Category: Society
Teen dies, three others hurt in Malaysia incursion
Malaysian police shot dead a teenager and injured a man Sunday as they tried to end a month-long incursion by Filipino gunmen in remote Sabah state that has seen 62 people [...]
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Burma President lobbies to earn EU’s trust
Burma, also known as Myanmar, President Thein Sein met his Italian counterpart Giorgeo Napolitano at Quieinale Palace in Rome, Italy Wednesday, the state-run New Light of [...]
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China’s soaring wine consumption slows down
China will retain its crown as the world’s fastest growing wine consumption market although the rate is tipped to slow significantly after years of explosive expansion, [...]
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Bali continues to allow deadly alcohol ‘arak’
Despite recent cases of alcohol poisoning and the death of an Australian tourist after consuming locally produced arak (palm wine) on the neighboring island of Lombok, the [...]
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Indonesians working for China’s Huawei on strike
Indonesians working for Chinese telecom firm Huawei joined a strike Friday over claims their employer broke labour laws, in the latest industrial action to hit a foreign [...]
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Eleven dead, dozens injured in Vietnam bus crash
At least 11 people died and dozens more were injured when two passenger buses crashed early Friday in central Vietnam, a policeman said. The collision happened after midnight [...]
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Randy pandas get privacy at Tokyo zoo
A pair of pandas in the mood for mating were being given a bit of space on Thursday, with Japanese zookeepers hoping they would have more success if the public was kept away. [...]
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Tibetan self-immolators inspire Chinese painter
Stacked up in Liu Yi’s studio dozens of China’s most sensitive subjects stare out from thick black-and-white oil paintings, from victims of Tiananmen Square to [...]
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Movie website access delights China netisens
Movie fans in China Thursday welcomed a popular film website being unblocked by censors, but it was unclear whether the move suggested any wider relaxation in the [...]
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Controversial HK fortune teller ‘gives up feng shui’
A Hong Kong fortune teller who once advised Asia’s richest woman but was later embroiled in a high-profile legal battle over her fortune has renounced feng shui for [...]
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Vietnam to ban short, fat traffic police in Hanoi
Short, pot-bellied policemen will be banned from traffic duty in Vietnam’s capital Hanoi and given office jobs in a bid to improve the force’s public image, [...]
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Controversial H.K. fortune teller ‘gives up feng shui’
A Hong Kong fortune teller who once advised Asia’s richest woman but was later embroiled in a high-profile legal battle over her fortune has renounced feng shui for [...]
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Tibetan self-immolators inspire Chinese painter
Stacked up in Liu Yi’s studio dozens of China’s most sensitive subjects stare out from thick black-and-white oil paintings, from victims of Tiananmen Square to [...]
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Vietnam allows visit by Amnesty International
The Vietnamese government has opened a dialogue with Amnesty International, allowing the human rights group to meet with crucial dissidents and government officials in the [...]
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Japan PM says Tokyo deserves 2020 Games
Tokyo deserves to host the 2020 Summer Olympics so that it can show the world how Japan has recovered since 2011′s earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters, prime [...]
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