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Real-name registry for HIV test in China ‘Controversy’

A health worker draws blood for a HIV test at a department of the disease prevention and containment center in Changning District, Shanghai, east China, Feb. 21, 2012. Controversy has escalated in China since the country’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region drafted legislation that demand personal information for HIV testing and…

Politics

Power shift to Asia: no need to panic

On Feb. 15, just as Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping arrived in the United States for a four-day visit, U.S. President Barack Obama told an audience of American workers in Milwaukee: “Manufacturing is coming back!” Coming back from China, that is. But while the Master Lock Company of Milwaukee has indeed…

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Argentina Train Derailed, 49 Dead

A rescuer carries a wounded passenger at the site of train derailling in Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, Feb. 22, 2012. The derailment of an inter-city train has resulted in the death of at least 49 people and the injury of at least 600 people in Buenos Aires early Wednesday.…

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The AsiaN on 22 February 2012

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Society

Bear bile maker, under fire, opens farm to reporters

A Chinese pharmaceutical company Wednesday morning allowed more than 100 reporters to visit a farm where it breeds bears for their bile, amid protests from the public and animal welfare activists. At the bear farm of Guizhentang Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., based in the eastern province of Fujian, a Xinhua reporter…

Society

Mountaineer Um Hong-gil built the 3rd school in Nepal

Um Hong-gil Human Foundation held opening ceremony in Lumbini The 4th ground-breaking ceremony on 25 Feb. 16 schools will be built in future Um Hong-gil Human Foundation (Chairman Lee Jae-hu) with the motto “Love for Nature and Love for People” built a school on 21 in Lumbini, the southern part…

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