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West Asia
Major news in Israel on May 8: PM-Mofaz to form unity gov’t, canceling early elections
Top news in <Jerusalem Post>: PM, Mofaz to form unity gov’t, canceling early elections news@theasian.asia
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“We Are Savior To Each Other”
This photo provided by Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Los Angeles, shows Debbie Zeisler with her 100-pound Shiloh German shepherd named Bear, on Monday, May 7, 2012, in Los Angeles. Three years ago, Bear, was a dog nobody wanted at a Texas shelter until Zeisler came to…
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Highlighting UN Role For World Peace
Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, speaks at a forum held at the Center for Strategic and International Studies(CSIS) in Washington D.C., on May 7, 2012. Ban talked about the U.N. role in building and sustaining peace at post-conflict situation. <Xinhua/Fang Zhe> news@theasian.asia
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Column
Flood leaves 17 dead and 47 missing in Nepal
KATHMANDU, Nepal— Seventeen people died and 47 went missing in a flash flood triggered by the bursting out of Seti River clogged by debris from an avalanche near the base camp of Mt. Fish Tail following continuous rains Saturday. The death toll could go higher as the chances to rescue the…
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Business
Yeosu not expo-ready
Shortage of hotels, inadequate transportation threaten world fair Yeosu Expo organizers aim to achieve the ambitious goal of drawing 10 million visitors to the small southwestern port city in South Jeolla Province during the three-month event. They say they are ready for the largest global event ever hosted by the…
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Politics
Parliamentary vote kicks off in Syria
Polling stations opened across Syria on Monday for the country’s first multi-party parliamentary elections in half a century amid reports of ongoing violence that has jeopardized the UN-backed peace plan designed to end the 14-month bloody conflict. The elections follow a referendum on a new constitution in February that ended…
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Will Smith returns with ‘Men in Black III’
“Men in Black III,” the third movie of this franchise — a decade after its prequel — premiered in Seoul. Stars Will Smith and Josh Brolin along with director Barry Sonnefeld greeted fans at a press conference at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Yeoksam-dong, southern Seoul, Monday. “Anyeonghaseyo,” Will Smith said to…
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Business
CEO Min seeks to invigorate Kookmin
KB chief sees turnaround for BCC in coming years The rap sheet on KB Kookmin Bank was simple: A big, but boring bank that punches below its weight and gets routinely beaten by quicker rivals in new markets. The company’s response to its reputation problem was to hire a CEO…
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‘North Korea may have aborted launch’
North Korea may have intentionally crashed its long-range Unha-3 rocket last month due to problems in staging, a U.S. missile expert said Monday. David Wright, a senior scientist and co-director of the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, put forward the possibility among a range of scenarios…
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Politics
Power struggle grips leftist party
Lee Jung-hee, a co-leader of the Unified Progressive Party (UPP), rejected a call for her resignation, Monday, proposing a hearing and reinvestigation of a primary vote rigging case. A task force had earlier released findings of their investigation that showed rigging and irregularities were quite prevalent. Thus, the struggle for…
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