Asia News

  • Official: Egyptian ship hijacked near Somalia AP - Fri Sep 5, 8:09 AM ET

    KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - An Egyptian cargo ship with 25 crew members has been hijacked by pirates off Somalia's coast, the 10th vessel to be seized in less than two months, a global maritime watchdog said Friday.

  • Court jails wealthy Indian in hit-and-run case AP - Fri Sep 5, 8:04 AM ET

    NEW DELHI - The son of a wealthy Indian arms dealer was sentenced Friday to five years in prison after being found guilty of running over and killing six people, including three police officers, with his car more than nine years ago, his attorney said.

  • Philippine army soldiers patrol a village in the southern Philippines, on September 3. At least a thousand troops have been rushed to the southern Philippines to protect communities and help in the relief effort after a major upsurge of Muslim separatist violence, the military said Friday.(AFP/File)
    UN agency hikes food aid in southern Philippines AP - Fri Sep 5, 6:58 AM ET

    MANILA, Philippines - A U.N. official said Friday his agency has increased food supplies to hundreds of thousands of people displaced by fighting between government troops and Muslim separatist rebels in the southern Philippines.

  • A Myanmar activist holds a red rose next to a portrait of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a demonstration in June 2008. Myanmar's detained democracy leader has refused to accept food rations for three weeks, her party said Friday, calling on the military regime to take steps to ensure her "survival."(AFP/File/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul)
    Suu Kyi's party expresses concern for her health AP - Fri Sep 5, 6:07 AM ET

    YANGON, Myanmar - The political party of detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi urged Myanmar's military government Friday to ensure her well-being as she continued to refuse food deliveries to protest her detention.

  • Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari (C) and Asifa Bhutto Zardari (R) celebrate with the portrait of their late mother, Pakistan's former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, as unofficial results show their father Asif Ali Zardari winning in the presidential election in Islamabad September 6, 2008. With them are their aunt Faryal Talpur (L). Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, swept to victory in a presidential election on Saturday, as a suicide bomber killed at least 10 people in the northwest. (Associated Press of Pakistan/Handout/Reuters)
    Pakistani officials report missile strike AP - Fri Sep 5, 6:04 AM ET

    DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan - An explosion possibly caused by a missile strike killed five suspected foreign militants near the Afghan border on Friday, Pakistani officials said.

  • Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Taro Aso speaks at the ruling party's general meeting in Tokyo, Japan, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008. Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda resigned late Monday after less than a year in office as potential successors to Fukuda began rallying their forces ahead of the ruling party's vote to formally name his replacement. Aso has indicated a strong desire to run and has been cited by analysts as the current favorite. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
    Aso announces bid to lead Japan's ruling party AP - Fri Sep 5, 5:19 AM ET

    TOKYO - Brash, right-leaning former Foreign Minister Taro Aso announced Friday that he will run for ruling party president in a move that would put him on track to take over as Japan's next prime minister.

  • A girl wades through flood water in her village Ratnapani near Murliganj, 400 kilometers (250 miles) northeast of Patna, India, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008. Rescuers struggled Thursday to evacuate the last 300,000 villagers still stranded in flood-ravaged northern India while delivering food and medicine to some hundreds of thousands of people already living in relief camps. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
    River menace remains even as Indian floods recede AP - Fri Sep 5, 4:29 AM ET

    PATNA, India - Authorities warned villagers in flood-ravaged northern India on Friday not to return to their homes because an unpredictable river that burst its banks could overflow again. But thousands ignored the warning and took the receding waters as a sign that the danger had passed, officials said.

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