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    Positive developments in Asia

    “The most economically vibrant region in the world,” is how China Premier Wen Jiabao immodestly but accurately described Northeast Asia at the recent Beijing summit. Financial fixation on Europe has led to shortchanging positive developments in Asia. Businesslike Beijing discussions last month are useful for enervated Europeans in need of…

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    Korean lessons for eurozone

    Looking at Europe’s stumbling efforts to deal with the eurozone’s sovereign debt crisis, I can’t help but make comparisons with how Korea dealt with its severe economic woes during the 1997 Asian financial crisis. And I think Korea’s response then offers important lessons now to Greece and Europe’s other debt-ridden…

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  • Pakistani PM disqualified by Supreme Court

    ISLAMABAD — The Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan disqualified Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani as the prime minister in its short order of the NA Speaker ruling case on Tuesday. “Yousuf Raza Gilani is disqualified from membership of parliament from April 26, the date of his conviction. He has also ceased…

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    Conquering Mt. Everest’s impossible without Sherpas ②

    *This is the second of two-part story about the role of Sherpas they have played for the successful climbing of the Mt. Everest. According to Ang Chhiring Sherpa, of the total 3700 individuals who climbed the peak, some 1900 are Sherpas. Eight of them were women Sherpa. This year too these people…

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  • Chosen Soren, a state for leftist Koreans in Japan

    Recently I was interviewing a North Korean refugee, a woman in her 50s. In passing she mentioned that she saw her first US movie in 1987 or 1988 while living in a North Korean countryside. I was surprised and asked how that could possibly be case. In those days in…

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  • Bangladesh fears fresh militancy with unrest in Myanmar

    DHAKA, June 16 — The outbreak of sectarian violence in neighbouring Myanmar’s bordering Rakhine state apparently exposed frontier south-eastern region of Bangladesh to threats of militancy afresh, security officials and public representatives said. A report released today by Bangladesh National News Agency BSS said the government is very much concerned about…

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  • Tens of thousands suffer inhuman life in Bangladesh-India border

      About 50,000 people are living inhuman life, almost stateless, in the enclaves along the Bangladesh-India border since the great partition of India by the British colonial ruler in 1947. The residents of the enclaves live in abysmal conditions, with a lack of water, roads, electricity, schools and medicines. Crime…

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    Conquering Mt. Everest’s impossible without Sherpas ①

    *This is the first of two-part story about the role of Sherpas they have played for the successful climbing of the Mt. Everest. Kathmandu, June 14: Sherpas have been synonymous to mountaineering since the first Mt. Everest expedition of 1921. “The first Everest Expedition of 1921 had seven to eight Sherpas…

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  • Dhaka: UNHCR must solve root cause of Myanmar refugee

    DHAKA, June 13 — Bangladesh Wednesday (June 13) denied the idea of harboring Myanmar refugees into Bangladesh further as Foreign Minister Dr. Dipu Moni is scheduled to hold dialogue with UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) next week.     The foreign minister, however, insisted that the meeting with the UNHCR’s second-in-chief would…

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    Iraqi Bomb Attack Even Kills Innocent Baby

    Karim Hamid kisses the dead body of his nephew Morteda Faleh, who was killed with his father, mother, brother and sister in a car bomb attack in Baghdad, before burial in Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, June 13, 2012. A wave of bombings targeted religious…

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