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Asia Pacific
July 12, 2016 – The Japanese lyricist behind the evergreen hit Sukiyaki died on Jul 7 at the age of 83. According to reports, relatives of Rokusuke Ei said
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May 26, 2016 – Starbucks Corp , the world’s biggest coffee company, today said it would open a coffee roastery in Shanghai, China in 2017, its first outside
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May 18, 2016 – The sleepy port town of Vladivostok in Russia’s Far East, which was a closed-off military enclave during the Soviet era, is seeking to reinvent itself as
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May 16, 2016 – The Thai government has announced it will close the southern Similan islands to tourists for five months, and one of them, Koh Tachai, will
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April 22, 2016 – Global travel-search engine Skyscanner said Singapore’s Changi Airport is the most popular airport for travellers choosing to self-connect in Asia, trumping Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport
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April 21, 2016 – Nepal ranks second among the nine South Asian countries as far as press freedom in the region is concerned, according to the advocacy group
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April 14, 2016 – Australia will trial new visa rules for visitors and students from China, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said today, as the country seeks to boost
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March 25, 2016 – App-based transport services Uber and Grab in Indonesia have agreed to work with existing public transport companies, so that they can operate legally under
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March 8, 2016 – Hong Kong broadcaster TVB has come under fire for running simplified Chinese subtitles in a Mandarin news programme. Just two days after the 45-minute
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March 7, 2016 – Cambodia’s famed Angkor archaeological park welcomed 493,854 foreign visitors in the first two months of 2016, up 7.6 percent compared to the same period
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