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South Asia
Indian PM Pays Respect To Former PM Indira Gandhi On Her Death Anniversary
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh offers floral respects at the memorial of former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her death anniversary in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. Gandhi was gunned down by her Sikh bodyguards in 1984. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, left, and Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor…
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East Asia
Korea to share water management know-how with Asian countries
Korea will provide its environmental technology on water management for developing nations across Asia to meet growing demand on the water industry and related markets, the government said Tuesday. The Ministry of Environment said on the last day of the two-day Asia Water Management Forum in Seoul, Tuesday that the…
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South East Asia
[ASEAN Report] Indecent Malaysian advertisement offends Indonesians
A recent advertisement in Malaysia saying “Indonesian Maid on Sale!” raised protest from Indonesia. Malaysia Ministry of Labor and Transmigration promised to investigate those related to the advertisement. Malaysian government said the person who made the advertisement is recognized as Rubini. Responding to Indonesian protest, Indonesian Minister of Labor and Transmigration Muhaimin Iskandar asked…
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South East Asia
Muslims Driven To Live In Refugee Camp As Result Of Ethnic Violence In Myanmar
A Muslim woman refugee, fled from ethnic violence, cuddles a baby at Thechaung refugee camp in Sittwe, Rakhine State, western Myanmar, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. Survivors of ethnic clashes in western Myanmar lashed out at the government for failing to prevent violence between Muslims and Buddhists that has displaced more…
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East Asia
UN Secretary General Gives Speech At South Korean Parliament
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon delivers a speech at the South Korea National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. <AP Photo/Lee Jin-man>
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West Asia
Sewage Water Flows Directly Into Sea In Mawasi Area, Gaza Strip
Palestinian children play in sewage water flowing into the sea in the Mawasi area, Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Oct. 29, 2012. <Xinhua/Khaled Omar>
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Society
New Yorkers Under Siege Of Superstorm Sandy
Medical workers assist a patient into an ambulance during an evacuation of New York University’s Tisch Hospital, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, in New York. The New York City hospital is moving out more than 200 patients after its backup generator failed when the power was knocked out by a superstorm.…
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East Asia
Chinese Soldiers Rescue 26 Vietnamese When Typhoon Pounded Bordering Areas Of Two Nations
A Chinese soldier hands over a Vietnamese baby he rescued from the flood to his mother at a waterlogged market near the China-Vietnam border river Beilun in Dongxing, south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on Oct. 29, 2012. Typhoon Son-Tinh has brought strong wind and downpours to Guangxi since Sunday,…
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East Asia
Korea PR expert puts up ‘sex slavery’ posters in Japan
Korea PR expert Seo Kyoung-duk, a professor at Sungshin Women’s University, has put up posters in Japanese universities calling for their apology for Korean “comfort women” who were forced into prostitution for the Japanese army during World War II. Seo and some 50 Korean students studying in Japan covered walls…
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East Asia
‘Seoul should maximize human contact with NK’
Seoul should seek to increase interaction among businesspeople of the two Koreas, because people-to-people contact presents North Koreans with the most compelling evidence in the argument on the need for change, an American expert said Wednesday. Marcus Noland, deputy director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, said that despite…
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