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ASEAN calls for end to Myanmar sanctions

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) yesterday called for Western nations to lift sanctions against Myanmar following much-lauded signs of change in the army-dominated
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UN ‘concerned’ over KRouge judge’s limbo

The United Nations voiced concern yesterday over Cambodia’s delay in appointing a foreign judge to the Khmer Rouge tribunal, paralysing probes into two cases strongly ...
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Four killed as US drone strikes resume in Pakistan

The deadly US drone campaign in Pakistan’s tribal zone resumed with a missile strike that killed four militants, two months after a NATO raid that ...
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S. Korea charges Chinese skipper with murder

South Korean prosecutors yesterday charged the captain of a Chinese fishing boat with murdering a coastguard during a raid on the vessel for illegal fishing, ...
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India’s malnutrition is ‘national shame’

India’s Premier Manmohan Singh called malnutrition in the country “a national shame” yesterday as he released a major survey that found 42 percent of children ...
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Malaysia seizes smuggled ivory from South Africa

Malaysia has seized elephant tusks worth 2.4 million ringgit (USD 760,000) from South Africa in the first haul of smuggled ivory destined for the Southeast ...
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Man dies from bird flu in Indonesia

A 24-year-old Indonesian man infected with bird flu died in the capital Jakarta, the health ministry said yesterday, in the country’s third fatal case in ...
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Bomb kills 35 in deadliest attack in Pakistan 



A remote-controlled bomb blast killed 35 people and wounded more than 60 others yesterday in the deadliest attack in months in the Taliban-hit ...
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Philippine pilgrims defy terror alert

A human sea of Catholic pilgrims flooded the Philippine capital yesterday in a show of religious frenzy, despite warnings that Islamic militants might be planning ...
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Taiwan president gets surprise campaign boost


Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou’s reelection chances got a boost yesterday when he unexpectedly was endorsed by a close friend of an independent candidate widely seen ...
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