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West Asia
Major news in Lebanon on May 30
Top news in <Daily Star>: Lebanese join the Free Syrian Army’s struggle news@theasian.asia
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West Asia
Major news in Saudi Arabia on May 30
Top news in <Arab News>: Saudia joins global alliance, offers 14,700 daily flights news@theasian.asia
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South Asia
Major news in Nepal on May 30
Top news in <Himalayan Times>: Former minister Alam faces murder charge news@theasian.asia
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South East Asia
Major news in Myanmar on May 30
Top news in <Myanar Times>: Electricity shortages spark wave of protests news@theasian.asia
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Central Asia
Major news in Kazkhstan on May 30
Top news in <Tengri News>: Tolmachev back to Kazkahstan and will go back to work news@theasian.asia
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East Asia
Major news in China on May 30: The termite terminator
Top news in <China Daily>: The termite terminator news@theasian.asia
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East Asia
Major news in Japan on May 30
Top news in <NHK>: Annan urges Assad to immediately stop violence news@theasian.asia
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UN tells NK to release South Korean family
The United Nations has requested North Korea to release and compensate a South Korean family held in the Stalinist state for 25 years, confirming it is a case of arbitrary detention, activists said Tuesday. It was the U.N.’s most specific statement over Shin Sook-ja, a 70-year-old South Korean woman —…
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Corruption and growth
Transparency to help tackle unemployment Korea was placed 43rd of 183 countries in the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) released by Transparency International (TI), the world’s largest anti-corruption watchdog, late last year. The ranking represented a drop of four notches from that of a year ago with the index being 5.4…
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Politics
China’s crackdown on defectors driven by separatism fears
China’s deep-seated concerns regarding the separatist movement of ethnic minority groups is seen as the key reason behind a recent crackdown on immigrants in the Yanbian Autonomous Prefecture. The northeastern city is home to the largest number of ethnic Koreans in China. “Separatist protests by Tibetans and Uyghurs in Xinjiang,…
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