Asia

• Pakistan nuclear proliferation case ‘closed’ (AP) Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:11:04
  

  AP - Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry insisted Saturday that its nuclear proliferation case was closed, a day after the disgraced architect of its atomic program claimed the army under President Pervez Musharraf helped spread the technology.

  
  
• Mongolia lifts state of emergency (AFP) Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:55:16
  

  AFP - Mongolia has lifted the state of emergency imposed after deadly election riots hit the capital Ulan Bator, with the president Sunday appealing for calm amid lingering fears of further violence.

  
  
• Tibet exiles disappointed by China talks: Dalai Lama envoy (AFP) Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:40:31
  

  AFP - Representatives of the Dalai Lama and China made no headway on the status of Tibet in talks this week, an envoy of the spiritual leader said Saturday, describing himself as “disappointed.”

  
  
• Indian ministry to probe bribery scandal (AFP) Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:37:47
  

  AFP - India’s sports ministry said Saturday it will probe a bribery scandal that has rocked the weightlifting federation ahead of next month’s Beijing Olympic Games.

  
  
• Sangkkara bats for Asian supremacy in cricket (AFP) Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:07:18
  

  AFP - Sri Lanka’s wicket-keeper batsman Kumar Sangakkara Saturday said Asia leads international cricket as the financial hub and custodian of the game which has pioneered unprecedented globalisation.

  
  
• Pakistan halts assault on militants (AP) Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:01:54
  

  AP - Pakistani security forces have halted an operation against militants in the country’s volatile northwest to try negotiating peace through tribal elders, officials said Saturday.

  
  
• Vietnam’s top dissident monk dies (AFP) Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:57:26
  

  AFP - Thich Huyen Quang, the head of the Vietnamese Buddhist movement that has refused to come under communist government control, died on Saturday aged 87, his supporters said in a statement from Paris.

  
  
• All Blacks shatter Springboks’ invincible air (AFP) Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:54:36
  

  AFP - The All Blacks reclaimed rugby supremacy Saturday when they overpowered world champions South Africa 19-8 in an immensely physical opening Tri-Nations Test here.

  
  
• New mass protest against govt, US beef in SKorea (AFP) Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:52:05
  

  AFP - Tens of thousands of South Koreans marched through the streets here Saturday demanding the scrapping of US beef imports and the resignation of President Lee Myung-Bak, witnesses said.

  
  
• Study: Orangutan populations declining sharply (AP) Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:49:44
  

  AP - Orangutan numbers have declined sharply on the only two islands where they still live in the wild and they could become the first great ape species to go extinct if urgent action isn’t taken, a new study says.

  
  
• Kashmiri protesters clash with police (AP) Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:54:26
  

  AP - Thousands of protesters clashed with police in Indian Kashmir’s main city Saturday over allegations that government forces set fire to a local Muslim shrine, officials said.

  
  
• Dissident Vietnamese monk dies in Vietnam (AP) Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:53:37
  AP - Thich Huyen Quang, the patriarch of an outlawed Buddhist church in Vietnam who spent more than two decades in and out of house arrest, died Saturday after months of ailing health. He was 87.
• 1,000 protest G-8 summit in Japan; police arrest 4 (AP) Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:37:07
  

  AP - More than 1,000 people marched in northern Japan on Saturday to protest an upcoming summit of the top industrialized countries, and police arrested four protesters after a brief scuffle. No injuries were reported.

  
  
• Moderate earthquake jolts Japan (AP) Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:55:59
  AP - A moderately strong earthquake shook Tokyo and its environs on Saturday, but there were no reports of injuries or damage, officials said.
• Insurgents kill 3 in Thailand’s south (AP) Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:40:26
  AP - Suspected insurgents in Thailand’s restive south shot up a bustling cafe early Saturday, killing three customers and injuring four others, police said.
• 10 Taliban killed while planting bomb (AP) Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:28:04
  

  AP - Gunmen in a dangerous part of southern Afghanistan assassinated an Afghan lawmaker, while a roadside bomb militants were planting detonated prematurely, killing 10 Taliban, officials said Saturday.

  
  
• 35 rebels, 1 soldier killed in Sri Lanka (AP) Sat, 05 Jul 2008 06:08:37
  

  AP - Government forces attacked Tamil Tiger rebels along Sri Lanka’s northern front lines, triggering a series of gunbattles that killed 35 rebels and one soldier, the military said Saturday.

  
  
• US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 468 (AP) Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:08:47
  

  AP - As of Friday, July 4, 2008, at least 468 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures June 28 at 10 a.m. EDT.

  
  
• Autopsy: Drowning cause of Chinese girl’s death (AP) Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:03:01
  

  AP - A third autopsy on a teenage girl whose death sparked a riot last weekend in southwest China confirmed she died of drowning, while two more top local officials have been fired, state media reported Friday.

  
  
• Court sentences Myanmar protesters to jail (AP) Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:41:22
  AP - Four members of Myanmar’s main pro-democracy party who campaigned against a constitution proposed by the military government have been jailed for one year.

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