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Giant rubber duck deflated in Hong Kong’s harbor amid fierce heat
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ASEAN to hold first joint military exercise in the South China Sea
Siberia swelters in record-breaking temperatures amid its ‘worst heat wave in history’
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World’s first swine fever vaccine nears approval in Vietnam
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Caged and cut open for bile: The fight to free Asia’s farmed bears
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Taiwan war would be ‘devastating,’ warns US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin as he criticizes China at Shangri-La security summit
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These may be the world’s best warships. And they’re not American
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Ukraine war hasn’t changed China’s thinking around possible attack on Taiwan, report says
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Thousands of ethnic minority Muslims defy Chinese authorities in defense of mosque
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Malaysia investigating possible looting of World War II British shipwrecks
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North Korea’s Kim Yo Jong says a military reconnaissance satellite will soon enter orbit
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Giant panda Ya Ya’s arrival at Beijing Zoo sparks fresh outpouring of online pride
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Influencer dies after live-streaming himself drinking bottles of Chinese spirit Baijiu
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Papua rebels threaten to shoot New Zealand hostage
Years before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan sank a US warship in China
Taliban crackdown on women should be probed as crime against humanity, rights groups say
Japan shocked by ‘heinous’ attack as 4 die in gun and knife rampage
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Teenagers ‘hand themselves in’ to police after Sydney blaze
Suspect arrested after shooting and stabbing attack in Japan leaves four dead
Vietnam jails noodle vendor who mocked minister’s lavish dining
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