AFP
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G7, what's next?
Trump's spectacular bust-up with America's allies at G7 raises stakes for Tuesday's summit with Kim and highlights dangers of US leader's self-serving diplomacy.
Kiss of life
In Laos, where nightfall brings out the drink drivers, there's a 100% volunteer group acting to save lives when the drunks crash.
A dying breed
Decades ago, Myanmar's national symbols of pride and resistance were too numerous to count, but the peacock is easy to capture - and trade to extinction.
Hong Kong runs on...
... milk tea. Known in Cantonese as <i>cha chaan teng</i>, the tea restaurants serve up Chinese-style, western snacks but always with <i>lai cha</i>.
Hun Sen's click farm
What a man! Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has more than 5 million Facebook fans, or so it says. Most Cambodians suspect he's buying popularity from abroad.
Afghanistan's sexism
"People claim to be open-minded but many cannot bear having a woman in this position," says Masooma Muradi, the country's only female governor.
Cheaper than phones
The Turkish or Bulgarian MP5 costs thousands of dollars but Gul's version, with a one-year guarantee, costs 7,000 rupees, or 2,300 baht.
Pablo's hippopotamuses
Drug lord Pablo Escobar was killed, his gang imprisoned - and his two pet hippos in the past 20 years have turned into a Colombian hippo herd.
Islamic war criminals
Yezidi women who have escaped the apparently planned genocide of their people in Iraq have begun a campaign to send Islamic State leaders to the International Criminal Court.
Life in limbo
Children of refugees from Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere are given new hope in Indonesia, where the refugees themselves have set up schooling.
