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Scandal-hit Dhammakaya temple helps stage Myanmar event
Reuters, Published on 21/01/2018
» MANDALAY: Thousands of Buddhist monks gathered in Myanmar's second largest city on Sunday for an event partly organised by the scandal-hit Dhammakaya temple whose abbot is wanted for questioning on money-laundering allegations.
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Vedanta taps into oil market upturn
Asia focus, Umesh Pandey, Published on 15/01/2018
» Vedanta Resources, the largest oil and gas exploration company in India, plans US$8 billion in capital expenditure over the next three years to substantially lift its production capacity, especially in the oil and gas sector.
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KL: Asean committed to single market
Published on 22/08/2015
» KUALA LUMPUR — The current global headwinds will not deter Southeast Asian economic ministers, who began their annual meeting here on Saturday, from pressing ahead with their ambitious plan for an Asean single market.
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Cambodia, Vietnam rap Lee's remarks on 1979 invasion
Kyodo News, Published on 07/06/2019
» PHNOM PENH: Cambodia has joined Vietnam in rapping Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's recent remarks on the 1979 Vietnamese invasion that ousted the genocidal Khmer Rouge, alleging that Singapore bears some responsibility for the massacre of Cambodians in the late 1970s.
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Singapore parliament passes online fake news law
Published on 09/05/2019
» SINGAPORE: Singapore's parliament passed a controversial bill late Wednesday aimed at combating fake news online, amid strong concerns from rights groups and journalists that it will further curtail freedom of expression and speech in the city-state.
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Myanmar rebels hit Rakhine police base, kill 3
Kyodo News, Published on 11/04/2019
» YANGON: Rebels attacked a police outpost in Myanmar's restive western state of Rakhine between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, killing three people and abducting seven others, state media reported Thursday.
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Death toll hits 89 in Indonesia's flash floods, 74 missing
Kyodo News, Published on 19/03/2019
» JAKARTA: The death toll from flash floods that hit a district in the easternmost Indonesian province of Papua over the weekend has climbed to 89, while 74 others are still missing, authorities said Tuesday.
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Earthquake kills 2 on Indonesia's Lombok Island
Kyodo News, Published on 17/03/2019
» JAKARTA: At least two people were killed and another hospitalised after a magnitude 5.5 earthquake hit Indonesia's resort island of Lombok on Sunday afternoon, authorities said.
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Sultan of Pahang named Malaysia's new king
Published on 25/01/2019
» KUALA LUMPUR: Sultan Abdullah from the central Malaysian state of Pahang has been named the country's new king, replacing Sultan Muhammad V from Kelantan state who stunned the nation earlier this month by abdicating after only two years on the throne.
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150 million Indonesians live in quake/tsunami-prone areas: official
Kyodo News, Published on 26/12/2018
» JAKARTA: Better, more sophisticated disaster mitigation is urgently needed in Indonesia as around 150 million of its 245 million people live in areas prone to earthquakes and tsunamis, while its early warning system does not work well sometimes because equipment gets stolen, vandalized or broken due to poor maintenance, a government official said Wednesday.
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