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BERLIN: Japan winger Shinji Kagawa has said he wants to extend his contract at Borussia Dortmund after his winning goal sealed a 2-1 win over Mainz to go seven-points clear at the top of the German league.
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WUKAN, China: An election in a Chinese village that became a symbol of resistance against corruption was hailed a success Sunday, as the two-day poll seen as a landmark in the authoritarian state ended.
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BEIJING: China said Sunday that secret detentions will be "strictly limited" despite planned changes to the criminal law which will allow police not to tell suspects' families where they are being held.
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A Norwegian man in Phuket was arrested three years after killing and cutting-up his wife. The gruesome murder was re-enacted at a his house in Phuket. Mr. Stain Harvard Dokseth said that he had hit and pushed his wife off the stairs before cutting her up and disposing the body parts in a garbage...
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All Siam Properties is please to recommend excellent new ocean side condominium projects in beautiful Bang Saray Beach which are owned and developed by CW Asset Co. and starting at just 850,000 Baht.
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The Thai Meteorological Department announced a warning to all north eastern people that the hot season is approaching with dry conditions and temperatures hitting over 40 degrees Celsius.
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A Thai woman was sentenced for pimping to 42 years in prison accused of forcing her daughter age 13 into prostitution, selling her to a British man and his friends. The Brit was sentenced to 21 years in prison.
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SEOUL: South Korea's finance minister called on Monday for more time to diversify oil sources amid pressure on Seoul to join US-led sanctions on Iranian oil over Tehran's suspected nuclear weapons programme.
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BEIJING: Chinese state media on Monday accused Western governments of distorting the truth about deadly clashes in Tibetan-inhabited regions, and said the Dalai Lama was "abusing his religious reputation."
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SINGAPORE - Myanmar Monday signed an agreement with Singapore seeking the financial centre's help as the country emerges from political and economic isolation after decades of military rule.
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TOKYO: Japan's population is expected to shrink to a third of its current size over the next century, with the average woman living to over 90 within 50 years, according to a government report.
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SHANGHAI: In Shanghai, the number of people seeking treatment for psychological problems has more than doubled over the last 10 years. And this doesn't include many who do not seek treatment in a relatively conservative society.
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SEOUL: South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak will make a week-long visit to Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates as Seoul seeks to diversify its oil sources, it was announced Monday.
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BEIJING: A Chinese millionaire who fled to Canada and was jailed for fraud after he was deported back to China has lodged an appeal against the sentence, his son and lawyer said Monday.
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JAYAPURA, Indonesia: An Indonesian court on Monday indicted five Papuan activists for treason for raising an outlawed Papuan flag and declaring the region independent.
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SEOUL: South Korean state prosecutors on Monday raided the foreign ministry as part of a probe into allegations that a senior diplomat was involved in share-rigging linked to a diamond mine in Cameroon.
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KHARTOUM, SUDAN: The Sudanese military has freed 14 Chinese workers "kidnapped" by rebels in the country's South Kordofan state, the official SUNA news agency reported on Monday.
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TOKYO: China decided to give North Korea a large amount of aid the day after Kim Jong-Il's death was announced, in a gesture of support for the incoming regime of his son, according to a Japanese newspaper.
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ISHINOMAKI, Japan: Leaden winter skies lour on a coastguard boat as it cuts its way through the seas off Japan's tsunami-wrecked shores.
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SEOUL: North Korea plans a massive military parade including missiles and other weaponry to mark major anniversaries early this year after its leader's death, South Korean media reports said Monday.
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A ladyboy entered into the room of a German national at night while he was not in the room, claiming that the German guy was his boyfriend but he said he had forgot the room key so he forced the door of the room open. The police didn’t believe him and thought that he...
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A traffic police with 3 subordinates at Na Jomtien police station, Chonburi province set up a check point and arrested a 18 year-old Trang man after a positive drug screening. The police asked the suspect for 5,000 THB cash in exchange for his release. The traffic police and his subordinates are under investigation.
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The police and Director of the Center for Subduing of Human Trafficking assisted a Cambodian girl and found that she was beaten by her step father and her mother with the 3 children who were all forced to be beggars, if on any day they cannot find money, all of them would be beaten...
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KABUL: Afghanistan and Pakistan plan to open a second front in negotiations with the Taliban in Saudi Arabia as US-brokered talks get under way in Qatar, officials said on Sunday.
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TAIPEI: Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou has picked a former top financial regulator as his next premier, the state news agency and several other media reported over the weekend.
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JAKARTA: The death toll from heavy rains and strong winds in Indonesia has risen to 14, an official said Sunday, with the victims of a tropical cyclone crushed by falling trees.
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DAWEI, Myanmar: Huge crowds lined the streets to greet Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as she hit the campaign trail Sunday ahead of by-elections seen as a key test of the government's commitment to reform.
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CHENGDU, China: Sitting in a teahouse in Chengdu's Tibetan quarter, a nervous young monk spoke of how police arrests of innocent people were adding to the climate of fear in China's Tibetan-inhabited regions.
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DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 28 -- Thai Prime Minister has convinced international business leaders that Thailand has prepared plans to prevent future flood crises and that the country has potential to be centre of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) ready to offer investment privileges.
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BANGKOK, Jan 28 – Thai authorities in joint operation on Saturday detained 10 suspected drug dealers with 400,000 methamphetamine pills and 24 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine, commonly known as "ice," with a street value of Bt200 million in the capital.
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