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2 hrs ago | The Star Online

Vincent Leong's commentary on cultural assimilation in Malaysia

Unity snap: Vincent Leong's Keeping Up With The Abdullahs 1 shows an ethnic Chinese family dressed in Malay clothes posing in front of their kampung baru house.

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Related Topix: Malaysia, World News, Cameras, Photography, Arts

6 hrs ago | Sun-Star

Watsons Summer at the Sofitel Hotel

Wander Woman, together with health and beauty editors, bloggers and other members of media had some fun under the sun last time when Watsons in partnership with the Department of Tourism, launched its Sun Up to Sun Down Campaign at the Sofitel Manila Seafloor Garden.

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Related Topix: Travel, Philippines Travel, Asia Travel, Philippines, World News, Entertainment

10 hrs ago | AVHerald

Myanma MA60 at Monghsat on May 16th 2013, runway excursion

A Myanma Airways Xian MA-60, registration XY-AIQ performing a flight from Heho to Monghsat with 55 passengers, overran the end of the runway while landing on Monghsat's runway 30 at about 11:50L by about 240 meters and stopped at the airport perimeter fence.

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Related Topix: Burma, World News

Sat May 18, 2013

The Nation

Asian leaders strive to make reforms stick

Voters in the Philippines appear to have delivered a resounding victory to President Benigno Aquino in midterm elections.

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Related Topix: World News, Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Aung San Suu Kyi

The Toronto Star

Burma's 'hidden genocide': A rare visit to Rohingya refugee camps

A Rohingya man pushes a rickshaw leaving a camp for displaced Rohingya people in Sittwe, northwestern Rakhine State, Myanmar, Thursday, May 16, 2013.

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The Straits Times

Malaysia's Home Minister says remarks in Utusan were "not racist, just practical"

Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi speaking to journalists at Air Hangat Lounge of Mahsuri International Exhibition Centre during LIMA 2013 in Langkawi, Kedah.

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Related Topix: Malaysia, World News, Journalism,

The Wichita Eagle

Myanmar leader, Obama to meet while reforms stall

In this Nov. 19, 2011 file photo, President Barack Obama, left, stands next to Myanmar President Thein Sein during a group photo session at the East Asia Summit in Nusa Dua, on the island of Bali, Indonesia.

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Related Topix: Burma, World News, Thein Sein, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama,

United Nations

UN assesses low damage from weakened Cyclone Mahasen in Bangladesh, Myanmar

Displaced people in Khaung Doke Khar, Myanmar, were moved out of tents to nearby government shelters outside Sittwe, Rakhine state ahead of Cyclone Mahasen.

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The Peninsula

Philippines rejects Taiwan 'murder' claims

Taiwanese Ministry of Justice director for International and Cross-Straits Legal Affairs Chen Wen-chi, displays a letter during a news conference inside the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Makati city, south of Manila, Philippines, 18 May 2013.

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Related Topix: World News, Taiwan, Philippines, Ma Ying-jeou

Fri May 17, 2013

Thanh Nein News

A prayer for peace, a history of war

US veteran Mike Kerber, now a peace activist in Chicago, pictured here at the War Remnants Museum, Ho Chi Minh City, operated large artillery like this in the A Shau Valley As we made our way in the darkness of the Vinh Moc tunnels, I ran my hands over the well-worn rock of the narrow passageway.

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Related Topix: World News, Vietnam, US Military, US Air Force, Travis Air Force Base

Business Times

Japan hopes to join next round of TPP talks in KL

JAPAN has appealed to Malay-sia, one of the member countries of the Trans Pacific Partnership , to support its request for an extension of the ongoing talks.

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Related Topix: Travel, Pacific Travel, Australia Travel, Asia Travel, World News, Brunei, Brunei Travel, Malaysia Travel, Singapore, Malaysia Travel, Peru

Vancouver Sun

Jonathan Manthorpe: Asia's territorial disputes claim the life of a Taiwanese fisherman

Killing frays relations between Taipei and Manila, but they have too much in common to let things spiral out of control A Kidd-class ship, the Makung, sails out of Kaohsiung Harbor on Taiwan as Taipei orders a military drill in response to the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman by Filipino coast guards Why and where Taiwanese fisherman Hung ... (more)

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Related Topix: World News, Taiwan, US Military, US Air Force, Opinion

Voice of America

Burma Releases Political Prisoners

Burma has freed at least 21 political prisoners in the country's latest amnesty that comes just days before President Thein Sein makes a landmark visit to the United States.

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Related Topix: Burma, World News, Prison, Thein Sein, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama

The Age

Indonesia steps up killing of death row prisoners

For almost five years Indonesia did not execute a prisoner on death row. But since a Malawian drug smuggler broke that drought on March 15, the floodgates have opened.

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Related Topix: Prison, World News, Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

CNN

At least 2 dead after walkway collapses at shoe factory

Six other people were injured by the fallen walkway in a warehouse adjoining the factory, which is south of the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, said National Police Spokesman Kirt Chantharith.

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Thu May 16, 2013

The China Post

Roof collapse at Cambodian shoe plant kills 3: minister

Three people were killed when the ceiling of a warehouse fell in at a shoe factory in Cambodia, a government minister said on Thursday, adding to concern about safety standards at Asian factories producing clothes cheaply for Western consumers.

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Washington Times

South Asian Muslims blame racism for attacks by Buddhists

Buddhists and Muslims are clashing with increasing ferocity in Myanmar , Thailand and Sri Lanka , where minority Islamic ethnic groups blame racism by majority Buddhists more than religious intolerance.

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Malaysia News

Raped beyond recognition?

The sanctity of the Malaysian ballot has never before been put to such a high level of doubt, as voters' political innocence was violated with impunity, says Stephen Tan Ban Cheng .

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Lincoln Daily News

Cyclone Mahasen fizzles as it hits Bangladesh

Cyclone Mahasan weakened Thursday afternoon into a tropical storm, causing far less damage than had been feared as it passed over coastal Bangladesh and spared Myanmar almost entirely.

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Related Topix: Tornado, Hurricane, Natural Disasters, Bangladesh, World News, Asia, Burma, Weather,

The Irrawaddy Newsmagazine

Humanitarian Disaster Looms in Arakan State, As Storm Evacuation Plans Stall

A child uses a World Food Program bag to shelter from the rain at Bawdupha camp for internally displaced Rohingya Muslims, near Sittwe, Arakan State.

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Related Topix: Tornado, Hurricane, Natural Disasters, Burma, World News,