Asia
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Call for boycott of company in Vietnam while China’s state-run media sees it as proof of the US’s hypocrisy on human rights
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Navy destroyers will join USS Carl Vinson for military drills amid fears Pyongyang plans further nuclear and missile tests
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Consumption attracts large fine and repeat offenders could be named and shamed under law that is first of its kind in Asia
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New law in India comes into force this week which will recognise survivors as being physically disabled. They will now be entitled to compensation and help to get jobs
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Responses from Syria, Russia, the UK, China, Iran and other countries after Donald Trump ordered a missile attack on the Syrian airbase from which chemical attacks were launched
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In the mining town of Paracale, 350km south of Manila, locals mine for gold by scavenging under the earth and diving into hazardous tunnels
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Rescue workers in Japan are searching for survivors after an avalanche hit a ski field on Monday
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CCTV has emerged of the final movements of the County Donegal woman whose body was found naked and severely beaten in Goa on Tuesday
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Outside the Kazakh capital, Astana, the river snowscape is populated by strange figures. Detroit-based photographer Aleksey Kondratyev investigated and discovered they were ice fishermen, who brave -40C temperatures waiting patiently for their catch
Born to be wild: the baby pandas destined for freedom