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KUALA LUMPUR (DPA) — Malaysia will hire 1.5 million workers from Bangladesh in stages over the next three years, a senior official said Friday, despite rejecting a plea from the UN to allow more than 150,000 refugees in the country to find jobs.

YANGON (DPA) — A Myanmar court has sentenced 20 crew members of a suspected trafficking ship to five years each for entering its territory illegally late last month, state media reported Thursday.

SEOUL (DPA) — Another two people have died of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in South Korea, authorities said Thursday.

BANGKOK — The five Thai students arrested for trying to smuggle a firearm and some ammunition onto an airplane in Pakistan have returned to Thailand, according to officials.

BANGKOK – Bangkok’s largest international airport is under investigation for potentially allowing a former police commander to carry a handgun past a security checkpoint last week.

BANGKOK — The former commander of the Bangkok police force is still under custody in Japan for allegedly trying to bring a gun past an airport security checkpoint, a government spokesperson said.

BANGKOK — The former commander of the Bangkok Metropolitan Police has been detained at an airport in Japan for trying to carry a gun on-board a Bangkok-bound aircraft, a police spokesperson said.

AYUTTHAYA — Thai police say they are investigating a complaint from a farmer in Ayutthaya province who said at least 100 ducks were stolen from his farm.

YANGON (DPA) — Sandar Khine remembers well how a surreptitious gathering during the dark days of military rule in Myanmar 15 years ago inspired her to paint the subject that would come to define her work.

BANGKOK (DPA) — The heir apparent to the Samsung empire made a public apology to South Koreans Tuesday for not containing the deadly outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) at one of the group's hospitals.