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5 feared killed in flash flood triggered by cloudburst in India

​Four tourists and their guide were swept away in a flash flood triggered by cloud burst in northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, officials said Wednesday.

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Hong Kong doctors get lessons in how to be more welcoming to gay patients

Aids concern group offers training after survey reveals a fifth of homosexual men avoid seeing a GP

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Zombie firms slow down global productivity: Rajan

The RBI governor has said that the world was facing a problem of productivity slowdown due to government inability to put firms "out of their misery" and also due to protection provided to oligopolistic firms.

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Alarm as number of Tanzanian women bleaching skins for vanity increases

​Tanzanian authorities on Tuesday expressed concerns over the increasing number of women who bleach their skins for vanity, saying the situation plunges more into health risks.

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5 policemen killed in SE Nigeria attack

Police authorities in Nigeria on Tuesday confirmed that five riot policemen were killed in an attack by gunmen in the southeastern state of Rivers.

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Hundreds of Hong Kong home owners cheated by scammers posing as financial agents: HK$320 million in new debts for victims

More than 400 people have been cheated out of at least HK$320 million by scammers acting as middlemen to secure loans for struggling property owners and plunging them further into debt.

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10 dead in Philippine election day violence

At least 10 people died across the Philippines in election day violence on Monday (May 9), as gunmen attacked polling stations, ambushed vehicles and stole vote counting machines, police said.

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Celebrities turn into public educational examples: Good or bad?

As more and more life stories of pop stars arecited as examples in papers in schools, people's attitude on the matter is becomingincreasingly divided.

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Hacker collects 272m email addresses and passwords, some from Gmail

A security firm announced that it had persuaded a fraudster to give the database of email addresses along with passwords consumers use to log in to websites

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Headaches, trembling hands, poor sleep, feeling worthless: Hong Kong's middle-class mental health crisis

Headaches, trembling hands, poor sleep, feeling worthless: Hong Kong’s middle-class mental health crisis

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Tattoo artists compete for top awards at international festival

For more than 60 artists from Russia, Belarus and London it was an opportunity to showcase their skills but for ink enthusiasts the Sochi International Tattoo Festival was all about displaying their body art.

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Trauma prevents Kyushu quake evacuees from returning home

Although power and water supply services are gradually recovering, many evacuees from the Kumamoto earthquake disaster are too traumatized to return to their homes.

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Taiwan telecom fraud suspects to face proceedings on the mainland

The 77 alleged telecom fraud syndicate members deported from Kenya earlier this month will be tried on Chinese mainland, a Ministry of Public Security (MPS) official said here Thursday.

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'Long-necked' women in Thai 'human zoos' hope to woo tourists at home in Myanmar

Women from eastern Myanmar’s Kayan tribe wearing rings that stretch their necks have long been a tourist draw in Thailand, but some are going home in hope of profiting from more ethical tourism

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Australian TV crew released from Lebanese prison

​An Australian television crew has been released from a Lebanese prison, following a botched abduction and recovery effort of an Australian mother's children.

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Hong Kong TV debuts: Gear, Grease and Glory, a slice of petrolhead heaven

Robin Auld picks out some highlights for Hong Kong television viewers, including a documentary about the impact on sherpa communities in Nepal of the deaths of 16 sherpas on Mount Everest in 2014