A Rich and Royal Ruin in the Heart of Hanoi
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For the last five years, archaeologists have been slowly unearthing the remains of Thang Long, uncovering millions of artifacts spanning 1,300 years.
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It has barely been two weeks since former Khmer Rouge commander Ta Mok died, but already plans are afoot to turn his burial site in a former rebel stronghold into a macabre tourist attraction.
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Fire destroyed part of a 16th-century library's collection.
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Moscow's elite have lost their fun venue, where only the very rich and beautiful met
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HANOI -- What's the best way to sue my neighbor? How big is Ho Chi Minh's mausoleum? Is surgery necessary to remove a bunion? Am I pregnant?
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A 600-year-old gate in central Seoul listed as South Korea's number one national treasure and the country's landmark symbol has been destroyed, possibly by an arsonist, police said on Monday.
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Reporter Ahmad Taufik caught a break as he looked for a follow-up story after a fire devoured a centuries-old garment market in the heart of town last year. A city official had told him anonymously that plans to renovate the market were submitted by a powerful businessman three months before the fire.
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A 600-year old gate said to be South Korea's greatest national treasure is partly destroyed by fire.
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Robbed of his legal powers by parliament, a despised king now faces being stripped of his vast riches.
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It's not easy being at the top when your empire is crumbling.
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Hanoi trots out Cold War-style denunciations to convince citizens that  one-party rule is the only way forward
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- This is a tale of two cities: the old city that was struck down and the new one that is rising in its place as fast as the tent stakes can be hammered into the ground.
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A huge section of London's famous Camden Market has been destroyed by fire
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The torrents of water that raged down onto this city, killing hundreds of people, are testimony to a man-made ecological disaster fed by poverty that has transformed once-verdant hills into a moonscape of bedrock ravaged by ravines.
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KHAO Lak was the jewel among southern Thailand&#39;s beach resorts. It has been described as a tropical paradise and a playground of the rich.
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Of the 12 million tourists who visited Thailand this year, many headed straight to the gems of the south to soak up the sun along tropical beaches, dive on spectacular coral reefs and indulge in a languid, sometimes lascivious, lifestyle. Now, they're scurrying away in droves, reeling from a disaster of epic proportions which left five-star resorts and &#36;3-a-night bungalows in ruins and polluted the air with the smell of rotting corpses.
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Police say a man has confessed to starting the fire that destroyed South Korea's greatest cultural treasure.