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South Asia
Major news in Bangladesh on April 26
Top news in <Daily Star>: President’s Pardoning Fugitive “It’s misuse of power” news@theasian.asia
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Central Asia
Major news in Uzbekistan on April 26
Top news in <UZA>: Veteran Surrounded with Care and Attention news@theasian.asia
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South East Asia
Major news in Malaysia on April 26: Asia’s first Legoland to open on Sept 15
Top news in <New Strait Times>: Asia’s first Legoland to open on Sept 15 news@theasian.asia
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East Asia
Major news in China on April 26
Top news in <CNTV>: Reuters source: DPRK ready for nuke test soon news@theasian.asia
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East Asia
Major news in Japan on April 26
Top news in <NHK>: Chinese firm sold N.Korea 8 military vehicles news@theasian.asia
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Column
Bicycle, A Necessicity Of Life In Pakistan
Bicycle, the cheapest mode of transport for the poor around the globe, has a very different usage in Pakistan. The people here, especially in rural areas, not only travel on bicycle to and from workplace but use it as cargo-carrier. In this picture, a man carries four heavy wooden cots,…
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Myanmar to put low-cost mobile phones into service across country
YANGON — Myanmar telecommunications authorities announced on Wednesday that it will put low-cost mobile phones into service across the country next month. It said that GSM/WCDMA sim cards, which will be sold at a low price of 200,000 Kyats (247 U.S. dollars) since May 3, can be carried and used…
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Internet contributes 0.9 pct to Vietnam’s GDP
HANOI — Internet contributes 0.9 percent to Vietnam’s GDP and 1.6 percent to the country’s GDP growth rate of 14.4 percent, according to the figures released in a workshop held here on Wednesday. Vietnam is an emerging market for the Internet development, ranking 13th in the world in terms of…
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Lifestyle
‘Please Take Care of Mom’ sells 2 million
Shin Kyung-sook’s novel “Please Take Care of Mom” has sold a landmark 2 million copies, her publisher Changbi announced Tuesday. The 49-year-old’s popular book is about a family’s search for a missing mother. Translated into various languages around the world including English for the United States, it also won the…
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Where is the father?
Until hundreds of years ago, the father was symbolic of power, authority and prop of a society as well as of a family. He was responsible for all the details of managing a state and running a family. He was the head of state and of family, consequently the final…
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