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Australia Cricket Manager Hopeful of Bangladesh Visit

Australia's cricket authorities are hopeful that a Bangladesh tour due to start in less than a month will go ahead...

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Warner Hits Back In Bitter Cricket Australia Pay Row

Australia vice-captain David Warner has accused Cricket Australia of wrongly blaming players for not resolving a bitter...

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Nobel Laureate Yunus Cancels Meet In Bangladesh

Nobel peace prize winner Muhammad Yunus Thursday cancelled an international conference of social business entrepreneurs...

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Baby Sold By Drug-Addict Father In Bangladesh Returns To Mother

A Bangladeshi woman whose daughter was sold off by her drug-addicted husband described her joy Thursday at being...

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Cricket Australia Ready For Arbitration In Pay Row

Cricket Australia said Thursday it will take its bitter pay dispute with players to independent arbitration if...

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Bangladeshi Twins Born Joined At Skull To Undergo Surgery

Bangladeshi twins born conjoined at the skull will undergo a difficult and potentially dangerous operation to separate...

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Myanmar’s Rohingya Abandoned After Rapes

Rohingya Muslim Ayamar Bagon has lived on handouts since her husband left her after she told him she was gang-raped by...

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Insecticide Responsible For Deaths of 13 Children In Bangladesh

Controversial insecticide endosulfan, which has been banned by more than 80 countries, was responsible for the deaths...

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China To ‘step Up’ Troop Deployment In India Border Row

China warned on Monday that it will step up its troop deployment in a border dispute with India, vowing to defend its...

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Rise and Fall of General Manas

An army 'Big Shot' whose influence seeped across the south, Lieutenant-General Manas Kongpan sat at the apex of...

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Fears Grow For Ashes Amid Reports Pay Talks Have Broken Down

Australia's cricketers have been warned this year's Ashes series could be scrapped, even if a new pay deal is reached...

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Myanmar Still Using ‘same Tactics’ of Oppression As Junta

Myanmar is still using the same "tactics" to silence its people as the former junta, the UN's rights envoy said Friday,...

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Never Easy Playing Sri Lanka In Their Backyard, Says Kohli

Top-ranked India will not take Sri Lanka lightly despite the home team's recent indifferent form as well as...

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India Says It Has International Backing On China Border Dispute

India's stand in its border dispute with China is supported by other countries, Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said...

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Thailand General Jailed For Trafficking At Mass Trial

A former Thai general has been sentenced to 27 years in jail for human trafficking at a landmark trial. Manas Kongpan...

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Bracewell Quits Ireland Cricket Coaching Job

Ireland's cricket head coach John Bracewell says he wants a "new goal and challenge" when he leaves his post after...

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Thai Smuggling Crackdown Leaves Myanmar’s Rohingya In Limbo

Five years have passed since Hla Hla Sein was forced into a displacement camp in western Myanmar for Rohingya Muslims,...

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Pope Francis Unlikely To Visit India In 2017

Pope Francis is unlikely to visit India and Bangladesh this year as widely expected, a senior church official said...

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Cornered By Poverty, Stalked By Violence

Hemmed in by Myanmar security forces and menaced by abductions and killings, Rohingya Muslims in a conflict-scarred...