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This handout from the Office of the Narcotics Control Board taken on August 19, 2019 and released on August 21, 2019 shows capsules of cocaine found in the possession of Kenyan national Glenn Chibasellow Ooko at Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok. Photo: AFP/Handout
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22 August 2019
Thai authorities arrest Kenyan who swallowed 68 cocaine packets
Many Rohingya Muslims are leaving Bangladesh's squalid refugee camps, in an attempt to reach Malaysia and Indonesia for work (AFP Photo/JANUAR)
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02 August 2019
Australia pledges US$55 mn to fight human...
Australia pledged US$55 million to fight human trafficking in Southeast Asia on Thursday...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (C) attends the Lower Mekong Initiative Ministerial Meeting on the sidelines of the 52nd Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Bangkok on August 1, 2019. Photo: AFP
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02 August 2019
US warns dams give China ‘control’ of Mekong river
China is taking control of the flow of Southeast Asia's most important river through a...
United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer. Photo: Shawn Thew/EPA
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29 July 2019
US ‘pressure’ tactic on WTO will fail: China...
A US threat to pull recognition of China's "developing nation" status at the World Trade...
Europe has endured two exceptionally strong heatwaves in a matter of weeks (Photo: Dominique Faget/AFP)
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27 July 2019
From Europe to the Arctic, temperature records...
We may only be just over halfway through it, but 2019 has already seen temperature...
South Korea said it scrambled fighters, including F-15Ks, after a Russian warplane violated its airspace (Photo: Jung Yeon-Je/AFP)
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25 July 2019
China defends air patrol with Russia after S....
China on Wednesday defended a joint air force exercise with Russia that triggered a...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Photo: EPA
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23 July 2019
India denies Modi asked Trump to mediate Kashmir...
India on Tuesday denied that Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked US President Donald Trump...
A group of Myanmar nationals staged a protest in front of the Singapore Embassy in Washington DC on July 15. Photo: Voice Of Arakan/Twitter
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17 July 2019
Myanmar nationals hold protest in U.S. against...
A group of Myanmar nationals staged a protest in front of the Singapore Embassy in...
ISDEF Expo 2019. Photo: ISDEF Expo/Facebook
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17 July 2019
Israel to bar Myanmar military representatives...
The Israeli government will bar military representatives from Myanmar from attending arms...
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in Myanmar, South Korean university professor Yanghee Lee, addresses the media in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 25 January 2019. Photo: Monirul Alam/EPA
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06 July 2019
Barred UN Myanmar rights envoy set to visit...
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar,...
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (L) walks with US President Donald J. Trump (C) and South Korean President Moon Jae-in (R) toward the northern side of the truce village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone, which separates the two Koreas, 30 June 2019. Photo: Yonhap/EPA
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30 June 2019
Trump steps into North Korea in historic first
Donald Trump stepped onto North Korean soil in a historic first Sunday as he met...
Parents and relatives hold pictures of girls missing since they were abducted by Boko Haram on April 14, 2014 in Chibok, northern Nigeria (AFP Photo/Audu Ali MARTE)
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15 June 2019
Conflicts spur alarming increase in missing...
The UN Security Council have adopted the first-ever resolution on missing persons in...
Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Hoai Trung (R) reacts after a vote in the United Nations General Assembly on the election of five non-permanent members of the Security Council at the United Nations headquarters in New York, USA, 07 June 2019. Vietnam is among the five countries elected to the United Nations Security Council. Photo: Jason Szenes/EPA-EFE
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10 June 2019
Vietnam joins UN Security Council
Vietnam, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Estonia, Niger, and Tunisia were elected to the...

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