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In Mainland China, when viewers watch a popular TV period drama they do not see the female actresses’ cleavage. Censors have cropped the picture so viewers see the little below the neck. Although there is no law in Hong Kong banning cleavage on television, the local broadcaster, taking a cue from the Mainland, implemented the same solution to the "problem."
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Iraqis are marked World Press Freedom Day by mourning the death of journalist Ammar Al Shahbander, who was killed in a car bomb explosion in Baghdad, carried out by the ISIS.
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As a record number of migrants have died trying to cross the Mediterranean in 2015, a number of private initiatives and organisations have sprung up over the last few years to help mitigate the continuing disaster, by providing first aid, drinking water and food, as well as medical help including life rafts and life jackets.
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Workers across Southeast Asia participated in Labor Day rallies on Friday. In Cambodia, workers petitioned to raise the monthly minimum wage to US$177. In the Philippines, protesters targeted labor export policy. In Malaysia, more than 10,000 people joined a protest against a new VAT. In Singapore, unions marched against wage inequality.
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