• South Asia

    Rose Petals On Sale At Festival In Karachi

    A vender sells rose petals during Shab-e-Barat Festival in Karachi, Pakistan, on July 5, 2012. <Xinhua/Masroor> news@theasian.asia

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  • East Asia

    Job Fair For Prison Inmates In China

    Prisoners look at job information at a job fair in a prison in Yinchuan, capital of northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, July 5, 2012. Yinchuan prison on Thursday organized a job fair for prisoners who are going to be released after serving the full term of the sentence. <Xinhua/Wang…

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  • South Asia

    Gas Explosion Near Kabul Leaves 90 Casualties

    People who were wounded during Wednesday’s propane gas reservoir explosion receive medical treatment in Kabul, Afghanistan, on July 5, 2012. A gas reservoir explosion which broke out in Pul-e-Charkhi industrial park east of Kabul late Wednesday has killed eight and injured 83, a health official said Thursday. <Xinhua> news@theasian.asia

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  • West Asia

    Anti-Assad Protests Spread To Jordan

    A Syrian girl lifts the center of a giant revolutionary flag during a protest against Bashar Assad, in front the Syrian embassy in Amman, Jordan, Thursday, July 5, 2012. <AP/NEWSis> news@theasian.asia

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  • Society

    A book detailing what happened under Khmer Rouge published in Cambodia

    PHNOM PENH —  A Cambodian journalist on Thursday launches his new book on the Khmer Rouge aiming to provide the Khmer Rouge Tribunal extra information on the serious child rights violation during the Democratic Kampuchea rule in 1975-79 when some 2 million people died of murder, torture, starvation, sickness, and…

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  • Society

    Post-1990s generation marches into Chinese society

    BEIJING, July 5 (Xinhua) — Chinese adults have a wide variety of opinions on the “jiulinghou,” or “post-1990s” generation, finding it difficult to understand the unintelligible slang, bizarre hairstyles and erratic behavior of children born after that year. But with the first group of post-1990s kids graduating from Chinese universities…

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  • Korea-India business ties get strengthen

    Few countries can match the Republic of Korea’s grit when it comes to the show of the will to win over what it would normally appear to be insurmountable odds. If the history of the country’s successive war defeats against neighbours in the last century, the split of the nation…

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  • Society

    ‘Dokdo is Korean territory’

    Participants and winners of the 3rd International Dokdo Essay Contest said Thursday that “Dokdo belongs to Korea and there is no doubt that Japan’s claims over the rocky islets are illegitimate.” During an awards ceremony held in Seoul, Audwin Wilkinson, Gold Prize winner of the annual contest, stressed that Korea…

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  • Drinking in parks to be banned

    Seoul City is pushing for a ban on drinking alcohol in public parks starting next year, in an effort to curb crimes committed by people who become intoxicated. The city requested to the Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs to change regulations on city parks last month to prohibit…

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  • Government may take legal action against Google

    The government is preparing to take additional legal action against Google to force the firm to improve its privacy policy, an agency responsible for privacy protection said Thursday. The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) told The Korea Times that it would file further complaints against the Korean subsidiary of the…

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