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Kim Jong-il Dies at 69, Leaving Son Kim Jong-un as Successor

CNN reporter Dan Rivers aired an investigative story on Monday on the state of modern-day slavery in Asia.

A suicide bomber who detonated himself inside an Indonesian church killed 22 people Sunday, according to msnbc.com.

Search and rescue efforts have begun in the northern regions of the Himalayas after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit the area on Sunday.

In the wake of devastating floods, the United States pledged to send $900,000 of emergency aid to North Korea in addition to the $300,000 pledged earlier in the month, according to the U.S. State Department Thursday.

A closed-door meeting in Washington between President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama on Saturday was met with disapproval by Chinese officials, who say it has damaged Sino-U.S. relations.

Thailand made history Sunday by electing the nation’s first female prime minister in its first general election since 2007. Officials were still counting ballots when sitting prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva conceded loss to Yingluck Shinawatra.

A large-scale Chinese phishing scheme has left hundreds of personal Gmail accounts – including those of some senior U.S. personnel – vulnerable to hackers.

Japan’s Tokyo Electric Power Company is still struggling to stabilize its Fukushima nuclear power plant after damages from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, which have caused severe radiation leaks and contaminated surrounding ocean waters.  

After being ranked 136th out of 161 countries which administered the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) in 2009, South Korea stepped way up in this year’s rankings, reaching 13th among Asian countries according to Education First, a global education center.

Damage continues to be assessed at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, which suffered explosions when hit by the tsunami nearly three weeks ago.  Seawater testing near the plant has registered the highest radiation levels to date, with water 300 yards from the plant containing 3,355 times

“I want to be very clear.  We do not expect harmful levels of radiation to reach the United States, whether it’s the West Coast, Hawaii, Alaska or U.S. territories in the Pacific,” Obama said.  Radiation had been detected last night on cargo arriving from Japan at Chicago, Dallas and Seattle airports, in negligible amounts.

Following the natural disasters that destroyed homes and killed citizens, the US Agency for International Development is sending its disaster assistance response team to travel to the country.

According to Forbes magazine’s 2011 Billionaires List the number of Chinese billionaires has nearly doubled from last year, to 115.  The newly minted business moguls represent entrepreneurs from many different industries.

At 2:46 PM, Japanese local time, the fifth-largest earthquake to shake the earth since 1900, an 8.9-magnitude temblor, struck off the coast of Japan.  Even though the epicenter was offshore, over 200 miles from Tokyo, coastal areas were devastated by a tsunami generated by the quake.

In Shanghai, on Sunday, European and Japanese journalists were held for about two hours, after they had attempted to report on an anonymous Internet site which urged Chinese citizens to conduct a peaceful protest against the government. 

The social network that started out as a college internet group, is opening a new office in Hong Kong. North Palo Alto, Calif. -based Facebook, is using the office to support its marketing and advertising efforts in Hong Kong and Taiwan.