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  India PM pledges to clean up defence sector

  23 May 2013 : Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pledged on Thursday to crack down on corruption in the defence sector after a string of recent graft scandals left his government facing renewed calls to step down.

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  Dutch trader arrested for 'horsemeat fraud'

  23 May 2013 : Dutch meat wholesaler Willy Selten was arrested on Thursday for allegedly selling 300 tonnes of horsemeat labelled as beef, the public prosecutor said.

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• Ex-senator files against MPs, senators

  02 Apr 2013 : Former senator Ruangkrai Leekijwattana has asked the Office of the Ombudsman to seek the Constitution Court's ruling whether the 76 MPs and senators who asked the court to rule on the constitutionality of the Public Private Partnership Bill have themselves breached the constitution.

• Indonesian murder suspect arrested

  02 Apr 2013 : Thai Police say they have arrested a suspect sought by Indonesian authorities for allegedly killing the son of an Indonesian millionaire last year.

• 5-car families deterring rate cut

  02 Apr 2013 : Chitwalai Srisaengchai bought a car last year to take advantage of a Thai tax rebate and now spends 70% of her salary on the loan. She is also giving the Bank of Thailand another reason to resist monetary easing.

• Laos resolves Vietnam border dispute

  02 Apr 2013 : Laos and Vietnam are to complete the demarcation of their 2,000-kilometre border by June, state media reported Tuesday.

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  First political prisoners freed in Sudan under amnesty

  02 Apr 2013 : Sudanese authorities released six political prisoners early on Tuesday, an AFP photographer reported, after President Omar al-Bashir vowed to free all political detainees.

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  Gunmen attack Pakistan power station, kill 7

  02 Apr 2013 : Dozens of gunmen attacked an electricity plant in northwest Pakistan, killing seven people and disrupting power to 100,000 people overnight, officials said Tuesday.

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  Trial begins of Vietnam fish farmer turned folk hero

  02 Apr 2013 : The trial of a Vietnamese fish farmer who became a folk hero after using homemade shotguns to resist eviction began, with scores of people defying a heavy police presence to show their support.

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  Heidi Klum saves son from drowning

  02 Apr 2013 : Supermodel Heidi Klum plunged into the ocean to save her seven-year-old son from drowning during their vacation in Hawaii, US media reported.

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  Thailand clear of H7N9 bird flu

  02 Apr 2013 : The Public Health Ministry has confirmed there is no sign of H7N9 bird flu in Thailand, calming fears after reports that two people in China had died of this lesser-known strain of the deadly virus.

• Charter debate times settled

  02 Apr 2013 : The government, opposition and senate whips have reached an agreement on the times that will be allocated their members to debate the charter amendment bills, and the dispute over the senate speaker.

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