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World / Asia

Nepal revives railways as China, India vye for influence 13 Aug 2017 - 06:22 am
Peninsula
End of an era as typewriting tests phased out in India 12 Aug 2017 - 07:11 pm
In this photograph taken on July 13, 2017, students practise at Abhyankar's Shorthand & Typewriting Institute in Mumbai. AFP / Indranil Mukherjee
India in talks with Myanmar, Bangladesh to deport 40,000 Rohingya 11 Aug 2017 - 07:41 pm
A girl from the Rohingya Muslim community walks past a makeshift settlement on the outskirts of Jammu, May 6, 2017 (REUTERS / Mukesh Gupta)
Myanmar sends hundreds of troops to Rakhine as tension rises 11 Aug 2017 - 07:35 pm
Ethnic Rakhine men attend a police training course as a civilian force will be deployed in the north of the Rakhine state in Sittwe, Myanmar, November 15, 2016 (REUTERS / Soe Zeya Tun)
Trump warns US 'locked and loaded' as North Korea readies missiles 11 Aug 2017 - 07:30 pm
Donald Trump
China earthquake death toll rises to 24 11 Aug 2017 - 06:54 pm
This photo taken on August 10, 2017 shows rescuers walking through the damaged InterContinental Resort Jiuzhai Paradise in Jiuzhaigou in China's southwestern Sichuan province, after an 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck the province late on August 8. AFP
Sri Lanka foreign minister resigns over corruption charges 10 Aug 2017 - 02:20 pm
Ravi Karunanayake (AFP Photo/Ishara S.Kodikara / File photo)
North Korea details plan to fire missile salvo toward Guam 10 Aug 2017 - 12:35 pm
This picture taken on August 9, 2017 and released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on August 10, 2017 shows a rally in support of North Korea's stance against the US, on Kim Il-Sung square in Pyongyang. (AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS)
Presidential press passes for bloggers in Philippines 10 Aug 2017 - 12:05 pm
Mocha Uson (R), a blogger and supporter of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, onstage with her colleague displaying a T-shirt decorated with a mugshot of arrested legislator Senator Leila De Lima during a pro-Duterte rally at a park in Manila. (AFP / T
Trump's 'fire and fury' threat fits with North Korea's image of US 09 Aug 2017 - 08:56 pm
People wave banners and shout slogans as they attend a rally in support of North Korea's stance against the US, on Kim Il-Sung square in Pyongyang on August 9, 2017. AFP / Kim Won-Jin
A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki amid US-North Korea tension 09 Aug 2017 - 08:38 pm
People attend the Peace Message Lantern Floating Ceremony held to console the souls of the A-Bomb victims after the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on the occasion of the 72nd anniversary of Hiroshima atomic bombing
Quake in China’s Sichuan kills 19 including tourists; injures 247 09 Aug 2017 - 11:20 am
Stranded passengers rest at the departure hall of Jiuzhaigou airport near the remote, mountainous area struck by a deadly earthquake in Sichuan province, China August 9, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas Peter
Ahmed Patel deals severe blow to BJP, wins Rajya Sabha poll 08 Aug 2017 - 11:08 pm
Ahmed Patel
Protesters against India dam evictions fear more violence after police action 08 Aug 2017 - 10:37 pm
The Sardar Sarovar Dam, undergoing height increase in 2006. Wikimedia Commons / AceFighter19
“Honour killings” hotline launched to protect mixed caste couples in south India 08 Aug 2017 - 10:20 pm
REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE: A couple look on the Street performers (AFP / Michal Cizek)
Low-crime Singapore investigating man after toothpicks found in bus seat 08 Aug 2017 - 05:49 pm
A Facebook user found toothpicks perforated on a passenger seat on a bus. (Photo: Shervella Wong/ Facebook)
Police arrest 17 in Australia, Dubai, Netherlands drug raids 08 Aug 2017 - 11:19 am
A policeman jumps a fence at the home of John Ibrahim during a police operation in Sydney, Australia, August 8, 2017. (AAP/Brendan Esposito/via REUTERS)
Landless and widowed women in south India bear brunt of drought 07 Aug 2017 - 10:04 pm
Kavita stands with her youngest daughter outside their home after her husband, a landless farmer, died last year when the crops failed amidst the worst drought in more than a century in Nagapattinam, India. July 7, 2017. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Rina Ch