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It could be a jazz piano solo, a classical sonata or traditional Chinese bamboo flute music. Whatever your taste, free concerts in the grand hall of People’s Square metro station in Shanghai have been offering a diverse range of music since the start of the year. Set against a noisy backd...
Updated : 2013.05.20 20:37
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Next month’s Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election has become a virtual run-up for online election campaigning, which will become legal from this summer’s House of Councillors election.The official c...
Updated : 2013.05.20 20:37
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Fang Jinqi, 32, said the most urgent thing for her at the moment is to develop a more thrifty lifestyle because her job as a property agent business is stagnating.The big fan of Hermes bags who used t...
Updated : 2013.05.20 20:35
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The number of vacant houses in urban areas has been increasing, as houses built in rapid succession during Japan’s high economic growth period have been abandoned after the death of the original owne...
Updated : 2013.05.13 20:42
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Nurse Song Yan would have sought a job in another country if not for her family and child.“I work at least nine hours a day and overtime from time to time, and get meager pay,” said the veteran nurs...
Updated : 2013.05.13 20:42
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Demand increases for teachers from abroad as more seek to learn English.A set of measures will be further strengthened to better manage foreign experts in China, according to the State Administration ...
Updated : 2013.05.13 20:41
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Editors of Asia News Network have agreed to strengthen video cooperation as part of the grouping’s next step in boosting the ANN brand.The decision was made at the annual board meeting held in Phom P...
Updated : 2013.05.07 20:13
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Lushan ― Li Shaohua shoveled earth on top of two graves on Saturday morning, seven days after his wife and daughter died in the Lushan county earthquake. Li, 46, from Renjia village, Qingren township...
Updated : 2013.04.29 20:01
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Dhaka ― It is difficult to imagine anyone would be offended by the lungi. Considering the genocides, vandalism, terrorism and dirty politics that surround us on a daily basis, what possible crime cou...
Updated : 2013.04.29 20:00
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Men in short-sleeved shirts and rolled-up trousers sit around square tables, catching up over cups of a thick black brew. In one corner, a man and a woman are also having a cuppa.In Xinglong, a town o...
Updated : 2013.04.29 20:00
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A well-groomed mainland Chinese woman travels abroad and, with her genteel ways, gets mistaken ― as Japanese.“Why is it that the Japanese can do it (be gracious), and the Chinese can’t?” she rues ...
Updated : 2013.04.22 19:48
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When he retired in 2003 from the Finance Ministry where he had spent 36 years, Haruhiko Kuroda was looking forward to a sedate career in academia.Born in southern Kyushu prefecture, Japan’s newly min...
Updated : 2013.04.22 19:47
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The Indonesian government is targeting to withdraw around 11,000 children from child labor in 11 provinces this year and send them back to school.Manpower and Transmigration Minister Muhaimin Iskandar said here on Wednesday that his office was cooperating with the International Labor Organ...
Updated : 2013.04.22 19:46
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Mobile operators in Bangladesh will now have to give all the details on services when advertising in any newspaper, magazine, leaflet or their websites, according to new directives recently released for the sector.The phrase ― “terms or conditions apply” ― cannot be used anymore and if...
Updated : 2013.04.08 19:54
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Dr. Niparat Sripai has decided to quit her job at the Ban Fang Hospital in Thailand’s northeastern province of Khon Kaen because she believes the recently-introduced Pay for Performance (P4P) scheme ...
Updated : 2013.04.08 19:54
