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Major news in Japan on April 4 2012: Softbank to build Japan’s largest solar power plant

Top news in <Kyodo News>: Softbank solar power plant in Hokkaido to be Japan’s largest news@theasian.asia

Train Derailment Claims Two Injuries in Karachi

KARACHI — Heavy machinery is used at the site of a train accident in southern Pakistani port city of Karachi on April 3, 2012. At least two passengers were injured as one compartment of a passenger train derailed when it run on a wrong track in Karachi on Tuesday. <Xinhua/Arshad>…

Society

Russia suffers frequent plane crashes

Russian emergency workers search the crash site of the ATR-72 plane crash outside Tyumen, a major regional center in Siberia, Russia, Monday, April 2, 2012. <Photo: AP/Newsis> MOSCOW (Xinhua) — Russia, once an aviation powerhouse, has been plagued by deadly plane crashes in recent years, with the latest claiming 31 lives…

East Asia

[China Now] ‘India looms as military rival’

India will be the next military power targetting China *This article was written based on the story by a famous online writer using ‘BEYONDYOUNG’ as his ID. He wrote it last Friday (March 30, 2012) on the Military Forum of “www.sina.com.cn”, a site representing the negative view of grass roots Chinese about recent military development…

South East Asia

“Where Is My Helmet?”

HO CHI MINH, Vietnam — A dog rides on motor scooter with family in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Tuesday, April 3, 2012. <AP/Newsis> news@theasian.asia

Society

Turkish energy minister hates hike but says necessary

Turkish Energy and Natural Resources Minister Taner Yildiz said he also did not like the new natural gas energy hike price increase of 18 percent on Monday. Yet Yildiz went on to explain that even with the natural gas discount his country had received in 2011 from Russia it was not…

East Asia