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08 January 2013
Publication Date : 08-01-2013
A Delhi court bans media and the public from the case proceedings of the gang-rape of a 23-year-old paramedical student, The Statesman says. Authorities in Changzhi apologise for a five-day delay in reporting a chemical spill that threatened supplies of drinking water for hundreds of thousands of people, China Daily says. A report in The Yomiuri Shimbun says four Chinese ships have entered waters near Senkakus. Philippine President Benigno Aquino III is still mulling stand on firearms following the fatal shooting of a 7-year-old girl during the New Year revelry, according to the Philippine Daily Inquirer. The US government remains firm on its disapproval of a trip to North Korea by former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, says a report in The Korea Herald.