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Central Asia
Kazakhstan on 1 February 2012
Kazakhstan on 1 February 2012 <Gazeta> : “Socio-Economic Modernization as Main Vector of Development of Kazakhstan, State-of-the-Nation Address” news@theasian.asia
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West Asia
UN Security Council for Syria Sanction
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at the open meeting of the UN Security Council on the current situation of Syria in New York Jan. 31, 2012. <Photo: Xinhua/Shen Hong> news@theasian.asia
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World
Cambodian Ship Sinks near Turkey, 10 Missing
An injured sailor was sent to hospital after the ship sank in the province of Zonguldak, Jan. 31, 2012. A Cambodian-flagged freighter ship sank off Turkey’s Black Sea coast, a Turkish official said on Tuesday. The freighter ship sank one mile off the coast of Eregli town in the…
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East Asia
Starbucks Raises its Price in China
A man takes a rest at a Starbucks outlet in Shanghai, east China, Jan. 31, 2012. Seattle-based coffee chain Starbucks Corp. on Tuesday raised prices in its 500 Chinese mainland stores, the first price hike for its mainland stores in five years. <Photo: Xinhua/Lin Chao> news@theasian.asia
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East Asia
“I Can Work too”
Job seeker He Mingyun carrying his grandson attends a job fair in Chongqing Municipality, southwest China, Jan. 31, 2012. About a dozen job fairs would be held in Chongqing during the week after the Spring Festival holiday, where more than 100,000 job opportunities provided to qualified applicants. Job fairs of…
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Column
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The Other Five Ban Ki-moon’s Remarks: Hidden or Missing?
I am very optimistic about the future, and reading the UN Secretary-General Five-year Action Agenda presented to General Assembly, confirms and supports my optimism. But I am not going to comment on what were mentioned in Mr. Ban Ki-moon’s precious Remarks “The Future We Want”, as all positive facts and…
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Politics
Plight of HIV infected in India
<Video: Pramod Mathur> Summary of three anecdotes in the video: It is about people living with AIDS in Nizamabad, Hyderabad, India. Part1 Manjula Manjula whose father, mother constructed the house, and after her father’s death they lost everything. Her husband was a truck driver, they got married 15 years back…
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Business
Sustainable Development is Top Priority
United Nations (UN) Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon (C) steps into the venue of African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Jan. 30, 2012. When receiving a report presented by UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability on Monday, Ban said that sustainable development is a top priority for his second term…
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World
Occupy DC Protest will Continue
Occupy D.C. protesters try to cover the McPherson statue with a blue water-proof cloth at McPherson Square in Washington D.C., Jan. 30, 2012. Defiant Occupy D.C. protesters on Monday vowed to continue with their encampment in the U.S. capital as the deadline for decampment passed. <Photo: Xinhua/Fang Zhe> news@theasian.asia …
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