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South East Asia
Major news in Myanmar on May 30
Top news in <Myanar Times>: Electricity shortages spark wave of protests news@theasian.asia
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Central Asia
Major news in Kazkhstan on May 30
Top news in <Tengri News>: Tolmachev back to Kazkahstan and will go back to work news@theasian.asia
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East Asia
Major news in China on May 30: The termite terminator
Top news in <China Daily>: The termite terminator news@theasian.asia
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East Asia
Major news in Japan on May 30
Top news in <NHK>: Annan urges Assad to immediately stop violence news@theasian.asia
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UN tells NK to release South Korean family
The United Nations has requested North Korea to release and compensate a South Korean family held in the Stalinist state for 25 years, confirming it is a case of arbitrary detention, activists said Tuesday. It was the U.N.’s most specific statement over Shin Sook-ja, a 70-year-old South Korean woman —…
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Corruption and growth
Transparency to help tackle unemployment Korea was placed 43rd of 183 countries in the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) released by Transparency International (TI), the world’s largest anti-corruption watchdog, late last year. The ranking represented a drop of four notches from that of a year ago with the index being 5.4…
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Politics
China’s crackdown on defectors driven by separatism fears
China’s deep-seated concerns regarding the separatist movement of ethnic minority groups is seen as the key reason behind a recent crackdown on immigrants in the Yanbian Autonomous Prefecture. The northeastern city is home to the largest number of ethnic Koreans in China. “Separatist protests by Tibetans and Uyghurs in Xinjiang,…
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West Asia
Syrian refugees in Lebanon
Syrian refugees who fled their houses from Bab Dreib neighborhood in Homs province, walk at an under construction home which they took with their families temporarily, at the Lebanese-Syrian border town of Arssal, eastern Lebanon, Tuesday, May 29, 2012. Thousands of Syrian refugees who fled the violence in their country…
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Business
Blizzard probed over Diablo 3
The government has launched an investigation into Blizzard Entertainment over allegations that the American computer gamemaker has refused to refund Koreans who purchased its latest real-time role-playing game Diablo 3. The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) said the firm is suspected of having violated the country’s law on electronic commerce and…
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