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Pressure on China and India to sign arms treaty

Fri, 27 Sep 2013 13:05:26 +1000

The United States has signed a landmark treaty at the UN General Assembly in New York, aimed at regulating the multi-billion dollar global trade in weapons.

Humanitarian crisis looms after Pakistan earthquake

Fri, 27 Sep 2013 13:04:57 +1000

Rescue teams in Pakistan are struggling to reach remote areas worst hit by the powerful earthquake which struck the south-western province of Balochistan on Tuesday.

Claims of 'modern day slavery' in Qatar

Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:57:13 +1000

A shadow has been cast upon Qatar's hosting of the 2022 soccer World Cup, after a report found migrant construction workers in the Gulf state were being treated as modern day slaves.

Signs of social media change in China?

Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:56:03 +1000

China will embark on a bold new economic experiment, beginning Sunday, which some are comparing to the reforms in the late 1970s that opened China to the world.

The author who pioneered the literary pivot to Asia

Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:54:10 +1000

One of Australia's best-known films is Peter Weir's "The Year of Living Dangerously", made in 1982.

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