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Japanese humanoid robots start work
Published on 19/07/2015
» TOKYO — Humanoid robots have started work in a bank in Tokyo and a hotel in the southwestern island of Kyushu on the back of a growing demand for them amid concerns over a labour shortage in Japan's aging society.
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Nepal to reopen damaged heritage sites
Published on 28/05/2015
» KATHMANDU — Nepal has decided to reopen next month three world heritage sites that have been off-limits to tourists since last month's devastating earthquake, officials said.
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Myanmar population at 51.5m in 2014
Published on 30/05/2015
» YANGON — The population of Myanmar totalled 51.5 million in the nationwide census conducted jointly by the Myanmar government and the United Nations last year, according to the final results released Friday.
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'Long live the king!' - Thais mourn Bhumibol Adulyadej
AFP, Published on 13/10/2016
» BANGKOK - Praying, wailing and collapsing to their knees, devastated Thais poured out their grief on Thursday as they struggled to process the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the only monarch most had ever known.
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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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Asean ministers skirt around South China Sea ruling
Kyodo News, Published on 26/07/2016
» VIENTIANE - Southeast Asian foreign ministers failed Monday to make a united assessment on an international tribunal's ruling that rejected China's claims to almost the entire South China Sea.
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Japan to have record 1m foreign workers this year
Published on 02/04/2016
» TOKYO — The number of foreigners working in Japan is expected to top 1 million for the first time this year as the nation moves towards utilising their labour power more, especially in nursing care and housekeeping fields, government sources said Saturday.
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Popular Japanese mascot back to work in quake-hit Kumamoto
Published on 06/05/2016
» KUMAMOTO, JAPAN - The popular black bear character Kumamon has resumed activities as the official mascot of Kumamoto, three weeks after the southwestern Japanese prefecture was devastated by the first of two major earthquakes.
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Kumamon product sales top 100bn yen for first time
Published on 03/03/2016
» KUMAMOTO, JAPAN — Sales of products featuring Kumamoto prefecture's popular Kumamon black bear mascot surpassed 100 billion yen (31 billion baht) in 2015 for the first time, the prefectural government said.
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Japan's Kinki University ditches saucy name
Published on 01/04/2016
» OSAKA — In a move aimed at sparing its students and faculty embarrassment, a Japanese private university on Friday ditched its distracting former English name for a more benign moniker.
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