Southeast Asian nations join forces to fight drug trade
An increase in drug trafficking in Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle has prompted police from the three Golden Triangle nations - Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand - along with China to join forces to make the area safe from its infamous drug trade. Surrounded by the waters of the Mekong River, the Gold...
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Al Jazeera speaks to Steve Keen, Economist University of Western Sydney
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US responds to China tensions with neighbours
China's growing military power, and the increasing nuclear threat from North Korea, has seen the US turn more of its attention toward Asia. Recent military exercises by the US and the Philippines in the South China Sea's disputed Spratly Islands have threatened to challenge the Asia-Pacific balan...
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Low cost air carriers flying high in Asia
The global economic crisis has had at least one winner: discount airlines. Many passengers around the world now appear willing to sacrifice luxury for cheaper flights. The Asia-Pacific region, in particular, is where low-cost carriers are proving most popular and the number of people flying is in...
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Al Jazeera's Harry Fawcett reports on the latest situation in Japan
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Al Jazeera speaks to Imad Khadduri, Nuclear Scientist
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Asia to take lead in global air travel
Asia looks set to become the world's busiest market for air travel in a few years, as the US and Europe cut back on aviation. At the Singapore airshow, airlines have been on a shopping spree. Airbus has taken orders worth $1.3 trillion, and Boeing had good news too, signing its biggest commercial...
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Mekong River losing its Irrawaddy dolphin population
Southeast Asia's Mekong River is home to one of the last populations of Irrawaddy dolphins, but they are now a critically endangered species. The number of dolphins has been fast dwindling in the past one decade; the population in the Mekong is probably less than 100 these days. The cause of the ...
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Bodies found at Russian jet crash site
Search spokesman says no survivors found amid wreckage of Sukhoi plane that crashed in Indonesia with 45 people aboard.
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Joint Mekong river patrols begin
China, along with three other Asian nations, has started co-ordinated patrols on the Mekong river in an effort to improve security in the increasingly violent area. Thailand, Myanmar and Laos have signed an agreement with Beijing to escort shipping vessels through the Golden Triangle, where the b...
Preserving heritage while rebuilding Tokyo
After the twin disasters of the earthquake and tsunami last year, city planners in Tokyo say they are aiming to rebuild the city so that it is safer and better protected from natural disasters.
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'Ring of fire' eclipse crosses Pacific
People across Asia and the western United States have been gazing at the skies to see the sun blotted out. An annular solar eclipse created a "ring of fire" around the moon when it reached its peak in the US late on Sunday local time. The eclipse generated much excitment in Tokyo, which has not w...
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Blind dissident's escape tests US-China ties
A senior US diplomat arrives in China, just days before a major visit by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, amid allegations that the US is harbouring an escaped Chinese rights activist. Kurt Campbell, the assistant US secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, was seen leaving a US ...
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Swords give Philippines village cutting edge
A farming village in the northern Philippines is forging a brighter future thanks to the sword-making skills of one man. Using recycled steel from trucks, hand-made leather and imported hide from a sting ray, Filomeno de Guzman, a former soldier, fashions hunting knives and sword replicas. His ho...
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Indonesia may stop sending maids abroad
After Saudi Arabia beheaded an Indonesian maid for murder last year, there was a national outcry in the East Asian nation. Now the Indonesian government is planning to stop sending maids abroad by 2017 amid reports that several maids are enduring abuse. Currently, more than 60 Indonesian workers ...
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South Korea's jet firms flying high
South Korea's defence industry has been steadily taking off over the past six years, in part spurred by concerns over reported advances made by its neighbour to the north. Now the country's Korea Aerospace Industries is hoping to land a deal to replace the fleet of training aircraft used by the U...
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