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West Asia
Major news in Yemen on May 31
Top news in <Yemen Times>: Concerns around slow disbursement of Friends of Yemen grants to Yemen news@theasian.asia
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Central Asia
Major news in Uzbekistan on May 31
Top news in <UZA>: Convenient Opportunities for Farmers news@theasian.asia
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South Asia
Major news in Bangladesh on May 31
Top news in <Daily Star>: Bus Crushes Microbus 12 killed news@theasian.asia
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South East Asia
Major news in Malaysia on May 31
Top news in <New Straits Times>: Malaysia ranked 14th most competitive country news@theasian.asia
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East Asia
Major news in China on May 31
Top news in <Peoples Daily>: China vows to ensure national sovereignty news@theasian.asia
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East Asia
Major news in Japan on May 31
Top news in <Japan Times>: Kansai governors: Oi reactors restart is state’s call news@theasian.asia
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West Asia
Major news in Jordan on May 31: Jordanians’ tobacco spending on the rise
Top news in <Jordan Times>: Jordanians’ tobacco spending on the rise news@theasian.asia
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South Asia
Jumping Into Water May Be Only Way To Endure 47’C
Beating the Heat: Camera’s eye caught a person jumping from the bridge of a canal in Larkana District, Sindh province of Pakistan, where the temperature has crossed 47.0 degrees centigrade. The canals are closed due to water shortage in Indus river, but the scanty water available in canals offer good opportunity…
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NK calls itself ‘nuclear-armed state’ in revised constitution
North Korea calls itself a “nuclear-armed state” in its recently revised constitution, according to its full text confirmed on Wednesday in the North’s “Naenara” web site. Following December’s death of leader Kim Jong-il, the North has revised its constitution to add three new sentences and one of them contains the…
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Society
2nd ‘Comfort women’ ad placed in NYT
Singer Kim Jang-hoon and freelance Korean publicist Seo Kyoung-duk placed a full-page ad promoting awareness of “comfort women” in Tuesday’s edition of the New York Times. The ad was the second of its kind following one published in March. There were no pictures or images of the comfort women themselves.…
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