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Malaysia scraps mandatory death sentence for drugs
Kyodo News, Published on 01/12/2017
» KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's lower house of Parliament on Thursday passed an amendment to end the country's mandatory death sentencing of drug traffickers.
Asean crisis; Malaysia rejects Rohingya stance
Kyodo News, Published on 26/09/2017
» KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia has rejected an Asean statement on the crisis in Myanmar's Rakhine State as a "misrepresentation of the reality" and faulted it for not mentioning atrocities being perpetrated by that country's security forces against the Rohingya Muslims including 400,000 fleeing refugees.
Activists seek pet registration law to reduce strays
Kyodo News, Published on 02/09/2017
» An animal welfare groups are brainstorming ideas to press for new legislation to require registration of pets, in hopes of reducing the high number of stray dogs and cats around the country in the long term.
S.Korea plans 'comfort women' museum
Kyodo News, Published on 11/07/2017
» SEOUL - South Korea's new gender equality and family minister said Monday a plan has been formed to establish a museum in Seoul to commemorate former Korean women forced into Japanese wartime brothels.
'Fair trade' in coconut oil changes life on small Indonesian island
Kyodo News, Published on 27/04/2017
» KOBE -- A "fair trade" offer by a Japanese woman to buy pure coconut oil from a small Indonesian island has changed the lives of the people there, who previously earned a living blast fishing reefs.
Japanese tourists flock to long-disputed Cambodian border temple
Kyodo News, Published on 06/04/2017
» PREAH VIHEAR - The ancient cliff-top temple that Cambodia and Thailand have fought over for more than a century has proved to be an unlikely hit with Japanese tourists.
Japan's emperor meets families of WWII occupiers in Vietnam
Kyodo News, Published on 03/03/2017
» HANOI - Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko met Thursday in Hanoi with Vietnamese family members of Japanese soldiers deployed in Southeast Asia during World War II.
Learning the Singapore way
Kyodo News, Published on 19/01/2017
» SINGAPORE - Singapore's climb to the top of global education rankings has put the spotlight on how an education system that had been seen as somewhat too competitive, stressful and exam-oriented has evolved into one of the best in the world.