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South Korean Scam Suspects Deported - Cambodia

South Korean Scam Suspects Deported - Cambodia

Handout Photo - This photo taken on Oct. 18, 2025 shows South Korean online scam suspects getting out of a bus at the Techo International Airport in Kandal province, Cambodia. Cambodia deported 64 South Korean online scam suspects, including five women, to their birth country on Friday night, said a news release from Cambodia's Ad-Hoc Committee to Combat Online Scams on Saturday. Photo by Agence Kampuchea Presse/Handout via Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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South Korean Scam Suspects Deported - Cambodia

South Korean Scam Suspects Deported - Cambodia

Handout Photo - South Korean online scam suspects are escorted onto a plane at the Techo International Airport in Kandal province, Cambodia on Oct. 18, 2025. Cambodia deported 64 South Korean online scam suspects, including five women, to their birth country on Friday night, said a news release from Cambodia's Ad-Hoc Committee to Combat Online Scams on Saturday. Photo by Agence Kampuchea Presse/Handout via Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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South Korean Scam Suspects Deported - Cambodia

South Korean Scam Suspects Deported - Cambodia

Handout Photo - South Korean online scam suspects are escorted onto a plane at the Techo International Airport in Kandal province, Cambodia on Oct. 18, 2025. Cambodia deported 64 South Korean online scam suspects, including five women, to their birth country on Friday night, said a news release from Cambodia's Ad-Hoc Committee to Combat Online Scams on Saturday. Photo by Agence Kampuchea Presse/Handout via Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Illustration - Aerial View of France

Illustration - Aerial View of France

FRANCE. NORMANDY. CALVADOS (14) AERIAL VIEW OF POINTE DU HOC. IT OVERLOOKS A CLIFF 25 TO 30 METRES HIGH WITH A PEBBLE BEACH AROUND TEN METRES WIDE AT ITS FOOT. SITUATED BETWEEN UTAH BEACH (TO THE WEST) AND OMAHA BEACH (TO THE EAST), THE POINTE HAD BEEN FORTIFIED BY THE GERMANS AND, ACCORDING TO ALLIED AERIAL RECONNAISSANCE, WAS EQUIPPED WITH HEAVY ARTILLERY WHOSE RANGE THREATENED THE TWO NEIGHBOURING BEACHES. Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Asian Games: Tennis

Asian Games: Tennis

Yosuke Watanuki of Japan plays in an Asian Games men's singles semifinals tennis match against Hong Seong Chan of South Korea at the HOC Tennis Center in Hangzhou, China, on Sept. 28, 2023.

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Asian Games: Tennis

Asian Games: Tennis

Yosuke Watanuki of Japan reacts after winning an Asian Games men's singles semifinals tennis match against Hong Seong Chan of South Korea at the HOC Tennis Center in Hangzhou, China, on Sept. 28, 2023.

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Asian Games: Tennis

Asian Games: Tennis

Yosuke Watanuki of Japan plays in an Asian Games men's singles semifinals tennis match against Hong Seong Chan of South Korea at the HOC Tennis Center in Hangzhou, China, on Sept. 28, 2023.

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Fukuoka governor OKs airport privatization

Fukuoka governor OKs airport privatization

FUKUOKA, Japan - Fukuoka Gov. Hiroshi Ogawa (C) expresses agreement with the proposed privatization of the central government-owned Fukuoka Airport in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, before the prefectural assembly's ad hoc committee on Nov. 20, 2014. Fukuoka Mayor Soichiro Takashima also has voiced his readiness to support the idea.

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Japan gov't, nuclear commission at odds

Japan gov't, nuclear commission at odds

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) attends a meeting of a House of Representatives ad hoc committee on post-disaster restoration at the Diet building in Tokyo on May 23, 2011. On the front left is Haruki Madarame, chairman of the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan. The government and the commission have been at odds over why the injection of seawater into the troubled No. 1 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was temporarily suspended a day after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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People from Myanmar affected by postelection fighting

People from Myanmar affected by postelection fighting

MAE SOT, Thailand - People who fled from Myanmar stay in an ad hoc camp in Mae Sot, Thailand, on Nov. 9, 2010. They were among some 15,000 residents from eastern Myanmar who crossed the border to evade clashes between Karen ethnic rebels and the junta following the general elections.

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People from Myanmar affected by postelection fighting

People from Myanmar affected by postelection fighting

MAE SOT, Thailand - People who fled from Myanmar stay in an ad hoc camp in Mae Sot, Thailand, on Nov. 9, 2010. They were among some 15,000 residents from eastern Myanmar who crossed the border to evade clashes between Karen ethnic rebels and the junta following the general elections.

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Biodiversity talks

Biodiversity talks

NAGOYA, Japan - Fernando Casas of Colombia (R) and Timothy Hodges of Canada, co-chairs of the ad hoc working group on access and benefit-sharing of the biodiversity convention, speak at a press conference in Nagoya on Oct. 13, 2010. The working group meets on Oct. 13-15 prior to the 10th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, or COP10, which will be held on Oct. 18-29.

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Japan ruling camp slumps in upper house election

Japan ruling camp slumps in upper house election

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan arrives at his ruling Democratic Party of Japan's ad hoc election center at a hotel in Tokyo on July 11, 2010.

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Japan's ruling camp set to lose upper house majority

Japan's ruling camp set to lose upper house majority

TOKYO, Japan - Jun Azumi (front), chief election strategist of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, and Koichiro Gemba, chief policymaker and Cabinet member, look downcast at the party's ad hoc election center in Tokyo on July 11, 2010. The ruling camp looked certain to fail in its bid to secure a majority in the upper chamber.

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Japan ruling camp slumps in upper house election

Japan ruling camp slumps in upper house election

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan arrives at his ruling Democratic Party of Japan's ad hoc election center at a hotel in Tokyo on July 11, 2010.

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Japan ruling camp slumps in upper house election

Japan ruling camp slumps in upper house election

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan arrives at his ruling Democratic Party of Japan's ad hoc election center at a hotel in Tokyo on July 11, 2010.

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Passengers suffer flight disruption due to volcanic eruption

Passengers suffer flight disruption due to volcanic eruption

NARITA, Japan - A passenger (L) stuck at Japan's Narita airport talks to an official at an ad hoc health inquiry counter in the airport, east of Tokyo, on April 19, 2010. The local government of Chiba Prefecture set up the counter after the cancellation of flights linking Japan and Europe due to a volcanic eruption in Iceland.

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Beijing Olympic stadium turns into race circuit

Beijing Olympic stadium turns into race circuit

BEIJING, China - Racing cars run through an ad hoc circuit during the Race of Champions competition at the Bird's Nest national stadium in Beijing on Nov. 4, 2009. Former star driver Michael Schumacher also took part in the race.

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Beijing Olympic stadium turns into race circuit

Beijing Olympic stadium turns into race circuit

BEIJING, China - Racing cars run through an ad hoc circuit during the Race of Champions competition at the Bird's Nest national stadium in Beijing on Nov. 4, 2009. Former star driver Michael Schumacher also took part in the race.

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Hatoyama on DPJ's general election victory

Hatoyama on DPJ's general election victory

TOKYO, Japan - Yukio Hatoyama, president of the Democratic Party of Japan, gives a press conference in front of a board marked with flowers on the names of winning DPJ candidates at the party's ad hoc election center in Tokyo's Roppongi district on Aug. 31.

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Hatoyama on DPJ's general election victory

Hatoyama on DPJ's general election victory

TOKYO, Japan - Yukio Hatoyama, president of the Democratic Party of Japan, gives a press conference in front of a board marked with flowers on the names of winning DPJ candidates at the party's ad hoc election center in Tokyo's Roppongi district on Aug. 31.

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DPJ in general election victory

DPJ in general election victory

TOKYO, Japan - Victory flowers are put on the names of many Democratic Party of Japan candidates on a board at the party's ad hoc election center in Tokyo's Roppongi district on Aug. 30 during its historic landslide victory in the House of Representatives election.

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Hatoyama on DPJ's general election victory

Hatoyama on DPJ's general election victory

TOKYO, Japan - Yukio Hatoyama, president of the Democratic Party of Japan, gives a press conference in front of a board marked with flowers on the names of winning DPJ candidates at the party's ad hoc election center in Tokyo's Roppongi district on Aug. 31.

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Hatoyama on DPJ's general election victory

Hatoyama on DPJ's general election victory

TOKYO, Japan - Yukio Hatoyama, president of the Democratic Party of Japan, gives a press conference in front of a board marked with flowers on the names of winning DPJ candidates at the party's ad hoc election center in Tokyo's Roppongi district on Aug. 31.

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Hatoyama on DPJ's general election victory

Hatoyama on DPJ's general election victory

TOKYO, Japan - Yukio Hatoyama, president of the Democratic Party of Japan, gives a press conference in front of a board marked with flowers on the names of winning DPJ candidates at the party's ad hoc election center in Tokyo's Roppongi district on Aug. 31.

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Hatoyama celebrates DPJ's victory in general election

Hatoyama celebrates DPJ's victory in general election

TOKYO, Japan - Democratic Party of Japan President Yukio Hatoyama celebrates his party's landslide victory in the House of Representatives election in front of a board decorated with flowers on the names of winning DPJ candidates at the party's ad hoc election center in Tokyo's Roppongi district on Aug. 30, 2009.

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DPJ in general election victory

DPJ in general election victory

TOKYO, Japan - Victory flowers are put on the names of many Democratic Party of Japan candidates on a board at the party's ad hoc election center in Tokyo's Roppongi district on Aug. 30 during its historic landslide victory in the House of Representatives election.

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DPJ's Hatoyama on general election victory

DPJ's Hatoyama on general election victory

TOKYO, Japan - Democratic Party of Japan President Yukio Hatoyama is all smiles at a press conference at the party's ad hoc election center in Tokyo's Roppongi district on Aug. 30, with the DPJ heading for a historic victory in the House of Representatives election.

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DPJ in general election victory

DPJ in general election victory

TOKYO, Japan - Victory flowers are put on the names of many Democratic Party of Japan candidates on a board at the party's ad hoc election center in Tokyo's Roppongi district on Aug. 30 during its historic landslide victory in the House of Representatives election.

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DPJ leaders celebrate general election victory

DPJ leaders celebrate general election victory

TOKYO, Japan - Democratic Party of Japan President Yukio Hatoyama (L) and Secretary General Katsuya Okada celebrate by placing a flower on the name of a DPJ winner at the party's ad hoc election center in Tokyo's Roppongi district on Aug. 30.

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DPJ leaders celebrate general election victory

DPJ leaders celebrate general election victory

TOKYO, Japan - Democratic Party of Japan President Yukio Hatoyama (L) and Acting President Naoto Kan smile at the party's ad hoc election center in Tokyo's Roppongi district on Aug. 30.

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DPJ leaders celebrate general election victory

DPJ leaders celebrate general election victory

TOKYO, Japan - Democratic Party of Japan President Yukio Hatoyama (L) and Acting President Ichiro Ozawa (2nd from L) place a victory flower on the name of a winning DPJ candidate as members of the party's top brass including Secretary General Katsuya Okada (4th from R) look on at the party's ad hoc election center in Tokyo's Roppongi district on Aug. 30.

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DPJ leaders celebrate general election victory

DPJ leaders celebrate general election victory

TOKYO, Japan - Democratic Party of Japan President Yukio Hatoyama (L) and Acting President Ichiro Ozawa smile at the party's ad hoc election center in Tokyo's Roppongi district on Aug. 30.

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DPJ's Hatoyama on general election victory

DPJ's Hatoyama on general election victory

TOKYO, Japan - Democratic Party of Japan President Yukio Hatoyama is all smiles at a press conference at the party's ad hoc election center in Tokyo's Roppongi district on Aug. 30, with the DPJ heading for a historic victory in the House of Representatives election.

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DPJ leaders celebrate general election victory

DPJ leaders celebrate general election victory

TOKYO, Japan - Democratic Party of Japan President Yukio Hatoyama (L) and Acting President Ichiro Ozawa celebrate by placing a flower on the name of a DPJ winner at the party's ad hoc election center in Tokyo's Roppongi district on Aug. 30.

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DPJ's Ozawa on general election victory

DPJ's Ozawa on general election victory

TOKYO, Japan - Ichiro Ozawa, acting president of the Democratic Party of Japan and a key architect of the party's election strategy, smiles at a press conference at the party's ad hoc election center in Tokyo's Roppongi district on Aug. 30 on hearing media projections of the DPJ's victory in the House of Representatives election.

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DPJ leaders celebrate general election victory

DPJ leaders celebrate general election victory

TOKYO, Japan - Democratic Party of Japan President Yukio Hatoyama (L) and Acting President Ichiro Ozawa smile at the party's ad hoc election center in Tokyo's Roppongi district on Aug. 30.

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DPJ's Ozawa on general election victory

DPJ's Ozawa on general election victory

TOKYO, Japan - Ichiro Ozawa, acting president of the Democratic Party of Japan and a key architect of the party's election strategy, smiles at a press conference before a board bearing the names of DPJ candidates at the party's ad hoc election center in Tokyo's Roppongi district on Aug. 30 on hearing media projections of the DPJ's victory in the House of Representatives election.

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DPJ's Ozawa on general election victory

DPJ's Ozawa on general election victory

TOKYO, Japan - Ichiro Ozawa, acting president of the Democratic Party of Japan and a key architect of the party's election strategy, smiles at a press conference at the party's ad hoc election center in Tokyo's Roppongi district on Aug. 30 on hearing media projections of the DPJ's victory in the House of Representatives election.

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DPJ victory in general election

DPJ victory in general election

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshihiko Noda, acting secretary general of the Democratic Party of Japan, speaks during a TV interview about media projections of the party's victory in the general election at the DPJ's ad hoc election center in Tokyo's Roppongi district on Aug. 30.

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DPJ victory in general election

DPJ victory in general election

TOKYO, Japan - Posters of Democratic Party of Japan candidates cover a wall at the party's ad hoc election center in Tokyo's Roppongi district on Aug. 30.

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DPJ victory in general election

DPJ victory in general election

TOKYO, Japan - Posters of Democratic Party of Japan candidates cover a wall at the party's ad hoc election center in Tokyo's Roppongi district on Aug. 30.

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Pension consultation booths draw people fearing data loss

Pension consultation booths draw people fearing data loss

TOKYO, Japan - People concerned about a possible loss of their pension account data flocked to ad hoc consultation booths near Japan Railway's Shibuya Station in Tokyo on June 9 on the first weekend since the government's Social Insurance Agency set them up.

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Gov't says audience mobilized in 40% of 'town meetings'

Gov't says audience mobilized in 40% of 'town meetings'

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshimasa Hayashi, senior vice minister for regulatory reform and chairman of an ad hoc Cabinet Office commission, speaks at a press conference on Dec. 13 on a report complied by his panel. The report said that participants were mobilized in large numbers in 40 percent of ''town meetings'' organized by the government since June 2001 and questions were planted in 8 percent of the sessions.

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Upper house panel meets to discuss revision of key education law

Upper house panel meets to discuss revision of key education law

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe replies to a question as a House of Councillors ad hoc committee begins a debate on government-proposed legislation to revise the Fundamental Law of Education on Nov. 22. The ruling coalition is attempting to incorporate into the nation's law on education the idea of nurturing among students an attitude to love the country.

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BOJ chief's Murakami Fund investment grew to 22.31 million yen

BOJ chief's Murakami Fund investment grew to 22.31 million yen

TOKYO, Japan - Bank of Japan Governor Toshihiko Fukui looks at papers during an ad hoc press conference he called on June 20 to explain his investment in the Murakami Fund.

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Postal bills clear lower house ad hoc panel

Postal bills clear lower house ad hoc panel

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner New Komeito party stand in support of a set of bills to privatize Japan Post passed at a House of Representatives ad hoc committee session on July 4. The panel approved the bills by a majority vote, clearing the way for a vote at a lower house plenary session on July 5.

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Postal bills clear lower house ad hoc panel

Postal bills clear lower house ad hoc panel

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi smiles at his Cabinet members after his pet bills to privatize Japan Post passed the House of Representatives ad hoc committee by a majority vote on July 4.

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Postal bills clear lower house ad hoc panel

Postal bills clear lower house ad hoc panel

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (R) and state minister for portal privatization Heizo Takenaka express their appreciation after a House of Representatives ad hoc committee approved a set of bills to privatize Japan Post on July 4.

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(2)Opposition boycotts panel debate on postal bills

(2)Opposition boycotts panel debate on postal bills

TOKYO, Japan - Heizo Takenaka, state minister in charge of postal privatization, speaks in reply to questions at a House of Representatives ad hoc committee on privatization of postal services on May 27. Seated behind him are Tatsuya Ito (C), state minister in charge of financial services, and Taro Aso 'R), internal affairs and communications minister. The opposition camp continued to boycott the session.

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