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SEOUL -- South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) held talks on Thursday to discuss cooperation in modernizing and connecting roads across the border, Seoul's unification ministry said.

The ministry said in a statement that the two Koreas had a working-level contact on inter-Korean road cooperation earlier in the day at the joint liaison office in the DPRK's border town of Kaesong. (South Korea-DPRK-Roads)

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TOKYO -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday vowed to conduct an independent probe into the flawed gathering of labor statistics that has dogged the labor ministry of late.

Following a grilling on the matter by Kazuya Shimba of the opposition Democratic Party For the People, at an Upper House plenary session, Abe apologized for the scandals and for undermining the public's trust. (Japan-flawed labor statistics)

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HONG KONG -- The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) established partnerships with ETH Zurich, Imperial College London and Johns Hopkins University from the United States here Thursday to deepen ties on transdisciplinary medical robotics research.

A signing ceremony was held at the CUHK campus and witnessed by Carrie Lam, Chief Executive of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Rocky Tuan, Vice-Chancellor and President of CUHK, and Nicholas Yang, Secretary for Innovation and Technology of the HKSAR government. (China-CUHK-Medical robotics research)

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NEW DELHI -- The Indian government on Thursday said its estimate for economic growth rate for financial year 2017-18 stood at 7.2 percent, instead of 6.7 percent announced earlier.

Real GDP or GDP at constant (2011-12) prices for 2017-18 and 2016-17 showed growth of 7.2 percent during 2017-18 and 8.2 percent during 2016-17, according to figures released by India's Central Statistics Office (CSO). (India-GDP) Enditem

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