• South Asia

    Rose Petals On Sale At Festival In Karachi

    A vender sells rose petals during Shab-e-Barat Festival in Karachi, Pakistan, on July 5, 2012. <Xinhua/Masroor> news@theasian.asia

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  • East Asia

    Job Fair For Prison Inmates In China

    Prisoners look at job information at a job fair in a prison in Yinchuan, capital of northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, July 5, 2012. Yinchuan prison on Thursday organized a job fair for prisoners who are going to be released after serving the full term of the sentence. <Xinhua/Wang…

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  • South Asia

    Gas Explosion Near Kabul Leaves 90 Casualties

    People who were wounded during Wednesday’s propane gas reservoir explosion receive medical treatment in Kabul, Afghanistan, on July 5, 2012. A gas reservoir explosion which broke out in Pul-e-Charkhi industrial park east of Kabul late Wednesday has killed eight and injured 83, a health official said Thursday. <Xinhua> news@theasian.asia

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  • West Asia

    Anti-Assad Protests Spread To Jordan

    A Syrian girl lifts the center of a giant revolutionary flag during a protest against Bashar Assad, in front the Syrian embassy in Amman, Jordan, Thursday, July 5, 2012. <AP/NEWSis> news@theasian.asia

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  • Society

    A book detailing what happened under Khmer Rouge published in Cambodia

    PHNOM PENH —  A Cambodian journalist on Thursday launches his new book on the Khmer Rouge aiming to provide the Khmer Rouge Tribunal extra information on the serious child rights violation during the Democratic Kampuchea rule in 1975-79 when some 2 million people died of murder, torture, starvation, sickness, and…

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  • Society

    Post-1990s generation marches into Chinese society

    BEIJING, July 5 (Xinhua) — Chinese adults have a wide variety of opinions on the “jiulinghou,” or “post-1990s” generation, finding it difficult to understand the unintelligible slang, bizarre hairstyles and erratic behavior of children born after that year. But with the first group of post-1990s kids graduating from Chinese universities…

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  • Korea-India business ties get strengthen

    Few countries can match the Republic of Korea’s grit when it comes to the show of the will to win over what it would normally appear to be insurmountable odds. If the history of the country’s successive war defeats against neighbours in the last century, the split of the nation…

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  • tobechecked

    柬埔寨爆发不明急性呼吸系统疾病

    大家好,我是王璇，今天的 The AsiaN新闻，又同您见面了。 根据“韩国疾病管理本部”7月5日发表的一项关于海外旅游注意事项内容显示，最近在柬埔寨南部地区多发一种原因不明的呼吸系统疾病，导致前来观光的游客死亡。该机关特别提醒游客注意安全预防。 根据世界卫生组织的调查显示，患者多发高热、呼吸系统功能迅速下降，同时伴有整个呼吸系统、神经系统并发衰竭，临床表现明显。从4月份至今已经有61名儿童死于此病。 至今为止仍然无法完全查出发病原因，世界卫生组织同柬埔寨当局以及卫生保健部门正在对病因进行全力调查之中。 此外，韩国相关机构提示：“正值暑假期间，准备外出旅行的游客们最好在出游之前，访问由政府提供的专门网页(travelinfo.cdc.go.kr)，获取注意事项、疾病发生提示，并且适当注意个人卫生防御”，“如果在旅行时间发现类似咳嗽、高热等情况，在归国时应立即通告相应部门和治疗机构，接受治疗”。 当然还是和往常一样，欢迎您点击我们的网站，浏览其他要闻。 我们的网站是 http://cn.theasian.asia/?p=4769 今天就到这里，谢谢您的收看。 news@theasian.asia

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  • Society

    ‘Dokdo is Korean territory’

    Participants and winners of the 3rd International Dokdo Essay Contest said Thursday that “Dokdo belongs to Korea and there is no doubt that Japan’s claims over the rocky islets are illegitimate.” During an awards ceremony held in Seoul, Audwin Wilkinson, Gold Prize winner of the annual contest, stressed that Korea…

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  • Drinking in parks to be banned

    Seoul City is pushing for a ban on drinking alcohol in public parks starting next year, in an effort to curb crimes committed by people who become intoxicated. The city requested to the Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs to change regulations on city parks last month to prohibit…

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