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Pakistan lukewarm over boosted US troop numbers
Thu, 03rd Dec
The Taliban’s second-in-command in Pakistan says the US troop surge will not defeat them.
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Aussie film Balibo banned in Indonesia
Thu, 03rd Dec
Indonesia has banned critically acclaimed film Balibo for political reasons.
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China sends five Christians to labour camps
Wed, 02nd Dec
Five members of an unregistered Chinese Protestant congregation have been sentenced to two years in a labour camp following a police raid on their church.
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UN returns soldier to North Korea
Wed, 02nd Dec
The US-led United Nations Command has repatriated a North Korean soldier rescued at sea by South Korea's navy.
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Japan considering tax on fossil fuels
Wed, 02nd Dec
Japan's environment minister is urging the government to impose a "green tax" on fossil fuels to combat global warming.
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Woman regrets abortion, so steals baby from hospital
Wed, 02nd Dec
Chinese state media say police have arrested a woman accused of dressing as a nurse and stealing a newborn baby from a hospital.
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Suspect in Philippine massacre charged with murder
Wed, 02nd Dec
The heir of a powerful clan was charged in connection with the Philippines' worst political massacre - an ambush in which 57 people, more than half journalists, were slaughtered.
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Bomber kills anti-Taliban lawmaker in Pakistan
Wed, 02nd Dec
Pakistan's Supreme Court said it will soon begin examining an expired amnesty covering the president and key allies.
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Sri Lanka: Internally Displaced Tamils begin return home
Wed, 02nd Dec
Some 300,000 people were forced into the camps after fleeing the war zone in the final months of the government's decades-long fight with the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels, which ended in May.
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North Korea revalues money, causing black market chaos
Wed, 02nd Dec
North Korea revalued its national currency for the first time in decades in a bid to fight inflation and flush out the black market money trade.
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Suspect in Philippine massacre charged with murder
Tue, 01st Dec
Philippine prosecutors charged the heir of a powerful clan with the murder of 57 people
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Himalayan glaciers disappearing faster than ever
Tue, 01st Dec
If Sir Edmund Hillary were alive today, he would be ringing the climate change alarm bell over what is happening to his favourite mountain range.
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Dalai Lama urges world to act on climate change
Tue, 01st Dec
The revered Buddhist figure and Nobel Peace Prize winner said politicians must focus their energy on finding a solution to climate change.
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UK to send another 500 troops to Afghanistan
Tue, 01st Dec
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's office says he will confirm that 500 extra UK troops are heading to Afghanistan.
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Senate report: Bin Laden was 'within our grasp'
Mon, 30th Nov
Osama bin Laden was unquestionably within reach of US troops in the mountains of Tora Bora when American military leaders made the crucial and costly decision not to pursue the terrorist leader with massive force.
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Monkeys thanked with enormous buffet
Mon, 30th Nov
In the Thai city of Lopburi villagers have thanked the thousands of monkeys they share their town with by treating them to an enormous buffet lunch.
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Pakistan's president told to give up powers
Mon, 30th Nov
President Asif Ali Zardari's grip on power is increasingly under threat from opposition lawmakers and elements within the powerful military.
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Multi-lingual Lomu train rumbles on
Sat, 28th Nov
The big challenge looms for Jonah Lomu: a crash course in five different languages as the Jonah phenomenon continues to rumble through Europe and Asia like a steam train.
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Kandahar governer survives assassination attempt
Sat, 28th Nov
The governor of the volatile southern Afghan province of Kandahar has survived an assassination attempt.
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The Big Melt: Impact of climate change in the Himalayas
Wed, 02nd Dec
Near to Everest is Imja Lake – a huge mass of water that did not exist 50 years ago.
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Gigantic jellyfish sink a ship off Japan's coast
Wed, 02nd Dec
A plague of giant jellyfish as big as sumo wrestlers is wreaking havoc with Japan’s fishing industry.
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Sri Lanka frees Tamil refugees
Tue, 01st Dec
Sri Lanka has allowed nearly 127,000 Tamil refugees to leave squalid and overrun government camps.
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North Korea revalues currency
Tue, 01st Dec
North Korea has revalued its currency at an exchange rate between old and new notes of 100 to 1.
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Indian officials dismiss Danish climate proposal
Tue, 01st Dec
Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said the Danish draft was "totally unacceptable".
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Meeting on Everest to highlight global warming in Himalayas
Tue, 01st Dec
Members of Nepal's Cabinet who are physically fit enough will attend the meeting at Kalapathar at an altitude of 5,250 metres.
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America wages new war in Vietnam - on AIDS
Mon, 30th Nov
The funding pays for treatment, support for patients' families, prevention programs and dispelling the AIDS stigma, which is entrenched in Vietnam.
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China tries to fix crumbling health care system
Mon, 30th Nov
Doctors had taken 15-year-old Ji Xiaoyan off a ventilator and discharged her because her family could no longer pay her hospital bills.
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Powerful Filipino clan claims innocence in massacre
Mon, 30th Nov
Relatives of the journalists - among 57 civilians who were shot and hacked to death in a November 23 attack on an election convoy in the southern Philippines - gathered for a wake Sunday at a rundown funeral parlour.
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Three Americans die in Shanghai plane crash
Sun, 29th Nov
A Zimbabwe-registered plane crashed in flames during takeoff from Shanghai's main airport, killing three, injuring four.
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Ferry sinking in Bangladesh
Sat, 28th Nov
At least five people are dead and dozens more are missing after a ferry sinking in Bangladesh.
