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Service centre planned to help SMEs access Asean markets

Top firm to invest in Sri Lanka's multi-million property project

Bangladesh should not let Grameen Bank be snatched away from the poor: Yunus

Chinese firm to build one of world’s largest solar wafer-making plants in M'sia

Shoring up power in Pakistan

Riverside beauty

Over 400 Nepali pilgrims stranded due to floods

Korea's public sector debt skyrockets

Local bands, foreign gigs

Opposition to impeach Thai govt over water project

N. Korea holds talks with China ahead of Park-Xi summit

North Korea and China held discussions ahead of the upcoming summit to discuss peninsula tension and Pyongyang's nuclear programmes

News ● NEW DELHI: Over 400 Nepali pilgrims stranded due to floods ● BANGKOK: Opposition to impeach Thai govt over water project ● JAKARTA : Indonesia dodges haze blame game ● PUTRAJAYA: M'sian ministers to get interns next month ● MUAR/JOHOR: Malacca Straits dangerous for boats due to very thick haze

TALKS ON CHANGE: Aung San Suu Kyi held discussions with Myanmar's ethnic leaders at her residence yesterday about the establishment of a federal government and amending the 2008 Constitution. / Eleven Media Group

DEATH OF DOLPHIN: Swimmers lift a dying dolphin out of the water for a photo shoot on a beach in Sanya, South China's Hainan province, on Sunday evening. The photo was widely circulated online and criticised for hampering the efforts of people trying to save the mammal. The dolphin died from a collapsed lung at about 11:30 pm on Sunday after being rescued by the local fisheries bureau. Sha Xiaofeng / for China Daily

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Aung San Suu Kyi held discussions with the country's ethnic leaders on the establishment of a federal government and amending Myanmar's 2008 Constitution, Eleven Media Group reports. North Korea and China held talks on peninsula tension and Pyongyang's nuclear programmes, ahead of the upcoming summit between South Korea and China next week, The Korea Herald writes. The Philippines government promises to end the worsening flood and gridlock that hit the country's capital by the end of the year, according to the Philippine Daily Inquirer. Thailand's Food and Drug Administration will burn 3.4 tonnes of seized illegal drugs worth US$323 million next week, The Nation said. China's astronaut will give students and teachers at 80,000 middle schools in the country a special physics lesson from space today, China Daily writes.

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Home-grown Singaporean musicians are funding their own concert tours to other countries and revelling in the experience and exposure

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SINGAPORE: A family of American tourists visiting Singapore with a guide dog for their blind son were told by security guards at several malls and attractions that the animal was not allowed on the premises. However when they made further checks with the management they were informed that Donner, a black labrador, was indeed allowed and that the guards had been unaware of protocol and mistook the animal as a pet. Though they are common in the West, there are currently only three guide dogs in Singapore.

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