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  • Singaporean charged over sex offer in match-fixing probe

    07 Apr 2013 : A Singaporean businessman has been charged with corruption for offering free sex to three Lebanese football referees to induce them to fix a match in the city-state, a government agency said Sunday.

  • Afghan attacks raise fears over Taliban strength

    07 Apr 2013 : The death of at least five Americans, in the deadliest day for foreigners in Afghanistan this year, has highlighted fears about Taliban strength ahead of NATO's withdrawal in 2014.

  • N.Korea shows no sign of repositioning forces: Britain

    07 Apr 2013 : Britain urged calm on Sunday over the spiralling nuclear tensions with North Korea, saying that Pyongyang had shown no signs of repositioning its armed forces despite its "paranoid rhetoric".

  • Najib offers populist sweets

    07 Apr 2013 : KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia's Prime minister Najib Razak has promised more cash handouts for the poor along with cheaper cars and homes if he is re-elected in a few weeks.

  • Tomic clinches Davis Cup tie for Australia

    07 Apr 2013 : Bernard Tomic clinched victory for Australia in their Davis Cup Asia-Oceania Group One second-round tie against Uzbekistan with a four-set victory over Denis Istomin on clay in Namangan on Sunday.

  • China to open disputed islands to tourism: official

    07 Apr 2013 : China is to open disputed South China Sea islands up to tourism this month, state media reported Sunday, a move likely to inflame a long-running territorial row with its neighbours.

  • 'Where is Bilawal?' Pakistan party campaign struggles

    07 Apr 2013 : A cancelled rally, a loathed president and a party chairman kept out of the public glare because of Taliban threats -- Gulzar Ali Khawaja has never seen anything like it.

  • China is the future for boxing, Bob Arum claims

    07 Apr 2013 : Boxing was banned in China under Mao Zedong because it was deemed too Western and too violent.

  • China's Xi says Asia faces 'new challenges' to stability

    07 Apr 2013 : Chinese President Xi Jinping said Sunday that Asia faced "new challenges" to its stability and warned no one should be allowed to throw the region into chaos as tensions mounted over North Korea.

  • Najib to fight graft, seek UN seat

    07 Apr 2013 : Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak pledged to fight corruption, boost public services and seek a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) if his coalition retains power in elections due in a matter of weeks.

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