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Girl, 16: 'I wanted to kill someone'
Kyodo News, Published on 28/07/2014
» A 16-year-old Japanese girl arrested for allegedly murdering classmate Saturday said she "wanted to kill someone" and suggested she also wanted to dismember a body, investigative sources said Monday.
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Green groups hit Cambodia dam plan
Kyodo News, Published on 17/10/2014
» A planned hydropower northeastern Cambodian is drawing the ire of Southeast Asian environmental group who says the Lower Sesan 2 Dam fails to meet standards and will impact 80,000 people.
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Myanmar keeps anti-Suu Kyi law
Kyodo News, Published on 23/10/2014
» Nay Pyi Daw - Myanmar's joint house committee on constitutional amendment recommended in a report presented to parliament that a clause be maintained in the charter effectively barring opposition party leader Aung San Suu Kyi from running for presidency.
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Softbank to invest $250m in GrabTaxi
Kyodo News, Published on 04/12/2014
» TOKYO - Softbank Corp said Thursday it will invest $250 million and become the biggest stakeholder in Singapore's GrabTaxi Holdings Pte Ltd, which provides a mobile taxi-booking application in Southeast Asian markets.
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US set to move troops off Okinawa
Kyodo News, Published on 04/12/2014
» The US Congress decided Tuesday to lift a freeze on funding for transferring some Marines from Okinawa to Guam, a move that could help an effort to reduce the Japanese island's burden of hosting US forces.
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Japan cabinet to see few changes
Kyodo News, Published on 24/12/2014
» Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe resumes office today with a broadly similar cabinet tasked with re-igniting the world's number three economy following his mid-December election triumph.
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Tokyo ward to certify same-sex couples
Kyodo News, Published on 12/02/2015
» Tokyo's Shibuya ward plans to issue certificates recognising same-sex couples as being in "relationships equivalent to marriage," becoming the first local government in Japan to do so.
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Mekong countries, Japan eye new development strategy beyond 2015
Kyodo News, Published on 19/02/2015
» The leaders of Japan and five Southeast Asian countries along the Mekong River plan to craft a new strategy in July for Tokyo to contribute to sustainable development of the Mekong region beyond 2015, a senior Japanese official said Thursday.
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AirAsia, ANA bid to bail out Skymark
Kyodo News, Published on 23/02/2015
» ANA Holdings Inc and Malaysia's AirAsia Bhd have notified bankrupt Skymark Airlines Inc of their plans to take part in the struggling airline's restructuring as the company ended accepting applications for sponsorship on Monday.
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Foreign eco-activist arrested in P'Penh
Kyodo News, Published on 23/02/2015
» A foreign environmental activist critical of the government was arrested Monday for overstaying his visa, a local rights group and police sources said.
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