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2 key figures in Indonesia fishermen trafficking arrested
Published on 01/07/2015
» Police have arrested two men they say are key figures in a human-trafficking ring that lures people to work on fishing boats in Indonesia’s Ambon island and sells them to boat owners.
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Pilot of crashed TransAsia plane shut off working engine
Reuters, Published on 01/07/2015
» TAIPEI — The crew of a TransAsia Airways ATR plane that crashed in Taiwan in February, killing 43 people, had shut off the working engine after the other lost power, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said on Wednesday.
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US, Cuba reach deal to reopen embassies
AFP, Published on 01/07/2015
» WASHINGTON - The United States and Cuba have reached a deal to reopen embassies in Washington and Havana, in a major step toward ending decades of Cold War enmity.
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Landslides kill at least 21 in India's Darjeeling
AFP, Published on 01/07/2015
» KOLKATA - Landslides triggered by heavy rain killed at least 21 people across India's famed tea-growing region of Darjeeling, with more feared trapped under mounds of mud and debris, police said Wednesday.
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China climate pledges easily achievable, experts say
AFP, Published on 01/07/2015
» BEIJING - China's pledges ahead of a major climate change conference in Paris lack ambition and are easily achievable, experts said Wednesday, adding Beijing could offer more.
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Ghost schools a window into China's one-child policy future
AFP, Published on 01/07/2015
» RUDONG (CHINA) - Rusty padlocks seal empty classrooms and blank graduation certificates litter a dusty, silent school corridor in Rudong, a haunting glimpse of China's ageing future in a town which pioneered the one-child policy.
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Vietnam slams Cambodian activists' border protest
AFP, Published on 01/07/2015
» Vietnam on Wednesday condemned what it called an attack by Cambodian activists on Vietnamese police and citizens living near the two countries' border, which left more than a dozen people injured.
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Wat Saket abbot cleared of misappropriation
Online Reporters, Published on 01/07/2015
» Phra Phromsuthi, the abbot of prestigious Wat Saket and a member of the Supreme Sangha Council, has been cleared of alleged misappropriation of the 67.5-million-baht state budget for the royal cremation of Somdet Phra Buddhachan, a former abbot of Wat Sa Ket and acting supreme patriarch, according to Matichon Online.
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Sex shops, street bars survive government's graft crackdown
Bloomberg News, Published on 01/07/2015
» Fern’s cocktail bar appears each night on a sidewalk between a group of scantily-clad women from the next-door go-go bar and a noodle stall near one of Bangkok’s infamous red-light districts. By morning it has vanished.
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Pongpat gets 2 more years
Online Reporters, Published on 01/07/2015
» The Criminal Court on Wednesday gave disgraced former Central Investigation Bureau chief Pongpat Chayapan yet another two years in jail, this time for buying stolen items.
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