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Thai police wrap up human trafficking probe
AFP, Published on 24/06/2015
» BANGKOK - Thailand's crackdown on people smuggling and trafficking networks has successfully dismantled the grim trade, police announced Tuesday while admitting that dozens of suspects have yet to be apprehended.
In China, Myanmar drugs more popular than heroin
Kyodo News, Published on 25/06/2015
» BEIJING - Cheap and easy-to-manufacture synthetic drugs edged past heroin as the country's high of choice for the first time last year, China's drug control agency said Wednesday, a trend that comes as the country is increasingly seen as a worldwide supplier of the substances.
Prosecutors won't indict ex-Toyota exec Hamp for drug import
Kyodo News, Published on 07/07/2015
» TOKYO — Prosecutors will not indict former Toyota Motor Corp executive Julie Hamp who was arrested on suspicion of illegally importing a narcotic painkiller to Japan last month, investigative sources said Tuesday.
5 die, 56 injured in fire at cosmetics plant in Indonesia
Kyodo News, Published on 11/07/2015
» Five people died and 56 were injured in a fire that broke out Friday morning at a factory of a subsidiary of Japanese cosmetics maker Mandom Corp in the outskirts of Jakarta, the Japanese company said.
3 killed as small plane crashes into homes in Tokyo suburbs
Kyodo News, Published on 26/07/2015
» A small private aircraft crashed into homes in Chofu in the suburbs of Tokyo on Sunday morning, killing three people and injuring five others, police said.
Blast rocks US Army warehouse
Kyodo News, Published on 24/08/2015
» TOKYO - An explosion occurred early Monday at a warehouse at a United States military base in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture but there were no reports of injury, local authorities said.
Cambodia restricts mobile phone users
Published on 24/09/2015
» PHNOM PENH — Cambodia on Thursday began implementing restrictions on mobile telephone users by requiring them to present their identities before being allowed to get hold of SIM cards, a senior police official said.
China bomb attacks kill 7
Kyodo News, Published on 01/10/2015
» BEIJING - More than a dozen parcel bombs exploded Wednesday afternoon in southern China's Guangxi region, killing at least seven people and injuring more than 50 others, according to media reports.
People with hearing aids to drive buses, taxis in Japan
Published on 22/10/2015
» TOKYO — The National Police Agency on Thursday released a plan to allow people dependent on hearing aids to obtain licences to drive taxis and buses.
Reports of voting irregularities in Myanmar
Kyodo News, Published on 08/11/2015
» People in Myanmar voted on Sunday in the country's first fully democratic election in decades, amid reports of voting irregularities, intimidation and problems with advance ballots.