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South Asia
Indian actor Salman Khan jailed for 5 years in a hit-and-run case
Indian Bollywood actor, Salman Khan, has been sentenced to 5 years in jail for killing a homeless man in a September 2002 hit-and-run case. An Indian court handed down the sentence to Khan on Wednesday. Khan had been convicted of homicide for crashing his SUV into a group of…
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East Asia
Chef Yang reveals Korean cooking secrets in Cairo
Korean Cultural Center in Cairo has organized a workshop about “Korean cooking secrets” in four lectures over the past two weeks under the supervision of Chef Joonghee Yang. Chef Yang is Korean and currently making a tour around the world to spread the Korean culture by revealing the secrets of…
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French ‘Spiderman’ climbs Paris skyscraper for Nepal quake victims
French climber Alain Robert, dubbed as Spiderman, climbed a Paris skyscraper as a tribute to thousands of victims of Nepal earthquake. With Nepalese flag in his pocket, Robert, 53, ascended the highest building in Paris, the 210m Tour de Montparnasse, without a safety harness in just under an hour.…
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South Asia
Silencing Sabeen Mahmud: impairing cultural and social discourse in Pakistan
One can guess that the society has gotten to a new low point when a person is ‘silenced’ because he spoke against the human rights violation of the very same society. But that has become a common practice in Pakistan. Usually, it is a waste of writing a few hundred…
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East Asia
‘Hometown Cold Buckwheat Noodles’ CEO Jeon Cheol-woo
The North Korean defector Jeon Cheol-woo, who was a student in the former East Germany in 1989 and then chose to leave early and defect to the South, can always be seen in all smiles. He has always been a popular guest on television and prolific lecturer, but is now…
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Nepal: fear, debris and shattered lives
Khilmaya Gautam, 66, is a heart patient. She cannot walk. Her husband is a diabetic. This old couple of Koteshwore, Kathmandu, who owns a house, spent Saturday night in the open after the earth continued to tremble. They were sleeping under their staircase at their home with their son, daughter-in-law…
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East Asia
Earthquake in Nepal: Rubbles, dust and corpses
[AsiaN=Rahul Aijaz] On Saturday 25th April, just before noon, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the mountainous country of Nepal, killing more than 3,200 people and injuring over 6000. On Sunday, the country was struck by a major aftershock at magnitude-6.7, adding to the ever-rising death toll. The earthquake was powerful enough to…
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Smartphones able to detect forged documents
The National Forensic Service has developed technology through which smartphones can quickly detect forged documents. The state-run forensic agency said Thursday it has made a patent application for the technique. It consists of a two part process, based on steganography, which is the science of hiding information by embedding messages…
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