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Business
Bangkok ranked world’s top tourist destination
Bangkok has emerged as the world’s top tourist destination, with 15.98 million visitors projected to visit the Thailand’s capital city this year, according to the 2013 Global Destination Cities Index released by MasterCard on May 27. Bangkok surpassed London for the first time for the most popular destination city in…
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Culture
Cannes awards give global recognition for Asian cinema
A clutch of awards at the Cannes Film Festival has given global prominence to what insiders say is a bold era in Asian filmmaking, where China is emerging as a creative power. Directors from China, Japan, Singapore and Cambodia took to the stage at the Palais des Festivals where the…
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West Asia
Afghan girls now go to school in post-Taliban Afghanistan
Afghan girls have a class at a school in Jawzjan province, Afghanistan, on May 26, 2013. Some 8.4 million students, 39 percent of them girls, now go to school in the post-Taliban Afghanistan, according to officials. Afghan children have a class at a school in Jawzjan province, Afghanistan, on May…
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South Asia
Pakistan frees 45 Indian fishermen as goodwill gesture
Released Indian fishermen wait for immigration clearance at Wagah Border in eastern Pakistan’s Lahore on May 25, 2013. Pakistan on Friday freed 45 India fishermen on humanitarian grounds as a goodwill gesture, officials said. Pakistan and India routinely arrest fishermen after they cross the maritime boundaries for fishing. <Xinhua/Sajjad>
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West Asia
Iranian presidential candidate insists Iranian nuclear is of peaceful nature
Iranian lawmaker and presidential candidate Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel addresses a news conference in Tehran, capital of Iran, on May 26, 2013. Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel said Sunday that “the West is aware of the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear activities.” However, the Westerners do not intend to publicize it for some “deliberate” reasons,…
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West Asia
Israeli and Palestinian President shake hands at World Economic Forum
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, center, Israeli President Shimon Peres, right, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas all shake hands during the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa at the King Hussein Convention Centre at the Dead Sea in Jordan Sunday May 26, 2013. <AP Photo/Pool,…
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South Asia
Pakistani people cool off in river during 48 degree Celsius heat wave
A Pakistani man jumps into a canal to cool off as temperatures reached 107.6 degrees Fahrenheit (42 degrees Celsius), in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, May 26, 2013. <AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary> Pakistani people to cool off in a river canal during heat wave in eastern Pakistan’s Lahore on May 26, 2013. Temperatures…
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West Asia
Hezbollah leader vows to support ally Syria while it is under attack
Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah delivers a broadcast speech during a rally commemorating “Liberation Day,” which marks the withdrawal of the Israeli army from southern Lebanon in 2000, in Mashghara village, Bekaa valley, Lebanon, Saturday May 25, 2013. Nasrallah said his Shiite militant group will not stand idly by while…
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South Asia
Indian PM Singh visits hospital following rebels attack that kills 28
Officials reacted with outrage Sunday to an audacious attack by about 200 suspected Maoist rebels who set off a roadside bomb and opened fire on a convoy carrying Indian ruling Congress party leaders and members in an eastern state, killing 28 people and wounding 24 others. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh,…
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East Asia
Japan offers 51 bn yen loan and major aid package to Myanmar
Japan on Sunday provided a fresh loan of about 51 billion yen (about 504 million U.S. dollars) to help Myanmar’s infrastructural development projects for Thilawa Special Economic Zone (SEZ), official sources said. According to the notes exchanged between the visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Myanmar President U Thein…
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