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Ms Kim holding the debit card she uses for daily expenses. Only about 20 per cent of all payments in South Korea are made with cash, as credit cards, debit cards and T-money become more popular.

Card, not cash, is king in South Korea

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'Positive attitude' needed to mend ties with China, Japan told

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Ayers Rock or Uluru, a 700-million-year-old monolith, is one of Australia's best known tourist landmarks. The steep climb to the top is at the centre of a long-running dispute.Â

Latest call to allow Uluru climb hits the rocks

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Malaysia deports 32 Taiwanese fraud suspects to China

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Ms Kim holding the debit card she uses for daily expenses. Only about 20 per cent of all payments in South Korea are made with cash, as credit cards, debit cards and T-money become more popular.

Card, not cash, is king in South Korea

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Ayers Rock or Uluru, a 700-million-year-old monolith, is one of Australia's best known tourist landmarks. The steep climb to the top is at the centre of a long-running dispute.Â

Latest call to allow Uluru climb hits the rocks

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'Positive attitude' needed to mend ties with China, Japan told

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The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis has been conducting patrols in the South China Sea amid heightened tensions over the disputed waters.

US carrier group denied Hong Kong visit by China

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Malaysia deports 32 Taiwanese fraud suspects to China

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Malaysian central bank fines 1MDB

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Malaysia's central bank fines troubled state fund 1MDB

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A movie can be made on 1MDB saga: Malaysia's former premier Mahathir

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(Above) Ms Sarah Hemans and her fiance Ruwan Gunasinghe, who are living in their parents' homes on opposite sides of Sydney, are considering moving to Queensland or Melbourne. (Right) Ms Gabi Bowen says she cannot imagine ever being able to afford a

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Mr Rodrigo Duterte whipping up the crowd during a campaign rally in Quezon City, east of Manila, on Saturday.

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(Above and below) The steel foundries that dot Tangshan city have gone eerily quiet, their smoke stacks no longer billowing smoke and their gates shuttered. Inside, dust-covered tools lie abandoned, the workers who once wielded them are spending thei

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Qian'an: From steel city to still city

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Banana plantations on land leased by foreign investors - almost all from China - are employing locals to spray chemicals over more than 10,000ha in Bokeo province alone, the official Lao News Agency reported.

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Chemicals are killing Laos' farmlands

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Li Xueying, Regional Correspondent in Pingtung, Taiwan
Tourism boost for ancestral hometown of Taiwan's next president

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India's rise prompts fresh hope, new fears

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Ms Suu Kyi addressing the committee that monitors the National Ceasefire Accord on Wednesday.

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Dilemma for Suu Kyi in push for peace process

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Japan, Singapore and 50 years of post-war friendship

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The faltering fortunes of South Korea's once-favourite 'daughter'

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Japan a welcome balancer to China in region

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Mystery fish deaths in Vietnam

Dead fish on a beach in Quang Trach district in central Vietnam on April 20. Piles of dead molluscs have been found in the same coastal region where dead fish began washing up on beaches earlier this month, sparking alarm and hammering the local fishing economy.

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Ms Lola Webber of the Humane Society International (HSI) comforting a dog in a cage during a publicised rescue event yesterday involving the closure of a dog farm in Wonju, south-east of Seoul. The business was the fifth and the largest dog meat farm

Saving dogs from the chopping block

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