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South East Asia
Major news in Singapore on Jun 1
Top news in <Straits Times>: The world of Harry Potter arrives at ArtScience Museum news@theasian.asia
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Central Asia
Major news in Afghanistan on Jun 1
Top news in <Outlook Afghanistan>: ANF to Win Next Presidential Polls news@theasian.asia
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East Asia
Major news in Japan on Jun 1
Top news in <Kyodo News>: Ministry starts dress-down “Super Cool Biz” to save power in office news@theasian.asia
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East Asia
Major news in China on Jun 1: Rural children face nutrition gap
Top news in <CNTV>: Rural children face nutrition gap news@theasian.asia
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Society
Are they the only ‘fake’ foreign students?
KAIST kicks out 6 Indians; Suh’s experiment in jeopardy Six Indian students have been expelled from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), one of the country’s top universities, for presenting fabricated award certificates to gain admission, the school said Thursday. The students were admitted between 2009 and…
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Baltic Sea Countries Talk On Energy Security
The members of the Council of the Baltic Sea States sit under models of whales at the Ozeaneum sea museum as they attend the plenary session of the summit in Stralsund, Germany, Thursday, May 31, 2012. Germany is hosting government leaders and officials from the countries around the Baltic Sea…
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Does Blackberry Seek Revival?
Three people on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange display their Blackberry smartphones, Wednesday, May 30, 2012. Research In Motion Ltd., the maker of the BlackBerry, is in steep decline. The company, once the crown jewel of the Canadian technology industry, is now worth 1 percent of Apple’s…
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East Asia
World No Tobacco Day Observed
An Indian man smokes ‘bidi’, a small hand-rolled cigarette on the eve of ” No Tobacco Day” in Allahabad, India, Wednesday, May 30, 2012. Bidis are popular among poor Indians because they are significantly cheaper. A packet of 10 costs about 2 rupees (about 5 US cents; 0.03 euro) while…
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Throwing Mortar Boards For World Record
Backdropped by Tower Bridge, hundreds of students from more than 100 nationalities toss their mortar boards into the air in a Guinness World Record attempt for the most people throwing mortar boards simultaneously outside City Hall in London as part of World Record London to mark the news that more…
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