechecked

    ‘Don’t Cry For Me Argentina’

    FILE – In this Oct. 17, 1951 file photo, Maria Eva Duarte de Peron waves to supporters in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Argentina commemorates the 60th anniversary of the death of Argentina’s most famous first lady on Thursday, July 26, 2012. Evita died of cancer on July 26, 1952 at the…

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  • tobechecked

    Former Philippine President Freed From Detention

    Former Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo looks at her supporters as she arrives at her village in suburban Quezon City, north of Manila, Philippines on Wednesday July 25, 2012. Arroyo on Wednesday walked out of a government hospital where she has been detained for nearly eight months on charges of…

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