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China advises against travel to Japan amid escalating row over PM’s Taiwan comments
Sanae Takaichi says the use of force against Taiwan could warrant a military response from TokyoChina has advi…
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British woman on Bali death row flies home on humanitarian grounds
Indonesia has some of the world’s toughest drug laws, but has moved to release more than half a dozen high-pro…
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Maldives becomes the only country with generational smoking ban
Indian Ocean archipelago bans anyone born after 1 January 2007 from buying or using tobacco in order to ‘promo…
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‘Sacred sanctuary’: North Korea starts building memorial to soldiers killed in Ukraine war
At least 600 North Korean soldiers have been killed and thousands more wounded fighting in Russia’s war agains…
- Asia Pacific, Elon Musk, Myanmar, Satellites, South and Central Asia, Technology, US Congress, US politics
US Congress committee investigating Musk-owned Starlink over Myanmar scam centres
Provision of internet access to scam centres being investigated as Starlink swiftly becomes Myanmar’s biggest …
- Asia Pacific, Elon Musk, Myanmar, Satellites, South and Central Asia, Technology, US Congress, US politics
US Congress committee investigating Musk-owned Starlink over Myanmar scam centres
Provision of internet access to scam centres being investigated as Starlink swiftly becomes Myanmar’s biggest …
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New Zealand accused of ‘full-blown climate denial’ over cuts to methane reduction targets
Farmers praised the move, but scientists and opposition parties criticised it as ‘weak’ and ‘unambitious’Envir…
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Philippines says Chinese ship ‘deliberately rammed’ government boat in South China Sea
Beijing blames Manila for the collision, saying the ship ‘ignored repeated stern warnings from the Chinese sid…
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Super Typhoon Ragasa: 17 killed in Taiwan and Hong Kong battered as storm moves towards China
Chinese businesses and schools shut and residents in high-rises ordered to evacuate as storm forecast to make …
- Asia Pacific, Drugs trade, International criminal court, International law, Law, Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, World news
Rodrigo Duterte, former Philippines president, charged with crimes against humanity at ICC
Three charges against Duterte stem from his years-long campaign against drug users and dealers that rights gro…
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Rodrigo Duterte, former Philippines president, charged with crimes against humanity at ICC
Three charges against Duterte stem from his years-long campaign against drug users and dealers that rights gro…
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Japan’s second in line to emperor’s throne comes of age amid succession debate
Teenage Prince Hisahito’s elaborate ceremony overshadowed by questions over royal family’s male-only successio…
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Fire kills three people in Indonesia after protesters torch council buildings
Cities in Indonesia rocked by protests after motorcycle taxi driver run over by police tactical vehicleProtest…
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North Korea accuses South Korea of ‘deliberate provocation’ after warning shots fired at soldiers on border
Seoul says military fired warning shots on Tuesday after troops from the North briefly crossed borderSouth Kor…
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North Korea has secret military base that may pose threat to east Asia and US, new report says
The ‘undeclared’ Sinpung-dong missile operating base is just 27km from the border with China, report by US thi…