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Chained woman case: Six jailed in trafficking case that horrified

By Frances Mao Singapore A Chinese court has jailed six people in a high-profile human trafficking case of a woman found chained in a remote village last year. The case horrified the country and led to a crackdown on bride trafficking. The woman’s husband was jailed for nine years for torture, abuse and […]

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China simulates hitting ‘key targets’ on Taiwan

By Matt Murphy & Christy Cooney BBC News China has simulated precision strikes against key targets in Taiwan and its surrounding waters during a second day of military drills. The drills – which Beijing has called a “stern warning” to the self-governing island – respond to Taiwan’s president visiting the US last week. […]

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NZ pilot’s kidnappers tell Indonesia to negotiate

By Jerome Wirawan & George Wright BBC News in Jakarta and London Separatists in Indonesia’s Papua region who took a New Zealand pilot hostage in February have told authorities to stop searching for him, and to start negotiating. Philip Mehrtens was kidnapped after landing his plane in Papua’s remote mountainous province of Nduga. […]

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Australian rugby and NFL star Jarryd Hayne guilty of rape

By Tiffanie Turnbull BBC News, Sydney Former Australian Rugby League star Jarryd Hayne has been found guilty of raping a woman in 2018. It is the third time Hayne has faced trial for the same case, with the first ending in a hung jury and the second’s guilty verdict overturned on appeal. The […]

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Malka Leifer: former headmistress guilty of Australia child sex abuse

By Tiffanie Turnbull and Tom Housden BBC News, Sydney An Israeli former headteacher has been found guilty of sexually assaulting two teenage students at an ultra-Orthodox Jewish girls school in Australia. The jury in Melbourne found Malka Leifer had raped and indecently assaulted sisters Dassi Erlich and Elly Sapper between 2003 and 2007. […]

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US Speaker confirms meeting with Taiwan’s Tsai despite China warnings

By Nicholas Yong BBC News, Singapore US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has confirmed he will meet Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen in California this week, despite China’s warning this could lead to “serious confrontation”. Ms Tsai will stop over in the US on Wednesday, as she returns from a tour of Taiwan’s allies in […]

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Arunachal Pradesh: India rejects China’s attempt to rename disputed places

India has reacted sharply to China’s attempts to rename places in the north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh and said it “outright rejects” the move. The state has been and will always be an “integral and inalienable part of India,” foreign ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said on Tuesday. His comments came after reports said […]

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Malaysia ends mandatory death penalty for serious crimes

By Nicholas Yong BBC News, Singapore Malaysia’s parliament has voted to remove the country’s mandatory death penalty, potentially sparing more than 1,300 prisoners on death row. The country has had a moratorium on executions since 2018. But lawmakers on Monday overwhelmingly voted to remove the death penalty as the mandatory sentence for 11 serious crimes, […]

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Lazarus Heist: The intercontinental ATM theft that netted $14m in

By Jean Lee, Geoff White and Viv Jones BBC World Service Imagine you’re a low-wage worker in India who is offered a day’s employment as an extra in a Bollywood film. Your role? To go to a cash point and withdraw some money. In 2018, several men in Maharashtra state thought they were accepting a […]

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Dozens killed in blaze on Philippines ferry

By Nicholas Yong BBC News At least 28 people have been killed and 230 rescued after a passenger ferry caught fire in the Philippines. The blaze began in the ship’s air-conditioned cabins on Wednesday night but it is unclear how, officials said. Among the dead were at least three children, including a six-month-old baby. […]

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