Category: Society
Whaling costs Japan taxpayers $10m: pressure group
Japan’s whaling programme costs taxpayers $10 million a year, a pressure group said Tuesday, as it demanded an end to the “dying industry”. The [...]
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Furry crabs may be healing Great Barrier Reef
Furry crabs once thought to be damaging the Great Barrier Reef may in fact be helping save the coral by stopping the spread of disease, a researcher said. Scientists at James [...]
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Japan fashionistas defend ‘obscene’ photographer
Japanese fashionistas leaped to the defence of Tokyo-based Singaporean photographer Leslie Kee after he was arrested for selling books containing pictures of male genitals. [...]
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Philippine farmers hope for coconut-craze windfall
Philippine farmer Liezl Balmaceda has never heard of Madonna, but the US pop star’s endorsement of coconut water may help change her impoverished life for the better. [...]
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Indonesia to protect orangutans
Indonesian officials say they plan to create an orangutan rehabilitation centre with the ultimate goal of releasing all apes held at such centers into the wild. The numbers [...]
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HK busts two drug trafficking attempts at airport
Hong Kong Customs have foiled two drug trafficking attempts at its international airport, in the past five days. In the most recent bust, 6.6 kilogrammes of cocaine, with an [...]
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Paper giant APP promises no Indonesia deforestation
The world’s third-largest paper producer Asia Pulp and Paper said Tuesday it had stopped using logs from Indonesia’s natural forests, after fierce campaigning by [...]
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Philippine farmers hope for coconut-craze windfall
Philippine farmer Liezl Balmaceda has never heard of Madonna, but the US pop star’s endorsement of coconut water may help change her impoverished life for the better. [...]
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Vietnam’s demand for horns puts Assam rhinos at risk
Soaring demand for rhino horns in Vietnam is posing a threat to the long-term conservation of one-horned rhinos in the state. This year alone, eight rhinos, including one in [...]
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Indonesia businesswoman convicted of graft
A wealthy Indonesian businesswoman with connections to the ruling Democratic Party was convicted of bribery Monday, the latest in a string of corruption cases to hit the [...]
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Turkish PM casts doubt on roads deal
Turkey’s prime minister has cast doubt over the future of the country’s second-biggest privatisation, which includes Koc Holding, Turkey’s biggest [...]
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Review of Taiwan’s human rights report to be made public: official
Taipei, February 4 (CNA) The Ministry of Justice said Monday that the results of a review of Taiwan’s first human rights report being conducted by international human [...]
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Indonesian maid inherits $29m fortune from late husband
Though stories about Indonesian migrant workers in Saudi Arabia usually concern abuse and poor wages, one maid flipped the usual script and struck it rich in the oil-soaked [...]
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Japanese kabuki star dies after leukaemia fight
Japanese kabuki star Ichikawa Danjuro has died after a long battle with leukaemia, his family said. He was 66. Danjuro, whose real name was Natsuo Horikoshi, passed away at a [...]
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Foxconn says to boost China worker participation in union
Foxconn Technology Group, the assembler of most of the world’s top-selling electronic gadgets including Apple Inc’s iPhone, is trying to raise participation in [...]
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