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East Asia
Major news in China on Jul 12: South should encourage North Korea
Major news in <People’s Daily>: South should encourage North Korea North Korean leader Kim Jong-un recently watched a concert in Pyongyang that featured many Disney characters, including Mickey Mouse. The news spurred speculations among Western media about the possibility that the “unusual” concert signifies a possible North Korean policy shift…
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East Asia
Seoul’s Old-Style Theater Plays Last Movie Before Closure
A senior patron of Seoul’s last old-style one-screen cinema steps inside for the theater’s last screening at Seodaemun Art Hall in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Seoul’s last old-style one-screen cinema, soon to be knocked down and replaced by a new tourist hotel, played its final movie Wednesday…
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South Asia
India Starts Fight Against Child Labor
Young Indian bonded child laborer Iqrar, 11, wears a number and poses for photographs as his details are processed after being rescued during a raid by workers from Bachpan Bachao Andolan, or Save the Childhood Movement, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, July 11, 2012. In New Delhi alone, about 50,000…
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South Asia
Flood Separates Pakistani Children From Families
Pakistani boys, whose families were displaced by 2010 floods from a village in Pakistan’s Sindh province, play pool in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, July 10, 2012. <AP/NEWSis> news@theasian.asia
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East Asia
Tea drinking: Time-honored Chinese custom
A customer (R) tastes lotus root starch in Cuiyuting Teahouse in Hangzhou, capital of east China’s Zhejiang Province, July 11, 2012. There are several teahouses besides the West Lake, providing customers with tea at a price of only one yuan RMB (0.16 U.S dollar). It’s the lifestyle in one-yuan-teahouses beside…
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West Asia
Syria Releases Detainees As Goodwill Gesture
Freed detainees are seen upon their release in the Damascus Police Command in Damascus, Syria on 11 July 2012. The Syrian authorities released Tuesday a total of 275 detainees, who had been arrested over involvement with the anti-government movement, in a bid to show a good will to bring an…
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South Asia
Air India Bimaner Pkistane Joruri Abotoron
Namoskar, ami Sudhany Ghosh, Asia Journalist Association, AJA Goto Air Indiar eksho baish jon jatri shoho ekti jatribshi biman Pkistaner Nawabshah bimanbondore joruri abotoron kore.tinsho unisher A numberer oi biman ti Abu Dhabi theke Delhi jawar pothe jantrik golojoger karone joruri abotoron korte badhho hoye.Air India theke janano hoyeche je…
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South Asia
Bangladesh : Another highway robbery in city, 1 killed
Top news in <The Daily Star>: Another highway robbery in city, 1 killed A fish trader was killed and a trucker injured when robbers took away their fish-laden pickup-van throwing them from a running truck in the capital’s Mohakhali area early Thursday. The incident took place when the owners of…
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South East Asia
Philippine : Pia Cayetano, “Stop maternal deaths, pass the RH bill”
Major news in <INQUIRER> : Stop maternal deaths, pass the RH bill MANILA, Philippines – Senator Pia Cayetano on Wednesday renewed her call for the passing of the Reproductive Health Bill in time with the commemoration of World Population Day. “On World Population Day, let’s prioritize the plight and burden…
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East Asia
Nrityoshilpi Kong Ok-Jin-er Jibonaboshan
Namoskar,ami Sudhanya Ghosh,Asia Journalist Association, AJA Gotokaal korear bikhhato nrityo shilpi kong ok-jiner dehaboshan hoye.tini cripple dance namok nrityer jonno bikhhato chilen.tar boyosh hoyechilo aashi bochr.kong ok-jin unishyo ektirish shale jonmogrohon koren.tar baba chilen bikhhato ‘pansori’ gayok kong-dai il.tini khub choto boyosh theke Korean lok giti shikhte suru koren. kong…
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