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Myanmar junta strike kills 40 at festival protest: residents
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Death toll from Indonesia school collapse rises to 37
5 October 2025, 03:39 AM
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Indonesia school collapse death toll rises to 17, dozens still missing
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Indonesia school collapse death toll rises to 14
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Indonesia school collapse death toll rises to 13
3 October 2025, 18:37 PM
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Myanmar's reclusive general turns jet-setter in quest for election backing
3 October 2025, 16:00 PM
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91 people possibly still under collapsed Indonesian school: official
1 October 2025, 04:47 AM
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UN warns Myanmar conflict blocking Rohingya return
30 September 2025, 15:15 PM
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Argentina court urged to include Arakan Army atrocities in Rohingya genocide case
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The ‘sea-nomad’ children who see like dolphins
“When the tide came in, these kids started swimming. But not like I had seen before. They were more underwater than above water, they had their eyes wide open – they were like little dolphins.”
21 May 2016, 06:09 AM
Taiwan's first female leader sworn in
Beijing warned Taiwan's new president Tsai Ing-wen against seeking independence yesterday, cautioning that peace
20 May 2016, 18:00 PM
India in post-Congress era?
Will Congress wither away in India? Two years ago, this question seemed quite improbable. It was really audacious on the part of the BJP to raise a slogan like 'Congress-free India' during the Lok Sabha elections in 2014.
19 May 2016, 18:00 PM
New Horizons delivers first images of icy world since Pluto flyby
The New Horizons space probe is bringing new images of a remnant of the early solar system, after its historic brush with Pluto last summer, reports ABC News.
19 May 2016, 09:20 AM
Lanka reconciliation stalled
Sri Lanka for the first time yesterday included minority Tamils in ceremonies marking the anniversary of the end of its civil war, but a leading think-tank said moves towards reconciliation and accountability had stalled.
18 May 2016, 18:00 PM
I'll bring back death penalty
Philippine president-elect Rodrigo Duterte yesterday vowed to introduce executions by hanging as part of a ruthless law-and-
16 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Discoverer of Neptune's rings dies
Andre Brahic, one of the people who discovered the rings of Neptune, has died aged 73, his publisher says.
16 May 2016, 05:09 AM
NASA just detected oxygen in the Martian atmosphere
NASA researchers have detected atomic oxygen in Mars' atmosphere for the first time in 40 years, thanks to the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) which soars on a plane 13.7 kilometres (45,000 feet) above Earth, reports Science Alert.
10 May 2016, 05:14 AM
Maverick wins Philippine presidency
Maverick anti-crime candidate Rodrigo ‘Digong’ Duterte wins the Philippine presidential elections, following the withdrawal of his opponents.
10 May 2016, 02:49 AM
Rodrigo takes big lead
Anti-establishment firebrand Rodrigo Duterte was yesterday heading for a huge win in the Philippine presidential elections, according to a poll monitor, after an incendiary campaign dominated by his profanity-laced threats to kill criminals.
9 May 2016, 18:00 PM
How Islamic State in Bangladesh began
Radicalised worker Rahman Mizanur recruited countrymen in Singapore with help of material linked to terror groups.
5 May 2016, 05:07 AM
Hundreds protest over sacking of HK editor
Hundreds of protesters gathered yesterday outside the headquarters of a Hong Kong newspaper where a respected editor was
2 May 2016, 18:00 PM
US man jailed for spying in N Korea
North Korea has sentenced a US man to 10 years of hard labour for spying.
29 April 2016, 05:26 AM
N Korea to open party congress on May 6
North Korea yesterday said its ruling Workers' Party would hold a congress from May 6, ending its silence on the date of the first
27 April 2016, 18:00 PM
'Greedy wives to blame for graft'
An Indonesian minister has suggested an unusual reason for the scourge of corruption in the graft-ridden country -- men are just trying
25 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Astronaut Tim Peake 'runs' London Marathon from space
UK astronaut Tim Peake runs the distance of the London Marathon on a treadmill in the International Space Station (ISS).
24 April 2016, 14:28 PM
Storm over Philippines president candidate's rape comment
A video of leading Philippines presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte joking about a murdered Australian rape victim provokes a storm of protest.
17 April 2016, 15:45 PM
Japan earthquake: Thousands spend night in cold and wet
Tens of thousands of people have spent a cold and wet night in temporary shelters following two powerful earthquakes that struck the south-west Japanese island of Kyushu.
17 April 2016, 03:50 AM
Taiwanese 'forced on to plane to China' by police in Kenya
The authorities in Taiwan have accused Kenya of using guns and tear gas to force 37 Taiwanese on to a plane bound for mainland China.
12 April 2016, 14:33 PM
13 North Koreans working abroad defect to South
Thirteen North Koreans working at a restaurant based outside the country have defected to South Korea, the Unification Ministry says, marking the first mass defection since the United Nations passed powerful economic sanctions against the communist country last month.
8 April 2016, 16:13 PM