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Abu Salem, the South Asian underworld kingpin and his failed Bollywood starlet wife Monica Bedi used fake identities to enter Canada to park his loot, Indian investigators believe.
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Health tourists are helping destabilize India's health system. They say too much is being spent on care for foreign patients and rich Indians.
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Authorities in Nepal have urged the public to help in the mystery of a meditating boy who is believed to be an incarnation of Buddha.
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A Hindu hardliner has angered women and Muslims by pressing Hindus to have more than 3 kids to avoid being 'swamped by Muslims'.
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One of India's most dreaded and colourful bandits has been shot to death by police in the forests of Utar Pradesh in central India
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Brylan is 14 and Milagros, 11. The girls quit school to work for their family.
Each earns about 260 pesos (C$5) a night, which they give to their mother, a street sweeper. They make another 200 pesos in tips.
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Top model Michelle Leslie, who made her name promoting undies and skimpy outfits down the catwalk, is now behind bars in Bali after a drug bust.More
Canadians are among those who are being tracked as Asia crackdowns on sex-tourism, a multi-million dollar sex-tourism industry.More
A Canadian man who returned home to Bangladesh was arrested after mistakenly thought to be a key suspect in the murder of the president.More
Armed with music to fight poverty and illiteracy, Canadian Jesuit Father McGuire took to the Himalayas to help India's poorest.More
Scientists concerned about transmission of viruses from monkeys to humans are warning travellers to Asia not to pet or feed the numerous monkeys at temples and other tourist sites.
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Bollywood actor Aamir Khan has come under fire over reports of an illegitimate child by British journalist Jessica Hines.More
According to Indian media, Toronto is hot for a new kind of burlesque dancer: 'the sari stripper'. The number of girls involved exceeds hundreds.More
A plan to ban hand-pulled rickshaws in Calcutta is a long overdue step to end a backbreaking, inhuman form of work, says the communist state of West Bengal.
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The Calgary-raised Bhangra dance king will headline Scotland's biggest multi-cultural event to be held at Edinburgh's Pilrig Park.More
Wu Yi is among the highest-ranked among nine Asian women on the annual Forbes' list of world's most powerful women.More
Sandakan in Sabah is a town rich in historical sites. Western visitors come to visit its historical monuments. More
The glamourous American doll may still be the must-have toy for millions of little girls but an Indian challenger seems to be outstripping Barbie - at least in Manchester, UK.More
Shani Kumari Singh was crowned Miss India-Canada 2005 from among 15 talented hopefuls at a gala function in Toronto recently.More
A series of intimate exposes of film celebrities have rocked the world's largest movie industry-amateur paparazzi using mobile phone cameras have got them running scared.
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