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School bus fire in Thailand kills at least 23
The school bus was carrying more than 40 students and teachers on a field trip when it caught fire in the outskirts of Bangkok, police said.
- by Napat Wesshasartar and Panarat Thepgumpanat
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No maps, no GPS, no training: How 44 people survived being turned back in the Timor Sea
Many members of the group tried to reach Australia after seeing a TikTok video promising them high wages. They never made it.
- by Zach Hope and Amilia Rosa
Losing ground to rebels, Myanmar junta tries an olive branch
Just as resistance forces appear close to capturing the country’s second-biggest city, Mandalay, military rulers put up a new proposal.
- by Sui-Lee Wee
Fifth time lucky for Japan’s new prime minister
In a night of drama, Shigeru Ishiba managed to win his party’s and, consequently, his country’s leadership, negating Japan its first female PM.
- by Motoko Rich and Hisako Ueno
To surname or not to surname? That is the question dividing Japan
A law dating from the Meiji era is diving the country and may make the difference in who runs it.
- by Motoko Rich and Kiuko Notoya
Chalmers likes China’s economic stimulus plans but lobster still not on the menu
Speaking in the Chinese capital on Friday after meetings with local officials, the treasurer said Australia had “a lot at stake” when it came to China’s economic slowdown.
- by Lisa Visentin
China’s newest nuclear-powered submarine sinks in potential embarrassment for Beijing
The development is a potential embarrassment for Beijing as it seeks to expand its military capabilities.
China vows to fix housing market as Chalmers arrives to learn Australian fallout
Chalmers’s arrival in Beijing on Thursday for two days of meetings, the first visit by an Australian treasurer in seven years, coincided with a flurry of economic activity in China.
- by Lisa Visentin
A case study in sin: The rise and fall of Sihanoukville
Pleading eyes, empty rooms and abandoned construction sites – the once-glittering rivers of gold have run dry.
- by Zach Hope
World’s longest-serving death row inmate found not guilty
The 88-year-old former boxer was wrongly accused of a quadruple murder in 1966 with help from fabricated evidence.
- by Mari Yamaguchi
Russia has a secret war drone project with China, intel sources say
Beijing has repeatedly denied that China or Chinese companies have supplied Russia with weapons for use in Ukraine.
- by Tom Balmforth
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