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• Right-wing extremist grandpas clashed with labor activists during a demonstration in Busan, South Korea. (Global Voices)
• China has been trying to bolster the credentials of the Communist Party’s handpicked Lama. (NYTimes)
• Four Indonesian civil servants were arrested for eating during Ramadan. (Jakarta Globe)
• Med student Dharushana Muthulingam described her hopeful vision of the medical profession. (Hyphen Mag)
• The Taliban have claimed responsibility for shooting down a NATO helicopter carrying the Navy SEALs that killed bin Laden. (Washington Post)
• Filmmaker Michael Thai compared recent trends in American and Chinese new media and online video content. (Penn Olson)
• Haruki Murakami’s Cataluna International Prize acceptance speech has been translated into English. (TOKYOMANGO)
• Design firm AQ published a report on how the Tohoku earthquake/tsunami have affected Japan’s creative industry. (AQ)
• Xinhua published an editorial condemning America’s “addiction to debts”. (Xinhua)
• Tommy Lee Jones pulled a Lost in Translation Bill Murray in his recent commercials for Suntory. (Japanator)

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