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East Asia
China: Rescue hero may lose both legs
Major news in <People’s Daily>: Rescue hero may lose both legs Rail police student who saved man from train says he would do it again A 20-year-old student who risked his life in an attempt to save a suicidal man from being hit by a train could lose both legs…
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UAE Oil Pipeline, Built By China, Opens
Mohammed Bin Dhaen al-Hamli (L front), Minister of Energy of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), meets with Chinese Ambassador to UAE Huang Jiemin (R front) during the opening ceremony of Habshan-Fujairah oil pipeline which was designed to export Abu Dhabi’s oil bypassing the Strait of Hormuz controlled by Iran, in…
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East Asia
Floating Garbages On Yangtze River
Floating garbage collectors work on the Yangtze River in Zigui, central China’s Hubei Province, July 12, 2012. The garbage collectors working on the water surface to the west of the Three Gorges Dam are local fishermen wanting an extra income to support their families. They scoop out trash flushed from…
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Negara Mendesak untuk meningkatkan angka kelahiran ke 1.8
Halo Apa kabar? Saya Meidyana Rayana, saat ini bermagang untuk The AsiaN. Di website The Asian, anda dapat mengkases berita-berita dunia, salah satunya dari Korea Selatan. Pada 11 Juli lalu merupakan hari populasi dunia yang diresmikan pada 1987 untuk menandai populasi global yang mencapai 50 miliar jiwa. Organisasi Think tank…
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East Asia
Swamp Soccer China Kicks Off In Beijing
Players competes during the Swamp Soccer China in Beijing, capital of China, July 12, 2012. The Swamp Soccer China kicked off on July 5, 2012 and the winner will represent China to participate the 2013 Swamp Soccer UK World Cup. <Xinhua/Zheng Huansong> news@theasian.asia
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East Asia
Major news in Japan on Jul 13: Kyushu braces for more rain after at least 19 die
Major news in <Japan Today>: Kyushu braces for more rain after at least 19 die Southwestern Japan was bracing for more torrential rain on Friday, on top of “unprecedented” downpours that left at least 19 people dead and eight missing as whole neighborhoods were swamped. Television footage showed torrents of…
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East Asia
‘Being Legless Is Nothing But Inconvenient’
Legless man Chen Zhou poses to celebrate reaching the Junji Peak of Songshan Mountain in central China’s Henan Province, July 12, 2012. Legless 29-year-old man Chen Zhou from Cangshan of Shandong Province on Thursday climbed by arms to the top of the Junji Peak of Songshan Mountain in seven hours.…
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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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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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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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