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Nepal earthquake: Death toll passes 3500

For Hong Kong regulator, HSBC presents major challenges

Interesting analysis. http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/international/for-hong-kong-regulator/1810410.html

Korean wartime sex slave calls on Japan PM to apologise on US trip

Kim was taken away to what she was told would be a sewing factory when she was 14. Instead, she ended up at a brothel in China before being transferred around Southeast Asia as the war went on. When she protested, she was beaten on the head until her face went numb. "Prime Minister Abe says there's no evidence. I'm the evidence, I'm alive," she said, through a translator. "To deny this doesn't exist is absurd." http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/korean-wartime-sex-slave/1805056.html

US House clears cybersecurity bill in bid to stem hacking

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/us-house-clears/1802260.html

WHO leadership admits failings over Ebola, promises reform

GENEVA: The World Health Organization has admitted serious failings in its handling of the Ebola crisis and pledged reforms to enable it to do better next time, its leadership said in a statement seen by Reuters on Sunday. "We have taken serious note of the criticisms of the Organization that, inter alia, the initial WHO response was slow and insufficient, we were not aggressive in alerting the world ... we did not work effectively in coordination with other partners, there were shortcomings in risk communications and there was confusion of roles and responsibilities...," it said in the statement, dated April 16. http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/health/who-leadership-admits/1794558.html