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‘Left-field’ life: Briton becomes Thailand’s top foreign monk

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South Korea keeps fuel cheap for holidays as fiscal cost mounts

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India's transgender amendment leaves many in limbo

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Major disaster response exercise involving 19 countries taking place in Indonesia

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South Korea says Trump welcomes progress in US strategic investment projects

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Australia PM says draft social media rules about taking back control

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US criticises Australia's proposed algorithm opt-out laws as 'censorship'

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In Cambodia's 'Waiting Village', tattooist mourns trade lost to war

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Taiwan, human rights are ‘red lines’ for China, ambassador says ahead of Trump-Xi meeting

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Cambodia no ‘safe haven’ for scams, prime minister tells anti-fraud summit

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Cambodia no 'safe haven' for scams, prime minister tells anti-fraud summit

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Mexico arrests alleged prominent fentanyl trafficker

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Wife of US seismologist held in China says Trump will ask Xi to free him

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Playing loud music on the bus? That will cost you hundreds of dollars in Singapore

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Trump, Japan’s Takaichi discuss China in meeting ahead of Xi’s US trip

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China’s Xi unlikely to bring CEOs to summit where Trump is seeking deals, says US official

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India is producing more green energy - but wasting a lot of it

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Huge data centres rise at 'China speed' to power its AI ambitions

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Rare look at the remote engine rooms fuelling China's AI boom

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New rules to protect tech secrets could strand Taiwanese visitors in China

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IN FOCUS: 'I cannot go back' - Myanmar refugees fear repatriation as country gets cosier with Malaysia, Thailand

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Commentary: Jollibee shouldn’t rush its global IPO

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Rodeo shows, a ‘$2.5 trillion photo’ and gaffes: A history of Chinese leaders’ visits to the US

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Pfizer's Bourla among tech, bank CEOs set for Trump's state dinner for Xi

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Sri Lanka hands jail terms of over 200 years to 15 convicted of 2019 Easter bombings

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France agreed to open talks on Latvia joining nuclear deterrence initiative, Latvian leader says

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China names new top official for Tibet in regional reshuffle

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EU renews Russia sanctions, drops Russian billionaires Usmanov and Fridman

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Residents say Philippines’ Pax Silica Hub will force them off their ancestral land

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Sri Lanka court convicts 15 men over deadly Easter Sunday bombings

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Indonesia Parliament passes law aimed at resolving land conflicts

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Busan seeks ways to return stranded shark back to sea

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Thailand moves to rein in cannabis industry, accelerates reversal of decriminalisation policy

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Respiratory problems climb past 170,000 cases in haze-hit Indonesia

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Taiwan minister says he was not 'belittled' on rare trip to China

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Third earthquake strikes Johor’s Batu Pahat since June, no tsunami threat

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Pakistan’s US opening looks well beyond the next crisis

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As China tightens its ‘gutter oil’ green fuel processes, where does Singapore fit in the equation?

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China curbs drug precursor exports ahead of Xi’s US visit

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DeepSeek to brief UN Security Council on AI this week, sources say

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Anthropic, OpenAI call for Australia to relax ban on training of AI models

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China neutralizes yuan tensions ahead of Trump-Xi talks

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China says it opposes ‘illegal’ US sanctions on Iranian airlines

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Melaka state assembly to be dissolved on Sep 23, paving way for election within 60 days: Chief Minister

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Cambodia’s anti-scam summit can’t whitewash its own record

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Cambodia showcases scams crackdown with global conference

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Bangladesh’s new cyberlaw rebrands the same old censorship

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