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Myanmar to get bigger slice of profits at China-backed copper mine

Myanmar has signed a revised contract that increases its share of the profits from a controversial Chinese-backed copper mine, the country’s largest, officials...

Obama to meet with congressional leaders as shutdown continues

By Mark Felsenthal and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama scrapped part of a long-planned trip to Asia and planned to meet with...

Bangladesh nuclear power plant work begins

Bangladesh has begun building the first of two new nuclear power plants north of the capital, Dhaka. The plants – each with a capacity of 1,000 megawatts –...

Chinese tourists warned not to pick noses or urinate in public

The Chinese authorities…

Burma’s Rakhine clashes kill five as Thein Sein visits

At least five Muslims were killed by Buddhist mobs in the Burmese state of Rakhine on Tuesday, police say. The bodies of four men were found near the town of Thandwe....

Burmese leader visits Rakhine state

1 October 2013 Last updated at 18:07 BST Burmese President Thein Sein is visiting Rakhine state amid a fresh outbreak of sectarian violence between Buddhists and...

In Bangladesh, Another Death Sentence

NEW DELHI — Bangladesh’s war-crimes tribunal on Tuesday sentenced Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury, an opposition lawmaker, to death for rape, mass murder and torture...

The Politics of Religious Conversions in Jharkhand

ARA, Jharkhand— Early on an idle Sunday morning in late August, Ram Singh Kujur perched on the solitary broken wooden chair outside his mud hut, sipping tea from a...

NKorea Blames ‘Hostile’ US Policy for Tensions

UNITED NATIONS — North Korea is blaming the “hostile policy” of the United States for continuing tension on the divided Korean Peninsula. Vice foreign...

Rare White African Lion Cubs Born in S. Korean Zoo

VOA News Officials at South Korea's Everland zoo park displayed for the first time Tuesday two rare newborn white lions in the city…