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A high-level meeting opens in Bali, Indonesia, to highlight the risks of hazardous waste from computers and other sources.
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Police in northern Australia charge a man with drink-driving - in a motorised wheelchair.
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In a breakthrough for negotiators, North Korea will provide a full account of its nuclear activities on Thursday, reports say.
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Aboriginal leaders threaten to ban tourists from a top Australian landmark in protest at “racist” government policies.
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A deadly mite could threaten Australia’s vital honey bee population, a parliamentary committee warns.
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Security is very tight as the Olympic torch begins its passage through China’s predominantly Muslim region of Xinjiang.
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Actress Nicole Kidman stars in a new film set in the Australian outback which is hoped will boost tourism.
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China’s yuan is at its highest level since July 2005 as US and Chinese officials begin a two-day meeting.
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Three death row inmates are executed in Japan, two months after four other prisoners were hanged.
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China sends Vice-President Xi Jinping to North Korea in an apparent push for progress in nuclear talks.
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UN officials are given rare access to North Korea’s countryside to assess how serious food shortages there are.
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Mass evacuations and river reinforcements are under way in southern China amid fears of more bad flooding.
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UN police in East Timor are considering handing over responsibility to the local force, amid worsening ties.
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In a last-ditch move, South Korea and the US resume talks aimed at modifying a controversial beef agreement.
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Two lorry drivers are saved from rising floodwaters in a dramatic jet ski rescue in western Australia.
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Rescuers in northern Japan find three more bodies, bringing the death toll from Saturday’s quake to nine, officials say.
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Embattled Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi denies he has set a date to stand down from office.
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China warns that one of its longest waterways, the Yellow River, is in danger of bursting its banks.
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China and Japan are close to a deal that would ease a long-running dispute over offshore gas fields, reports from Japan say.
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A Malaysian palm oil firm is to begin growing rice to tackle shortages of the crop and help meet record demand.
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Huang Qi, a Chinese journalist who vanished last week, is being detained over criticism of the quake response, his mother says.
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A month on from the earthquake, Chinese officials impose tight security in damaged areas, apparently to prevent protests.
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A drugs trial is abandoned in Australia after several jurors admitted they had spent much of their time playing Sudoku.
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Negotiators from China and Taiwan agree to host representative offices, in their first formal talks for a decade.
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A warrant is issued for the arrest of the Sultan of Brunei’s brother who failed to appear in a UK court.
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Japan’s police raid two firms after vacuum pumps they made and sold were found in a North Korean nuclear facility.
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Chinese inflation falls back to an annual rate of 7.7% in May, official figures show, as food price growth slows.
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Japan’s lower house shows its support for PM Yasuo Fukuda, a day after the upper house censured him.
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The former Vietnamese prime minister and key economic reformer Vo Van Kiet has died at the age of 85.
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Japan’s PM Yasuo Fukuda suffers a fresh blow as the opposition-held upper house passes a censure motion against him.
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China has begun to successfully drain an unstable lake formed by the Sichuan earthquake, officials say.
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Thousands of South Koreans are protesting against US beef imports, as the cabinet offers to resign amid the crisis.
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A high-level delegation from Taiwan arrives in China for the first talks since formal discussions were suspended 10 years ago.
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Tibet’s exiled leader, the Dalai Lama, arrives in Australia for a visit, as his supporters urge China to meet his envoys.
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Japan lifts a ban on its swimmers wearing record-breaking - but foreign-made - Speedo suits at the Olympics.
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Japanese pharmaceutical firm Daiichi Sankyo is to buy a stake in Indian drugs firm Ranbaxy for up to $4b.6n.
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More than 4,000 children in China are named “Olympic Games” as the country prepares to host Beijing 2008.
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China’s trade surplus fell 10% in May after a surge in imported energy and raw material costs, figures show.
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The Malaysian government has said it will not back down on its decision to increase fuel prices despite protests.
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Police in Australia arrest 70 people in a major crackdown on images of child sex abuse posted on the internet.
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