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Snap Insight: Johor state polls shatter turnout myth and hand PM Anwar his first real reckoning

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Travellers warned against carrying parcels for others as Thailand targets cannabis smugglers

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Teen files complaint in South Korea over ‘violent’ in-flight movies

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How Russia’s Putin turned Japan into a den of spies

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West Afghanistan female dress-code crackdown hits businesses

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Japan successfully launches, lands reusable rocket

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Bhutan battles ‘existential’ population crisis with birth drive

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South Korea issues first emergency heatwave warning under new rating system

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President Tharman to make first state visit to Malaysia

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Typhoon Bavi batters eastern China, threatens days of heavy rain

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Typhoon Bavi makes landfall in China, downgraded to severe tropical storm

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Japan government urges use of rice flour amid slump in consumption of staple

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New Zealand, India strike 'milestone' strategic partnership

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Johor polls: All 15 Bersama candidates lose their deposit

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‘They don’t need people’: The workers left behind by China’s robot drive

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A nuclear debut in Bangladesh tests developing world’s atomic shift

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Modi courts Indo-Pacific partners as China, US reshape region

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Why South Korea is watching Erling Haaland’s hair ties

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When Goliath sues David: China’s trademark wars test public sympathy

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When durian prices crash, Malaysia throws parties

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Johor polls: BN sweeps 48 of 56 seats as PM Anwar’s PH cedes ground in southern state

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Philippines marks 10 years since historic South China Sea court ruling

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Floods in Bangladesh kill 44, leave over a million stranded

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Indian tourists among 15 killed as speedboat capsizes in Vietnam

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China evacuates nearly two million people as powerful typhoon makes landfall

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US, Ukraine strike PAC-3 missile production deal — with a catch

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Heatwave grips south-west Japan, record-tying 39.3 deg C at Kyushu tourist spot

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Myanmar hit by deadly floods

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Boat carrying tourists capsizes off Vietnam's Phu Quoc island, killing 15

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Boat carrying tourists capsizes off Vietnam’s Phu Quoc island, killing 15

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Thai private hospitals allegedly part of racket selling citizenship packages to Chinese nationals

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BN extends control over Johor with landslide victory. Will it push for a general election?

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How a Singapore international school became an immigration flashpoint in Sapporo

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Typhoon makes landfall in China after forcing nearly two million to flee

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Typhoon Bavi makes landfall in eastern China's Taizhou after nearly 2 million evacuated

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Indonesia's anti-graft prosecutor quits after police seize gold, cash

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Squid game on the high seas

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Top Indonesian prosecutor resigns amid corruption probe

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Japanese government releases anime advisory on bear encounters for children

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Japanese man awakes to find bear staring at him, animal tries to enter house repeatedly

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How US muddle made a bad Iran war a quagmire

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When gunning for regime change, be careful what you shoot for

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Nearly 2 million people flee in China as typhoon lashes Taiwan, Japan islands

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‘We need to borrow money just to feed the fish’: Malaysian sea bass farmers reel from Thai curbs

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Ambition outguns capacity in US plan to deter China

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