Myanmar's powerful military has taken control of the country in a coup and declared a state of emergency, following the detention of Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior government leaders in early morning raids Monday.
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The country is currently in the process of finding a manager for the project, called the Mekong-Australia Program on Transnational Crime. It will aim to tackle financial crimes, illicit drugs, child sexual exploitation and human trafficking and is due to focus on Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
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Japan, the only country to experience a nuclear attack, refuses to sign a UN treaty banning nuclear weapons
By North Asia correspondent Jake Sturmer and Yumi Asada in Hiroshima
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Hiroshi Harada is one of more than 100,000 hibakusha , the Japanese word for atomic bomb survivors.
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Hiroshi Harada was six years old when the United States dropped the world s first nuclear weapon in war on the western Japanese city of Hiroshima. First there was a flash, he said. My father quickly covered my body without knowing what it was. We were facing down and there was a blast the next moment.
A Melbourne man stranded in Thailand claims he has been abandoned by the Australian government after it cancelled his ticket for a flight home and cut him off from further financial support.