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West Asia
Major news in Iran on March 30 2012
Top news in <Tehran Times> : Farewell winter! Greetings spring! news@theasian.asia
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Major news in Turkey on March 30 2012
Top news in <Today’s Zaman> : Turkish consumers sandwiched between high taxes, crude prices, dollar news@theasian.asia
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Society
Two victims outcry danger of nuclear power plant
HAPCHON, Korea – “There is no perfect safety as far as nuclear program is concerned. A land once devastated by nuclear pollution will never be restored to the state it used to be,” outcried two victims of nuclear fallout who visited Korea on the occasion of the Anti-Nuclear and Peace…
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Education
Graduation Season in Philippines
QUEZONE CITY — High School graduates march on a graduation ceremony at Batasan Hills National High School in Quezon City, the Philippines, on March 29, 2012. According to the Philippine Department of Education, a total of 1,817,549 elementary school students are scheduled to graduate this year, and public high schools…
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“I have Two More Legs on My Back”
Six-legged calf “Lilli” stands on the pasture next to its owner Andreas Knutti, in Weissenburg, Switzerland, Thursday, March 29, 2012. The calf was born seven weeks ago with two additional legs on its back. <AP/Newsis> news@theasian.asia
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Business
Spanish Workers Vent Their Anger Out on Street
A demonstrator walks during the general strike in Barcelona, Thursday, March 29, 2012 as trash burns in the street. Spanish unions angry over economic reforms are waging a general strike, challenging a conservative government not yet 100 days old and joining other troubled European workers in venting their frustration on…
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Turkey’s Jewish protest at shampoo ad showing Hitler
Turkey’s Jewish community has protested a Turkish commercial that uses old film footage of Adolf Hitler to sell shampoo. The commercial, for a men’s shampoo called Biomen, shows Hitler delivering an enthusiastic speech, urging male viewers to buy the product, which is “a 100 percent male shampoo.” In the ad,…
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East Asia
Tibetans in Deep Sorrow Over Death of Yeshi
NEW DELHI, India — An elderly Tibetan exile cries after viewing the body of Tibetan Jamphel Yeshi, 27, laid at a hospital morgue in New Delhi, India, Thursday, March 29, 2012. Yeshi, who burned himself alive on the eve of a visit by China’s president, left behind a letter that…
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‘Watering of Girls’ as Easter Celebration
HOLLOKO, Hungary — Men pour water at a girl as part of traditional Easter celebrations, during a media presentation in Holloko, 100 km northeast of Budapest, Hungary, on March 28, 2012. Holloko, which was inscribed upon the World Heritage List, will celebrate Easter next weekend with the traditional “watering of…
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