Asia-Pacfic

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Activists attracted attention in August when about 50 students converged in the south to support factory workers.

Read more: Labour activists disappeared in China in suspected raids

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About 4,000 military personnel, half of them foreign, will work with hundreds of police to patrol Port Moresby.

Read more: Foreign troops pour into Papua New Guinea for APEC summit

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After a winter of drought, Australia faces failing summer rains too as the oceans adopt an unfavourable pattern.

Read more: Australia, the Indian Ocean Dipole and El Nino

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Initial results suggest French archipelago has opted against independence, with nearly 60 percent of votes counted.

Read more: Macron hails New Caledonia vote to 'remain French'

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Pyongyang expresses frustration over the slow progress of the lifting of sanctions while US insists on denuclearisation.

Read more: North Korea warns of return to nuclear policy

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Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were found guilty in September of possessing secret documents passed to them by police officers.

Read more: Reuters reporters in Myanmar appeal state-secrets conviction

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Indonesian authorities will focus on airline's operating procedures and qualifications of flight crew.

Read more: Indonesia starts review of Lion Air operations after fatal crash

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Brand new Boeing 737 went down just minutes after takeoff from Jakarta early Monday, killing all 189 people on board.

Read more: Divers see Lion Air jet fuselage, new 'ping' heard: official

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Conservation groups lament missed opportunity to establish vast marine protection zone in the Weddell Sea.

Read more: Russia, China, Norway sink landmark Antarctic ocean reserve plan

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US Justice Department announces its first indictments in the billion-dollar scandal that has roiled Malaysia.

Read more: US charges Malaysian financier, Goldman Sachs bankers over 1MDB