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South Asia
Major news in Nepal on April 4 2012
Top news in <Kathmandu Post>:Visit postponement: Ban’s office says sorry news@theasian.asia
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South East Asia
Major news in Burma on April 4 2012
Top news in <Myanmar.com>: President U Thein Sein leaves for Cambodia to attend 20th ASEAN Summit news@theasian.asia
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Society
Transgender Woman to Compete in Miss Universe
Jenna Talackova, foreground, who advanced to the finals of the Miss Canada competition, part of the Miss Universe contest, who was recently forced out of the competition, appears with her attorney Gloria Allred at a news conference in Los Angeles Tuesday, April 3, 2012. Talackova says she was forced out…
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Central Asia
Major news in Kazakhstan on April 4 2012
Top news in <Tengri News>: Kazakhstan population will go 2 million up by 2020 news@theasian.asia
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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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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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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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