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A bold discount for bald people offered at Kyushu hotel

​A mascot with a shining bald head set up in the lobby offers a clue to a bizarre discount deal offered by a hotel in this city on the western island of Kyushu.

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S. Korea's major conglomerates cut back on hiring

Major conglomerates like Hyundai, LG, Samsung and SK are cutting down on hiring as the slump shows no sign of lifting.

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China strives to protect judicial staff from interference, harm

China introduced rules to better protect judicial staff, to ensure that judges and prosecutors execute their duties justly and independently, according to an official statement.

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Chinese passport scribbled with "F*ck you" by Vietnamese border staff

A woman surnamed Zhong from south China's Guangzhou visited Vietnam on July 23. While entering the border, the Vietnamese border staff asked Zhong to hand in her passport and wrote offensive languages on it.

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Claims of ugly sales tactics probed at Hong Kong beauty parlours

Customs officers investigate women’s claims they were coerced into spending HK$500,000 on more treatment in cases ‘no different to robberies’

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Japan’s railway operators launch campaign to stop violence against train staff

In recent years, poster campaigns by Japan’s railway operators have called on passengers to be considerate towards other travellers by offering their seat to an elderly person or not having their music too loud.

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Hong Kong newspaper lays off 20 staff in cost-cutting move

Sing Tao News Corporation laid off about 20 employees on Wednesday, weeks after it cut or froze their wages in a bid to cut costs.

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Half of Korea's top 100 businesses lay off staff

Half of the top 100 businesses in the country have laid off workers recently, according to conglomerate tracker Chaebul.com on Sunday.

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Baptist University staff and students upset at last-minute announcement of sole candidate for senior post

Former HKU dean of student affairs Albert Chau Wai-lap named as potential vice-president in teaching and learning right before scheduled consultations

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Clock ticks down on ATV’s final hours

​Hong Kongers began paying final tributes to the city’s oldest broadcaster, Friday as Asia Television ATV, prepares to fade to black at the stroke of midnight, after 58 years.

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Man surrenders after four New Zealand police officers shot

​New Zealand Police on Thursday ended an overnight standoff with a man who allegedly shot and wounded four police officers during a drugs operation.

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HK's ATV: Plea to strip Deloitte of liquidator role

China Culture Media Group (CCM) Tuesday submitted a plea to the High Court to strip Deloitte's of its role of provisional liquidator of the cash-strapped ATV.

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Lawmaker pledges help for ex-ATV staff

Federation of Trade Unions lawmaker Bill Tang Ka-piu will be meeting laid-off ATV staffers this week in the hopes of helping them access more than two months’ unpaid dues through the Protection of Wages on Insolvency Fund.

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ATV's fate delayed until Thursday

Roughly 300 ATV employees will lose their jobs while another 130 jobs and the station’s final March 31 edition of the Miss Asia Pageant hang in the balance — as financiers seek to hammer out an acceptable agreement with provisional liquidator Deloitte.

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Body cameras for more HK MTR staff as assaults rise

​Hong Kong's MTR Corporation has equipped more staff members with body cameras after a surge in the number of assaults by passengers, local media reported on Thursday.

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Death toll of U.S. airstrike on MSF hospital in Afghanistan rises to 30

The death toll of a U.S. airstrike on a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders (MSF), an international medical charity, in Afghanistan's northern Kunduz province has risen to 30, the aid group's website reported on Sunday.

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Death toll in Afghan hospital bombing rises to 22

​The death toll by air strikes at a hospital run by medical aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in Afghanistan's northern Kunduz city has risen to 22, the agency said in a statement on Sunday.