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Mineral misery: Vietnam salt farmers battered by imports, climate
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Mineral misery: Vietnam salt farmers battered by imports, climate

The salt farmers of Hon Khoi rise before dawn as they have for generations, fanning out across shallow seawater pools…
Philippines votes in polls expected to strengthen Duterte
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Philippines votes in polls expected to strengthen Duterte

Filipinos headed to the polls on Monday in a vote that is expected to strengthen President Rodrigo Duterte’s grip on…
China plastic waste ban throws global recycling into chaos
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China plastic waste ban throws global recycling into chaos

From grubby packaging engulfing small Southeast Asian communities to waste piling up in plants from the US to Australia, China’s…
Australian election May 18 to be fought on refugees, economy
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Australian election May 18 to be fought on refugees, economy

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s prime minister on Thursday called a May 18 election that will be fought on issues…
Swastikas and statues, SE Asia’s fixation with Nazi iconography
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Swastikas and statues, SE Asia’s fixation with Nazi iconography

Thai teen idol Namsai feared being booted from her band after a photo of her wearing a t-shirt with a…
Ruthless meth networks get ill-prepared Myanmar hooked
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Ruthless meth networks get ill-prepared Myanmar hooked

Mobs of stick-wielding church-goers in Myanmar’s northeast used to descend on dealers and addicts in a desperate effort to save…
Malaysia makes record 30-tonne pangolin seizure
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Malaysia makes record 30-tonne pangolin seizure

Malaysian authorities have made a record seizure of about 30 tonnes of pangolins and their scales worth some $2 million…
Thai party to comply with royal order against princess PM candidacy: statement
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Thai party to comply with royal order against princess PM candidacy: statement

A Thai political party will obey a command from the king blocking the candidacy of a princess for prime minister,…
Bricked in by poverty, Cambodia’s farmers fight debt bondage
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Bricked in by poverty, Cambodia’s farmers fight debt bondage

  Bopha should be in school but instead toils seven days a week in a searing brick kiln on the…
Philippine storm death toll rises to 22
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Philippine storm death toll rises to 22

  At least 22 people died from a storm that swept through the central Philippine islands at the weekend, authorities…
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