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By Rozanna Latiff KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -Malaysia’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said there would be no cover-up in domestic investigations into alleged document forgery that led to FIFA suspending seven naturalised players of the national football team, the state news agency reported on Friday. The global soccer body said this week it would launch a …

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By Fabian Hamacher TAIPEI (Reuters) -China is the real regional “troublemaker”, a senior Taiwanese security official said on Friday, personally giving out copies of a new civil defence handbook the government is sending to every household on the island as China tensions rise. The handbook, unveiled in September, includes for the first time instructions on …

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(In paragraph 2, corrects Petersen-Clausen’s nationality to German not Norwegian) By Laurie Chen and Eduardo Baptista BEIJING (Reuters) -Japanese jazz musician Yoshio Suzuki and his band were in the midst of a sound check for some long-awaited performances in Beijing when the venue was visited by plain-clothes police on Thursday afternoon. “After less than one …

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By Naw Betty Han (Reuters) -A day after Myanmar’s junta leader visited the southeastern city of Hpa-An last week, two sources said army officers met members of a powerful local militia with a directive: they had to suppress burgeoning scam centres on the Thai-Myanmar border immediately. Online scam operations along the frontier are part of …

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JAKARTA (Reuters) -The death toll from landslides in two regions of Indonesia’s Central Java rose to 30 as rescue efforts continued, the country’s disaster mitigation agency said on Friday. Some 21 people remain missing after landslides triggered by torrential rain struck the city of Cilacap last week and the Banjarnegara region over the weekend, the …

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