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Luxury boats and yachts on display during the Singapore Yacht Show at ONE°15 Marina Club, Sentosa Cove on April 10, 2014. Roslan Rahman | AFP | Getty Images (11 April)   As the Singapore Yacht Show gets underway this week, experts told CNBC the wealthy island nation was on the cusp of becoming the 'Monaco of the East.' Although... 

The vice-principal of Danwon High School was found hanging from a tree on the island on the night of April 17. (18 April)   On April 14, a South Korean ferry carrying more than 470 passengers sank off that country's south-western shore. Most of the more than 260 passenger’s still missing and presumed dead are school children.... 

Chinese tourists in Chiangmai, Thailand (15 April)   CHIANG MAI, Thailand (AP) — The bucolic, once laid-back campus of one of Thailand's top universities is under a security clampdown. Not against a terrorist threat, but against Chinese tourists. Thousands have clambered aboard student buses at Chiang Mai University, made...