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Jan 13, 2016

MH370 hunt discovers old intact shipwreck

An apparently intact shipwreck has emerged in imagery from the hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

ASIA PACIFIC

Jan 13, 2016

China fleet blurs line between navy and coast guard with giant new floating fortress

By David Tweed

China has nearly finished a giant coast guard ship and will probably deploy it armed with machine guns and shells in the disputed South China Sea, the Global Times reported, dubbing the vessel "The Beast."

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ASIA PACIFIC

Jan 12, 2016

China sets up new military units, including graft-busting team

China's military has set up 15 new units — covering everything from logistics to equipment development, political work and fighting corruption — as part of an ongoing drive to modernize the world's largest armed forces, the Defense Ministry said.

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ASIA PACIFIC

Jan 12, 2016

Analysis finds North Korea faked footage showing submarine-launched missile test

Footage of a North Korean submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) test released by Pyongyang two days after it announced it had conducted the country's fourth nuclear test last week was faked, according to an analysis by a California-based think tank.

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ASIA PACIFIC

Jan 12, 2016

U.S. official says Washington may send strategic assets, but no warheads, to South Korea

The United States and South Korea are discussing deploying more U.S. "strategic assets" to the region after North Korea's atomic test last week but not restoring U.S. nuclear arms to the South, a U.S. official said Monday.

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ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS

Jan 12, 2016

Despite poverty, sanctions North Korea nuclear program thrives with low-cost labor

By James Pearson

North Korea has developed a nuclear weapons program despite poverty and international sanctions, using home-grown technology and virtually free labor to cut costs, experts said.

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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics

Jan 12, 2016

Hong Kong's 'Umbrella Soldiers' visiting Taiwan to see democracy at work

Hundreds of residents of Hong Kong, the Chinese-ruled territory rocked by street protests demanding free elections in 2014, have flown to Taiwan for Saturday's elections to see free-wheeling democracy in action.

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ASIA PACIFIC

Jan 12, 2016

Source says North Korea seeks China's aid on treaty with U.S., tests to continue without one

By Ben Blanchard and Benjamin Kang Lim

North Korea is seeking a peace treaty with the United States, China and South Korea to formally end the Korean War, and it will not stop its nuclear tests until one is achieved, a person who relayed the same message from North Korea to China has said.

ASIA PACIFIC

Jan 11, 2016

Indonesian forces regroup after failing to capture top militant

Indonesian security forces are regrouping to launch a more aggressive campaign to hunt for the country's most-wanted man, police said Monday after months of fruitless searching in the jungles of Sulawesi Island.

ASIA PACIFIC

Jan 11, 2016

Thai king leaves hospital, for outing since admission last year

Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej left hospital on Monday to visit his Bangkok palace, his first such outing since he was admitted last year.

ASIA PACIFIC

Jan 11, 2016

Sharp drop in Rohingya migrants after Thai, Bangladesh crackdowns

The number of migrants leaving Myanmar and Bangladesh by boat in the past four months has plummeted because of Thai and Bangladeshi crackdowns on human smugglers, the United Nations and a rights activist said on Friday.

ASIA PACIFIC

Jan 11, 2016

China says 500 personnel measuring radiation along North Korea border

The Chinese government has mobilized more than 500 people to carry out round the clock monitoring for radiation along the border after North Korea said last week it had carried out its fourth nuclear test, but nothing abnormal has been found.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

A mushroom cloud from the atomic bombing on Hiroshima taken from a U.S. military aircraft on Aug. 6, 1945. Copying the photo without permission is prohibited.

80 years on, a Japanese American hibakusha recalls the day the bomb dropped

By Elizabeth Beattie

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