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Bandar Utama stabbing: Malaysian boy acquitted for murder of schoolgirl on grounds of insanity (opens the original)
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A Malaysian teenage boy charged with the high-profile murder of a female schoolmate has been acquitted, with the judge finding the boy was mentally unsound during the incident. He had fatally stabbed Yap Shing Xuen in a toilet at their secondary school on the outskirts of the capital Kuala Lumpur. The killing of the 16-year-old girl had shocked Malaysia and sparked debate about the effects of social media on children. Police previously had said they suspected social media could have influenced t
Singapore: Highest paid world leader Lawrence Wong to get salary increase of $1 million (opens the original)
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Singapore's government says it will raise the annual salaries of its ministers and other office holders, including its prime minister who is the highest paid political leader in the world. Lawrence Wong will see an increase of 1.4 million Singapore dollars ($1.1m; £818,000) in his annual pay package. He has said he will donate this pay increase to charity over the next five years. Wong said that raising the pay of ministers was necessary to attract better talent. The government has previously ar
'It's like layer upon layer of miracles': How Nepal flood survivors were rescued from tunnel (opens the original)
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A tunnelling expert involved in the rescue operation at a blocked Nepalese hydropower tunnel has described to the BBC how they managed to reach survivors. Arnold Dix has been advising Nepal's hydropower authorities on how to dig through the blocked tunnel to Trishuli 3A Hydropower Station, which was one of several stations hit by last week's massive flash flood on the Nepal-Tibet border. "It's like layer upon layer of miracles" that they found two men on Friday, he said, given the multiple chall
South Korea: Police officer admits to closing missing person cases on Jeju to avoid work (opens the original)
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A South Korean police officer has admitted to closing missing persons cases without investigating them in order to avoid additional work, according to authorities. The officer, surnamed Bu, was arrested earlier this month after he was accused of prematurely closing cases on the popular holiday island Jeju and lying to missing persons' families. Amid mounting public criticism, police embarked on belated searches for several missing persons on the island, and have since discovered four bodies in r
Nepal-Tibet floods: 'High risk' of lake breaching and causing second flood, warns China (opens the original)
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China has warned there is a "high risk" a lake that formed after the recent landslide near the Nepal-Tibet border may breach its banks, causing a second flood downstream. The warning comes after Wednesday's deadly flash flood in the same area, which scientists say was triggered by the collapse of a mountain glacier into a river. As of Friday, an estimated 2.5 million cubic metres of water had accumulated, according to broadcaster CCTV. Officials said that three million cubic metres of water was
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