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Filial pursuit: China museum displays family values campaign
AFP, Published on 30/03/2015
» GUYI (CHINA) - What makes a good son or daughter? At China's first museum dedicated to the topic of "filial piety", the answer seems to be: almost superhuman levels of devotion and sacrifice.
Myanmar aid worker dies from convoy attack wounds
AFP, Published on 30/03/2015
» YANGON - A Myanmar aid worker injured in an attack last month on a convoy in Shan state has died of his wounds, state media reported on Monday, as clashes continue between the army and rebels.
World leaders' details emailed in error to football body: report
AFP, Published on 30/03/2015
» SYDNEY - The personal details of world leaders travelling to Australia for the G20 summit were mistakenly emailed to a member of the Asian Cup football local organising committee, a report said on Monday.
China's jailing of man who grew beard 'absurd'
AFP, Published on 30/03/2015
» BEIJING - A six-year prison sentence reportedly given to a man in China's mainly Muslim Xinjiang region for growing a beard was "absurd", an overseas group said on Monday as accounts of the penalty disappeared online.
Illegal Myanmar migrants arrested on train to Malaysia
Published on 30/03/2015
» Police arrested 76 illegal Myanmar immigrants, many of them Rohingya Muslims, heading for Malaysia on a Bangkok-Sungai Kolok train in Nakhon Si Thammarat province on Monday.
Singapore's Changi again voted world's best airport
dpa, Published on 30/03/2015
» GENEVA — Changi Airport in Singapore is the best in the world, according to a survey by the management consultancy Skytrax.
Three arrested with meth pills, ice
Online Reporters, Published on 30/03/2015
» Three men were arrested with 138,000 methamphetamine pills and 4kg of crystal methamphetamine, or ice, in Chon Buri province on Sunday, police said.
Vietnam Airlines modernising fleet
dpa, Published on 30/03/2015
» Vietnam Airlines is modernising its fleet. In May the first Boeing 787 with a new cabin interior will be delivered to the Asian airline.
Assets worth B43m seized from smuggling gangs
Online Reporters, Published on 30/03/2015
» The Anti-Money Laundering Office (Amlo) has seized assets totaling 43 million baht from human traffickers and gangs illegally trading in phayung wood.
Tiger Woods out of golf world top 100
AFP, Published on 30/03/2015
» LONDON - Former number one Tiger Woods has dropped out of the world top 100 for the first time in his career as he continues his battle against injuries and loss of form.