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File Photo: The 25th Ministerial Conference of Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) at Luang Prabang in Laos on December, 2022
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07 December 2023
Myanmar junta to host 26th Ministerial Conference of the Greater Mekong Subregion
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) soldiers guard a highway leading towards Leh, bordering China, in Gagangir on June 17, 2020. Photo: AFP
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17 June 2020
India says 20 troops killed in deadliest clash...
The long-running border dispute between Asian nuclear powers India and China turned...
Sri Lanka trialled new health measures in four of the 22 electoral districts (AFP Photo/LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI)
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15 June 2020
Sri Lanka holds mock election to test virus...
Sri Lanka staged a mock election on Sunday to test measures aimed at preventing the...
Philippine journalist Maria Ressa has vowed to fight after a libel conviction that activists say marks a dangerous erosion of press freedom (Photo AFP / TED ALJIBE)
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15 June 2020
Duterte-critic journalist Ressa convicted in...
High-profile Philippine journalist Maria Ressa was convicted Monday in a cyber libel case...
India's doctors are already exhausted but their coronavirus crisis has only just begun (AFP Photo/Atish PATEL)
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13 June 2020
Exhausted Indian doctors fear virus crisis has...
Doctors in one of India's top private hospitals shuffle through the intensive care unit...
(File) This handout photo taken and released on April 5, 2020 by the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency shows a wooden boat carrying suspected Rohingya migrants detained in Malaysian territorial waters off the island of Langkawi. Photo: AFP
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13 June 2020
Refugee boat tried to enter Malaysia waters 
A boat carrying hundreds of Rohingya tried to land in Malaysia this week but turned back...
In Indonesia, some teachers are taking on dangerous terrain, bad weather and the risk of contracting the COVID-19 coronavirus, to reach home-bound students across the world's fourth-most populous nation, home to a quarter of billion people (AFP Photo/AGUNG SUPRIYANTO)
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12 June 2020
Pandemic no match for Indonesia's door-to-...
Teacher Henrikus Suroto vowed his students wouldn't be cheated out of their education...
Hundreds of new coronavirus infections are being detected daily in the Philippines despite strict lockdown measures (AFP Photo/Ted ALJIBE)
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09 June 2020
No students in school without virus vaccine,...
Tens of millions of children in the Philippines will not be allowed back to school until...
A wooden boat carrying suspected Rohingya migrants is shown detained in Malaysian territorial waters off Langkawi island, on April 5, 2020 (AFP Photo/Handout)
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09 June 2020
Hundreds of refugees come ashore in Malaysia
More than 260 Rohingya arrived by boat in Malaysia on Monday, officials said, despite...
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08 June 2020
Four soldiers killed in helicopter crash in...
Four soldiers were killed and five others were injured after a helicopter crashed during...
Rohingya refugees work to build a quarantine centre at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia on June 4, 2020. Photo: AFP
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05 June 2020
Refugees running scared from coronvirus tests
Rohingya refugees infected with coronavirus are fleeing quarantine in their Bangladesh...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 15, 2020 Rohingya refugees gather at a market as first cases of COVID-19 coronavirus have emerged in the area, in Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia. Photo: AFP
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03 June 2020
First refugee dies from coronavirus in Bangladesh
A 71-year-old man has become the first Rohingya living in vast refugee camps in...
Indonesian police displayed items allegedly linked to the fatal attack by a sword-wielding militant on a policeman (AFP Photo/Handout)
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02 June 2020
Indonesian policeman killed in IS-claimed attack
A sword-wielding militant killed an Indonesian policeman and critically injured another...

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