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Refugee Deal Between Australia And Cambodia Sparks Outrage

12:22pm October 08, 2014

by Michael Sullivan

Australia last week signed a deal that would allow hundreds of asylum seekers to be resettled in Cambodia. Critics have condemned the deal as both wrong and possibly illegal under international law.

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A screen shows the laureates of the Nobel Prize in physics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on Tuesday.

3 Scientists Win Nobel In Physics For Development Of Blue LED

12:49pm October 07, 2014

by Scott Neuman

American Shuji Nakamura, and Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano of Japan, will share the prize for co-developing a blue light-emitting diode that triggered a revolution in lighting technology.

A protester sits along the main street to the financial Central district outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong.

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Hong Kong Protest Sites Quieter After Weekend Of Arrests

12:47pm October 06, 2014

by Scott Neuman

Student activists are again discussing talks with the government, but the two sides can't agree on the details.

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Democracy Protests Subside, Hong Kong Begins To Return To Normal

12:32pm October 06, 2014

by Anthony Kuhn

Student-led protests for democratic change over the past week have waned. Schools reopened and government workers were back on the job. Some students plan to stay at the site for as long as they can.

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Seteng Horo with her son Abhishek, 4, in their two-room mud hut. Seteng is married to Kunwar. The couple has two children. Their daughter is 6.

Abortion In India Is Legal Yet Women Are Still Dying

11:46am October 06, 2014

by Rhitu Chatterjee

A poor woman in India has many bad choices when it comes to abortion: a do-it-yourself home treatment, an unqualified midwife, a quack medicine man. Seteng Horo was fortunate to find a safer option.

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A photo made available on Monday of the Fugro Discovery search vessel moored at Fremantle Port in Perth, Australia. The vessel is one of three that will resume the search for possible wreckage from MH370.

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Australia Resumes Search For Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

10:56am October 06, 2014

by Scott Neuman

Six months after the Boeing 777 disappeared without a trace, searchers are hoping something can still be found on the seabed.

The 14th Dalai Lama speaks in New Zealand on December 5, 2009. The religious leader is now 79, and says he can imagine being the last Dalai Lama: "Twenty-six hundred years of Buddhist tradition cannot be maintained by one person," he tells Jörg Eigendorf

The Dalai Lama Talks Chinese Reforms, Tibetan Challenges

7:58pm October 04, 2014

by Jörg Eigendorf

"China can no longer isolate itself," says the religious leader, who praises Chinese President Xi Jinping for fighting corruption. He also says Tibetans don't need a Dalai Lama any more.

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Pro-Democracy Unrest Continues In Hong Kong

6:42pm October 04, 2014

It's been two weeks since pro-democracy protestors took to the streets in Hong Kong. NPR's Arun Rath speaks with Lily Kuo of the website Quartz for an update and whether negotiations with the government will resume.

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People watch as pro-democracy demonstrators gather for a Saturday night rally in Hong Kong. Hong Kong has been plunged into its most serious political crisis since its 1997 handover.

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Hong Kong Police Can 'Take All Actions Necessary,' City Leader Says

2:25pm October 04, 2014

by Bill Chappell

Discussions between the protesters and the government broke down after the violence. With thousands of protesters still in the streets, some are fearing that a crackdown might be imminent.

A gondolier serenades tourists at a replica of St. Mark's Square in the Venetian casino in Macau.

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Gambling in Macau: A Reversal of Fortune ... And Values

1:50pm October 04, 2014

by Frank Langfitt

From a quiet backwater, the former Portuguese colony of Macau has developed a sparkling skyline and 35 casinos with revenue six times that of Las Vegas — and more on the way.

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