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  'Comfort women' cancel meeting with Osaka mayor

  24 May 2013 : Two South Korean women forcibly drafted into Japanese military brothels during World War II have cancelled a meeting with a Japanese mayor who sparked outrage by calling them a wartime necessity.

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  N.Korea town opens to Western tourists

  24 May 2013 : North Korea's authorities have opened the border town of Sinuiju to Western tourists, Chinese-based travel agencies said, despite international tensions over Pyongyang's nuclear test in February.

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  New concerns for China's rising middle class

  24 May 2013 : With two cars, foreign holidays and a cook for their apartment, one Beijing family epitomises the new middle class created by China's decades of rapid economic growth -- and its resulting worries.

• Brunei to whip overstaying Thais

  24 May 2013 : Two Thai men who overstayed their visas to Brunei will be whipped and imprisoned for several months, a report from Bandar Seri Begawan said Friday.

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  China, US to try new tone in desert outing

  24 May 2013 : China and the United States are hoping for a new chance to set the course for smoother relations through a secluded desert summit as the Asian power's leader Xi Jinping projects a more confident style.

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  Peng stuns Stephens in Brussels

  24 May 2013 : China's eighth seed Peng Shuai upset the rankings to defeat fourth-seeded American Sloane Stephens, 6-2, 6-3 on Thursday to reach the Brussels Open quarter-finals.

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  Two years on, Li Na still stands alone

  24 May 2013 : Li Na's momentous French Open title win of 2011 was expected to open the floodgates for Asian -- and in particular Chinese -- players in world tennis.

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  Veteran All Blacks lock Ali Williams retires

  24 May 2013 : Veteran All Blacks lock Ali Williams called time on his international career Friday after playing 77 Tests over the past 11 years.

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  Strong quake strikes off Tonga

  24 May 2013 : A 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck 255 kilometres (158 miles) southwest of Tonga on Friday, according to the US Geological Survey, but there were no reports of damage.

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  H7N9 bird flu can spread in mammals: study

  24 May 2013 : The H7N9 strain of bird flu can spread among ferrets and could do the same among humans under certain conditions, according to lab animal studies on the virus published Thursday.

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  Japan eyes high-speed rail bid

  24 May 2013 : Japanese investors are keen to invest in Thailand's high-speed train project, a flagship scheme of the Yingluck Shinawatra government, the prime minister's secretary-general Suranand Vejjajiva says.

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  Malaysia activist charged with sedition, 3 others held

  24 May 2013 : A Malaysian court on Thursday charged a student activist with sedition and police arrested three others, including two opposition politicians, in what critics decried as a crackdown on dissent.

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