• South Asia

    Flood Separates Pakistani Children From Families

    Pakistani boys, whose families were displaced by 2010 floods from a village in Pakistan’s Sindh province, play pool in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, July 10, 2012. <AP/NEWSis> news@theasian.asia

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  • East Asia

    Tea drinking: Time-honored Chinese custom

    A customer (R) tastes lotus root starch in Cuiyuting Teahouse in Hangzhou, capital of east China’s Zhejiang Province, July 11, 2012. There are several teahouses besides the West Lake, providing customers with tea at a price of only one yuan RMB (0.16 U.S dollar). It’s the lifestyle in one-yuan-teahouses beside…

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  • West Asia

    Syria Releases Detainees As Goodwill Gesture

    Freed detainees are seen upon their release in the Damascus Police Command in Damascus, Syria on 11 July 2012. The Syrian authorities released Tuesday a total of 275 detainees, who had been arrested over involvement with the anti-government movement, in a bid to show a good will to bring an…

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  • South Asia

    Air India Bimaner Pkistane Joruri Abotoron

    Namoskar, ami Sudhany Ghosh, Asia Journalist Association, AJA Goto Air Indiar eksho baish jon jatri shoho ekti jatribshi biman Pkistaner Nawabshah bimanbondore joruri abotoron kore.tinsho unisher A numberer oi biman ti Abu Dhabi theke Delhi jawar pothe jantrik golojoger karone joruri abotoron korte badhho hoye.Air India theke janano hoyeche je…

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  • South Asia

    Bangladesh : Another highway robbery in city, 1 killed

    Top news in <The Daily Star>: Another highway robbery in city, 1 killed A fish trader was killed and a trucker injured when robbers took away their fish-laden pickup-van throwing them from a running truck in the capital’s Mohakhali area early Thursday. The incident took place when the owners of…

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  • Business

    Mobile banking makes big jump

    It was in the winter of 2009 when struggling wireless carrier KT brought Apple’s iPhone to these shores. And just like that the Korean finance industry entered a new era of portable banking, a significant transition that is irrevocably reshaping the personal finance experience. While the explosion of mobile Internet…

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  • Society

    Anti-violence message to appear on soju bottles

    Hite-Jinro, a leading beer and soju maker, said Wednesday that it will attach labels to its products to warn against alcohol-induced violence and promote a sound drinking culture. The company signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency to lead a campaign to eliminate alcohol-fueled violence…

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  • Politics

    2007 election funds to be probed

    Prsident’s elder brother arrested for taking bribes Prosecutors said Wednesday they are looking into the allegations that Lee Sang-deuk, President Lee Myung-bak’s elder brother, received illegal political funds from businesses to finance his brother’s presidential campaign in 2007. The elder Lee, a former National Assembly vice speaker, was jailed earlier…

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  • Politics

    Rep. Chung’s arrest motion rejected

    Saenuri faces criticism for protecting one of their own; Park Geun-hye skips vote Rep. Chung Doo-un of the ruling Saenuri Party survived a parliamentary motion Wednesday to have him arrested on charges of receiving money from the head of a troubled savings bank together with President Lee Myung-baks elder brother,…

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  • Samsung, POSCO boost cooperation

    Two firms to jointly develop new materials POSCO, the world’s third largest steelmaker, has decided to develop next-generation materials for smartphones and other electronic gadgets in cooperation with Samsung Electronics. This is the latest in a series of moves designed to boost business collaboration between Korea’s two leading enterprises. Since…

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