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South Asia
Major news in Sri Lanka on Apr 13 2012
Top news in <Daily News>: ‘Abduction meant to blacken country’ news@theasian.asia
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South East Asia
Major news in Singapore on Apr 13 2012
Top news in <Straits Times>: Internet love scam man charged with cheating woman news@theasian.asia
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Central Asia
Major news in Afghanistan on Apr 13 2012
Top news in <Outlook Afghanistan>: US Ready for Talks with Taliban: US Envoy news@theasian.asia
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East Asia
Extra Issue Printed To Inform NK Missile Launch In Tokyo
TOKYO — A newspaper employee shows an extra issue of the Daily Yomiuri reporting North Korea’s rocket launch to hand over to passers-by in Tokyo, Japan, Friday, April 13, 2012. North Korea fired a long-range rocket early Friday, South Korean and U.S. officials said, defying international warnings against moving forward…
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East Asia
Major news in China on Apr 13 2012
Top news in <CNTV>: Shanghai’s drinking water supply guarded news@theasian.asia
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East Asia
Major news in Japan on Apr 13 2012: NK rocket fails shortly after launch
Top news in <Kyodo News>: N. Korea rocket fails shortly after launch, falls into sea news@theasian.asia
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S. Korea calls for UN response against NK’s rocket launch
Korea on Friday called for the United Nations Security Council to respond to North Korea’s defiant long-range rocket launch, even though the launch appears to have failed. “Regardless of success or failure, we urge the U.N. Security Council to take action against North Korea’s rocket launch,” said a senior official…
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NK rocket crashes into sea shortly after launch
North Korea defiantly fired off a long-range rocket Friday, but the three-stage craft crashed in pieces into the sea shortly after takeoff, South Korean officials said. The launch is expected to draw international condemnation as it violated a U.N. resolution that bans the communist nation from any ballistic missile activity…
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NK says its satellite failed to enter orbit
North Korea said Friday its Kwangmyongsong-3 satellite failed to enter orbit after its launch aboard a long-range rocket. The North said its “scientists, technicians and experts are now looking into the cause of the failure,” the North’s official Korean Central News Agency said in a brief dispatch, without elaborating. Seoul’s…
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