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South Asia
Major news in Bangladesh on May 24
Top news in <The Daily Star> : 22 pro-BNP lawyers apply for bail news@theasian.asia
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West Asia
Major news in Yemen Times on May 24
Top news in <Yemen Times> : Yemen: Coasts without Protection news@theasian.asia
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West Asia
Major news in Jordan on May 24
Top news in <The Jordan Times> : Deputies donate 15% of salaries to Treasury news@theasian.asia
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East Asia
Here Comes Purehearted Monks
Shaven-headed young boys in line bow before the Dongjasung (little monk) soccer match held to celebrate Buddha’s upcoming birthday at Jogye temple in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, May 23, 2012. They are the children who entered the temple to have an experience of monks’ life for three weeks, called Little…
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South East Asia
Major News in Philippines on May 23: Pacquiao needs impressive victory vs. Bradley
Top news in <Manila Times>: Pacquiao needs impressive victory vs. Bradley news@theasian.asia
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East Asia
[China Now] China starts to have interest in comfort women
A Chinese internet media Sohu Cyber (www.sohu.com) reported about an elderly Korean woman living at Kangmiao district, Angui province in central China, for more than 50 years. She was learned to have forcibly brought to China as a comfort woman by Japanese imperial army during the World War II, it said. According to the media, she…
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East Asia
Skytree In Tokyo Opens To Public
Visitors wait in front of the entrance of the Tokyo Skytree in Tokyo, Tuesday, May 22, 2012. The world’s tallest tower and Japan’s biggest new landmark opened to the public on Tuesday. <AP/NEWSis> news@theasian.asia
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West Asia
Lebanese Woman At Ease After Being Released
A Lebanese Shiite woman, right, who was released with other women from kidnapping in Syria on their way home from a religious pilgrimage in Iran, is seen hugged and kissed by her daughter, left, upon her arrival at Rafik Hariri international airport, in Beirut, Lebanon, early Wednesday May 23, 2012. The Lebanese…
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South Asia
Indian Muslims Celebrate Urs Festival
Indian Muslim Sufi devotees walk in procession into the Muslim Shrine of Ajmer Sharif during the Urs Festival in Ajmer, Rajasthan, Monday, May 21, 2012. Thousands of Sufi devotees from different parts of India annually travel to the shrine of Sufi Muslim saint Hazrat Khwaja Muinuddin Chishti, for the annual…
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Central Asia
First Beluga Whale Born In Aquarium
In this photo provided by the Georgia Aquarium, members of the Georgia Aquarium animal care staff assist a beluga whale as she bonds with her newborn calf that was born Friday, May 18, 2012, at the aquarium in Atlanta. First pregnancies in beluga whales are often unsuccessful in the wild…
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