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East Asia
Taiwan Train Collide with Truck···1 Dead
Rescuers work at the accident site after a passenger train collided with a truck which carried sandstone and intruded into the rail track in Taoyuan County, southeast China’s Taiwan, Jan. 17, 2012. The collision occurred on Tuesday morning when the train was coming from central Changhwa County to eastern Hualien…
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World
Liberian President Starts Her 2nd Term
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf makes an inaugural speech in Monrovia, capital of Liberia, Jan. 16, 2012. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was sworn in her second six-year term as president of Liberia in front of the Capitol Hill in Monrovia on Monday. <Photo: Xinhua/Bai Jingshan> news@theasian.asia
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East Asia
Japan on 17 January 2012
Japan on 17 January 2012 <Japan Today> : “2 accounting firms cleared, 5 in-house auditors blamed in Olympus cover-up” news@theasian.asia
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West Asia
Israel on 17 January 2012
Israel on 17 January 2012 <Israel Hayom> : “Israel-US drill postponed ‘to avoid regional flare-up” news@theasian.asia
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West Asia
Qatar on 17 January 2012
Qatar on 17 January 2012 <Gulf Times> : “QPI to invest in Vietnam plant” news@theasian.asia
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South East Asia
Indonesia on 17 January 2012
Indonesia on 17 January 2012 <The Jakara Post> : “Google tackles online privacy in unusual ad blitz” news@theasian.asia
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South East Asia
Thailand on 17 January 2012
Thailand on 17 January 2012 <Bangkok Post> : “Bomb cache busted” news@theasian.asia
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East Asia
Russia on 17 January 2012
Russia on 17 January 2012 <The Moscow News> : “Medvedev introduces governor-elections bill” news@theasian.asia
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East Asia
China on 17 January 2012
China on 17 January 2012 <CNTV> : “Wen calls for global efforts to secure energy supply” news@theasian.asia
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Column
[Ashraf’s Tales of Arabia] Syria, ‘3000 Years Ago’
You immediately fall in love with River Asi (Orontes) the moment you walk along either of its banks. After a brief introduction, you even think it is extending its hands to embrace you as it winds here and there, giving way to you for the plains it cultivated with love…
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