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Asia's Year in Words

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Dec 23, 2011
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At year’s end it is a time to look back over the past 12 months – in words. The events in Asia during the past year, large and small, threw up numerous colorful words in half a dozen languages that helped to frame the events of 2011 but also to lift the corner on the deeper aspects of Asian life and culture. Here are a few of them.

The mammoth earthquake…

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