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South Asia
Major news in Sri Lanka on May 18
Top news in <Island>: SF will be freed over weekend Mahinda-Anoma talks successful news@theasian.asia
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South East Asia
Major news in Singapore on May 18
Top news in <Straits Times>: Gong Li divorced from Singaporean businessman for 3 years news@theasian.asia
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Central Asia
Major news in Afghanistan on May 18
Top news in <Outlook Afghanistan>: Govt. has Failed to Respond Public Demands: ANF news@theasian.asia
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East Asia
Major news in China on May 18
Top news in <CNTV>: China releases plan to treat water pollution news@theasian.asia
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East Asia
Major news in Japan on May 18: Toshiba pulls the plug on making televisions in Japan
Top news in <Japan Times>: Ending an era, Toshiba pulls the plug on making televisions in Japan news@theasian.asia
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IT-Science
Facebook’s value comes to $104 billion
NEWYORKㅡ Facebook says it has priced its initial public offering of stock at $38 per share. That’s the high end of its expected range of $34 to $38. It means investor demand is strong for the world’s largest online social network. Facebook now stands to reap as much as $18.4…
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Politics
Parochial China
China often shows the opposite characteristics of Oskar Matzerath, an adult trapped in a child’s body in Gunter Grass’s novel, The Tin Drum. The Middle Kingdom has experienced explosive growth for the past three decades, enabling it to replace Japan as the world’s No. 2 economic powerhouse, second only to…
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Society
Gambling episode gives bad name to Buddhism
The recent scandal involving gambling Buddhist monks could not have erupted at a worse time for the proponents of spreading Korean Buddhism globally. Modern Korea is not a predominantly Buddhist country, but the nation has practiced and nurtured its own brand for more than 1,700 years after adopting it from…
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Society
French digital economy minister is adopted Korean
Her birth of was a series of misfortunes. Fleur Pellerin, 39, new French minister for digital economy, was thrown out on the streets of Seoul right after she was born on Aug. 29, 1973, spending her first days in an orphanage. Her adopted father was a nuclear physicist and her…
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Lifestyle
Little women of Korean cinema
Cannes publicity ignores chronic lack of interesting roles for actresses No one can dispute that the Korean film industry is flourishing. Investment and return are both on the upside. The sheer number of productions is rising, spawning hits and, of course, misses. This year, the local press is abuzz about…
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