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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.
N. Korea claims just-tested ICBM can hit entire US
Kyodo News, Published on 29/11/2017
» North Korea claimed Wednesday it has successfully test-fired a new intercontinental ballistic missile that is capable of hitting anywhere in the United States with a nuclear warhead.
TPP leaders 'to seek accord without US'
Kyodo News, Published on 10/11/2017
» DANANG: The leaders of the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal will try to clinch a clear agreement Friday to implement it without the US, Japanese officials said.
4 Japanese killed in highway crash
Kyodo News, Published on 09/11/2017
» Four Japanese tourists were killed Wednesday in a car accident in Ayutthaya, provincial police said.
Vanuatu volcanic activity forces thousands to evacuate
Kyodo News, Published on 26/09/2017
» Heightened volcanic activity has forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes on an island in the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu, regional media reported Tuesday.
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.
6.1 earthquake off southern New Zealand
Kyodo News, Published on 20/09/2017
» An undersea earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 struck almost 600 kilometers southwest of New Zealand's South Island on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said.
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.
Outcry follows N.Korea's missile launch over Japan
Kyodo News, Published on 29/08/2017
» TOKYO -- North Korea fired a ballistic missile early Tuesday that flew over Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido before falling into the Pacific Ocean in defiance of international sanctions and criticism of Pyongyang's continued nuclear and missile development.
13 dead, about 100 hurt in IS-claimed terror attacks in Spain
Kyodo News, Published on 18/08/2017
» A van ploughed through a crowd of pedestrians Thursday in the centre of Barcelona, leaving at least 13 people dead and around 100 injured in an attack claimed by the Islamic State militant group, local authorities said.