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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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South Asia
Major news in Bangladesh on March 29 2012
Top news in <Daily Star>: Dhaka in disorder news@theasian.asia
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