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Japan raises permanent residency fees for foreign nationals by twenty-fold (opens the original)
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Japan has raised fees for foreigners looking to reside in the country, with the cost of permanent residency going up 20 times to 200,000 yen ($1,270; £955). Those seeking permanent residency must now also meet new income, pension and Japanese-language requirements. Long lines formed outside immigration offices earlier this week as applicants sought to beat the fee hikes, with Tokyo's main immigration bureau reporting wait times of over seven hours. The fee increases are part of a series of chang
Singapore launches matchmaking service for government workers (opens the original)
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Singapore has rolled out a matchmaking service for its government workers, an initiative that comes as the country wrestles with a record-low fertility rate. FirstDate, which launched this week for those aged 21 to 35, boasts "a different approach to dating", where it uses a Nobel-winning algorithm to match participants to one date at a time. "Swipe fatigue ends here," its website reads. Participants sign in using the national digital identity system and answer a survey about their interests, ha
Restaurant named after Xi Jinping attacked by Chinese nationals (opens the original)
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A restaurant in South Korea named after Chinese leader Xi Jinping has been vandalised by a group of Chinese nationals who fled home right after the attack, police say. Surveillance footage from the restaurant in Seongnam, a city south of Seoul, shows four masked men storming the premises in the early hours of 24 September, smashing furniture and spraying lacquer. The restaurant's owner told local media he picked the name Xi Jinping because he "wanted it to be the best Chinese restaurant [in Sout
Haze-choked Indonesia records more than 170,000 respiratory cases (opens the original)
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Some 175,000 people in Indonesia have suffered from respiratory illness since August, its health ministry said, as it continues to battle wildfires that have raged for weeks. More than 40,000 cases – which range from coughs to bronchitis and more serious conditions like pneumonia – involve toddlers. Forest fires have blanketed parts of the country as well as neighbouring Malaysia and Singapore in toxic smog, pushing air quality indices into "unhealthy" territory. Indonesia has deployed more than
Fiji declares national emergency as HIV cases surge (opens the original)
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Fiji has declared a national emergency as HIV cases surge, and is expanding access to testing, treatment and prevention services. About one in 60 adults in the tiny Pacific archipelago is now living with the bloodborne virus, compared with one in 167 five years ago, with a rising number of babies dying from HIV-related complications. The nation of less than a million people saw 2,016 new diagnoses in 2025 alone, Health Minister Antonio Lalabalavu said, noting that "an outbreak-level response is
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