• South East Asia

    Major news in Vietnam on May 7

    Top news in <Vietnam Plus>: Buddha’s birthday celebrated across Vietnam news@theasian.asia

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  • South Asia

    Major news in Mongol on May 7

    Top news in <Mongol News>: Mongolia Celebrates World Press Freedom Day news@theasian.asia

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  • East Asia

    Major news in China on May 7

    Top news in <CNTV>: Drought leaves 680, 000 thirsty in SW China news@theasian.asia

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  • East Asia

    Major news in Japan on May 7

    Top news in <NHK>: N.Korea criticizes UNSC permanent members news@theasian.asia

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  • Significance of May Day changed a lot

    ISTANBUL – In many countries, May Day is a day of national celebration. In Turkey, however, May 1 has always had contradictory meanings. Compared to our past experiences on Labor Day as Turkish citizens, some differences in this year’s celebrations were remarkable. For many years, May Day was perceived as…

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  • South Asia

    Home Celebration of Mother’s Day In India

    An Indian woman plays with her child at the doorway of her house ahead of Mother’s Day, in Allahabad, India, Sunday, May 6, 2012. Mother’s Day will be celebrated on May 13. <AP/NEWSis> news@theasian.asia

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  • Lifestyle

    Art embraces fashion

    The boundary of fine art is being blurred and becoming ever more diversified. Incorporating fashion into art is the latest of this movement. Fashion exhibitions have become a part of major fine art museums across the globe. “Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and “Balenciaga and…

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  • Rebirth of progressives

    Only thorough self-reform ensures leftists’ survival Korea’s political progressives, a perennial minority, have often resorted to radical, and violent, tactics to make themselves seen and heard. They destroyed furniture at the National Assembly Secretariat and detonated a tear gas canister in its main chamber. Those misconducts were largely forgiven, as…

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  • Society

    Fire kills 9 at Busan karaoke

    Nine people, including three Sri Lankan nationals, were killed and dozens were injured in a fire at karaoke rooms in Busan, Saturday. The fire broke out at around 8:52 p.m. on the third floor of a six-story building in the bustling district of Bujeon-dong. Seven men and two women died…

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  • East Asia

    Royal ritual

    A ritual specialist wearing a king’s costume enters Jongmyo, a UNESCO-registered royal shrine from the Joseon Kingdom (1392-1910) in central Seoul, to reenact Jongmyo Jerye, Sunday. Jongmyo Jerye is a royal ancestral ritual paying tribute to the kings and queens of the kingdom and was listed as a UNESCO Intangible…

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