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      <description>Hong Kong pro-democracy demonstrators and Beijing supporters clashed in Melbourne as a series of heated protests took place across Australian cities on Friday.
Rallies were held in Adelaide, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne from around midday through to 9pm local time, part of a global wave of protests under the banner #StandWithHK.
In Melbourne, a pro-democracy group of more than 2,000 packed the steps of the state library while about 150 pro-China protesters sang the national anthem and waved...</description>
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      <title>Pro-Hong Kong group clashes with rival protesters in Melbourne as rallies take place across Australia</title>
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      <description>A company owned by New Zealand property tycoon Ron Hoy Fong, who allegedly encouraged buyers to use fake names and work together to fix prices in Auckland’s residential property market, is facing prosecution from the country’s consumer watchdog in the High Court.
New Zealand’s Commerce Commission, in its legal action against Fong’s Ronovation Limited (Ronovationz), accused the company of encouraging real estate price fixing through “bid rigging” and “cartel conduct”.
Fong is a third-generation...</description>
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      <description>A paedophile based in Singapore accused of sexually abusing over 40 young boys across Southeast Asia over two decades was caught after police found thousands of digital images and videos, most stored in a folder called “Jailbait”.
Boris Kunsevitsky, 52, preyed on children in the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore and Australia from the early 2000s to his eventual arrest in 2017, records from the Supreme Court of Victoria show.
The heavily redacted documents provided to the South China Morning...</description>
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      <description>‘I came here to find love, but it’s not with you, Bachelor … sorry’
Television franchise The Bachelor has had its fair share of dramatic moments the world over but Vietnam’s version this week may have taken the rose for best twist. During a rose ceremony, in which the eligible bachelor keeps or eliminates the female contestants vying for his affections, one of the women, Minh Thu, said she had fallen in love with a fellow competitor Truc Nhu instead. Subtitled video of the ceremony, which...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2018 08:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Anger at move to end Muslim practice of triple talaq divorces in India
India moved to end a Muslim practice in which men can divorce their wives by saying so three times. The government on Wednesday approved an ordinance to implement a Supreme Court ruling that found “triple talaq” violated the rights of Muslim women. Most of the 170 million Muslims in India are Sunnis governed by the Muslim Personal Law for family matters and disputes, which includes allowing men to divorce by simply uttering...</description>
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A Singapore DJ has filed a court challenge against a colonial-era law that bans gay sex in the conservative city state following India’s scrapping of similar legislation. Johnson Ong Ming, 43, also known as DJ Big Kid, filed his challenge with the High Court on Monday, his lawyers said, just four days after India’s landmark ruling. Under Section 377A of Singapore’s Penal Code, a man found to have committed an act of “gross...</description>
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      <description>India soars above global average in hiring female airline pilots
India has flown past the rest of the world in recruiting female pilots. According to the International Society of Women Airline Pilots, India has the highest proportion of female commercial pilots in the world, at 12 per cent, despite the country’s patriarchal society, which typically frowns on women in such jobs. The figure is twice as high as in most Western countries, including the United States and Australia. Globally, less...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2018 12:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Nationwide coffee ban to take the edge off at South Korean schools
South Korea is set to ban the sale of coffee in schools to promote healthier choices. All vending machines and kiosks in primary and secondary schools will stop selling coffee products by September 14, the food and drug ministry said. “The revision aims to create healthy eating habits among children and teenagers,” a ministry official said, according to a report in the Korea Times. South Koreans drink about 181 cups of coffee a...</description>
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      <description>Nowhere else in Southeast Asia is China and the West’s battle for political and economic influence more evident than in Cambodia, where strongman leader Hun Sen is poised to clinch an almost uncontested election victory.
During what is the 60th year of bilateral ties between the two countries, China has ramped-up aid to Cambodia, pledging millions in military funding, infrastructure projects and election support. And according to some, the recent display of closeness combined with Hun Sen’s...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2018 00:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>Cambodian rice farmer Peng Nean’s eyesight cannot get much worse. After years of working in the fields the 68-year-old can now see only one metre ahead in the light of day. After sunset, it’s hard for her to see anything at all.
She used to make upwards of US$25 per day from farming, but with her deteriorating condition, Peng is now lucky to scrape together US$10 from selling vegetables at market. That’s with the help of her daughter, who is divorced with two children and had to quit her...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2018 07:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Cambodian patients welcome Chinese doctors as part of health care diplomacy push</title>
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      <description>South Korea loses taste for dog meat as court paves way for ban
A South Korean court this week ruled the killing of dogs for meat is illegal in a decision that rights activists hope will pave the way for legislation. Animal rights group Care last year filed complaints against a dog farm operator in Bucheon, accusing him of “killing animals without proper reasons”, and prosecutors later charged him. In convicting the farm operator, the court ruled meat consumption was not a legal reason to kill...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Asia in 3 minutes: Farewell to (legal) dog meat in Korea and Australia’s incredible breeding orangutan. Hello rich rats in India</title>
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Musicians, actors and television personalities this week urged Indonesian President Joko Widodo to ban the “brutal” trade in dog and cat meat for human consumption. A letter from campaign group Dog Meat-Free Indonesia said Indonesia would improve its reputation and be “celebrated” if it joined other nations in banning the trade. “These animals, many of them stolen pets, are subjected to crude and brutal methods of capture,...</description>
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In a fiery press conference in the capital Phnom Penh on Friday, Malaysian businessman Siva Kumar Ganapathy blasted former Phnom Penh Post journalists as “careless, malicious and defamatory” in their reporting of his purchase of the Post...</description>
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      <description>Japan’s airports have a problem with bags and they’re blaming Chinese
Japan airports are struggling to keep up with the number of suitcases discarded by travellers. An estimated 15.5 million foreign travellers transited through Narita International Airport, east of Tokyo, last year, with authorities collecting 250 suitcases. Osaka’s Kansai International Airport officials found 258 abandoned suitcases while another 287 were left at Chubu Airport and 100 were dumped at Shin-Chitose Airport. A...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2018 12:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>If China isn’t already Asia’s pre-eminent superpower, it will be by 2030 if US President Donald Trump keeps up his unpopular foreign policy decisions, according to an Australian think tank.
The Lowy Institute unveiled its inaugural Asia Power Index on Tuesday in New York, painting a compelling picture of the current and future power balance in a region that houses three of the world’s four largest economies and an increasing majority of the global population, trade and production.
It found that,...</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2018 04:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>The Trump effect: China to eclipse US power in Asia by 2030, says Lowy Institute</title>
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      <description>One of the world’s most notorious sex ads websites was shut down last week by US authorities, bringing to a head a years-long fight by anti-human trafficking activists to close the online classifieds network. But the seizure of Backpage, which formed far-reaching links across Asia using an illicit call centre business in the Philippines, marks only a minor win in the war against trafficking networks.
Now subject to an FBI seizure notice, the website, which the US Justice Department has accused...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2018 04:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>How chance discovery of a Philippine child-sex ring helped FBI close book on Backpage.com</title>
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      <description>Would you elect someone who looked for a plane with a ‘magic’ carpet?
A shaman who drew ridicule by trying to locate the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 with coconuts and a “magic” carpet announced this week he will run in next month’s elections. Ibrahim Mat Zin – known as “Raja Bomoh”, which translates as “King of Shamans” – will contest a parliamentary seat in the northern state of Perak. After MH370 disappeared in 2014 with 239 people aboard, Ibrahim held rituals at Kuala Lumpur airport...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2018 10:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Asia in 3 minutes: Malaysian shaman to Russian sex guru – the week Asian politics got weird</title>
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      <description>If there is one lesson we have all learned this week, it is not to mess with Southeast Asia’s authentic cuisine, especially if you are a celebrity MasterChef judge thousands of miles away in Britain.
The reality cooking show sparked a social media storm when Malaysian-born contestant Zaleha Kadir Olpin served spicy chicken rendang alongside her nasi lemak, a traditional dish from her home country, in the quarter-final.
Singapore and Hong Kong may be different, but there’s no debate on what the...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2018 04:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Why are so many steaming mad over MasterChef judge’s ‘crispy’ rendang comment?</title>
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      <description>That stings! Soju mixed with wasps is becoming a concern in South Korea
South Korean authorities have warned people who enjoy a rare flavour of soju not to mix wasps into their drinks. Mixing the insects into the nation's favourite alcohol is believed to be good for high blood pressure and diabetes.

Some people add other critters, such as centipedes and earthworms, to concoct their own soju health tonics. An illegal wasp-based soju shop in Hwaseong was found in February, according to South...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2018 13:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Asia in 3 minutes: be careful of the deer in Japan (they bite) and booze in Korea and Indonesia (can kill)</title>
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      <description>The ever-reliable eye-roll: a go-to sign for moments of exasperation, sarcasm or general “fed-upness”. And while millions of them are rolled out every day, a deeper understanding of the facial expression’s colourful lineage across Asia is far from commonplace. The eye-roll, along with its slightly more uninhibited cousin, the eye-pop, makes headlines regularly. Indeed, “eyes rolled” or “eye-popping” are clichés in the realm of political journalism. But in the physical world, a well-rehearsed...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2018 02:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>The real reason a journalist’s eye-roll captivated China</title>
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      <description>Thais arrest 10 Russians for holding sex training classes in Pattaya
Thai police arrested 10 Russians suspected of running sex training courses in the seaside resort city of Pattaya. Authorities said 33 Russian tourists attended the class held at a hotel, but only the “instructors” were arrested on Sunday. “The hotel management said they had no details on the event but they booked it for a seminar and training,” a Pattaya tourist police official said. Police also found white T-shirts with the...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2018 04:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Asia in 3 minutes: Things to avoid – Mario Kart tours in Japan, Russian sex classes in Thailand</title>
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      <description>China has moved up two places in a global corruption index of the world’s nations as President Xi Jinping waged a high profile war on graft that has netted thousands of officials.
Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2017 was released on Wednesday, showing very little change among the largest nations’ standings, and more than two thirds of all 180 participating countries with a score of less than 50 – out of a possible 100.
Leading the rankings, which are now in their 25th...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2018 18:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Transparency International: China climbs two places in global corruption perception ranking as President Xi Jinping wages war on graft</title>
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      <description>Camels disqualified from Saudi beauty pageant for getting ‘Botox’ injections
A dozen camels were disqualified from an annual beauty contest in Saudi Arabia for having cosmetic botulinum injections. Local media reported a vet had been caught giving the animals Botox-like injections before the contest, and then performing cosmetic surgery on them at the event. The King Abdulaziz camel festival carries a tempting US$31.8 million in total prize money. Ali al-Mazrouei, the son of an Emirati camel...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2018 12:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Asia in 3 minutes: Saudi’s beauty show camels banned for botox, Japan turns ugly for panda cub</title>
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      <description>Malaysian sultan channels Fred Flintstone with new car
Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar of Johor, one of Malaysia’s most powerful and wealthiest state rulers, was given a life-size replica of Fred Flintstone’s car from the classic cartoon. The car, which has an engine so he will not have to power it with his regal feet, was a belated birthday gift from a fellow high-ranking royal. The iconic vehicle from The Flintstones, the sultan’s favourite cartoon, is an accurate likeness of the original, with...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2018 14:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Asia in 3 minutes: Yabba, dabba, doo for sultan’s Flintstone car; yabba, dabba, don’t for Japan’s fugu lovers</title>
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      <description>Reuters journalists charged with colonial-era secrets law in Myanmar
Two Reuters journalists were charged in Myanmar this week with violating a colonial-era secrecy law, and now face 14 years’ jail if found guilty. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested on December 12 after police accused them of acquiring “important secret papers” from two officers who had worked in Rakhine state, where Myanmar forces are blamed for rights abuses against Rohingya Muslims – a conflict that triggered a mass exodus...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2018 12:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Asia in 3 minutes: A song for bitcoins in Japan, a cardboard cutout for Thai journalists, and a palace for Indian gays</title>
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      <description>Duterte gets landslide legislative victory to extend martial law
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte won another year of martial law for Mindanao after the country’s congress voted overwhelmingly to approve the control until December 2018. It came after the military warned that terrorist threats continue in the region where pro-Islamic State militants staged a bloody five-month siege, which left the city of Marawi devastated. Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said militants were now trying to...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2017 13:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Asia in 3 minutes: No civilian rule in Mindanao, no condom ads in India and 7,000 noes to a Chinese dog circus in Singapore</title>
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      <description>The mystery surrounding flight MH370 has stirred up endless conspiracy theories from armchair investigators, aviation enthusiasts and industry experts.
PILOT SUICIDE
One of the earliest theories to surface following the plane’s disappearance was that Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shad deliberately steered the aircraft into the ocean. Leaked Malaysian police documents, first reported by New York magazine, alleged the pilot had flown a similar ‘suicide route’ on a home flight simulator. Media pounced on...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2017 03:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Malaysia Airlines flight 370: the conspiracy theories</title>
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      <description>More than half of China’s crude oil production and up to a third of global seaborne trade of the commodity could be thrown into jeopardy if a conflict between the United States and North Korea erupted, analysts predict.
It’s a scenario that would cause chaos in the engine room of North Asia, threatening the shutdown of oilfields, refineries and petrochemical production facilities – all key drivers of China’s economy.
Energy industry intelligence firm Wood Mackenzie published the hypothetical...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 23 Sep 2017 02:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>What happens to Chinese oil if US-North Korea war erupts?</title>
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      <description>The UN will hold the 72nd session of its General Assembly from Monday amid a tense geopolitical landscape riddled by a multitude of crises – from North Korea’s nuclear threat to the plight of the Rohingya in Myanmar, Islamic terrorism and global warming.
With such a jam-packed agenda of issues to wrap your head around, here’s a rundown of the much anticipated meeting, and a look back at some of the most memorable moments from past events.
What: Made up of 193 member states, the General Assembly...</description>
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      <title>From North Korea to the Rohingya crisis to Trump’s debut speech: all you need to know about the UN General Assembly</title>
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      <description>Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has upped the stakes in the country’s pivot to China, accusing the United States of conspiring to overthrow him as he escalates a crackdown on dissent with a view to extending his three decades in power.
Critics say Chinese support for Cambodia has emboldened Hun Sen as he takes unprecedented steps to silence his opponents, safe in the knowledge he no longer needs to keep Western donors happy.
Over the past month, Hun Sen’s ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP)...</description>
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      <description>Hong Kong may hope to ease its shortage of domestic workers by welcoming its first batch of maids from Cambodia later this year, but if history is anything to go by the scheme could end up providing more problems than solutions.
Under a new five-year scheme, the first trial group of 1,000 Cambodian workers will arrive in Hong Kong this autumn, adding to the 330,000 foreign domestic workers – chiefly from Indonesia and the Philippines – who already work in the city.
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      <description>You could be forgiven if the obscure town of Bavet, on the border of Cambodia and Vietnam, does not top your list of places to see. After all, Cambodia’s own tourism body describes it simply as a checkpoint between the neighbouring nations.
But Bavet is home to one of Cambodia’s casino and gambling hubs, and it’s a hit with the Vietnamese.
“They nickname that Cambodia border town ‘casino city’,” said Jonny Ferrari, a gaming industry consultant based in Cambodia. “Every day, it is only Vietnamese...</description>
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