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dpa, Published on 13/12/2015
» RIYADH - Three Saudi women have won in the conservative kingdom's municipal elections in which women were allowed to vote and stand as candidates for the first time, unofficial results from the election commission showed on Sunday.
dpa, Published on 13/12/2015
» SYDNEY - Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has ended the controversial ban on government investment in wind energy, the Sun-Herald newspaper reported Sunday.
dpa, Published on 08/11/2015
» SYDNEY - Delays are expected at Australian airports Monday as some 5,000 Immigration and Border Force workers take part in a 24-hour strike over pay and conditions, a news report said.
dpa, Published on 16/10/2015
» Crocodile farms will need walls at least 1.5 metres high around their pits under planned government guidelines, an official said Friday, after 28 crocodiles escaped in early October.
dpa, Published on 21/09/2015
» WASHINGTON - Vietnam dissident blogger Ta Phong Tan was released from Vietnamese prison and arrived Sunday in the United States, the US State Departmente confirmed.
dpa, Published on 28/08/2015
» HANOI — Customs officers in central Vietnam seized a tonne of ivory and four tonnes of the scaly hide of the pangolin, authorities said Friday.
dpa, Published on 02/06/2015
» SINGAPORE - A 16-year-old teen blogger in Singapore, who was convicted of distributing an obscene image and offending religious sentiment, was remanded in custody for three weeks on Tuesday.
dpa, Published on 20/04/2015
» ROME – More migrant deaths in the Mediterranean Sea were reported Monday, while foreign and interior ministers from the European Union were meeting in Luxembourg to work out a common response to the spiralling crisis.
dpa, Published on 20/04/2015
» MANILA - The Philippines and the United States on Monday began one of their largest joint military training exercises in years amid increasing tensions with China over its reclamation activities in the disputed South China Sea.
dpa, Published on 11/03/2015
» PHNOM PENH — A Cambodian woman denied charges of running an organ-trafficking ring to wealthy patients in Thai hospitals, a news report said.