Pacific island votes to remain part of France in independence referendum

The tiny Pacific territory of New Caledonia has voted to remain part of France in a long-awaited independence referendum which saw a much closer final result than expected.

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Lunar New Year Fast Facts

Read CNN's Fast Facts about the Lunar New Year, which is the longest and most important celebration in the Chinese lunisolar calendar.

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Can India's traffic be solved by Japanese tech?

Bangalore, the capital of the southwestern Indian state of Karnataka, is hoping that an innovative new system will solve its notorious congestion.

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Like many Indian cities, Bangalore suffers from major traffic problems. It has received a grant from a Japanese development agency to install a smart transport system across the city that aims to cut traffic at key intersections by 30%.

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Can South Korea fix its deadly working culture and give people their lives back?

It takes Park Hyun-suk, a widow who lost her husband to gwarosa -- the Korean word for death by overwork -- a long time to find a photo of them together.

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Asia Bibi's lawyer flees Pakistan in fear for his life, associate says

The lawyer representing acquitted Pakistani Christian woman, Asia Bibi, has fled Pakistan in fear for his life, an associate told CNN on Sunday.

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Lion Air crash: Signal from black box lost, searchers say

Divers searching for the wreckage of Indonesian Lion Air Flight 610 can no longer hear a signal from the aircraft's missing cockpit voice recorder, the head of Indonesia's Search and Rescue Agency said Sunday.

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