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Singaporeans call for Changi airport to be renamed
Published on 09/04/2015
» SINGAPORE — Nearly 12,500 people have signed an online petition calling on the Singapore government to rename Changi airport after Singapore's founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew who died last month, the organiser of the petition said this week.
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Japan smartphone app to keep tourists safe
Kyodo News, Published on 12/07/2015
» TOKYO — A new smartphone application produced by a Japanese insurance company will help guide people to safety in three foreign languages during natural disasters in Japan, company officials.
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Scores feared buried alive after new Japan quake
Kyodo News, Published on 16/04/2016
» KUMAMOTO, JAPAN — Scores of people were feared buried alive on Saturday after two powerful earthquakes hit southern Japan a day apart, killing at least 35 people, and as a forecast storm threatened more devastating landslides.
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Korean Air pledges clampdown on unruly passengers
AFP, Published on 28/12/2016
» SEOUL - Korean Air said Wednesday it would let its crew use stun guns more aggressively and put more male staff aboard flights to clamp down on violent passengers, after an incident involving an unruly passenger.
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Tokyo's Haneda airport to undergo large-scale renovation
Published on 27/11/2016
» TOKYO - Tokyo's Haneda airport will undergo a large-scale renovation in response to an expected surge in flight numbers ahead of Tokyo's hosting of the Olympics and Paralympics in the summer of 2020, officials at the Transport Ministry said.
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Few passengers use fast lane service at Tokyo airport
Published on 13/08/2016
» TOKYO - Few passengers are using the fast lane immigration service at Narita international airport four months after Tokyo's main gateway became the first Japanese airport to introduce the service, the Transport Ministry and the airport operator said Saturday.
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Hitachi starts trials humanoid robot at Haneda airport
Published on 04/09/2016
» TOKYO - Hitachi has started trials of its EMIEW3 humanoid robot at Tokyo's Haneda airport to aid foreign visitors to Japan.
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26 dead after fire on Chinese bus in Taiwan
Kyodo News, Published on 19/07/2016
» A fire that engulfed a tour bus in Taoyuan, northern Taiwan, on Tuesday left 26 people dead, including three children aged between 12 and 13, local authorities said.
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N. Korea's new foreign minister heads to Laos
Kyodo News, Published on 23/07/2016
» VIENTIANE/PYONGYANG - North Korea's new foreign minister on Saturday left for Laos to make his overseas debut at a major security forum, at a time of high tensions over Pyongyang's series of weapons tests.
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Indonesia closes airport on Lombok due to volcanic activity
Published on 01/08/2016
» JAKARTA - Indonesian authorities on Monday closed an airport on Lombok due to volcanic activity at the island's Mount Rinjani, while some airlines canceled or diverted flights to and from the neighbouring resort island of Bali due to volcanic ash.
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