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Endangered by climate change, Pacific island nations chide Australia
FUNAFUTI: Small Pacific islands nations at risk from rising sea levels lambasted Australia today after it blocked moves at a regional forum to set down tough policies to combat climate change. Leaders of 18 countries in the Pacific Islands Forum
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Guy calls girlfriend fat for wanting ice cream, gets stabbed to death
Think before you speak, boyfriends. A man in Henan, China, was stabbed to death with a pair of scissors on August 14 by his girlfriend after he ridiculed her for “being fat and still wanting to eat ice cream”, according
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Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing calls for love amid protests
HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s richest man, Li Ka-shing, urged people to “love China, love Hong Kong and love yourself” today in his first public comments on the escalating pro-democracy protests that have disrupted the city for weeks and challenged China.
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Pyongyang fires projectiles, rejects Seoul’s dialogue pledge
SEOUL: North Korea launched at least two projectiles into the sea today, South Korea’s military said, shortly after Pyongyang described South Korea’s president as “impudent” and vowed that inter-Korean talks are over. The North has protested against joint military drills
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Jammu, Kashmir clampdown will be eased
NEW DELHI: India will lift restrictions on people’s movements and communication links in Kashmir in the next few days, the federal government told the Supreme Court on Friday. The court was hearing a petition by a newspaper editor seeking restoration
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The mystery man in Goldman Sachs – 1MDB deal
NEW YORK: Andrea Vella was Goldman Sachs’s top dealmaker in Hong Kong. He had a nose for splashy trades, a fondness for the Bentley Continental, and a vague enough resemblance to George Clooney that there was even a joke among
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Myanmar activists fight to outlaw domestic violence
YANGON: Cradling her one-year-old daughter in a house in southern Myanmar, 22-year-old Nu Nu Aye recalled the reasons her husband gave for beating her. She had not looked after his rooster. She would not have sex with him. In a
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Job snubs to forced surgery: India’s ‘invisible’ intersex people
BANGALORE: Bullied at school, gang raped as a prostitute and asked about his genitals in job interviews, Daniel Mendonca – like many intersex people in India – has been mistreated all his life. Although the country’s top court officially recognised
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Trump wants talks on trade dispute with China
MORRISTOWN: US President Donald Trump said yesterday that US and Chinese negotiators were holding “productive” trade talks and expected them to meet in September despite US tariffs on over US$125 billion worth of Chinese imports taking effect Sept 1. “September,
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Beijing will not sit by and watch Hong Kong unrest
HONG KONG: China warned that it will not “sit by and watch” the unrest unfolding in Hong Kong, as US President Donald Trump expressed concern over the risk of a violent response to pro-democracy protests. Trump urged his Chinese counterpart
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