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  • Pakistani toll in Siachen avalanche rises to 128

    The death toll in an avalanche in the Siachen glacier region last year has risen to 128, following the recovery of three more bodies, the Pakistani military said. The bodies of three soldiers were recovered from Gayari sector of Siachen Saturday, the Associated Press of Pakistan reported. On April 7, 2012, at least 140 soldiers of the 6 Northern Light Infantry Battalion and a few civilians ...

  • Sarabjit death probe Pakistani official may visit India

    A one-man inquiry tribunal comprising Justice Syed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi of Lahore High Court may visit India to complete the judicial inquiry into the death of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, a media report said. Sarabjit Singh, an Indian on death row in Pakistan, died May 2 after a group of Pakistani prisoners attacked him April 26 Kot Lakhpat Jail. Sarabjit was on death row since 1990 ...

  • Pakistan Gunmen attack polio team kill policeman

    Local government administrator Faramosh Khan says the gunmen attacked the team on Monday in the town of Mamound in the Bajur tribal area, just as it had started a vaccination ...

  • Chinese premier Peace requires India-China trust

    Chinese Premiere Li Keqiang, right, and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wave during Li's ceremonial reception at the Presidential Palace in New Delhi, India, Monday, May 20, 2013. Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China's new premier visited India on Sunday on his first foreign three-day trip as the neighboring giants look to speed up efforts to settle a decades-old ...

  • Natural Organic Products Asia Trade Show to Launch in Hong Kong in 2014

    Diversified Events Hong Kong LLC , organisers of the highly successful, Restaurant & Bar exhibition, has today announced the launch of a major new trade show, Natural & Organic Products Asia, to take place at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre on the 27-29 August ...

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Jigoku [DVD]

Jigoku [DVD]

The afterworld is an ugly place in Nobuo Nakagawas morbid cult classic Jigoku, the literal translation of which is Hell. It is precisely in hell--or, more specifically, numerous hells--that the final third of the film takes place, and it is Nakagawas brutal, surreal imagining of the realms ... ...

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