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  India's billion-dollar battle to build the world's biggest statue

  Agence France-Presse . Sardar Sarovar Dam | Updated at 02:07pm on September 03, 2018

  The world's biggest statue is rising in a remote corner of India to honour an independence hero but it could quickly be outdone by a...

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  Reuters reporters jailed for seven years in Myanmar secrets case

  Agence France-Presse . Yangon | Updated at 12:05am on September 04, 2018

  Two Reuters journalists accused of breaching Myanmar’s state secrets law while reporting on a massacre of Rohingya Muslims were jailed for seven years Monday, fuelling...

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  Life upended for those left off Indian citizenship list

  Agence France-Presse . Guwahati | Updated at 12:54am on September 03, 2018

  Nimai Hajong remembers almost nothing of the hills of eastern Bangladesh where he was born more than half a century ago, having fled as a...

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  Life upended for those left off Indian citizenship list

  Agence France-Presse . Guwahati | Updated at 10:31am on September 02, 2018

  Nimai Hajong remembers almost nothing of the hills of eastern Bangladesh where he was born more than half a century ago, having fled as a...

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  Myanmar seizes empty, abandoned ship

  Agence France-Presse . Yangon | Updated at 01:19am on September 02, 2018

  A stranded vessel empty of crew and goods that was found in Myanmar’s waters this week was being towed by a ship with 13 Indonesian...

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  Asian Art Biennial opens in Dhaka

  United News of Bangladesh. Dhaka | Updated at 07:05pm on September 01, 2018

  Bangladesh president Abdul Hamid said cultural activities had an important role to play in promoting the tradition of communal harmony including the development of the...

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  India says to help Nepal build rail link to Kathmandu

  Reuters . Kathmandu | Updated at 01:00am on September 01, 2018

  India will help Nepal construct a rail link between capital Kathmandu and an Indian border town for smoother movement of passengers and cargo to the...

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  Kathmandu declaration adopted

  Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha . Dhaka | Updated at 12:05am on September 01, 2018

  BIMSTEC leaders on Friday adopted a declaration affirming solemn commitment to making the Bay of Bengal Region peaceful, prosperous and sustainable by building on common...

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  Myanmar struggles to digest global anger over Rohingya crisis

  Agence France-Presse . Yangon | Updated at 12:05am on September 01, 2018

  Baffled, hurt or indignant, many inside Myanmar are struggling to digest a week of opprobrium heaped on their country by the UN and even Facebook...

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  Myanmar army uses fake photos in its book

  Reuters . Yangon | Updated at 12:05am on September 01, 2018

  The grainy black-and-white photo, printed in a new book on the Rohingya crisis authored by Myanmar’s army, shows a man standing over two bodies, wielding...