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China’s new ambassador to ASEAN presents credential to Secretary General

ByAPDwriterMaverickJAKARTA,Jan.29(APD)—China’snewlyappointedAmbassadortoASEANHuangXilianpresentedhiscredentialstoASEANSecretaryGeneral(SG)DatoLimJockHoihereonMo

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DPRK freed jailed Canadian national

The DPRK has freed a Canadian man serving a life sentence there on humanitarian grounds, the official KCNA news agency said on Wednesday.

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DPRK freed jailed Canadian national

TheDPRKhasfreedaCanadianmanservingalifesentencethereonhumanitariangrounds,theofficialKCNAnewsagencysaidonWednesday."RimHyonSu,aCanadiancivilian,wasreleasedonsic

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Influential Malaysian opposition politician arrested on graft charges

Malaysia’s opposition leader Lim Guan Eng, who is also the chief minister of the prosperous northern island of Penang, was arrested on Wednesday by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) for alleged graft.

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S. Korea-born Canadian pastor sentenced for life in DPRK

​A South Korea-born Canadian pastor was sentenced to lifetime labor for subversion, the supreme court of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) announced Wednesday.

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SMEs contribute 50 pct of Singapore's GDP in 2014: minister

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) contributed around 50 percent of Singapore's 2014 Gross Domestic Product (GDP), said Minister of Trade and Industry Lim Hng Kiang.

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S.Korean solider gets death penalty for shooting rampage

A South Korean Army soldier, who killed five comrades and wounded seven others in a shooting rampage in June 2014, got death penalty from a military court on Tuesday.

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Shooting accident discloses maladjusted S. Korean soldiers

A runaway South Korean Army sergeant, who killed five comrades in a shooting spree Saturday night, was captured alive on Monday afternoon after some 20 hours of standoff with trailing soldiers.