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Asia Cast Thursday 14th June

A strike at India's state-run domestic airline has entered its second day, stranding thousands of passengers.
The number of cancelled flights increased as some cabin crew joined twelve thousand ground staff in the stoppage.
Baggage handlers, check-in staff and other airline employees are demanding better wages and career prospects.
They are angry at a government plan to merge the struggling airline with the country's flagship carrier, Air India.
Although the airline has promised there will be no retrenchment, staff fear that the merger with Air India may eventually lead to job cuts or hurt their future prospects.
The strike began on Tuesday night after a breakdown in talks with management.

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Thirteen schools have been set on fire in southern Thailand, where teachers have increasingly become the targets of a bloody conflict.
The Thai authorities have blamed Muslim insurgents for a series of recent attacks on schools, as part of their separatist campaign.
The violence in the region has killed more than two thousand two hundred people since two thousand and four.
This appears to have been a co-ordinated attack – thirteen schools set on fire almost simultaneously on Wednesday evening.
Hours later a bomb exploded in front of another school. No group has yet claimed responsibility.

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Communist-ruled China has blasted United States President George Bush for attending the founding of a memorial to victims of communism, accusing Washington of "cold war" thinking and provoking ideological confrontation.

Bush attended the dedication of the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington on Tuesday, naming China among the regimes he blamed for the deaths of about one hundred million innocent people.
"According to the best scholarly estimate, communism took the lives of tens of millions of people in China and the Soviet Union," Bush said in his speech issued on the White House Web site
He cited the Great Leap Forward of the late nineteen fifties, when many millions died in famine sparked by Mao Zedong's drive for massive communes, and the Cultural Revolution of nineteen sixty six to seventy six when Mao launched a radical, violent campaign to stamp out ideological threats.

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  The American Board of Trail Advocates granted its Courageous Advocacy Award to Mr. Gao Zhi Sheng and invited him to attend the award ceremony in California.

Until now, the Chinese Communist party has refused to give Mr. Gao his passport and the international community is concerned that Mr. Gao may not be able to come to the award presentation.
Mr. Gao has supporters around the world, if he goes to America for the award presentation, there will be many people to come to welcome him to the event.

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Mr. Chen was the first secretary of the Chinese Consulate in Sydney Australia and escaped from the Chinese Communist party's control two years ago.
Recently, he was invited to speak at the University of Toronto. During his speech, he revealed the background information about the Chinese Students association in each university around the world. He stated basically all the Chinese Students associations are organized by the Chinese Communist Party, including all the activity expenses is paid by the Communist Party.

Those associations core meeting are often hold inside the Chinese Communist Consulate. The head of those associations are usually hand picked by the Chinese Communist Consulate.

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A major, new problem popped up on the International Space Station recently as space shuttle astronauts finished installing a new solar-power unit–the failure of key computers that could in an extreme scenario, force the crew off the station,.
The failure occurred in computers on the Russian segment of the sixteen-nation space station, computers that control navigation and key life-support systems on the huge orbital base. Without them, the station cannot maintain proper orbit and the crew cannot stay on board.

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