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Escalating suspicion
FTC should uncover truth of CD rate scandal Ripples from the suspected certificates of deposit (CD) rate-rigging scandal are spreading. Consumer groups are poised to lodge class-action lawsuits, saying many of the allegations revealed so far are suspicious enough to believe that banks and brokerage houses colluded to fix three-month…
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NK leader ready to push his agenda
Pyongyang’s recent military reshuffle gives leader Kim Jong-un the stability to implement his own governing style, which has shown hints of balancing security and the economy, analysts said Sunday. The replacement last week of army chief of staff Ri Yong-ho with Kim’s own man, Hyon Yong-chol, has raised questions over…
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Society
S-N team eyed for 2018 Olympics
Contacts will be made soon, says PyeongChang organizer The chief organizer of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics said Sunday that he intends to involve North Korea in the games as much as possible. “We will try to have North Korean athletes train together with our athletes and form a unified…
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Politics
Young NK defector beats ‘English stress’
Hong Sung-il, a North Korean defector, found himself alienated in his first English class on the first day of high school in Seoul in 2000. Hong was 17 then. “I had never studied English before,” said Hong, a 29-year-old Yonsei University graduate with a bachelor’s in psychology, in an interview…
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Column
Bangladesh people hit hard with commodity price hike in Ramadan
Dhaka–With the advent of Ramadan, the religious month of fasting for the Muslim community, the common people of Bangladesh, a Muslim majority country have been hit hard by the price spiral of the essential commodities. Apart from daily essentials, demand of certain commodities like, edible oil, onion, meat, fish, pulses,…
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[London Olympics] ③ In the love of Shakespeare
*Editor’s note: This is the third of six-part stories on the London Olympics When we were studying English literature at university there were two different editions of each Shakespearean work: a deluxe, medium-format British one printed on glossy paper, with additional explanations, on the first pages of which appeared the…
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South Asia
Invasion of Centipedes On An Indian Village
Indian villagers stand near a group of centipedes at Lavad village, about 35 kilometers from Ahmadabad, India, Saturday, July 21, 2012. Millions of centipedes have surfaced in Lavad village invading kitchens, homes and schools, forcing village authorities to close school and nearly half of the 6,000 population to temporarily migrate,…
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South Asia
Pakistani Boy Prays In First Day Of Ramadan
A Pakistani boy prays next to plates of fruits donated to worshippers to break their fast, on the first day of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in a mosque in Karachi, Pakistan, Saturday, July 21, 2012. During Ramadan, the holiest month in Islamic calendar, Muslims refrain from eating, drinking,…
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East Asia
Paddy Field Art In Shenyang, China
The paddy field art is seen in Shenyang, capital of northeast China’s Liaoning Province, July 21, 2012. The art created in the paddy field of Shenyang covers an area of more than 20 hectares, which is part of the development of local leisure agriculture. <Xinhua/Yang Qing> news@theasian.asia
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South Asia
A Historic Pakistan Shahjahan Mosque
The Shahjahan mosque, located at Thatta, Sindh, was built in the reign of Mughal emperor Shahjahan in 1647. The mosque is built with red brick with blue colored glaze tiles which were imported from Hala, another town in Sindh. The mosque has 100 domes. As the legend goes, if you…
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