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East Asia
Major news in China on Jun 14: State Council improves food safety
Top news in <CNTV>: State Council improves food safety Country will reward people who expose substandard products The State Council laid out measures to improve food safety on Wednesday, including tighter supervision and harsher punishment for violators. “It is an onerous task for the government to ensure food safety,” as…
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South East Asia
Major news in Malaysia on June 14: Raising retirement age
Top news in <New Straits Times>: Raising retirement age WORK TILL 60: Bill covering private sector employees tabled in Parliament KUALA LUMPUR : THE government yesterday tabled a bill — Minimum Retirement Age Bill — to raise the minimum retirement age for private sector workers to 60. Tabling the bill,…
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South Asia
Major news in Bangladesh on Jun 14: Ugly face of insolence and ignorance
Top News in <Holiday> : Ugly face of insolence and ignorance The face-off between a High Court bench of the Bangladesh Supreme Court and the country’s parliament, the Jatiya Sangsad, that is being currently witnessed is unprecedented as well as disgraceful. It is, in our view, the result of insolence…
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East Asia
U.S. Envoy Speaks In Seoul On NK Human Rights
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – The U.S. human rights envoy to North Korea says the United States is working to break an “information blockade” that allows North Korea to hide its rights abuses and keep its people away from outside news. Robert King told a forum in Seoul on Thursday…
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West Asia
Major news in Jordan on June 14: Fuel price hike no surprise, but ill-timed – consumers
Top news in <The Jordan Times>: Fuel price hike no surprise, but ill-timed – consumers For some motorists, the timing of the government’s Tuesday night decision to raise the price of 90-octane gasoline was “inappropriate” and the new price is way “too high”. Near midnight on Tuesday, the Cabinet announced…
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West Asia
Major news in Yemen on June 14: France advocates security council resolution 2051
Top news in <Yemen News Agency>: France advocates security council resolution 2051 France welcomed Wednesday the UN Security Council’s resolution 2051 which reaffirmed the importance of implementing the Gulf initiative to address Yemen’s crisis. In a press conference held Wednesday, Spokesman at the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs…
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West Asia
Free Syrian Fighters Take A Break In Lull Of Combat
Free Syrian Army fighters swim in a pool on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday, June 12, 2012. Free Syrian Army fighters sit in a house on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday, June 12, 2012. On Tuesday, Syrian forces pelted the eastern city of Deir el-Zour with mortars as anti-government…
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South Asia
Young Laborers On World Day Against Child Labor
A young Indian bonded child laborer rests his head in his hands after being rescued during a raid by workers from Bachpan Bachao Andolan, or Save the Childhood Movement, at a garment factory in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, June 12, 2012. Raids on factories in the Indian capital revealed dozens…
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South East Asia
Unbelievable Scene Of Cloud Taken By Cellphone
Photo taken on June 12, 2012 by cellphone shows scroll-like cloud on the sky in Kota Kinabalu of Malaysia. <Xinhua> news@theasian.asia
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East Asia
Major news in China on Jun 13: The thousand-year-old Tibetan paper
Top news in <Peoples Daily>: The thousand-year-old Tibetan paper More than 1,300 years ago, when the Princess Wencheng of Tang Dynasty went to Tibet to get married, she also brought the papermaking technology from the central plain area to this plateau. After years of study, innovation and inheritance, the Tibetan…
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