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EU warns Thailand still not doing enough to end illegal fishing
Reuters, Published on 17/07/2015
» The European Union has warned Thailand that it is still not doing enough to stamp out illegal fishing practices, Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwan said Friday, reigniting the threat of a ban on seafood exports to the EU.
Over 100 killed in Iraq car bombing
Reuters, Published on 18/07/2015
» More than 100 people were killed in a suicide car bombing in an Iraqi town north of Baghdad on Friday and Islamic State militants claimed responsibility for the attack, Reuters news agency reported.
Rights group slams China TV report on repatriated Uighurs
Reuters, Published on 20/07/2015
» BEIJING — An exiled minority-rights group slammed a Chinese state television report on Saturday that suggested ethnic Uighurs who had been forcibly repatriated after fleeing the country had returned to a "heaven on earth".
New Zealand drone makers target Hollywood
Business, Reuters, Published on 21/07/2015
» RAGLAN, New Zealand: Deep in New Zealand's dairying heartland, drone maker Aeronavics tests aircraft designed to corner the fast-growing emerging market for unmanned aerial vehicles in the film and television business.
17 CCTV cameras tracked Koh Tao backpackers' final hours
Reuters, Published on 22/07/2015
» KOH SAMUI — The final hours of two British backpackers killed on Koh Tao last year were tracked by more than a dozen security cameras, a court was told during the resumption of the trial of two Myanmar men accused of their murder.
Dying business
Business, Reuters, Published on 27/07/2015
» In the world's biggest ship recycling centre of Alang on India's Arabian Sea coast, workers with blow torches cut segments of steel stripped from the rusting hull of a towering cargo ship, sold for scrap by its Japanese owner.
Malaysia anti-graft unit says funds in PM's bank a 'donation'
Reuters, Published on 03/08/2015
» KUALA LUMPUR – Funds deposited into Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak's bank accounts were from a donation, not from debt-laden state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), the anti-corruption commission said on Monday.
China: Deported Uighurs attacked Thai police
Reuters, Published on 04/08/2015
» BEIJING — Some of the 109 Uighurs returned to China from Thailand last month attacked Thai and Chinese police while being taken aboard a flight back to Xinjiang, as they believed they would be executed on their return, Xinjiang's government said on Tuesday.
Bucking the global trend, S. Koreans pile into gold
Business, Reuters, Published on 05/08/2015
» SEOUL: South Koreans are on course to buy a record amount of gold in 2015, worried that a meltdown in China's stock markets will destabilise South Korean equities and keen to replenish a traditional store of value in an era of low interest rates.
US lawmakers demand accounting on human trafficking manipulation
Reuters, Published on 05/08/2015
» WASHINGTON - Senior US lawmakers expressed concern on Tuesday about whether the State Department's annual global report on human trafficking may have been watered down due to political considerations and vowed to demand a full accounting at a Senate hearing this week.