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Presidential pardon for controversial Sri Lankan monk overturned

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Fire on moored cargo ship in China kills 25 people: State media

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Russia sends bones of medieval warrior prince to Ukraine front to boost morale

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Indonesia rescues six orang utans from fires in a week

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India gets one of world’s steepest iPhone price hikes

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After years of unfinished homes, China is changing its decades-old presale model

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Indonesia rescues six orangutans from fires in a week

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India hosts BRICS summit as Iran war tests bloc unity

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Thailand to increase tax on EV imports, official says

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India gets one of world's steepest iPhone price hikes

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MFA reached out to nearly 100 Singaporeans, PRs in Nepal and Tibet after disaster: Vivian Balakrishnan

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Twenty-five dead after fire on cargo ship in eastern China

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'People were trampling me': Philippine ferry fire survivor recalls narrow escape

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Vietnam’s Grab drivers call for two-day app boycott over falling earnings

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Son’s pleas end 18-hour stand-off with Thai policeman who allegedly killed wife in kindergarten

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Pakistan says no military response discussed under Mecca pact over Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia

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Hired to draw, told to prompt: How AI is changing creative work in Malaysia

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Hong Kong’s Buildings Department files 259 charges over repair works at fire-hit Wang Fuk Court

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HK principal fired over SAFRA Jurong swearing incident seeks over $154,000 in unfair dismissal claim

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Iceland to propose whaling ban, leaving Norway and Japan isolated

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s daughter believed to have younger sibling: Seoul

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The questions China won’t answer about the Tibet-Nepal flood disaster

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Chinese auto supplier compensates 107 graduates fired barely a month into jobs, punishes managers

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Hong Kong court convicts Wall Street Journal publisher for blocking ex-reporter from union role

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South Korea leader rules out term extension

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Life sentence upheld for leader of South Korea’s largest online sex crime ring

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The rock guitarist whose killing shocked India's north-east

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India signals stricter red warning labels in setback for Big Food

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Suspected gunman in Thailand kindergarten shooting surrenders after 18-hour standoff

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Indonesia’s bold bid to set the world’s critical mineral prices

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Chinese student sentenced to 18 months’ jail in S. Korea for creating 1,100 deepfakes of colleagues

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Sarawak helicopter crash: Preliminary report expected in early October

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Japan’s Yamanashi prefecture to introduce helicopter rescue fees in Mount Fuji’s off-season

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How a billion-dollar sanctions dodge kept Chinese goods flowing to Iran

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Syed Saddiq invites Ong Ye Kung to Oct 10 wedding with Bella Astillah

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Mount Fuji ends hiking season with landslide, two rescues

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What we know about the fatal Philippines ferry fire

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Four Chinese nationals claim trial over kidnapping of Singaporean man in Penang

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Floods expose fragility of Nepal’s bid to reduce trade dependence on India through China

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25 years of war was the exact wrong response to 9/11

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There’s a history to what Trump’s up to regarding troops in Korea

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Five dead and 86 missing as 'heartbreaking' fire breaks out on Philippines ferry

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Xi's India visit to help diplomatic thaw, but business ties bound by suspicion

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They grew up South Korean – then found out they may not be citizens

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Will – and can – the Iranian people revolt over the costs of war?

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Wildfires continue to rage across Indonesia, 139 arrested for arson

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Search expands after Philippine ferry fire kills five and leaves dozens missing

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Watch: Crews race to rescue passengers from burning ferry in Philippines

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Calls to halt Flying Doctor Service following fatal helicopter crash in Sarawak

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Philippines deploys vessels as rescuers seek access to burned ferry

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