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Singapore's Mardan on pole as Manila Masters reaches climax
AFP, Published on 22/11/2014
» MANILA - Singapore golfer Mardan Mamat put himself on pole position for a fourth Asian Tour win with a four-shot lead Saturday going into the final round of the Philippines' Resorts World Manila Masters tournament.
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Hundreds of thousands still stranded by killer Kashmir floods
AFP, Published on 13/09/2014
» Rescuers struggled to reach more than 200,000 people still stranded on Saturday in Indian Kashmir as deadly floodwaters receded, revealing horrific devastation in the Himalayan region including neighbouring Pakistan, officials said.
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Thailand totters towards waste crisis
AFP, Published on 01/09/2014
» A blaze at a vast rubbish dump home to six million tonnes of putrefying trash and toxic effluent has kindled fears that poor planning and lax law enforcement are tipping Thailand towards a waste crisis.
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Five monks charged over child sex
AFP, Published on 28/05/2014
» Police on Wednesday said they had charged five Buddhist abbots with sexually abusing eight boys at monasteries around the northern city of Chiang Mai.
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Behind bars: Thai women pay high price for drugs
AFP, Published on 24/06/2014
» Lured by easy money, an escape from poverty or family pressure, thousands of women are locked up for drug offences in Thailand, which has one of the world's highest rates of female imprisonment.
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Screening of Orwell's '1984' axed
AFP, Published on 12/06/2014
» A screening of <i>Nineteen Eighty-Four</i>, the film version of George Orwell's anti-authoritarian novel, has been cancelled in Thailand after police warned it breached a ban on political gatherings, an organiser said Wednesday.
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Chiangmai Classic postponed
AFP, Published on 04/06/2014
» The US$750,000 (24.4 million baht) Chiangmai Golf Classic, originally scheduled to take place in July, has been postponed, organisers announced Wednesday.
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Vietnamese woman 'self-immolates in anti-China protest'
AFP, Published on 23/05/2014
» A Vietnamese woman committed suicide by setting herself on fire in an apparent protest against China's placement of an oil rig in contested waters that has aroused deep anger in Vietnam, state media reported Friday.
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Japan public sceptical on death penalty: study
AFP, Published on 20/02/2014
» Japan's public is less enthusiastic about capital punishment than government research shows, a new study has claimed, amid an acceleration in the rate of executions under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
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Thai Red Shirts mobilise to defend besieged PM
AFP, Published on 05/04/2014
» With a flurry of punches and kicks, hundreds of Thai "Red Shirts" undergo self-defence drills as they mobilise to protect the embattled government, stoking fears of a dangerous new phase of civil conflict.
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