Kids attend a midnight release party for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at Books and Books on July 30
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Harry Potter magic hit Asia on Sunday, as aspiring witches and wizards crowded into bookstores to get their hands on the first copies of a new play that imagines the hero as an adult.
Launch parties for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child were held hours after the play's premiere in London on Friday
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Nearly 300 fans rushed through the doors of Kinokuniya bookstore on Singapore's Orchard Road at 7:01 am to become one of the first people in the world to see the newly published script.
Student Samantha Chua, 24, who along with her boyfriend was first in line, said she had been waiting outside the fourth-floor bookstore since 5:00 am.
"We were here so early that the mall wasn't even open yet so we had to come up through the cargo lifts
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"I grew up reading the books and I have a special place for them on my shelves but this will be my crowning glory," added Chua, who was wearing a Harry Potter-themed sweater.
Widely seen as the eighth Harry Potter installment
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Like many of his fans, Potter has now become an adult and has three children with his wife Ginny Weasley.
He still has his trademark round-rimmed glasses and the scar on his head, a permanent reminder of his nemesis Lord Voldemort, but must now help his youngest son Albus confront the family's dark past.
The script's global kickoff was timed to coincide with its launch at midnight in London
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In India, fans began lining up outside shops which had opened early especially for the script's release.
"It's been amazing to see 10-year-old fans and 70-year-old grandmothers turn up at our shops," Shilpi Agarwal, a spokeswoman for Om book shops
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"We've got an excellent response," she told AFP, adding that the store would be laying on Potter-themed activities throughout the day.
In Bangkok, around 40 fans
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Sanpipat Huangsawat, 29, was first in line and had started queuing at 6:30 pm on Saturday evening. He finally got his hand on the book some 11 hours later.
"I feel very excited and it's great to be the first owner of this book in Thailand
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Sheryans, 16, said he was not sure he'd ever get the chance to see another Harry Potter book launch.
"I've been following the Harry Potter series since I was eight years old, and it's unbelievable that after nine years they're keeping it going
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Dozens gathered at a downtown bookstore in Hong Kong to get the new title and try on different Harry Potter costumes provided by the store.
Ten-year-old Adele Leung, who came with her mother, was anxious to crack into the latest Harry Potter tome.
"I love Harry Potter and have read all of the last ones. I think I will read it in a few days," she said.
According to a report by news site thepaper
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Rightist， hawkish， close to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe， pro-American， unfriendly to China ... these are the tags that people often associate with Yanai.
Observers said it was no strange that The Hague-based tribunal handling the South China Sea arbitration case unilaterally initiated by the former Philippine government issued an ill-founded award on Tuesday and denied China's long-standing historic rights in the South China Sea.
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Yanai came from a diplomatic family in Japan. His father， a graduate from Tokyo University， had worked for the Japanese Foreign Ministry and had been Japan's ambassador to Colombia for a while until he was deported at the start of WWII. He quit the Foreign Ministry and practiced law after the war.
Thanks to his family background， Shunji Yanai went to elementary and middle schools also attended by the Japanese royal family， and was later admitted to Tokyo University to study law. He entered the Japanese Foreign Ministry after graduation， following his father's steps.
The younger Yanai became Japanese ambassador to the United States in 1999.
"As a senior official in the Japanese government Mr. Shunji Yanai is a rare breed. He is ... bold and sometimes controversial， and somehow gets away with things that would most likely cost someone else his career，" said Fumiko Halloran in his review of Yanai's book titled "Rapid Changes in Diplomacy."
Yanai had to leave the Foreign Ministry along with three other officials amid a series of embezzlement scandals within the ministry.
After the end of his diplomatic career， Yanai became a professor of law at Chuo University in Tokyo.
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