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Fourteen prisoners remain on the run in Papua New Guinea's Southern Highlands after a breakout last week.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, papua-new-guinea
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An Iranian refugee who fled Australia's offshore detention regime in Papua New Guinea is being treated in hospital while he awaits court.
Topics: refugees, law-crime-and-justice, international-law, foreign-affairs, papua-new-guinea, australia
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Antonio Bagnato, the kickboxer convicted of murdering a suspected drug kingpin in Pattaya, is the first Australian on death row in Thailand in 30 years but experts say he is unlikely to actually face lethal injection.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, international-law, thailand, australia
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A restaurant was a chance for Chinese migrant Zhongcui Fan to improve his family's future in Australia but the constant search for a chef has left him struggling to stay open.
Topics: immigration, community-and-society, work, food-and-cooking, regional-development, regional, berri-5343, renmark-5341, adelaide-5000, china
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| UpdatedAbout 15,000 residents of a shantytown beside Manila's port have lost their homes in a fire that raged overnight, officials say.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, fires, philippines
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| UpdatedWestern Australia could go from one lithium mine to seven over the next 18 months, opening up hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue.
Topics: mining-industry, industry, business-economics-and-finance, consumer-electronics, electronics, kalgoorlie-6430, boulder-6432, port-hedland-6721, southern-cross-6426, greenbushes-6254, ravensthorpe-6346, china
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A Western Australian company is hoping to harness strong global demand for Manuka honey by developing a so-called "Manuka province" in the state's south-west.
Topics: food-and-beverage, beekeeping, food-processing, pharmaceuticals, yarloop-6218, harvey-6220, waroona-6215, new-zealand
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China's battle to fight a rapid slide in its currency is taking its toll, with its foreign currency reserves falling below $US3 trillion dollars for the first since 2011.
Topics: economic-trends, china
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Darren Lehmann says the Test pitches in Pune, Bangalore, Ranchi and Dharamsala will dictate Australia's approach to dismissing India's skipper Virat Kohli.
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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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| UpdatedHot on the heels of their Kidman cattle empire purchase, Gina Rinehart and her Chinese business partner are forging new beef pathways into China launching a wagyu beef brand.
Topics: beef-cattle, livestock, rural, business-economics-and-finance, warwick-4370, qld, australia, china
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| UpdatedA Thai court sentences Antonio Bagnato to death for the kidnapping and murder of former Hells Angels member Wayne Schneider, who was alleged to have been a major drug trafficker.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, thailand
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| UpdatedAnalysts fear the scrapping of the Trans-Pacific Partnership is just the first shot in a trade war before US President Donald Trump takes direct aim at Australia's major trading partner, China.
Topics: trade, globalisation---economy, united-states, australia, china
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Indonesia says it is midway through a month-long deradicalisation of 75 people who were deported from Turkey for attempting to join the Islamic State group.
Topics: islam, unrest-conflict-and-war, terrorism, indonesia
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Brad Haddin says India can be an unforgiving place for a wicketkeeper, noting Matthew Wade must trust his technique in the upcoming Test series.
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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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Police fear a western Sydney man who went missing four years ago may have met foul play, as they release CCTV footage and appeal to the public for information.
Topics: missing-person, police, lidcombe-2141, korea-republic-of
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| UpdatedA 20-year-old Victorian student who died in Thailand after her jet ski collided with one being ridden by her boyfriend is remembered for her "amazing laugh and bubbly personality".
Topics: accidents, thailand, vic, kyabram-3620
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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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Volunteers and the Indian Coast Guard use buckets to scoop up sludge left after an oil spill near Chennai, as the clean-up operation continues amid fears for marine life and fishery in the area.
Topics: environment, disasters-and-accidents, india