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File Photo: The 25th Ministerial Conference of Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) at Luang Prabang in Laos on December, 2022
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07 December 2023
Myanmar junta to host 26th Ministerial Conference of the Greater Mekong Subregion
(File) A Rohingya refugee people walks on a road along the makeshift camp in Ukhia, Cox's Bazar district, Bangladesh, 30 July 2020. Photo: EPA
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12 August 2022
Ethnic minorities missing from census, say...
Ethnic minorities have been undercounted in Bangladesh's latest census, Indigenous...
Bangladeshis queue at a gas station in Dhaka after government has increased fuel oil price in Bangladesh on August 5, 2022. Photo: Munir uz zaman/AFP
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07 August 2022
Record Bangladesh fuel hike triggers huge queues
Thousands of Bangladeshis besieged fuel stations across the country after the government...
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03 August 2022
Bomb blast and shootings rock Muse on Myanmar-...
A bomb blast and a spate of shootings in a Myanmar-China border town have killed two...
A handout photo made available by the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) shows rescuers and policemen retrieving a resident from a collapsed building following an earthquake in La Trinidad, Benguet province, Philippines, 27 July 2022. Photo: EPA
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28 July 2022
Powerful earthquake hits northern Philippines
A 7.0-magnitude earthquake killed at least five people in the northern Philippines...
This picture taken on May 30, 2022 shows Loh Siew Hong (R) hugging her son next to her other children by a river in Gombak, Malaysia's Selangor state. Malaysian woman Loh Siew Hong says her husband brutally abused her, battering her over the head and breaking her ankle, before running off with their children and converting them to Islam. Photo: Mohd RASFAN/AFP
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26 July 2022
Abuse survivor's ordeal sheds light on...
Malaysian woman Loh Siew Hong says her husband brutally abused her, battering her over...
Parliament in Bangkok, Thailand. Photo: EPA
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23 July 2022
Thai MP takes Thai PM to task over Thai-Myanmar...
A Thai MP spent a lengthy period in parliament this week lambasting Thai PM Prayuth Chan-...
(File) The main terminal building of Sri Lanka’s second and first newly constructed Mattala Mahinda Rajapaksa International Airport at Mattala in Hambantota 238kms south of Colombo, Sri Lanka 18 March 2013. Photo: EPA
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22 July 2022
CIA chief says chaos-hit Sri Lanka made '...
CIA chief Bill Burns on Wednesday blamed "dumb bets" on high-debt Chinese investment as a...
Sri Lankan newly elected President Ranil Wickremesinghe (C) arrives to the Buddhist temple in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 20 July 2022. Photo: EPA
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21 July 2022
Six-time PM Wickremesinghe elected Sri Lanka...
Six-time prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was elected as crisis-wracked Sri Lanka's...
(File) The Chinese national flag is hoisted during the closing ceremony of the 2018 Asian Games at the Gelora Bung Karno main stadium in Jakarta on September 2, 2018. Photo: AFP
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20 July 2022
China to host Asian Games in 2023 after Covid...
China will host the 2022 Asian Games in autumn 2023, organisers said on Tuesday, after...
Indonesian police and military officers transfer victim's bodies from a helicopter to an ambulance in Timika on July 16, 2022. Photo: AFP
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19 July 2022
Rebels in Indonesia's Papua claim...
Separatists in Indonesia's restive eastern province of Papua claimed responsibility on...
Malaysia’s customs officers display some of the 6,000 kilograms of seized elephant tusks during a press conference at the Customs Complex in Port Klang in Selangor, west of Kuala Lumpur, on July 18, 2022, following an operation that recovered the ivory and other animal body parts from a ship on July 10. Photo: Arif Kartono / AFP
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19 July 2022
Malaysia seizes animal parts worth $18 million
Malaysian customs officials said Monday they seized a stash of rare animal parts worth $...
Protesters celebrate after they stormed the Prime Minister's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 13 July 2022. Thousands of protesters broke through police barricades and stormed into the Prime Minister's office on 13 July. Photo: EPA
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16 July 2022
Sri Lankan speaker says president's...
The resignation of Sri Lanka's president has been accepted, the crisis-hit country's...

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