News Archives

India court upholds Mumbai attacker Qasab death penalty
India's Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of Pakistani national Mohammad Ajmal Amir Qasab, the sole surviving gunman of the 2008 attacks on Mumbai. South Korea to pay families of slain activists
The Supreme Court in South Korea has ordered the government to compensate the families of a group of suspected North Korean sympathisers killed during the Korean War. Angola deports China 'gangsters'
Angola has extradited 37 Chinese nationals, accused of extortion, kidnappings, armed robberies and running prostitution rings. India PM defends government on coalfields
India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has defended his government in parliament over the controversial sale of coalfields, amid chanting and loud protests from the opposition benches. Nepal home for HIV-positive orphans faces eviction
Raj Kumar Pun took in HIV-positive orphans no one wanted, and when no one wanted to teach them either, he created a school in the shelter. But now they are running out of money, support and time. Myanmar sentences 3 UN staff to jail for violence
The United Nations says a court in Myanmar has sentenced three of its staff to prison terms for their alleged involvement in a spate of bloody communal violence in the west of the country in June. Tainted pickles kill six in Japan
At least six people have died in Japan and about 100 others have become ill after eating contaminated pickles, health officials say. A look at Pacific island disputes
The Pacific Ocean is peppered with hundreds of islands — most small and uninhabited — that are claimed by more than one country. Here's a look at some of the main territorial disputes that are causing tensions among Asian nations. China property prices rise in July boosted by rate cuts
Property prices in China rose in July amid cuts in borrowing costs and after some local governments eased restrictions on purchases. Myanmar government ends censorship of local media
Myanmar's government says it is ending the long-standing practice of media censorship. South Korea's ruling party taps Park for presidential bid
South Korea's ruling Saenuri Party overwhelmingly selected Park Geun-hye as its presidential candidate, during its political convention on Monday. Rumors send thousands fleeing in India
Indian authorities called for calm Friday after panicked people from northeastern India fled cities across the country in fear of retaliatory attacks. China, US political campaigns show stark contrasts
The world's two biggest economies are entering the final stages of political campaigns to pick their national leaders. But that's where similarities in the politics of China and the United States end. Japan deports activists in disputed islands row
Japan has deported seven of 14 activists who sailed to disputed islands from Hong Kong, Japanese officials say. Malaysia frees 12 held under revoked security law
Malaysia's government has freed another 12 people held without trial under a now revoked security law. Cambodia: Bathing children find ancient statues
Authorities in Cambodia say children bathing in a newly dug pond accidentally unearthed six ancient Buddhist statues believed to be around 1,000 years old. Study: Japan nuclear disaster caused mutated butterflies
Researchers in Japan have found signs of mutation in butterflies, signaling one of the first indications of change to the local ecosystem as a result of last year's nuclear accident in Fukushima, according to one of the first studies on the genetic effects of the incident. Japan, NKorea to hold first gov't talks in 4 years
Japan says it will hold government-level talks with North Korea for the first time in four years. Tribal weapons ban in Indian state of Chhattisgarh
Tribal or indigenous people in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh are to be banned from carrying traditional weapons such as sickles, axes and bows and arrows, police say. Nepal church threatened by extremist Hindu group
A Catholic church in Nepal says it has received threatening phone calls from a person claiming to belong to an underground Hindu group that bombed the church three years ago.