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                    [Title] => Why critics describe ‘Monkey Man’ as the ‘South Asian John Wick’
                    [Summary] => Dev Patel has always loved action cinema.
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                    [Title] => US issues travel alert for Bangladesh
                    [Summary] => 

 The U.S. State Department issued a travel alert Tuesday for Bangladesh, saying there's reliable information that terrorist attacks could occur against foreigners in the traditionally moderate South Asian country.

[DatePublished] => 2015-11-10 16:48:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510042 [AuthorName] => Matthew Pennington [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/world/20151111/italian-murder-bangladesh.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1516813 [Title] => EDITORIAL - Bigger than the UN? [Summary] =>

Round one went to the Philippines as the Permanent Court of Arbitration ruled Thursday in The Hague that it had jurisdiction over the sea dispute between the country and China.

[DatePublished] => 2015-10-30 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/opinion/20151031/startoon.gif ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1505471 [Title] => Global competitiveness: Philippines up 5 notches [Summary] =>

The Philippines continues to claw its way up the world competitiveness rankings as it climbed five notches in the World Economic Forum (WEF)’s Global Competitiveness Index 2015-2016.

[DatePublished] => 2015-09-29 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/business/business-main/20150630/philippine-economy.jpg ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1505372 [Title] => United Arab Emirates lays out new migrant labor reforms [Summary] =>

The United Arab Emirates is introducing labor reforms that aim to tighten oversight of employment agreements for the millions of temporary migrant workers that comprise the bulk of the country's workforce, a top Emirati official said Tuesday.

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The United States said yesterday that it wants to sponsor a resolution at next month's UN human rights session that is supportive of Sri Lanka's government, which wants to conduct its own investigation into alleged war crimes.

[DatePublished] => 2015-08-26 13:23:42 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1444175 [AuthorName] => Krishan Francis [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1407600 [Title] => Pakistan: Mobile money firm offers micro-insurance [Summary] =>

Pakistan’s Easypaisa, a mobile money provider, introduced a life insurance scheme last year, which has 250,000 subscribers, with 20 percent of users maintaining the minimum deposit in any given month.

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Nearly half of girls in South Asia marry before their 18th birthday as children in the region continue paying the price of persistent inequality, according to a UNICEF report released Thursday.

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Australia and India signed an agreement on Friday allowing the export of Australian uranium to New Delhi for use in power generation.

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Policymakers in Asia-Pacific including the Philippines should focus on reining in the rapid growth in credit and making sure no asset bubbles arise in the financial system, Fitch Ratings said in a report.

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