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  China arrests 13 over protest 'rumours'

  22 May 2013 : Chinese authorities have arrested 13 people for Internet posts that sparked a rare protest in Beijing, highlighting tensions between officials and migrant workers, police said.

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  Inquest into US scientist's death resumes after walkout

  22 May 2013 : A coroner's inquest into the apparent suicide of a US scientist found hanged last year in Singapore resumed Wednesday after a walkout by his family, who insist he was murdered.

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• Fired Singapore banker investigated

  26 Mar 2013 : SINGAPORE – Barclays Plc dismissed a Singapore-based private banker and is helping authorities investigate potential wrongdoing affecting clients' assets.

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  Japan temple wins bids on N.Korea 'embassy'

  26 Mar 2013 : A Buddhist temple on Tuesday won an auction for North Korea's de facto embassy in Japan, after it was seized by authorities for unpaid debts, the religious body said.

• Families raise wrong baby after mix-up

  26 Mar 2013 : Doctors at a hospital in southern Vietnam apologised after two families discovered they had been raising the wrong baby for nearly three months after the infants were accidently switched at the facility, local media reported Tuesday.

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  Seven suicide bombers attack Afghan police base

  26 Mar 2013 : A group of seven suicide bombers attacked a police base in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Tuesday, killing five officers, police said.

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  Park tells N. Korea 'abandon nuclear weapons' to survive

  26 Mar 2013 : South Korean President Park Geun-Hye warned North Korea on Tuesday that its only "path to survival" lay in abandoning its nuclear and missile programmes.

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  Paralysed Japanese paid $2m after bicycle crash

  26 Mar 2013 : A Japanese man who became a quadriplegic after the front wheel of his Italian Bianchi-brand bicycle came off has been awarded $2 million in a compensation lawsuit, reports said.

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  Asiana flight attendants win fight to wear trousers

  26 Mar 2013 : Female flight attendants with South Korea's Asiana Airlines won a long-running battle to overturn a skirts-only dress code after the national human rights commission ruled it discriminatory.

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  Myanmar unrest toll hits 40

  26 Mar 2013 : The confirmed death toll from recent communal violence in central Myanmar has risen to 40 after eight more bodies were pulled from the wreckage of a riot-hit town, state media reported on Tuesday.

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  Pacquiao confirms September return

  26 Mar 2013 : Manny Pacquiao has revealed that he will return to the ring in September for the first time since he was knocked out by Juan Manuel Marquez.

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  Seven suicide bombers attack Afghan police base

  26 Mar 2013 : A group of seven suicide bombers attacked a police base in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Tuesday, killing five officers, police said.

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