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The president has asked the police chief and top defence ministry bureaucrat to step down, though neither has done so yet.
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PM Lee Hsien Loong in China to attend Belt and Road Forum, meet Xi Jinping

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  • As Japan enters the Reiwa imperial era on May 1, the country needs to be economically strong and optimistic about the future, if it is to resist succumbing to fatalism about living in a China-dominated region, says the writer.

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  • Soldiers inspecting St Sebastian's Church, one of nine sites in Sri Lanka where bomb blasts took place on Easter Sunday. The radical Islamic splinter group National Thowheeth Jama'ath has claimed responsibility for the attacks. But the writer doubts

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