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	<description>Shayne Heffernan on ASEAN</description>
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		<title>New life begins for Nepal&#8217;s Maoist ex-rebels</title>
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Nepal&#8217;s  Maoist fighters on Saturday began the process of leaving the camps they  have called home since the end of their insurgency in 2006, to join the  regular army or start new lives.
The historic transition follows a breakthrough peace deal signed on November 1 by the Maoists and the three other major [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Central Bangkok &#8217;safe&#8217; from floods: Thai PM</title>
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Thailand&#8217;s premier declared central Bangkok safe from the kingdom&#8217;s devastating floods Saturday, as the death toll passed 600 and President Barack Obama vowed the US will give whatever help it can.
Thailand is suffering its worst flooding in half a century, and 5.4 million people are still affected around the kingdom, but Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Risk Of Hard Landing Rises As China Begins Monetary Easing</title>
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Chinese policymakers have begun to selectively ease macroeconomic policy to support growth, according to Barclays’ analysts.  While full on easing won’t come until 2012, China will face a significant economic slowdown as the export sector feels the impact of a fragile global economy, and residential investment, which makes up 12% of GDP, falls drastically as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China police in multi-million-dollar fake drug bust</title>
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Chinese police said Thursday they had seized two-billion-yuan ($315-million) worth of counterfeit drugs and packaging in nationwide raids on fake medicine, the second such bust in recent weeks.
Police arrested 1,770 suspects and  broke up more than 1,400 dens that made or sold fake medicine during  the operation, which involved 16,000 police officers, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s Wen warns &#8220;outside forces&#8221; off sea dispute</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) &#8211; Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said on Friday that &#8220;outside forces&#8221; had no excuse to get involved in a complex dispute over the South China Sea, offering a veiled warning to the United States and others not to stick their noses into the sensitive issue.
But Wen also struck a softer line [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese craft returns from space docking mission</title>
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BEIJING (AP) — China said Friday that the safe return of an unmanned spacecraft that docked twice with an orbiting module was a major step in preparation for the launch of its own space station.
The  Shenzhou 8 craft landed by parachute in China&#8217;s western desert late  Thursday after more than two weeks in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taiwan official pleads guilty in US case</title>
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A Taiwanese official will soon be deported after pleading guilty Friday to mistreating two housekeepers brought from the Philippines to work in her Missouri home, US prosecutors said.
Liu Hsien-hsien, director of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Kansas City, Missouri, was arrested last week for allegedly treating her Filipino housekeepers like slaves.
Liu &#8212; who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan hold nerves to beat Sri Lanka</title>
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Pakistani  bowlers held their nerves to stop a threatening Sri Lankan team to win  the third day-night international by 21 runs here on Friday to take a  2-1 lead in the five-match series.
Umar Gul (3-48) bowled well in the final overs to make sure good work by spinners Saeed Ajmal (3-42) and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Philippines&#8217; Arroyo arrested for vote rigging</title>
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Philippine police arrested ex-president Gloria Arroyo  at her hospital bed on Friday on charges of conspiring with a feared  warlord to rig an election, an offence that could lead to life in jail.
The events capped a tumultuous  week in Philippine politics that had seen the government block Arroyo,  64, from leaving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aerial view of tsunami zone: cleaner but barren</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SENDAI, Japan (AP) — From 1,000  feet (300 meters) up, the view of the tsunami-battered Japanese seaside  communities shows striking progress: much of the rubble, crumpled cars  and other debris is gone.
Yet  seen from a helicopter Friday carrying Associated Press journalists,  there are few signs of rebuilding eight months after [...]]]></description>
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