Topic: Asia

Chinese football clubs snap up Okada, Tigana next

AFP Global Edition - 69 days ago
The Chinese spending spree which has already lured Nicolas Anelka snapped up ex-Japan football coach Takeshi Okada on Thursday, with French handler Jean Tigana expected to follow within days.Hangzhou Greentown revealed the signing of Okada, who was pictured on their microblog smiling ...
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Bhutan's Dragon King crowns a bride

AFP Global Edition - 132 days ago
Bhutan's hugely popular king married a 21-year-old student on Thursday in a colourful ceremony showcasing the rich Buddhist culture of one of the world's most remote and insular countries.Amid clouds of incense and chanting monks, the 31-year-old King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck ...
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India temple treasure brings riches, challenges

Reuters Life! Online Report - 187 days ago
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India (Reuters) - A stream of bare-chested religious devotees step gingerly through metal detectors at the Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple in southern India as armed commandos with AK-47s guard perhaps one of the world's greatest treasures to surface in recent times.For months ...
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Former royals renounce Indian temple treasure

AFP Asian Edition - 229 days ago
The head of a former Indian royal family on Friday renounced any personal claim to billions of dollars' worth of ancient treasure discovered in a Hindu temple in the kingdom his ancestors once ruled."The royal family is not claiming anything. No part ...
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Investigators turn to final vault at treasure temple

Reuters US Online Report Oddly Enough - 232 days ago
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India (Reuters) - Investigators plan to pry open the final vault hidden deep under a centuries-old Indian Hindu temple as police guarded round the clock the shrine where billions of dollars worth of treasure has been discovered.Over the last week a ...
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Investigators turn to final vault at Indian treasure temple

Reuters Life! Online Report - 233 days ago
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India (Reuters) - Investigators plan to pry open the final vault hidden deep under a centuries-old Indian Hindu temple as police guarded round the clock the shrine where billions of dollars worth of treasure has been discovered.Over the last week a ...
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Thailand charges US citizen with insulting royals

AFP Asian Edition - 271 days ago
A US citizen has been charged in Thailand with insulting the monarchy after he posted material deemed offensive on his blog and put a link to a banned book, authorities said Friday.Thai-born Lerpong Wichaikhammat, 54, was arrested on Tuesday in Nakhon Ratchasima ...
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Thai historian to be charged for monarchy comments

AFP Asian Edition - 288 days ago
Thai police have summoned a prominent historian to face a charge of insulting the monarchy after he made public calls for the institution to be reformed.Somsak Jeamteerasakul, a lecturer at Thammasat University in Bangkok, has been summoned to be formally accused of ...
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China's traders cash in on royal wedding

AFP Global Edition - 310 days ago
Chinese jewellery factory owner Zhou Mingwang sums up the global appeal of this month's British royal wedding with one line: "It's a love story."But, he adds with a sly smile, the much-ballyhooed April 29 union of Prince William and girlfriend Kate Middleton ...
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Rights group urges end to Thai web editor trial

AFP Global Edition - 376 days ago
A Thai website editor facing decades behind bars over reader comments about the monarchy should "not be in the dock", Amnesty International said Thursday, accusing Thailand of "silencing" dissent.Chiranuch Premchaiporn, the executive director of the Prachatai news site, is currently on trial ...
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