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The incumbent Governor of Jakarta, who is from the Christian minority, is expected to make it through to the next round of voting in the election, according to unofficial counts.
Topics: elections, world-politics, indonesia, asia
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| UpdatedLoghman Sawari, the 20-year-old Iranian refugee deported from Fiji to Papua New Guinea, is granted bail by a magistrate in Port Moresby.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, refugees, papua-new-guinea, pacific, asia
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| UpdatedThe half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is dead after being reportedly assassinated by two chemical-wielding female North Korean agents in Kuala Lumpur airport.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, forms-of-government, government-and-politics, murder-and-manslaughter, malaysia, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of, asia
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A suicide bomb attack in the Pakistani city of Lahore kills at least 13 people and injures 83 others, a senior police official says.
Topics: terrorism, government-and-politics, police, pakistan, asia
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| UpdatedThe UN Security Council condemns North Korea's ballistic missile launch and warns of "further significant measures" if Pyongyang does not stop nuclear and missile testing.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, nuclear-issues, world-politics, united-states, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of, korea-republic-of, japan, china, asia
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| UpdatedAt least eight people are dead and more than 120 are injured after a powerful earthquake strikes in the southern Philippines, damaging buildings and an airport and knocking out power.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, earthquake, philippines, asia, pacific
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Heavy rains continue to fall across the South Pacific, as islands from Papua New Guinea to Samoa experience simultaneous flooding in a "first time" event.
Topics: weather, floods, pacific, samoa, fiji, cook-islands, solomon-islands, asia
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A drunk man in China gets more than he bargained for when he stumbles into a fireworks shop and causes the whole store to go up in flames, with the whole incident recorded by surveillance cameras.
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| UpdatedThree points in the Indian Ocean account for 80 per cent of the world's seaborne oil trade and there are increasing concerns about potential militarisation in the area.
Topics: trade, oil-and-gas, asia, china
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The bitterly-fought election to be Jakarta's next governor could see the establishment of a political dynasty if the son of former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono does as well as expected.
Topics: world-politics, indonesia, asia
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Indonesia's military chief says he has accepted an apology from the Australian Army over offensive training material used at a special forces base, but suspended military cooperation will not resume until the President has been consulted.
Topics: world-politics, army, indonesia, australia, asia
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Peace talks between the Philippine Government and communist rebels to end nearly five decades of conflict are still possible even though the President has ordered "all-out war," the country's Defence Minister says.
Topics: government-and-politics, forms-of-government, communism, unrest-conflict-and-war, philippines, asia
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There "cannot be conflict" between China and the US over the South China Sea, China's Foreign Minister warns during a press conference with his Australian counterpart Julie Bishop.
Topics: foreign-affairs, territorial-disputes, world-politics, government-and-politics, defence-and-national-security, bishop-julie, australia, china, united-states, asia
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| UpdatedA Buddhist monk is arrested in Myanmar after a grenade, ammunition and more than four million methamphetamine pills are found by authorities in his car and in his monastery.
Topics: drug-offences, other-religions, burma, asia
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Papua New Guinea's ombudsman commission challenges moves by the country's Government to make it more expensive to stand for election and challenge the result.
Topics: federal-elections, federal-government, papua-new-guinea, pacific, asia
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Auskar Surbakti speaks to Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy professor Danny Quah about the Asia-Pacific's concerns over Trump protectionism.
Topics: trade, tax, world-politics, singapore, asia, united-states
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Papua New Guinea's electricity provider hopes it can provide uninterrupted power to blackout-plagued Port Moresby with a hydro project being constructed by a Chinese company.
Topics: hydro-energy, environmentally-sustainable-business, papua-new-guinea, pacific, asia
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PNG's Prime Minister suspends two senior ministers and establishes a commission of inquiry into a $31 million corruption scandal over the relocation of Port Moresby’s naval base.
Topics: corruption, defence-forces, defence-industry, papua-new-guinea, pacific, asia
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| UpdatedAt least 50 people are dead after a village is buried by an avalanche in eastern Afghanistan, with dozens more killed in the country's north and in neighbouring Pakistan during a weekend of heavy snow.
Topics: weather, snowfall, disasters-and-accidents, avalanche, pakistan, afghanistan, asia
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Police in Papua New Guinea are requesting extra officers be sent to Manus Island to deal with asylum seekers at the detention centre, as frustrations over the continuing uncertainty of the Australia-US refugee deal mount on the island.
Topics: refugees, law-crime-and-justice, world-politics, papua-new-guinea, pacific, asia
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| UpdatedChinese cuisine is popular the world over, but one group who struggle with it is vegetarians. Meat is nearly always on the table, no matter what part of China the cuisine comes from.
Topics: diet-and-nutrition, food-and-cooking, food-safety, food-and-beverage, health, china, asia
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The top United Nations human rights official says Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi has promised to investigate UN allegations of atrocities against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State.
Topics: religion-and-beliefs, law-crime-and-justice, burma, asia
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Hong Kong police say they are seeking more information from Chinese authorities about billionaire Xiao Jianhua who entered mainland China through a border checkpoint last week.
Topics: world-politics, hong-kong, asia
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| UpdatedPapua New Guinea's Prime Minister Peter O'Neill orders an investigation into allegations two of his senior ministers profited from a fraudulent land deal that will see the relocation of a naval base 10 kilometres inland.
Topics: corruption, law-crime-and-justice, papua-new-guinea, asia, pacific
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| UpdatedOrganisers of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics say the medals will be forged from recycled metal from old mobile phones and appliances donated by the general public to give them a sense of direct involvement in the Games.
Topics: olympics-summer, recycling-and-waste-management, sport, japan, asia