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Millions of people in China were moved by the story of a secondary school graduate who put off university to care for her seriously ill mother – and of the classmates who donated their treasured collections to help her. Cao Feng, a graduating student at Yuwang Secondary School in central China’s Anhui province, recently decided to give up her place at university so she could care for her mother, who is hospitalised in Shanghai. Cao’s mother, Cuiping, 47, has generalised myasthenia gravis, a...

As India seeks to expand its security cooperation with Southeast Asia by sharing its battle-tested counterterrorism expertise, defence analysts say its experience would only partly meet Asean’s needs given the differences in threat perception and domestic priorities. Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh made the offer at the Asean Defence Ministers’ Meeting-Plus (ADMM-Plus) in Cebu on Thursday. Citing Operation Sindoor as an example of India’s counterterrorism capabilities, he offered to share.

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