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| UpdatedThe dose of nerve agent given to North Korean ruler Kim Jong-un's exiled half brother was so high that it killed him within 20 minutes and caused "very serious paralysis", Malaysia's Health Minister says.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, murder-and-manslaughter, world-politics, malaysia, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of, asia
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| UpdatedCambodia's Khmer Rouge tribunal drops its case against a suspect accused of killing thousands of people at torture centres and slave labour camps during the country's tragic agrarian revolution, in which an estimated 2 million people were killed.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, unrest-conflict-and-war, cambodia, asia
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A firebrand monk who helped stoke sectarian conflict in Myanmar throws his support behind the controversial Dhammakaya sect in Thailand, which is currently at odds with law enforcement over money laundering allegations.
Topics: buddhism, government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, thailand, burma, asia
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A Philippine senator and leading critic of President Rodrigo Duterte's deadly anti-drug crackdown is arrested on drug charges after being accused of receiving money from drug dealers.
Topics: drug-offences, law-crime-and-justice, government-and-politics, philippines, asia
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Beverley O'Connor speaks to Keith Leong from Malaysia's KRA Group about the deteriorating relationship between Malaysia and North Korea over the assassination of Kim Jong-un's half-brother.
Topics: world-politics, foreign-affairs, law-crime-and-justice, malaysia, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of, asia
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Former trade minister Andrew Robb tells Beverley O'Connor that Australia should not be distracted by the Trump presidency as it prepares its first foreign policy whitepaper in 14 years.
Topics: trade, australia, united-states, china, asia
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Judges in Bali suggest sending a retired British war correspondent, who was arrested with a small amount of hashish four months ago, to a psychiatric hospital for treatment for cannabis addiction.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, drug-offences, drugs-and-substance-abuse, community-and-society, mental-health, indonesia, bali, asia
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Beverley O'Connor speaks to the South China Morning Post's Chris Lau about the sentencing of former Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang to 20 months in jail.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, world-politics, corruption, hong-kong, asia, china
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Former Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang is sentenced to 20 months in prison for misconduct after failing to disclose plans to rent a luxury apartment for his retirement from a businessman applying for a broadcasting licence.
Topics: world-politics, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, hong-kong, pacific, asia, china
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| UpdatedA Vietnamese asylum seeker says she faced three months of detention and beatings after being returned by Australian immigration officials.
Topics: immigration, community-and-society, refugees, government-and-politics, communism, indonesia, vietnam, asia
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Cambodia's authoritarian government changes the law covering political parties, in what some commentators are calling the "final triumph of dictatorship".
Topics: world-politics, law-crime-and-justice, cambodia, asia
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| UpdatedJapan’s Fuji News Network aired security camera footage that it said showed the attack on North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s half-brother Kim Jong-nam at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on February 13. The broadcaster reported that it obtained the footage from Kuala Lumpur International Airport, where Kim Jong-nam was attacked with a poisonous substance.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, police, malaysia, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of, asia
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| UpdatedMalaysian police are working with Interpol to track down four North Koreans believed to be connected to the murder of Kim Jong-nam, the estranged half-brother of Kim Jong-un.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, police, malaysia, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of, asia
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The Philippine army will create a battalion-sized task force to help the government's anti-narcotics agency run after high-level targets in President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs, the country's military chief says.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-offences, law-crime-and-justice, army, philippines, asia
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A United States aircraft carrier strike group begins patrols in the South China Sea amid growing tension with Beijing over control of the disputed waterway.
Topics: territorial-disputes, defence-and-national-security, world-politics, foreign-affairs, united-states, china, asia, pacific
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| UpdatedA fourth suspect has been arrested in connection with the murder of Kim Jong-nam, who died on Monday after allegedly being poisoned by two women in Kuala Lumpur.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, police, death, malaysia, asia, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of, indonesia
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| UpdatedSamsung Group chief Jay Y Lee is arrested over his alleged role in a corruption scandal that led parliament to impeach President Park Geun-hye, a South Korean court says.
Topics: government-and-politics, corruption, company-news, business-economics-and-finance, korea-republic-of, asia
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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.