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Asia NewsNew South Korean Leader Cleared in Fraud Inquiry2008-02-22 04:55 - A special prosecutor on Thursday cleared President-elect Lee Myung-bak of South Korea of fraud accusations, four days before his inauguration. Kurim Journal: A Korean Village Torn Apart From Within Mends Itself 2008-02-22 04:55 - Kurim in South Korea, a village that lost hundreds in the Korean War, has recently started a process of public reconciliation, with a joint mourning service and fund-raising for a memorial. Mercury Taint Divides a Japanese Whaling Town 2008-02-22 04:55 - The people of Taiji, a Japanese fishing village, have been united in the face of international scorn that accompanies their annual dolphin hunt ? until now. Chennai Journal: Tackling a Society’s Boundaries, on TV and in a Famil... 2008-02-21 06:01 - When it is first broadcast later this month, ?Ippadikku Rose? (?Yours, Rose?) is expected to cause a sensation, introducing India’s first transgender celebrity to television. World Briefing | Asia: U.S. Nuclear Envoy Meets North Korean Counterpa... 2008-02-21 06:01 - Washington’s envoy on the North Korean nuclear issue, Assistant Secretary of State Christopher R. Hill, met in Beijing with Kim Kye-gwan, who leads the North Korean negotiating team, for the first time in two months. Mr. Hill said that they had ?a good, substantial discussion? but that there was no breakthrough. North Korea’s disarmament process has come to a virtual halt over differences on whether the country has fully accounted for its nuclear programs. World Briefing | Asia: Japan: Destroyer Hits Fishing Boat 2008-02-21 06:01 - A Japanese naval destroyer collided with a two-man fishing boat in waters near Tokyo, apparently slicing the smaller craft in two, Japan’s military said. No survivors from the fishing boat have been found. The authorities are investigating why the ultra-modern warship’s crew and sophisticated Aegis radar systems had not seen the fishing boat. World Briefing | Asia: Myanmar: Suu Kyi Barred From Elections Under Ne... 2008-02-21 06:01 - The military junta declared that a new draft of the country’s constitution had been completed after 14 years and approved for a national referendum in May. It will clear the way for democratic elections in 2010, the junta says, the first since 1990, when the opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, the National League for Democracy, won a landslide victory that the junta never recognized. Foreign Minister Nyan Win told a regional gathering in Singapore that the document would bar Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi from running because she had been married to a foreigner, a Briton who died in 1999. She remains under house arrest in Yangon. World Briefing | Asia: China: Water Quality Worsens Near Three Gorges ... 2008-02-21 04:55 - The Environmental Protection Administration said water quality was barely improving in the main body of water behind the Three Gorges Dam and in the upper reaches of the Yangtze, although the water does meet national standards for drinking, fisheries and swimming. Water quality is worsening in several branches of the Yangtze that drain into the main reservoir, the agency said in a water management plan, echoing previous government documents. The dam has slowed the flow of the Yangtze, and that reduces the ability of the river and its tributaries to flush out polluted areas. World Briefing | Asia: Afghanistan: Kandahar Hit by 3rd Bomb Attack in... 2008-02-21 04:55 - A car bomb exploded near a police compound in the city of Kandahar, killing one civilian and wounding four, a police official said. It was the third attack in Kandahar Province in three days. More than 100 people were killed by a suicide bomber just outside Kandahar City on Sunday, and 38 died Monday at a market near the Pakistan border in a suicide car bomb explosion. The death toll made the bombings the deadliest spate of militant attacks in post-Taliban Afghanistan. The blasts might also indicate that insurgents are now willing to inflict high civilian casualties to weaken the government in Kabul. World Briefing | Asia: Japan: Curfew Imposed on U.S. Military Personne... 2008-02-21 04:55 - The United States military indefinitely imposed tight restrictions on all personnel in Okinawa, limiting troops to bases, places of work or off-base housing, amid a furor over the arrest of a marine on suspicion of raping a junior high school girl on Feb. 10 and of several other marines on less serious charges since the weekend. 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