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Sixtus ‘Baggio’ Leung and Yau Wai-ching, both blocked by Beijing from taking up their seats in Legco, are at the centre of Hong Kong’s growing political crisis
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Beijing makes landmark ruling on the future of the former British colony, barring two pro-democracy parliamentarians from office
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PEN America report says future of free expression on the island and its status as the regional publishing hub is in question
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Rolando Espinosa shot dead three months after President Duterte links him to illegal narcotics trade
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West Papua Australia should go to Papua and see the human rights situation for itself
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China’s National People’s Congress will interpret city’s ‘Basic Law’ to decide if two young pro-democracy lawmakers can be sworn into legislature
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Using the hashtags #Delhismog and #DelhiChokes, locals are voicing concern over heavy pollution shrouding the city
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Police believe colleague may have left country after victim, also British, was found dead with head and chest wounds in Yangon apartment
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Startups are turning plastic waste in developing countries into filament for 3D printers while employing local waste pickers
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Ahead of Theresa May visit, head of India’s largest business lobby says Brexit vote and decline in sterling pose major problems
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Indonesian police use teargas as thousands of protesters take to the streets of Jakarta calling on the city’s governor to resign
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At least 17 people have been killed and 50 injured after an express service train speeded into Karachi’s Quaidabad station and rammed a stationary train
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Peter Foley, the Australian transport safety bureau director of Flight 370 search operations, discusses his team’s findings
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People of the Qiang ethnic group gather to sing folk songs during the celebration of their new year in Maoxian County in south-west China’s Sichuan province
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Choi Soon-sil, centre, is surrounded by the media as she arrives at the Seoul central district prosecutor’s office for questioning in relation to a scandal involving the president, Park Geun-hye
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China unveils its Chengdu J-20 stealth fighter planes at the country’s biggest meeting of aircraft makers and buyers
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Surveillance video shows a man waking up a slumbering panda, who promptly wrestles him to the ground
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China tantalized by mayhem of US election and prospect of 'thug' Trump as president