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10 January 2013

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Publication Date : 10-01-2013

 

Laos and Thailand must take responsibility for the disappearance of Lao activist and Magsaysay Award winner Sombath Somphone, who is widely believed by civic groups to have been abducted for his role in fighting a Thai-Lao development project on the Mekong River, The Nation says. A report in The Yomiuri Shimbun says Japan and the United States have agreed to start working-level talks next week on a proposed revision to the guidelines on cooperation between the Self-Defence Forces and the US military. South Korea's President-elect Park Geun-hye’s plan to shorten military service causes security concerns, according to The Korea Herald. Taiwan-based touch panel maker TPK Holding files patent infringement lawsuits with a China court against a host of companies over two mobile phones — one from the Finnish vendor Nokia and one from China-based Huawei Device, The China Post reports. About one in five Chinese people might develop cancer if they live to be 74, China Daily quotes a new report.

 

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