• UNESCO official: Integrated water management is needed

    PARIS, June 17 (Xinhua) — Management of water resources needs “substantial improvement and actual reform in many countries,” and an integrated management is significant for “the most valuable natural resources,” Olcay Unver from the UNESCO’s water assessment program told Xinhua. “There has been some improvement over the the past decade…

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  • Singapore researchers discover potential new drug to treat deadly cancer

    SINGAPORE, June 17 (Xinhua) — Researchers in Singapore have discovered a potential new treatment that may bring some hope for cancer patients with a highly aggressive form of lymphoma, local media reported on Sunday. Even better news: The compound involved is already being tested on a different illness – to…

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  • East Asia

    Japanese Gov’t Approves Reactivation of Nuclear Plants

    Japan’s Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Yukio Edano reacts during a news conference at prime minister’s office in Tokyo, Saturday, June 16, 2012. Japan’s government on Saturday approved bringing the country’s first nuclear reactors back online since last year’s earthquake and tsunami led to a shutdown of reactors nationwide. <AP/NEWSis>…

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  • East Asia

    Hu’s visit fosters closer political and economic ties with Denmark

    COPENHAGEN, June 15 (Xinhua) — Visiting Chinese President Hu Jintao undertook a number of official engagements here Friday during his first state visit to Denmark. The visit, the first by a Chinese head of state since the two countries established diplomatic ties 62 years ago, served to further advance the…

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  • East Asia

    Dali’s Masterworks in Taiwan

    A girl watches Salvador Dali’s work “Adam and Eve” in Taipei, southeast China’s Taiwan, June 15, 2012. One hundred works of Spain surrealism artist Salvador Dali would be shown on an exhibition here since June 16. <Xinhua/Wu Ching-teng> news@theasian.asia

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  • Dairy giant exposed over mercury in baby formula

    BEIJING, June 14 (Xinhua) — China’s consumer quality regulator on Thursday said it has found an “unusual amount” of mercury in baby formula produced by Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co., one of China’s biggest dairy companies. The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) said in a…

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  • China Focus: Forced abortion case investigated amid nationwide outrage

    XI’AN, June 14 (Xinhua) — Authorities in northwest China’s Shaanxi Province have launched an investigation into an instance of forced abortion, pledging that anyone found responsible will be punished according to relevant laws and regulations. Feng Jianmei, 27, was forced to terminate her pregnancy at seven months in a hospital…

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  • East Asia

    Chinese First Spacewoman Ready to Space Journey

    This undated photo shows Liu Yang attending a training. Liu Yang, 34, is one of the three taikonauts who will be carried by the Shenzhou-9 spaceship for China’s first manned space docking mission with the orbiting Tiangong-1 space lab module. <Xinhua/Qin Xian’an> news@theasian.asia

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  • Han’s attitude decides fate of tenants in KOEX Mall

      It is wondering how Han Duck-soo, chairman of the Korean Traders Associataion (KTA), would feel about the protests being waged by some 200 tenants of the shops in the KOEX Shopping Mall under the wing of the KTA.  The tenants claimed that they had been unilaterally informed by KOEX Mall of the termination of  their lease…

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  • East Asia

    South Korea, U.S. Ministers Stand For News Conference

    U.S. Secretary of State Clinton, second from right, speaks during the joint news conference together with U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, right, South Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Kim Sung-hwan, second from left, and South Korean Minister of National Defense Kim Kwan-jin, after the U.S.-Korea ministerial dialogue 2+2 meeting in…

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