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• An artist on the run, an exhibition censored: How China tried to silence a Thai art show

  The Burmese curators of the show, which contained Tibetan, Uyghur and Hong Kong art, have fled to the UK.

• Fears of starvation in Myanmar as UN warns of 'disaster'

  "There is no income. Most people survive now by eating boiled taro roots," one person told the BBC.

• Flash floods kill more than 300 in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir

  The majority of deaths were recorded in Pakistan's mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa area.

• 'Please find my daughter': Grief and chaos after flash floods in Kashmir

  At least 60 people have been killed in the flash floods and dozens still remain missing.

• More than 300 ill in Indonesia after eating free school lunches

  This is the largest spate of food poisonings to hit Prabowo Subianto's flagship free meals programme.

• Australia to close loophole in screening system for childcare workers

  The move comes after a spate of high-profile abuse cases in the childcare sector.

• F1 tycoon fined $23,000 in Singapore gift scandal

  Ong Beng Seng had given expensive gifts to an ex-minister, including an all-expenses paid trip to Qatar.

• Watch robot athletes compete in world's first humanoid games

  Teams from 16 countries are competing in a range of sports including football, athletics and dance as part of the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, China.

• Australian who killed UK woman eligible for earlier release after appeal

  The man stabbed Emma Lovell to death on Boxing Day in 2022, after breaking into her Brisbane home.

• How does Japan remember the end of WW2?

  In Japan,15 August is a mourning occasion known as "Memorial Day for the End of the War"

• Rain warning delays landmark trial of Hong Kong's rebel mogul Jimmy Lai

  Lai is accused of colluding with foreign forces under a Beijing-imposed national security law.

• Baby Shark song not plagiarised - South Korean top court

  The court rejected a US composer's copyright claim to the inescapable children's song.

• Australia and Vanuatu agree to $328m security and business deal

  Australia is trying to grow its influence in the Pacific region, to counter China's increased power.

• 'We were never friends': A massacre on the eve of WW2 still haunts China-Japan relations

  Eighty years after Japan was defeated, a wave of Chinese films about the occupation are fuelling memory and anger.

• Watch: Jimmy Lai's last interview as a free man in 2020

  The BBC's Danny Vincent spoke to the pro-democracy tycoon just hours before his arrest in December 2020.