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Our editors will be looking ahead today to these developing stories ...

Lady Gaga's ball gets her world tour rolling

Lady Gaga (left, arriving in Seoul yesterday) starts her year-long 'Born This Way Ball' world tour tonight in the city's 70,000-seat Olympic Stadium. The Korea Media Rating Board has banned under-18s from attending following objections from religious groups offended by the singer's support for homosexuals and her explicitly sexual performances. The American pop diva appears at Hong Kong's AsiaWorld-Arena at the weekend - May 2, 3, 5 and 7 - before heading to Tokyo, Singapore, New Zealand, Australia and then the wider world.

Beijing to brief media on US-China dialogue

Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Cui Tiankai and Vice-Minister of Finance Zhu Guangyao will brief the media tomorrow on the fourth round of the China-US Strategic and Economic Dialogues, to be held in Beijing next week. The US is expected to be represented by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.

Tianjin, Chongqing join individual travel club

From tomorrow, residents of the Tianjin and Chongqing municipalities will be able to apply for visas to travel to Taiwan on their own, without having to join tour groups, in an extension of the policy that until now has applied only to residents of Beijing, Shanghai and Xiamen .

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