• Society

    Two victims outcry danger of nuclear power plant

    HAPCHON, Korea – “There is no perfect safety as far as nuclear program is concerned. A land once devastated by nuclear pollution will never be restored to the state it used to be,” outcried two victims of nuclear fallout who visited Korea on the occasion of the Anti-Nuclear and Peace…

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  • Education

    Graduation Season in Philippines

    QUEZONE CITY — High School graduates march on a graduation ceremony at Batasan Hills National High School in Quezon City, the Philippines, on March 29, 2012. According to the Philippine Department of Education, a total of 1,817,549 elementary school students are scheduled to graduate this year, and public high schools…

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  • Business

    Spanish Workers Vent Their Anger Out on Street

    A demonstrator walks during the general strike in Barcelona, Thursday, March 29, 2012 as trash burns in the street. Spanish unions angry over economic reforms are waging a general strike, challenging a conservative government not yet 100 days old and joining other troubled European workers in venting their frustration on…

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  • Turkey’s Jewish protest at shampoo ad showing Hitler

    Turkey’s Jewish community has protested a Turkish commercial that uses old film footage of Adolf Hitler to sell shampoo. The commercial, for a men’s shampoo called Biomen, shows Hitler delivering an enthusiastic speech, urging male viewers to buy the product, which is “a 100 percent male shampoo.” In the ad,…

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  • East Asia

    Tibetans in Deep Sorrow Over Death of Yeshi

    NEW DELHI, India — An elderly Tibetan exile cries after viewing the body of Tibetan Jamphel Yeshi, 27, laid at a hospital morgue in New Delhi, India, Thursday, March 29, 2012. Yeshi, who burned himself alive on the eve of a visit by China’s president, left behind a letter that…

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  • Society

    Ashes widely used as detergent in Bangladesh

    DHAKA, March 29 (Xinhua) — Some old practices are still surviving in Bangladesh, competing with modern inventions for kitchen. Ashes produced in conventional home-made oven and modern detergent are in a queer combination in the country. Ashes are sold by vendors in the residential districts of the capital Dhaka. Nobody…

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  • Society

    English becomes main foreign language in Georgia

    A Georgian student majoring in Chinese edits a script at the get-together in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia, Jan. 26, 2011. <File photo> TBILISI, Georgia, March 28 (Xinhua) — The Georgian Education Ministry on Wednesday announced that English has become the main foreign language for examination with a choice rate of…

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  • Politics

    BRICS summit held in New Delhi

    From left to right, Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Chinese President Hu Jintao and South African President Jacob Zuma join hands during the group picture for the BRICS 2012 Summit in New Delhi, India, Thursday, March 29, 2012. Heads of States of…

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  • West Asia

    Major news in Jordan on March 29 2012

    Top news in <Ammon News>: 12 students expelled from Mutah over brawl news@theasian.asia

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  • West Asia

    Major news in Yemen on March 29 2012

    Top news in <Saba News>: Yemen requests to extradite detainees in Iraqi jails news@theasian.asia

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