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Mandopop queen Stefanie Sun: Singapore English pop a hard sell

Mandopop queen Stefanie Sun says English-speaking musicians here must be one step ahead of the Western market to succeed

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Chinese Nobel laureate Tu Youyou calls for joint efforts to combat malaria

"Joint efforts are urgently needed to combat malaria", China's Tu Youyou who won 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine said here on Sunday.

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92-year-old Nanjing Massacre survivor has miraculous escape

One of the 100 or so survivors of the Nanjing Massacre in 1937 has been saved after a life-threatening lung condition at a hospital in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu province, the Modern Express reported.

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Poll finds reluctance to have 2nd child

Despite the planned universal two-child policy, many young couples are reluctant to have a second child because of concerns including the possibility of a lower standard of living, a survey has found.

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Myanmar leader agrees to meet Aung San Suu Kyi

Myanmar's President Thein Sein, a former top army general who has steered the country through five years towards the free market and democratic reforms, has accepted an invitation to meet opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi but only after the official results of the Nov 8 election are declared.

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IS has institutionalized sexual violence

​The Islamic State (IS) has institutionalized sexual violence against women by kidnapping and selling women and girls to raise funds, UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict said here Wednesday.

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International artists tell plight of wartime women

​"Intimate Transgressions," which opened in Beijing this week, brought together 34 artists from over 15 countries and regions to exhibit works on the theme of wartime women.

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Bringing Vietnamese cuisine to the world

Le Ha Huyen, also known as Helen Le, a MBA student at the University of Hamburg in Germany, is the founder of the largest channel featuring Vietnamese food on YouTube, called Helen's Recipes (Vietnamese Food). The Da Nang-born girl’s channel has attracted millions of views around the world.

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School's discrimination against HIV carrier illegal

That a senior high school in Hebei province recently refused to enroll a teenage girl because she had tested positive for the human immunodeficiency virus, even though local authorities claimed to have arranged a suitable school for her, underscores the urgent need to eliminate the ingrained prejudice against those carrying the virus.

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DPRK woman locked up in "island-like" S.Korea

​A woman in South Korea, having come from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) four years ago, has wanted back since she got here to her "fatherland." That has been banned by the South Korean government, which doesn't send "defectors" back under the current law.

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Tackling climate change provides chances to grow economy: ROK president

​Addressing climate change is not a burden, but a new opportunity to create future drivers of growth through technological innovation, said President of the Republic of Korea (ROK) Park Geun-hye Monday.

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Refugee issue not only German challenge: Merkel

​The refugee issue is not only a German challenge, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday in her government statement in Berlin.

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China improves significantly education, health for women

​UN Women chief Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka applauded the progress China has made in women empowerment, especially in the areas of education and health.

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Coping with Taiwan's dengue epidemic

Lu Mei-chen had been busy covering everything in her three-story home all night and into the morning, just in time before a pest control squad sent by a local health agency came to spray pesticides.

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Most netizens' privacy compromised

Under a new cybersecurity law, Web operators are urged to provide safe products and services Kou Fei recently got a call at work from her mother, who was anxious to know that she was safe.

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Hillary Clinton says campaign unaffected by email scandal, refuses to apologize yet again

​Hillary Clinton said on Monday the controversy around her use of a private email system while serving as the top U.S. diplomat did not affect her campaign.

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Netizens rip singer over baby photos

A pop star apologized and deleted an online post showing her baby twins' crawling that she sent on Thursday, trying to end a verbal assault by some netizens who said it was inappropriate to show scenes from her personal life on a day marking victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1937-45).