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Australia boatpeople plan wins crucial support Plans to transfer asylum-seekers who arrive in Australia by boat to Pacific states won crucial support Tuesday, with Prime Minister Julia Gillard saying they could be processed offshore within a month.

14 August 2012

Ecuador to respond to Assange asylum plea this week Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa said he expects to respond to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's application for political asylum some time this week.

14 August 2012

Panel urges Australia to send boatpeople offshore Australia should transfer asylum-seekers offshore to places such as Nauru and Papua New Guinea to deter boatpeople from risking their lives at sea.

13 August 2012

Taiwan couple in same-sex Buddhist wedding Two women tied the knot on Saturday in Taiwan's first same-sex Buddhist wedding, a move rights groups hope will help make the island become the first place in Asia to legalise gay marriage.

11 August 2012

Kazakh journalist wins Peter Mackler prize An investigative journalist in Kazakhstan who survived an attempt on his life is this year's winner of the Peter Mackler Award for Courageous and Ethical Journalism.

10 August 2012

Ust-Kamenogorsk Sport Center to be named after Olympic champion Olga Rypakova A new Track-and-Field Athletics Center in Ust-Kamenogorsk will be named after Kazakhstan Olympic champion Olga Rypakova.

09 August 2012

Hollywood, Broadway composer Hamlisch dead at 68 Marvin Hamlisch, the composer behind a string of Broadway and Hollywood hits including "A Chorus Line," "The Way We Were" and "The Sting," has died.

09 August 2012

Nazarbayev's official biography published A group of researchers and historians spent two years studying archived documents and video materials to discover new facts in Nazarbayev’s biography.

08 August 2012

One third of Kazakhstan residents embellish their skills at job interviews HeadHunter has found out that the job applicants frequently overrate their professional knowledge, personal qualities and work experience.

08 August 2012

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Gay taboo turns to pride in Vietnam Communist Vietnam is considering legalising same-sex marriage, which would catapult it to the fore of gay rights in Asia, where traditional values dominate many societies and sodomy is illegal in some.

07 August 2012

Hiroshima marks anniversary of atomic bombing Tens of thousands of people marked the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Monday, as a rising tide of anti-nuclear sentiment swells in post-Fukushima Japan.

06 August 2012

South Africa marks 50 years of Mandela's arrest South Africa will unveil its latest monument to Nelson Mandela on Saturday, a new statue along a rural highway to mark the spot where he was arrested 50 years ago for his struggle against white rule.

05 August 2012

Gays target US fast-food chain with 'kiss-in' Gays and lesbians puckered up at "kiss-ins" outside Chick-fil-A outlets across the United States in protest over the fast-food chain's opposition to same-sex marriage.

04 August 2012

Mystery, anger surround Wallenberg's USSR disappearance Over 67 years since he disappeared into the Soviet prison system, the fate of the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg remains shrouded in mystery despite decades of work to find the truth.

03 August 2012

Women make up 70% of unemployed in Astana Women are looking for a job more frequently than men in Astana.

02 August 2012

Divorces on the rise again in Iraq Divorces are on the rise in Iraq, official figures show, though the number of couples parting ways is still far lower than the latter years of Saddam Hussein's rule, and marriages much higher.

31 July 2012

Half of Kazakhstan citizens consider themselves workaholics According to the poll by HeadHunter, 47% of еру polled Kazakhstan employees sees themselves as work addicts.

30 July 2012

Activists hope gay marriage debate will stir Japan Koyuki Higashi is slim, articulate and intelligent, things that make a would-be wife attractive to many in Japan. But Higashi knows she will probably never marry because she is a lesbian.

30 July 2012

America misses out on live London Olympic ceremony A billion people across the globe turned on their TVs to watch the opening ceremony of the London Olympics live Friday, but very few of them were in US.

28 July 2012