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Mitsubishi offers apology and $56m for wartime use of Chinese forced labourJapanese company says it will pay victims and their families as ‘proof’ of apology in the biggest deal of its kind yet -
Forty dead tiger cubs found in freezer at Thai templeOfficials have removed 61 live tigers from Tiger Temple in ongoing operation after allegations of wildlife trafficking
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The town saying 'no' to more alcohol: residents of Murupara fight off-licenceTiny New Zealand town struggling with unemployment, domestic violence and addiction pleads with authorities to block new liquor store
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New Zealand's Labour and Greens sign pact to fight National party in electionHistoric memorandum of understanding pledges rivals will ‘work together in good faith’ towards defeating John Key’s conservatives
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Philippine president-elect says 'corrupt' journalists will be killedYou won’t be harmed if you don’t do anything wrong, says Rodrigo Duterte, pledging to end crime in six months by assassinating criminals
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New Zealand tobacco crackdown labelled racist to MāoriTax on cigarettes is hitting ethnic group least able to afford it and least likely to quit smoking long term, researcher claims
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The 'Avon ladies' of Pakistan selling contraception door to doorA scheme training local women to deliver birth control pills to homes hopes to reduce maternal mortality and poverty
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Number of internally displaced Afghans tops 1.2 million, says reportPolitical strategy to integrate people forced from their homes stymied by corruption, poor government capacity and dwindling international focus
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Pakistani prime minister having open heart surgery in LondonNawaz Sharif has travelled to the UK with family to have a second cardiac procedure in five years, his daughter has said
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Indian film-makers try to save vanishing language from extinction220 Indian languages have been lost in the past 50 years, but the Saurashtrians are fighting back with largely self-financed films
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Philippines child sex abuse: one young girl's story of online trauma‘Lorna’ was seven years old when her abuse started. She was introduced to the world of online child sex abuse by a neighbour and would perform three acts a day for online predators before she was rescued by the police. Here, she tells her story in her own words.
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Chinese detergent advert shows black man getting ‘washed’ a different colour – videoChinese laundry detergent brand Qiaobi have released a controversial advert that has caused widespread outrage online
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Barack Obama in Hiroshima: 'the memory must never fade’ – videoPresident Barack Obama reflects on the horrors of war as he gives a speech at a memorial in Hiroshima on Friday
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Chinese children climb 800m cliff to get home from school – videoChildren as young as six from the small Atuler village in the Sichuan province of China have to scale a rock face using rickety ladders to get home from school
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G7 summit opens in Japan – in picturesThe global economy, terrorism, refugees, China’s maritime claims and the EU referendum headlined a packed agenda as world leaders began two days of talks in Ise-Shima
Governor of Tokyo apologises for lavish spending