Asia News
N Korea urges US, nations to deliver promised aid
05/07/2008
NORTH KOREA yesterday said it would not push ahead with an international deal to scrap its nuclear programme until...
ASIA FILES
05/07/2008
Motorcycle bomb kills girl in Pakistan QUETTA, PAKISTAN: A bomb attached to a motorcycle exploded at a crowded...
Direct China-Taiwan flights take off, signal warming ties
05/07/2008
HISTORIC regular flights between Taiwan and China began yesterday, in a show of conciliation between the long-time...
India coalition to reorganise over US nuclear pact
05/07/2008
INDIA'S coalition government was undergoing a major shake-up yesterday with the dominant Congress party pushing on with...
Afghan link eyed in South Korea drug ring bust
05/07/2008
SOUTH KOREAN police yesterday said that nine people have been arrested for trying to smuggle tonnes of chemicals for...
Attacks, bombs kill 14 in Afghanistan
05/07/2008
BOMB blasts and attacks killed 11 policemen and three civilians in separate incidents in insurgency-hit Afghanistan,...
Vietnam coffee growers clash with police in land dispute
05/07/2008
MORE than 100 coffee growers have clashed with police, soldiers and forest rangers in Vietnam's Central Highlands,...
M'sia produces degradable, low-cost plastic
05/07/2008
A UNIVERSITI Sains Malaysia (USM) researcher has produced a plastic which is environment-friendly and degradable. ...
Indonesia police interrogate arrested terror suspects
05/07/2008
INDONESIAN police yesterday said they were interrogating 10 suspects and examining some 20 improvised bombs after...
38 dead in Myanmar ferry sinking
05/07/2008
AT least 38 people died when their ferry sank in a river in Myanmar's cyclone-hit Irrawaddy delta, official newspapers...

