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ASIA PACIFIC

Oct 23, 2017

Australia to spend up to $195 million housing refugees after PNG detention center closes

Australia will spend up to 250 million Australia dollars ($195 million) housing nearly 800 refugees and asylum seekers in Papua New Guinea for the next 12 months after its controversial detention center closes this month.

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ASIA PACIFIC

Oct 21, 2017

China's Communist Party says it is still talking to North Korean side

China's ruling Communist Party continues to hold talks and maintain contacts with its North Korean counterpart, a senior official said Saturday, describing the two countries friendship as important for regional stability.

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ASIA PACIFIC

Oct 21, 2017

Thailand rehearses lavish $90 million funeral for late King Bhumibol Adulyadej

Drums and a band played Saturday as officials in black tops and ancient costumes rehearsed for the funeral procession of late Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej, whose cremation next week is expected to be attended by a quarter of a million mourners.

ASIA PACIFIC

Oct 21, 2017

Trump expected to pressure China's Xi to rein in North Korea, officials say

U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to pressure China's president when they meet next month in Beijing to do more to rein in North Korea out of a belief that Xi Jinping's consolidation of power should give him more authority to do so.

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ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health

Oct 20, 2017

New H7N9 bird flu strain in China has pandemic potential, U.S.-Japanese lab studies find

Lab experiments on a new strain of the H7N9 bird flu suggest the virus can pass easily among animals and can cause lethal disease, raising alarms that it has the potential to create a global human pandemic.

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ASIA PACIFIC / Society

Oct 20, 2017

Myanmar forces believed using rape as weapon of war against Muslim Rohingya women, girls

Rape is being used as a weapon of war in the Rohingya crisis, with no woman safe from the risk of sexual attack as Myanmar's Muslim minority is driven out of its homeland, according to experts in the field and those caught up in the crisis.

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ASIA PACIFIC

Oct 18, 2017

U.S. Pacific Command chief Harris says Kim's nuclear ambitions are a 'recipe for disaster'

The top U.S. military commander in the Pacific warned the situation in North Korea is a "recipe for disaster," as the region prepares for U.S. President Donald Trump's first visit to the region.

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ASIA PACIFIC

Oct 18, 2017

How a homemade tool helped North Korea's missile program

By Hyonhee Shin and James Pearson

In 2009, a pop video from North Korea celebrated a new national hero — one that outside experts would later realize was at the heart of the secretive state's banned nuclear and missile programs.

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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics

Oct 18, 2017

North Korea, feared to hold nuclear test at start of Chinese congress, sends congratulations

North Korea sent a congratulatory message to China's Communist Party congress on Wednesday amid increasingly frayed relationships between the traditional allies as China tightens sanctions over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program.

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ASIA PACIFIC

Oct 18, 2017

Hillary Clinton says U.S. threats of war with North Korea 'dangerous, short-sighted'

Former U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that "cavalier" threats to start war on the Korean Peninsula are "dangerous and short-sighted," urging the United States to get all parties to the negotiating table.

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ASIA PACIFIC

Oct 17, 2017

Philippine president declares Marawi liberated as battle goes on

By Neil Jerome Morales and Manolo Serapio Jr.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declared the southern city of Marawi liberated from pro-Islamic State militants on Tuesday, although the military said 20-30 rebels were holding about 20 hostages and still fighting it out.

ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal

Oct 17, 2017

Child sex abuse rising with internet use in Southeast Asia

Rising internet use in Southeast Asia is fueling the spread of material that is abusive and sexually exploitative of children, particularly as growing numbers of young people put footage of themselves online, an Australian police expert said on Tuesday.

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