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The Thai Government is bracing for a new round of anti-government protests later this month with the aim to force the administration to resign and call fresh elections.
As Ron Corben reports rally conveners hope to mass over 500,000 people onto the streets of Bangkok amid fears of violence if the protests are stopped.
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The Sri Lankan opposition has splintered into different groups ahead of the parliamentary elections next month.
President Mahinda Rajpakse called for the snap election after he was re-elected in a sweeping victory in last month’s presidential polls.
He is trying to capitalise on the government’s victory in crushing the Tamil Tiger rebels ending a decade long civil war.
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Imagine not being able to access your email or send or receive an SMS for six months.
Well, for people in Xinjiang in China’s far west, this has been the reality.
The region, which boasts beautiful desert, snow-capp...
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Australia has finally confirmed that the Indonesian part of the Timor Sea was contaminated by an oil spill last year.
A compensation deal is expected to be on the agenda when President Suslio Bambang Yudhoyono trav...
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Recently on Asia Calling we heard how a group of Bangladesh nurses threaten to burn themselves alive if their demands for employment weren’t met.
At the last minute, the Minister of Health promised to address their...
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A six-year boom that turned sand dunes into glittering mega-cities is grinding to a halt.
Dubai, one of seven states that make up the United Arab Emirates, is in crisis.
So too are Pakistani expatriates.
Many of the ...
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Families forcibly evicted from the Cambodian capital are abandoning their new government homes to return to the city.
That’s according to a recent survey from the Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association....
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Many are worried about how few Australians speak a second language but some young people are trying to do something about it.
Hundreds of Australian students are vying for a spot in the Australian linguistics Olymp...
