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JAPAN-SOUTH KOREA: 100 Years Later, Mistrust far From Gone
30 07 2010 Economies ties between Japan and South Korea are becoming stronger by the day, and the neighbouring countries have also been collaborating more frequently on the cultural front.
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AUSTRALIA: Marine Biodiversity Threatened by Oil, Gas Exploration
30 07 2010 In early July, whales from the world's largest population of humpbacks began arriving in the warm, subtropical waters off Australia's north-west coast to breed and nurse their young.
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As Sanctions Rise, China Steps Deeper Into Iran
30 07 2010 The European Union's new sanctions against Iran appear to open a new space for eager Chinese companies to expand their investments in a country viewed as a rogue player by much of the western world.
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Pakistan Poll Finds Widespread Disillusionment
30 07 2010 The recent Wikileaks dump of war-related documents has brought little new to the debate over Washington's ongoing military involvement in Afghanistan, but allegations that Pakistan's intelligence services are aiding the Taliban has brought renewed attention to U.S. concerns over its reliance on Islamabad in battling Taliban and al Qaeda forces in Afghanistan.
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SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Thailand Faces Flak for Backing Mekong Dams
29 07 2010 Northern Thai villagers living on Mekong River's banks are poised to join a growing tide of opposition against a planned cascade of 11 dams to be built on the mainstream of South-east Asia's largest body of water.
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JAPAN: Rising Wages Won't Scare Investors Away from China
29 07 2010 Common business wisdom would have it that rising wages are bad news for foreign investors, but analysts here say that workers' clamour for higher pay in Japanese factories in China will not send them packing from that country anytime soon.
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IRAN: Poll Finds Dwindling Support for Govt
29 07 2010 A recent poll conducted by a credible Iranian university centre concerning the post-election events of 2009 has found that 56 percent of participants believe President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's popularity has declined over the past year, while just 22 percent believe it has increased.
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PAKISTAN: Life At A Time Of Suicide Bombings
28 07 2010 Like any other Friday morning, hordes of people flocked at the shrine of 11th-century Sufi saint, Hazrat Ali Hajveri, that is near Bhaati Gate inside Lahore's walled city on Jul. 2. By that afternoon, a much larger crowd had gathered at the site, this time for the usual Friday prayers.
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MALAYSIA: Let Information Flow, State Tells Federal Gov't
28 07 2010 The freedom of information bill pending in opposition-ruled Selangor state may be just at the state level, but it throws a direct challenge to the federal government of Malaysia and its strict controls on the media.
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CAMBODIA: Verdict Marks End of Impunity for Khmer Rouge Torturer
27 07 2010 For a country plagued by a weak judiciary and where government officials have profited from a culture of impunity, Monday's verdict in the first case to try a surviving commandant of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime broke new legal ground in Cambodia.
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CHINA: Youngsters Rebel Against ‘Authoritarian' Parenting
27 07 2010 Fourteen years ago, Fang Xin declared war on her parents.
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SINGAPORE: Drumming Up Youths' Support in Anti-trafficking Campaign
27 07 2010 A small group of students gathered, drawn like butterflies to the sweet sound of soft rock and pop music. Home to one of the most vibrant student communities in Singapore, Ngee Ann Polytechnic is no stranger to loud music and louder fashion sense. What was unusual for the crowd, though, was the concert's mission – to drum up youths' support against human trafficking.
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Obama's Afghanistan Strategy Increasingly Under Siege
27 07 2010 Monday's release by WikiLeaks of tens of thousands of classified documents detailing the travails of the U.S. military in Afghanistan and Pakistan's secret support for the Taliban from 2004 through 2009 comes amid a growing crisis of confidence here in the nearly nine-year-old war.
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Leaked Reports Make Afghan War Policy More Vulnerable
27 07 2010 The 92,000 reports on the war in Afghanistan made public by the whistleblower organisation WikiLeaks, and reported Monday by the Guardian, The New York Times and Der Spiegel, offer no major revelations that are entirely new, as did the Pentagon Papers to which they are inevitably being compared.
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Khmer Rouge Verdict Hailed as a "First Step"
27 07 2010 Lauding the conviction of a Khmer Rouge leader Monday as a historic moment in the history of Cambodia, some international human rights groups also expressed disappointment with what they view as a lenient sentence, and urged an end to what they described as "political interference" in the judicial process.
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CAMBODIA: 30 Years in Jail Too Short for Khmer Rouge Leader - Victims
26 07 2010 The Khmer Rouge tribunal delivered its first verdict Monday and sentenced a key leader of the genocidal regime, Comrade Duch, to 30 years behind bars, but many victims were left complaining over this sentence outside the emotional courtroom.
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POLITICS: U.S.-China Tensions Loom in South China Sea Disputes
26 07 2010 U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's recent passage through South-east Asia saw Washington close ranks with its former adversary Vietnam, sending a warning to Asian heavyweight China that its assertive foreign policy in the region will be challenged.
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MALAYSIA: Gender Paradox Means Too Few Women Decision-makers
26 07 2010 It is a paradox, all right. Women make up more than half of those who take part in protests and other activities organised by her political party on issues affecting low-income workers, says Rani Rasiah of the Socialist Party of Malaysia.
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SRI LANKA: War Over, But Women Wage Battle For Survival
26 07 2010 It was a typically hot, humid day in this eastern coastal village. The sun burned down from a cloudless sky, roasting the skin as an angry sea breeze swatted the faces of the few foolish enough to venture out onto the deserted main road that runs through town.
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US/INDONESIA: Resumption of Special Forces Training Denounced
23 07 2010 Thursday's announcement in Jakarta that Washington will resume training for the Indonesian military's controversial Special Forces unit (Kopassus) has been denounced by human rights groups and two key lawmakers here.
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THAILAND: Three Years On, Cyber Crime Law Stifling Debate - Critics
23 07 2010 Many netizens worldwide have long realised that the Internet is not completely without fetters, but those in Thailand say a three-year-old law is now practically choking Thai self-expression and right to information in cyberspace.
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JAPAN: Critics Want Law on Foreign Trainees Scrapped, not Revised
23 07 2010 The Japanese government may have revised the country's laws in response to complaints that its system of hiring foreign trainees at lower wages is exploitative, but calls remain for the latter to be scrapped altogether.
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US and South Korea Impose New Sanctions on North
22 07 2010 The United States and South Korea will impose new sanctions on North Korea in an effort to crackdown on the North's participation in arms proliferation and increase pressure on Pyongyang after the sinking of a South Korean warship.
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China's Poor West Gets an Uncertain Push
22 07 2010 China is stepping up its 10-year-long effort to develop its vast western regions, home to energy and mineral resources crucial to its future growth. So far, the campaign's results have been mixed.
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RIGHTS-BAHRAIN: Women Don't Need to Accept Polygamy - Activists
22 07 2010 In her 30s, Muza has been married for years but has managed to remain financially independent. In fact, she was even able to help build the home she has with her husband, using the money she earned as a teacher.
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