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NK allows foreigners’ travel outside Pyongyang, says tour agency

Taiwan engineer could pay US$13m for Samsung phone leak

Excess pilots: Singapore Airlines waives cadets' bonds

Teenager gang-raped in New Delhi

Japan economy 'picking up slowly'

Every second person drinking contaminated water: Survey

India, China vow to find border solution

India, China MoUs to address trade deficit mark a ‘good beginning’

Myanmar cannot claim reforms are a success yet

Can Iijima's trip to North Korea be conducive to solving abduction issue?

Nawaz Sharif calls for Taliban talks

Says terrorism was one of the most serious problems plaguing Pakistan and offer for talks should be taken seriously

News ● SEOUL: NK allows foreigners’ travel outside Pyongyang, says tour agency ● NEW DELHI: Teenager gang-raped in New Delhi ● NEW DELHI: Every second person drinking contaminated water: Survey ● NEW DELHI: India, China vow to find border solution ● SINGAPORE: Sinpapore government to ramp up workplace safety efforts

KIM JONG-UN VISIT: This photo taken May 19, 2013, and released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on May 20 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (R) visiting Pyongyang Myohyangsan Children's Camp, situated at the foot of Mt. Myohyang in North Phyongan Province. North Korea fired four short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan at the weekend, drawing criticism from Seoul and UN chief Ban Ki-moon. AFP

LI IN INDIA: Chinese Premier, Li Keqiang (L) is welcomed by Indian Minister of State for External Affairs, E. Ahmed on his arrival at Palam Airport in New Delhi on May 19, 2013. India is the first stop of Li's maiden foreign trip that is expected to discuss issues ranging from an unresolved border dispute to a festering trade-imbalance. AFP

HOTEL BLAST: Police examine the Asia Hotel in Narathiwat, southern Thailand after an explosion on Saturday morning that left six people injured. The Nation

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Pakistan’s prime minister-elect Nawaz Sharif calls for peace talks with Pakistani Taliban militants at war with the government, potentially charting a course that could put him at odds with the country’s powerful army, Dawn reports. South Korea slams Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s defence of political leaders’ visits to the country’s controversial war shrine, reiterating its demand that Japan correct its understanding of history, The Korea Herald writes. A report in The Yomiuri Shimbun states that the Japanese government will ask North Korea to return all missing Japanese citizens, not only those officially designated as abductees by the government. Border disputes and trade friction cannot prevent China and India from building strategic mutual trust and cooperation, Premier Li Keqiang says during his visit to India, China Daily says. The Philippines' House of Representatives is expected to push for changes to the constitution, says the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

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