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Nearly 500 elderly folk killed by family caregivers in Japan from 2006 to 2024

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Revellers parade giant penises to dash stigma in Japan’s fertility festival

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Most Thais say rising living cost becoming hard to bear: Poll

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Watch how FamilyMart expands Convenience Wear line in Japan

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China executes Frenchman convicted in 2010 for drug trafficking

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Rewards for reporting illegal foreign workers in Japan spark controversy

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Fuel reservoir hit at Russia's Primorsk, NORSI refinery on fire after drone attacks

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Sri Lanka arrests 152 people in alleged Chinese-run cyberscam

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Iran executes two men involved in January protests judiciary news outlet says

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Indonesia lays to rest peacekeepers killed in Lebanon

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Tonga’s debt to China hinders rebuild four years on from eruption

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Afghan mother seeks justice after Pakistani bombing kills hundreds

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South Korea asks Gulf nations for steady energy supply, safety of Korean vessels

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Malaysians turn to home farming for self sufficiency, healthy lifestyle

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The man who became one of India's greatest stage queens

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Asia's EVolution: China's growing electric car pains offer lessons for the region and beyond

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Malaysians quietly stockpile staples as energy crisis fuelled by Iran war tests Anwar

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Four dead after passenger vehicle plunges off road in northern India, ANI reports

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Rain, storms kill 121 in Afghanistan and Pakistan in two weeks

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Indonesia receives bodies of peacekeepers killed in Lebanon

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Russia evacuates 198 more staff from Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant, agencies report

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Magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes off north Indonesia: USGS

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Taiwan says it has assurances over LNG supplies from 'major' country

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India-flagged LPG tanker crosses Strait of Hormuz

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Taiwan says it has assurances over LNG supplies from ‘major’ country

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Chiang Mai chokes under severe haze as pollution levels in northern Thailand soar

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AI is rewiring the world’s most prolific film industry

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Thai contractors warn of wave of abandoned projects amid rising costs of raw materials, fuel

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South Korean TV under fire over profanity glitch in AI subtitles for Artemis II

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PM2.5 levels in Chiang Mai reach ‘extremely dangerous’ levels; visibility plummets

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Man arrested after allegedly starting fire in Tokyo’s Shibuya Scramble Crossing

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Police arrest two in investigation into Australian fugitive Freeman

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For generations, Vietnam made its most beloved condiment the same way. The craft lives on

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RTS Link on track for Jan 2027 launch despite global energy pressures, says Malaysia transport minister

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Salarymen, specialists, startups and the AI future of work

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Downed planes spell new peril for Trump as Tehran hunts missing US pilot

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China cranks South China Sea buildup while Iran consumes US

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Iran executes two linked to opposition group, media say

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Indonesia slams ‘unacceptable’ peacekeeper casualties in Lebanon

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Sri Lanka struggles to avert economic collapse over Mideast war

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Malaysia’s former MCA president Ling Liong Sik dies at 82

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Sri Lanka struggles to avert economic collapse over Middle East war

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Trump lit the Mideast fire – now he wants the world to put it out

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Free cancer screening, health checks to benefit 10,000 people in Hanoi

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Singapore artist Joshua Chiang brings a decade of Cambodian stories to life

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Experts call for dedicated Malaysian court to handle surging numbers of road accident cases

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Afghanistan hit by magnitude 5.9 earthquake, eight killed

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Bangladesh: ‘Hasina question’ haunts and nettles new PM Rahman

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