Category: Asia
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Rescuers pulled two people alive from the debris in Nepal today, one of them from a tunnel at a hydropower project buried nine days ago. Why a tunnel is survivable when a collapsed building is not.
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China’s internet regulator says a campaign against AI misuse removed more than 5.61 million pieces of content, acted against 49,000 accounts and dealt with 2,400 sites and apps. Enforcement totals like these are published precisely because they cannot be checked.
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Ten days after the glacier collapse, the toll along the Nepal–China border has passed 1,300 and more than 5,500 people are recorded missing. The second figure has grown faster than the first, and it should not be read as a second death toll.
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India’s Supreme Court wiped out the police cases against students who protested over the NEET-UG exam, using a constitutional power with no real equivalent elsewhere — then said the order must not be treated as a precedent.
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Two Filipino seafarers were killed when an Iranian attack struck a Saudi-owned tanker. They had no stake in the war. A quarter of the world’s merchant crews are Filipino, and nothing in the system produces a finding when one of them is killed.
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House prosecutors called Sara Duterte’s own defence spokesman as their witness, and the impeachment court immediately declared him hostile. He was her chief of staff at the education department when the 112.5 million pesos moved.
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Save the Children says 35 per cent of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh will face crisis or emergency hunger this year. The UN’s appeal for them is 26 per cent smaller than last year’s. Both things are described as prioritisation.
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US customs found forced-labour indicators at one of the world’s biggest bicycle makers and stopped its Taiwanese exports. Taiwan issued forced-labour guidelines afterwards. Researchers had documented the problem for years.
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Six members of Taiwan’s legislature are facing corruption proceedings this term, across both major parties. One first-instance sentence of seven years, one conviction overturned on appeal — and almost no coverage outside Taiwan.
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Agencies say 17,000 children are affected by the 26 August flash floods in Rasuwa, Nuwakot and Dhading, with around 332 dead. That figure and the one we published yesterday are both current — here is why they differ.