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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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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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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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Major news in Japan on Jun 13: Japan to develop drones to monitor radiation
Top news in <Japan Today>: Japan to develop drones to monitor radiation TOKYO — Japan’s nuclear energy authority and the country’s space agency Tuesday announced a joint project to develop a drone to measure radioactivity in the environment after last year’s nuclear disaster. Japan has been forced to invent or…
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East Asia
UN Calls For Donation To Help Feed NK People
In this photo taken Sunday, April 8, 2012, North Koreans work near farming machinery next to a field on the outskirts of Pyongyang, North Korea. The United Nations has called for $198 million in donations for 2012 – mostly to help feed the hungry but also to invest in programs…
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Major news in China on Jun 12: New action plan will safeguard human rights
Top news in <China Daily>: New action plan will safeguard human rights China will enforce measures to prevent extortion of confession by torture and collecting evidence through illegal methods, said a government action plan released on Monday. The National Human Rights Action Plan of China (2012-15), published by the State…
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Major news in Japan on Jun 12: Translating smartphone is boon for DoCoMo
Top news in <Japan Times>: Translating smartphone is boon for DoCoMo This month, NTT DoCoMo Inc. began its second trial of a translation service that converts Japanese into 10 languages — English, Korean, Chinese, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Thai and Indonesian — and vice versa. Japan’s biggest telecom carrier said…
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East Asia
Sakadawa Festival In Tibet Attracts Tourists
Tourists visit the Jokhang Temple during Sakadawa Festival in Lhasa, southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, June 11, 2012. The month-long Sakadawa Festival, which starts on the First Day of the Fourth Month of the Tibetan Calendar, is celebrated by Tibetan Buddhists to commemorate Sakyamuni’s birth, enlightenment and death. <Xinhua/Wen Tao>…
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East Asia
China urges Japan to stop making new troubles over Diaoyu Islands
BEIJING, June 11 (Xinhua) — China on Monday urged Japan to stop causing new troubles over the Diaoyu Islands as reports say dozens of Japanese including several lawmakers had landed on the islands. “The Diaoyu Islands and their adjacent islets have been inherent parts of Chinese territory since ancient times,…
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China publicizes human rights action plan
BEIJING, June 11 (Xinhua) — The Chinese government publicized Monday its second national plan for human rights protection, promising to address challenges and work for happiness and dignity of every citizen. The new plan, addressing human rights protection work from 2012 to 2015, follows the previous one covering the period…
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