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East Asia
Major news in Japan on May 31
Top news in <Japan Times>: Kansai governors: Oi reactors restart is state’s call news@theasian.asia
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West Asia
Major news in Jordan on May 31: Jordanians’ tobacco spending on the rise
Top news in <Jordan Times>: Jordanians’ tobacco spending on the rise news@theasian.asia
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South Asia
Jumping Into Water May Be Only Way To Endure 47’C
Beating the Heat: Camera’s eye caught a person jumping from the bridge of a canal in Larkana District, Sindh province of Pakistan, where the temperature has crossed 47.0 degrees centigrade. The canals are closed due to water shortage in Indus river, but the scanty water available in canals offer good opportunity…
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East Asia
NK Opera Group In China For Two-Month Long Road-Show
DANDONG, May 29, 2012 (Xinhua) — Singers of the Sea of Blood opera group of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) arrive in Dandong, northeast China’s Liaoning Province, May 28, 2012. A 175-member crew of DPRK’s Sea of Blood opera group arrived in Liaoning’s Dandong City on May 28…
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West Asia
Koffi Annan In Syria: “We Are At A Tipping Point”
In this photo provided by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, meets with Kofi Annan, the U.N.-Arab League Joint Special Envoy for Syria, in Damascus, Syria. The meeting Tuesday followed a massacre in Houla, Syria, last week in which more than 100 people were killed,…
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West Asia
Bahraini Activist Resumes Activities Soon After Release
Bahraini human rights activist Zainab al-Khawaja holds her daughter Jude, 2, as she speaks by phone to a journalist Tuesday, May 29, 2012, at a coffee shop in Abu Saiba, Bahrain, hours after her release from jail. Al-Khawaja spent more than a month in jail on various charges relating to…
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West Asia
Major news in Lebanon on May 30
Top news in <Daily Star>: Lebanese join the Free Syrian Army’s struggle news@theasian.asia
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West Asia
Major news in Saudi Arabia on May 30
Top news in <Arab News>: Saudia joins global alliance, offers 14,700 daily flights news@theasian.asia
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South Asia
Major news in Nepal on May 30
Top news in <Himalayan Times>: Former minister Alam faces murder charge news@theasian.asia
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South East Asia
Major news in Myanmar on May 30
Top news in <Myanar Times>: Electricity shortages spark wave of protests news@theasian.asia
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