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West Asia
Israel on 28 February 2012
Israel on 28 February 2012 <The Jerusalem Post> : “Amnesty: Iran executions up four-fold in 2011” news@theasian.asia
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South East Asia
Indonesia on 28 February 2012
Indonesia on 28 February 2012 <The Jakarta Post> : “Too old to stand” news@theasian.asia
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South East Asia
Thailand on 28 February 2012
Thailand on 28 February 2012 <The Nation> : “Don’t go outside, northerners told” news@theasian.asia
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East Asia
Japan on 28 February 2012
Japan on 28 February 2012 <NHK> : “Noda prioritizes getting Fukushima evacuees home” news@theasian.asia
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S. Korea urges China to stop repatriating NK defectors at UN
South Korea urged China to stop repatriating North Korean defectors detained there in a speech at the United Nations, Monday. It said they fled from the destitute communist state “in pursuit of freedom and the right to live” and their repatriation amounts to a “grave infringement of human rights.” This…
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West Asia
89.4% of Syrian Voters Agree Constitution Amendment
Syria’s Interior Minister Mohammad Chaar attends the press conference in Damascus, Syria, on Feb. 27, 2012. Chaar said Sunday that a total of 8,376,447 citizens, or 57.4 percent of eligible voters, voted in the referendum on the new draft constitution, with 7,490,319 (89.4 percent) agreeing to it and 753,208 (9…
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West Asia
An Iranian Film Grasps ‘1st Oscar’
A man looks at a poster of Iranian director Asghar Farhadi placed in the window of a bookstore in central Tehran, Iran, Feb. 27, 2012, to congratulate the country’s first Oscar win by “A Separation”. “A Separation”, directed by Asghar Farhadi, won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at…
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South Asia
Daily Life in Pakistan
A Pakistani vendor sits on top of a pile of blankets as he drives his donkey-cart along a road in southwest Pakistan’s Quetta on Feb. 27, 2012. <Photo: Xinhua/Mohammad> news@theasian.asia
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Column
Muslim Brothers: No End Game!
<Hassan Al-Banna(1906~1949), The Founder of Muslim Brothers> The story the Society of Muslim Brothers is related to the life and death of many people, but the most adequate start could be the story of its founder and supreme guide; Hassan AL-Banna (1906~1949). Hassan AL-Banna was born in Mahmudiyya, a village…
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