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Asian markets plunge on U.S. recession news (CNN)
Asian and Pacific stocks nosedived Tuesday, with Hong Kong's Hang Seng index off 5 percent after grim U.S. economic news battered Wall Street.
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Lavender restaurant focuses on fresh Asian cuisine in Sudbury (The MetroWest Daily News)
Lavender restaurant offers a fusion of fresh Asian cuisine from Japan, China, Taiwan and Malaysia.
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Asia Markets: Nikkei falls below 8,000 level; Sydney off 4% (Market Watch)
Asian stocks were hammered Tuesday, with miners and the oil sector under pressure in the wake of overnight declines in commodity prices. Japan's Nikkei benchmark flirted with the 8,000 level as automakers and other exporters were hurt by the U.S. dollar’s decline to the mid-93-yen level.
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Testing Times for Central Asian Migrants (Institute for War and Peace Reporting)
Immigrant workforce seems to be hanging on as long as it can in Russian and Kazak job markets.
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Postponement of ASEAN Summit sought (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
The secretariat of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is pushing for postponement of the 14th ASEAN Summit to be held in Chiang Mai next week, but Thailand is hesitant to postpone the meeting lest it derail or “complicate” plans laid out in the ASEAN Charter that will take effect on Dec. 15.
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Japan Tourism Bureau a Bust as High Yen Deters Visits (Update1) (Bloomberg)
Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Japan set up its first national tourism agency on Oct. 1 to attract more Asian travelers. The timing could hardly have been worse.
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What are you reading? (The Capital Times)
"Just finished 'Soul of the Rhino,' an exceptionally enjoyable and informative work by Hemanta Mishra, a Nepalese conservationist, who spends his entire life protecting the Asian rhino in its Himalayan habitat. The book gives a unique description of (the) Hindu and Buddhist religions, culture, the politics of the South Asian wildlife conservation, the lives of Nepalese royalty, people and the ...
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Clinton's India ties may complicate Obama policy (China Daily)
With tensions rising between India and Pakistan after last week's deadly terrorist attacks in Mumbai, Hillary Clinton faces an early test of her influence in South Asia , where President-elect Barack Obama on Monday said that instability and the rise of militants pose "the single most important threat against the American people."
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South Asia must fight terrorism together (Daily News)
Sri Lanka wants South Asian countries to come together and chalk out a "strong plan" to stamp out terrorism for Healthcare and Nutrition Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva said.
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Clinton's India ties may complicate Obama policy (AP via Yahoo! News)
The close ties with India that Secretary of State-nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton forged during her years as a U.S. senator and presidential candidate could complicate diplomatic perceptions of her ability to serve as a neutral broker between India and its nuclear neighbor, Pakistan.
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