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North Korea: isolated state with a long history of assassinations

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The Guardian – Kim Jong-nam’s death is believed to have been an ordered hit. If so it would not be the first time citizens were targeted abroad

The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, left, and his exiled half-brother Kim Jong-nam.

The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, left, and his half-brother Kim Jong-nam. Photograph: Wong Maye-E, Shizuo Kambayashi/AP

Kim Jong-nam was almost certainly murdered by North Korean agents, according to intelligence officials in South Korea, as suspicions mount that his assassination at Kuala Lumpur airport was ordered by his estranged half-brother, the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un.

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Thông Tin, Thế giới, Trang tiếng Anh

Female suspect arrested over death of Kim Jong-nam – female suspect carrying Vietnamese passport

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Female suspect arrested over death of Kim Jong-nam

Malaysian police say female suspect was carrying Vietnamese passport and was alone at the time of arrest.

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Malaysia police have arrested a female suspect in connection with the death of Kim Jong-nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un.

Police said the woman they arrested on Wednesday carried a Vietnamese passport and was alone at the time of arrest.

The woman, detained at the low-cost terminal of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in the Malaysian capital, was identified on the travel document as Doan Thi Huong born on May 31, 1988, police said.

The “suspect was positively identified from the CCTV footage at the airport and was alone at the time of arrest”, they added.

READ MORE: Kim Jong-nam ‘poisoned with chemical spray’

Kim died on Monday after suddenly falling ill at Kuala Lumpur airport. He had been on his way to the Chinese territory of Macau, where he had been living. He was reportedly living under China’s protection.

He died on his way to hospital.

An autopsy will be performed on Wednesday, police said.

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Môi trường, Trang tiếng Anh

Hackers scrambling to save climate data from Trump administration

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David Z. Morris Jan 23, 2017

Virtual climate

Fortune_Wired has provided a glimpse into an initiative to download and securely store reams of climate and environmental data from the Environmental Protection Agency and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as the Trump administration takes power. The organizers of the work, including some based at the University of Toronto, were initially motivated by widespread environmental data destruction under Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

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Head of U.S. Pacific Command urges democracy in Thailand

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U.S. Pacific Command chief Adm. Harry Harris (left) and Thailand defense forces chief Gen. Surapong Suwana-Adth pose during the opening ceremony of the multilateral Cobra Gold military exercises at Sattahip Royal Thai Marine Corps Base in Chonburi, Thailand, on Tuesday. | REUTERS

JAPAN TIMES AP Feb 14, 2017

SATTAHIP, THAILAND – The highest-ranking U.S. military official to visit Thailand since a 2014 coup urged the country to restore democracy, saying Tuesday that America needs “a strong and stable ally” in Southeast Asia.

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Môi trường, Trang tiếng Anh

‘We had to sue’: the five lawyers taking on China’s authorities over smog

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The  Guardian

In an unprecedented legal case, a group of Chinese lawyers have charged the governments of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei with failing to protect their citizens from air pollution, which is linked to a third of all deaths in the country

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Airpocalypse now: time-lapse video of smog posted by Beijing-based Briton Chas Pope on 1 January this year
Nhân quyền, Trang tiếng Anh

Indonesian Muslim school students protest Valentine’s Day

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ChannelNewsAsia Posted 13 Feb 2017 20:26

An anti-Valentine’s Day rally in Surabaya, East Java province on February 13, 2017 AFP/Juni KriswantoSURABAYA, Indonesia: Indonesian Muslim school students staged a protest against Valentine’s Day on Monday (Feb 13), denouncing what they said was a Western celebration that encourages casual sex.

While teenagers in many countries treat the day as an occasion to declare love for their classmates, in the Indonesian city of Surabaya it was a different story as students from one school held a noisy demonstration.

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U.S., Chinese military planes in ‘unsafe’ encounter over disputed South China Sea

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Japan Times


A Chinese H-6K bomber patrols islands and reefs in the South China Sea in this undated photo. | XINHUA NEWS AGENCY / VIA AP

by Staff Writer Feb 10, 2017A U.S. Navy reconnaissance aircraft and a Chinese military plane were involved in an “unsafe” encounter earlier this week in international airspace over the disputed South China Sea, the U.S. Pacific Command said Friday.

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China’s nuclear power capacity likely to overtake America’s within a decade

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Japan Times by  Bloomberg Feb 1, 2017

China’s rapid nuclear expansion will result in it overtaking the U.S. as the nation with the largest atomic power capacity by 2026, according to BMI Research.

The world’s second-biggest economy will almost triple its nuclear capacity to nearly 100 gigawatts by 2026, making it the biggest market globally, analysts said in a note dated Jan. 27. The nation added about 8 gigawatts of nuclear power last year, boosting its installed capacity to about 34 million kilowatts, according to BMI.

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Taiwanese woman jailed for shark fins’ haul in Costa Rica

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ChannelNewsAsia

  • Posted 10 Feb 2017 05:07
  • Updated 10 Feb 2017 06:45


Shark fins fetch a high price in Asia, where they are often used in soups served on special occasions. (AFP/CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN)

SAN JOSE: A Costa Rican court has sentenced a Taiwanese business owner to prison over a fishing haul of illegally hacked-off shark fins destined for sale abroad, officials and environmentalists said on Thursday (Feb 9).

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Is Vietnam in for Another Devastating Drought?

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THE DIPLOMAT February 08, 2017

Lessons learned from last year’s disaster can shape a climate-resilient approach in the Mekong Delta.

By Nguyen Minh Quang
Is Vietnam in for Another Devastating Drought?
A farmer burns his dried-up rice on a paddy field stricken by drought in Soc Trang province in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam (March 30, 2016).
Image Credit: REUTERS/Kham

 

The Tet Holiday (Vietnamese lunar New Year) has come to an end, marking the commencement of a new dry season in Vietnam’s lower Mekong Delta. Right now in coastal provinces around the Delta, thousands of farmers, especially those who miserably suffered during last year’s historic drought, are mobilizing to prepare for another similarly devastating drought, which is expected to arrive in the Delta in a few weeks.

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