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Column
Chidren of sex workers dream of bright future
*Editor’s note: This is a follow-up of the earlier story by the writer about the children of prostitutes working at the Kandapara brothel in Bangladesh, who are being sheltered and educated at a nearby children’s home. Tales of deprived children of Quisbari Payel , a ten-year-old girl, is crying inside while playing the…
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Politics
Scholars prefer FTA to TPP for East Asian countries
Scholars of South Korea, Japan and China exchange talks under the theme of Nuclear Security and Regional Community in the second East Asian Community Forum held at the International Studies Hall in Korea University on May 26, 2012. The scholars of South Korea and Japan expressed opinion that the Trans-Pacific Partnership…
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Indonesia boosts sanitation facilities
JAKARTA, May 29 (Xinhua) — The Indonesian Public Work Ministry has started projects of building sanitation infrastructure in some parts of the country as an effort to boost the level of sanitation in Indonesia, senior official of the ministry said here on Tuesday. The projects included the waste water processing…
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Dissolution of assembly throws Nepal into chaos
KATHMANDU – Tiny Himalayan country Nepal has plunged into another round of political crisis following the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly Sunday midnight (May 29). The first ever CA elected originally for two years in 2008 to draft a new constitution expired four years after without promulgating the new constitution. Prime…
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East Asia
Major news in China on May 29
Top news in <CNTV>: Free meals aid Guizhou rural school students news@theasian.asia
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East Asia
Major news in Japan on May 29
Top news in <Kyodo News>: URGENT: Japan, China to begin yen-yuan direct trading on June 1 news@theasian.asia
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Central Asia
Major news in Russia on May 29
Top news in <Moscow Times>: Exxon Pours Concrete for Phase 3 of Sakhalin-1 news@theasian.asia
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South East Asia
Major news in Thailand on May 29
Top news in <Bangkok Post>: PM urged to clarify unity bill stance news@theasian.asia
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South East Asia
Major news in Indonesia on May 29
Top news in <Jakarta Post>: Police, promoter to discuss Gaga concert ticket refunds this week news@theasian.asia
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West Asia
Major news in Qatar on May 29
Top news in <Al Jazeera>: Egypt protesters storm Shafiq’s Cairo office news@theasian.asia
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