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Thailand has issued rules making sex change surgery more difficult — including a requirement that potential candidates cross-dress for a year — over fears that some patients are rushing into the operation, a medical association said Thursday.
The endangered giant panda may have offspring in the southern hemisphere for the first time as two pandas are due to arrive in Australia Saturday from China for a 10-year stay.
Two militants owing allegiance to the Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) militant outfit were killed Thursday in a gunfight with Indian army and police in India-controlled Kashmir, defense officials said.
An official of the Indonesian Health Ministry said on Thursday that 18,442 people in Indonesia have been infected by HIV/AIDS.
Thai police promised to get tough with criminals who steal historic artefacts for the international market after a spate of thefts from the old capital of Ayuthaya outraged the public in the Buddhist country.
The Indonesian government would refuse discussion on climate change issue in the upcoming World Trade Organization (WTO) summit scheduled to take place next week in Geneva, Switzerland, the Bisnis Indonesia reported here on Thursday.
Three Thais were killed Thursday after their pick-up truck was hit by a train, local media reported.
The son of the governor of a southern Philippine province on Thursday surrendered himself to the authorities after he and his family clan are tagged as prime suspects in Monday's massacre of at least 57 unarmed civilians.
Twenty-five elected employees who will become Santa Claus promoters during the festive season took part in a one-day training course in its Santa Claus school.
Groups around India's Mumbai held vigils, calling for police reform and painting murals to remember the 166 killed in the deadly terror attacks a year ago.
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