Enter a pub in Bangkok and say you are from Japan, and it is highly likely you’ll be surrounded by girls in an instant. This is not only because the Japanese come from Asia’s richest country but a …..
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How much should two chicken pancakes cost? For Zhao Rui, a 28-year-old company executive in Beijing, they cost him 400,000 yuan when he missed the chance to buy a home at a lower price during his lunc …..
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Anticipating renewed clashes with protesters demanding the prime minister dissolve the government and hold new elections, the Thai military stations about 1,500 troops along a Bangkok road, military sources tell CNN.
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Anticipating renewed clashes with protesters demanding the prime minister dissolve the government and hold new elections, the Thai military stations about 1,500 troops along a Bangkok road, military sources tell CNN.
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China is disappointed the European Union has decided to launch an anti-subsidy investigation into imported Chinese coated paper, Ministry of Commerce spokesman Yao Jian said on Saturday.
“China will …..
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Elite forces from all three branches of the armed forces and police are being mobilised to carry out operations to remove red-shirt demonstrators from the Rajprasong intersection in Bangkok.
The rule …..
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Korea stunned the global nuclear power industry when the newcomer to the world market fetched a $20 billion deal to build reactors in the United Arab Emirates late last year.
One of the firms behind …..
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The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan Buddhist leader long exiled from China, is seeking to visit the Tibetan region rocked by a deadly earthquake this week.
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Thailand’s powerful army chief Anupong Paochinda Saturday met top commanders as ‘red shirts’ pledged to escalate protests again to pressure Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to call an early election. …..
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The government of Philippines will drop murder charges against two prominent members of the powerful Ampatuan clan in connection with the November 2009 massacre of 57 people, including 31 media worker …..
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Fifty-seven percent of Japanese respondents to a recent joint Japan-South Korea survey believe Tokyo-Seoul relations are “good” and 29 percent think ties are “bad,” while only 24 percent of the South …..
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The government of Thailand will take drastic legal and other measures to prevent red-shirt demonstrators from setting up a new protest site on Silom Road, another major Bangkok business district.
Co …..
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A new red-shirt radio station went on air on Saturday in the Rajprasong intersection protest-site area, in a move to counter the continued shutting down of red-shirt media by the government under emer …..
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North Korea on Saturday rejected involvement in the sinking of a South Korean warship three weeks ago, revealing its official position on the incident for the first time after days of silence.
“The …..
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Thirty two people were killed and scores injured in a suicide attack Saturday at a refugee camp in northwest Pakistan, officials said.
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The Stock Exchange of Thailand on Friday continued its decline from before the start of the three-day Songkran break, as the confrontation between the red-shirt demonstrators and the government drags …..
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Move seen as bid to win over US, one of its biggest trade partners
Malaysia has cut off petrol supplies to Iran, and warned Teheran that it was close to facing new international sanctions over its nu …..
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The world’s largest developing countries, including China, have called for changes to come sooner to the international financial system, which is dominated by a handful of developed nations.
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The death toll had climbed to 1,144 and another 417 remained missing as of 5 pm Friday, about two and a half days after a devastating earthquake shook a Tibetan area in northwest China’s Qing …..
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Army chief Anupong Paochinda will replace Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban as head of the state-of-emergency operations, in what seems to be a major gamble by besieged Prime Minister Abhisit Ve …..
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