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Singapore not serious about an extradition treaty: Indonesia speaker. (24 Oct) - The House of Representatives has drawn attention to the Indonesia-Singapore extradition treaty during the 2nd Southeast Asia Parliamentarians Against Corruption (SEAPAC) meeting in Medan, North Sumatra, which started on Wednesday. An extradition... 

Since 2006, the number of Filipinos has doubled and - together with Thais - they number 200, overwhelmingly women. With men outnumbering women by 2,000, the Faroe Islands need to import brides to sustain society, it's been suggested. (24 Oct) - Most young Faroese women travel abroad to study, half of them never to return to... 

Singapore's Speaker's Corner has seen increasingly vocal debate. (21 Oct) - When I was living in Singapore 13 years ago, the government was debating a decision that in other countries might have seemed rather trivial: whether or not to permit a version of Speakers' Corner, the spot in London's Hyde Park where individuals...