• East Asia

    Major news in China on April 4 2012

    Top news in <People’s Daily>: Full text of Li Keqiang’s speech at opening ceremony of Boao Forum news@theasian.asia

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  • East Asia

    Major news in Japan on April 4 2012: Softbank to build Japan’s largest solar power plant

    Top news in <Kyodo News>: Softbank solar power plant in Hokkaido to be Japan’s largest news@theasian.asia

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  • tobechecked

    Ladybug in Low-Level Flying

    WALLA WALLA, Wash. — A ladybug in flight spreads her wings as she flutters from grass blade to grass blade at Rooks Park in Walla Walla, Wash. on Monday, April 2, 2012. After three or four short flights, she left grasstop level, soared skyward then lumbered out of sight. <AP/Newsis>…

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  • South Asia

    Train Derailment Claims Two Injuries in Karachi

    KARACHI — Heavy machinery is used at the site of a train accident in southern Pakistani port city of Karachi on April 3, 2012. At least two passengers were injured as one compartment of a passenger train derailed when it run on a wrong track in Karachi on Tuesday. <Xinhua/Arshad>…

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  • tobechecked

    Dallas Under Siege of Tornado

    DALLAS, Texas — A tornado touches down in Lancaster, Texas south of Dallas on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. Tornadoes tore through the Dallas area Tuesday, peeling roofs off homes, tossing big-rig trucks into the air and leaving flattened tractor trailers strewn along highways and parking lots. <AP/Newsis> news@theasian.asia

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  • Society

    Russia suffers frequent plane crashes

    Russian emergency workers search the crash site of the ATR-72 plane crash outside Tyumen, a major regional center in Siberia, Russia, Monday, April 2, 2012. <Photo: AP/Newsis> MOSCOW (Xinhua) — Russia, once an aviation powerhouse, has been plagued by deadly plane crashes in recent years, with the latest claiming 31 lives…

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  • East Asia

    [China Now] ‘India looms as military rival’

    India will be the next military power targetting China *This article was written based on the story by a famous online writer using ‘BEYONDYOUNG’ as his ID. He wrote it last Friday (March 30, 2012) on the Military Forum of “www.sina.com.cn”, a site representing the negative view of  grass roots Chinese about recent military development…

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  • tobechecked

    Cascarones Waiting for Easter

    WASHINGTON — In this March 2012 image released by Cynthia Leonor Garza, a batch of cascarones are shown at the home of Cynthia Leonor Garza in Washington, D.C. Cascarones are hollowed-out eggs that are dyed, decorated and filled with confetti, then covered with a colorful piece of tissue paper. At…

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  • tobechecked

    ‘Towering Inferno’

    MOSCOW — Fire is seen atop an under-construction skyscraper, planned to be Europe’s tallest building, in Moscow, Russia, Monday, April 2, 2012. Orange flames were leaping about 250 meters (880 feet) Monday, visible in the night sky to much of the city. No injuries have been reported at the fire…

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  • South East Asia

    “Where Is My Helmet?”

    HO CHI MINH, Vietnam — A dog rides on motor scooter with family in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Tuesday, April 3, 2012. <AP/Newsis> news@theasian.asia  

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