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Australia latest US ally to join China-backed infrastructure bank
AFP, Published on 24/06/2015
» SYDNEY - Australia said Wednesday it will join the new Beijing-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank as a founding member, contributing Aus$930 million (US$719...
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Australian fishermen lure rare monster shark
AFP, Published on 24/06/2015
» MELBOURNE - Fishermen off Australia who accidentally caught a whopping 6.3 metre basking shark have provided scientists with a rare opportunity to study the second-biggest...
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Australian women football players push for higher pay
AFP, Published on 24/06/2015
» SYDNEY - Australia's women footballers should be offered more "attractive conditions" including higher match fees, their union said Wednesday after...
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Japan to keep stadium design despite cost, criticism
AFP, Published on 24/06/2015
» TOKYO - Japan has decided to push ahead with the construction of a controversial and costly main showpiece venue for the 2020 summer Olympics, reports said Wednesday,...
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Indian police arrest bootlegger over toxic liquor deaths
AFP, Published on 24/06/2015
» NEW DELHI - Indian police have arrested a bootlegger accused of supplying the toxic liquor that killed 100 people from a slum in the financial capital Mumbai,...
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Myanmar trio charged in Singapore chainsaw murder plot
AFP, Published on 24/06/2015
» SINGAPORE - Three Myanmar men were charged on Wednesday with conspiring to murder a fellow national in Singapore with a gruesome collection of instruments including...
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Top UN rights official meets former 'comfort women' in Seoul
AFP, Published on 24/06/2015
» SEOUL - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights met with three ageing "comfort women" on a visit to Seoul Wednesday and promised to continue advocating...
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Storm Kujira moving over northern VN
Online Reporters, Published on 24/06/2015
» At 10am on Wednesday tropical storm Kurija in the Gulf of Tonkin was about 150 kilometres east of Hanoi, Vietnam, with maximum sustained winds of about 65km/hour,...
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'Golden Triangle' blamed for most drugs in China
AFP, Published on 24/06/2015
» BEIJING — Southeast Asia's lawless “Golden Triangle” region remains the overwhelming source of the heroin and methamphetamine sold in China, the country's...
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What's new in business news: June 24, 2015
Jon Fernquest, Published on 24/06/2015
» Decades-old frozen meat seized in China food scandal, gaming in Thailand and SE Asia seeing rapid growth & Thai AirAsia gains new Asian routes.