Asia News

General: Attack may have killed Afghan civilians
AP – Wed Dec 9, 10:00 am ET

AP

KABUL - The No. 2 commanding general in Afghanistan acknowledged Wednesday that a NATO-led attack the day before in eastern Afghanistan possibly resulted in civilian deaths. Full Story »
Myanmar junta official meets Aung San Suu Kyi
AP – Wed Dec 9, 8:22 am ET

Reuters

YANGON, Myanmar - Detained Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was taken from her home Wednesday into unannounced talks with a junta official, the first in two months, officials said. Full Story »
Statue of Obama as boy erected in Indonesian park
AP – Wed Dec 9, 8:10 am ET

AP

JAKARTA, Indonesia - A statue of President Barack Obama as a 10-year-old wearing shorts and a T-shirt has been erected in a Jakarta park to inspire children in the country where he lived as a boy, officials said Wednesday. Full Story »
China closes file-sharing sites in crackdown
AP – Wed Dec 9, 7:13 am ET

BEIJING - China has closed one of the country's largest file-sharing sites in what it says is a fight against copyright infringement, but could be seen as another measure aimed at controlling what content the country's Web users can find online. Full Story »
A look at North Korea's nuclear program
AP – Wed Dec 9, 7:04 am ET

A look at North Korea's nuclear program: Full Story »
Thousands gather in Indonesian anti-graft rallies
AP – Wed Dec 9, 6:45 am ET

AP

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Students threw rocks at police who returned fire with tear gas and water cannons during one of several rallies across Indonesia on Wednesday to demand government action to end widespread corruption among politicians, police and other public officials. Full Story »
China says it detains 94 who fled July rioting
AP – Wed Dec 9, 2:51 am ET

AFP/File

BEIJING - China said Wednesday that police had detained 94 people who fled the western region of Xinjiang after deadly rioting there in July — the country's worst communal violence in decades. Full Story »
Antarctic nations consider new controls on ships
AP – Wed Dec 9, 1:47 am ET

AP

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Countries that manage Antarctica are considering new controls on ships visiting the frozen continent to reduce the growing threat of human and environmental disasters posed by exploding numbers of tourists, an official said Wednesday. Full Story »
Malaysian faces trial in rare seduction case
AP – Wed Dec 9, 12:27 am ET

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A Malaysian man is facing trial for allegedly seducing another man's wife — a charge under a rarely used law that defense lawyers criticized Wednesday as archaic and tantamount to sexual discrimination. Full Story »
FBI takes US terror probe to India and Pakistan
AP – Tue Dec 8, 11:38 pm ET

ISLAMABAD - The FBI is sending a team to Pakistan and India as part of an inquiry into an American man accused of sizing up targets ahead of last year's deadly terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India's financial capital. Full Story »
Australia accused of censorship over NKorean art
AP – Tue Dec 8, 1:32 pm ET

AP

SYDNEY - Australia was accused of censorship Tuesday for denying visas to North Korean artists whose works are on display in a regional exhibition, but the government says the art comes from Pyongyang's propaganda machine and its creators are not welcome. Full Story »
Afghan leader: Help needed to pay for larger army
AP – Tue Dec 8, 12:31 pm ET

AP

KABUL - After meeting Tuesday with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said it may be five years before his army is ready to take on insurgents — a blunt warning that the planned exit strategy for U.S. troops from Afghanistan 18 months from now could grind slowly through 2014. Full Story »
China school stampede kills 8 in crowded stairway
AP – Tue Dec 8, 12:26 pm ET

AP

BEIJING - It was raining hard, and the hundreds of children leaving their evening classes raced down the narrow stairway closest to their dormitory. Somehow, someone stumbled — and the ensuing crush of bodies left eight children dead. Full Story »
16 missing after Bangladesh pirate attack
AP – Tue Dec 8, 8:13 am ET

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh - Sixteen fishermen remained missing Tuesday off Bangladesh's southern coast after pirates attacked their vessel last week, survivors and the boat's owner said. Full Story »
Police: Attack on Pakistan intel office kills 12
AP – Tue Dec 8, 7:30 am ET

AFP

MULTAN, Pakistan - A team of militants launched a gun, rocket and suicide attack on an intelligence office in central Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 12 people in a strike that showed the insurgents can hit deep in the heart of the country. Full Story »
Coroner: Self-help course led to woman's suicide
AP – Tue Dec 8, 7:14 am ET

AP

SYDNEY - An Australian coroner said Tuesday that participation in an intense self-help course led a woman to suffer a psychotic breakdown before she stripped naked and leaped to her death from an office window in front of horrified co-workers. Full Story »
China rises and reshapes the world with Olympics
AP – Tue Dec 8, 7:13 am ET

AP

GUANGZHOU, China - China's bold rise this decade took many forms. The Beijing Olympics. The billions of dollars lent to the U.S. The rip-roaring economic growth. Full Story »
Cambodian court convicts Thai man of spying
AP – Tue Dec 8, 5:38 am ET

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - A Thai man was ordered to serve seven years in prison for spying on Thailand's former prime minister while he was in Cambodia as a guest of the government, a case that threatens to worsen a diplomatic feud between the two neighbors. Full Story »