N.Korea conducts "drill", U.S. military chief in Seoul |
- N.Korea conducts "drill", U.S. military chief in Seoul
- China to award own peace prize ahead of Nobel award
- Japan to raise armed forces mobility to boost defence
- China casts net wide in Nobel Prize crackdown
- Japan team says stem cells made paralysed monkey jump again
- Thai police arrest 45 Sri Lankan migrants
- Former Philippine leader slams amnesty for rebels
- Thailand likely to end emergency rule by New Year: PM
- Mullen urges China to take responsibility on N.Korea
- Russian warplanes flew near U.S.-Japan drill - report
- U.S. and S.Korea agree to more joint military drills
- Nik Aziz not seriously ill: son
- I did not mean to hurt the feelings of other races: Ahmad Zahid
- SKorea, US to resume joint drills
- SPECIAL REPORT- Fear of STDs sparked case against WikiLeaks boss
- NEWSMAKER - Chinese Nobel winner a ceaseless campaigner
- Australia blames US, not WikiLeaks, for leaks
- China casts net wide in Nobel Prize crackdown
- Five-year-old thrown from Mumbai train in seating dispute
- Chinese group to award rival peace prize
| N.Korea conducts "drill", U.S. military chief in Seoul Posted: 08 Dec 2010 12:44 AM PST SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea fired artillery shells in a suspected military drill on Wednesday, spooking markets on an already tense peninsula, as the top U.S. military official warned of more provocations from Pyongyang's "bad guy". 
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| China to award own peace prize ahead of Nobel award Posted: 08 Dec 2010 12:44 AM PST BEIJING (Reuters) - China will award its answer to the Nobel Peace Prize a day before it is bestowed upon jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, giving the "Confucius Peace Prize" to former Taiwan vice-president Lien Chan. 
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| Japan to raise armed forces mobility to boost defence Posted: 08 Dec 2010 12:44 AM PST TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Vice Defence Minister Jun Azumi said Japan's armed forces need to improve their mobility to boost the country's defence capability in the southwest, where it shares a maritime border with China. 
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| China casts net wide in Nobel Prize crackdown Posted: 08 Dec 2010 12:44 AM PST BEIJING (Reuters) - China is conducting a sweeping crackdown on dissent ahead of this week's awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo, casting the net wide to prevent friends and family attending. 
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| Japan team says stem cells made paralysed monkey jump again Posted: 08 Dec 2010 01:04 AM PST TOKYO, Wednesday 8 December 2010 (AFP) - Japanese researchers said Wednesday they had used stem cells to restore partial mobility in a small monkey that had been paralysed from the neck down by a spinal injury.
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| Thai police arrest 45 Sri Lankan migrants Posted: 08 Dec 2010 01:02 AM PST BANGKOK, Wednesday 8 December 2010 (AFP) - Thai authorities said Wednesday they had arrested 45 migrants from Sri Lanka in the latest of a series of crackdowns in recent months.
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| Former Philippine leader slams amnesty for rebels Posted: 08 Dec 2010 12:43 AM PST MANILA, Wednesday 8 December 2010 (AFP) - Former Philippine president Gloria Arroyo on Wednesday slammed her successor's unconditional amnesty offer to hundreds of soldiers and police officers who joined coups against her.
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| Thailand likely to end emergency rule by New Year: PM Posted: 08 Dec 2010 12:21 AM PST BANGKOK, Wednesday 8 December 2010 (AFP) - Thailand is likely to lift a controversial state of emergency in Bangkok and surrounding areas by the end of this year, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said Wednesday.
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| Mullen urges China to take responsibility on N.Korea Posted: 08 Dec 2010 12:10 AM PST SEOUL, Wednesday 8 December 2010 (AFP) - China has a "unique responsibility" to try to curb the behaviour of its close ally North Korea but Beijing seems unwilling to use its influence, the top US military officer said Wednesday.
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| Russian warplanes flew near U.S.-Japan drill - report Posted: 08 Dec 2010 12:09 AM PST MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian warplanes flew in the region of joint U.S.-Japanese military drills in the Sea of Japan but violated no airspace rules, Russia's Interfax news agency reported on Wednesday. 
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| U.S. and S.Korea agree to more joint military drills Posted: 08 Dec 2010 12:09 AM PST SEOUL (Reuters) - The U.S. and South Korean militaries said on Wednesday they would hold more joint exercises off the tense peninsula amid heightened tensions following North Korea's deadly attack on a South Korean island last month. 
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| Nik Aziz not seriously ill: son Posted: 07 Dec 2010 11:48 PM PST Kelantan Menteri Besar Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat is not seriously ill in hospital as rumoured, but is suffering from a pain in the hip, according to his second son Nik Omar.
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| I did not mean to hurt the feelings of other races: Ahmad Zahid Posted: 07 Dec 2010 11:48 PM PST Defence Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi told the Parliament today that he had not meant to hurt the feelings of any race when citing lack of patriotism as a reason for the low presence of non-Malays in Armed Forces.
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| SKorea, US to resume joint drills Posted: 07 Dec 2010 11:47 PM PST SEOUL, Wednesday 8 December 2010 (Bernama) -- Top military officers from South Korea and the United States announced Wednesday their plan to continue joint military exercises, China's Xinhua news agency reported.
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| SPECIAL REPORT- Fear of STDs sparked case against WikiLeaks boss Posted: 07 Dec 2010 10:59 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) The two Swedish women who accuse WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of sexual misconduct were at first not seeking to bring charges against him. They just wanted to track him down and persuade him to be tested for sexually transmitted diseases, according to several people in contact with his entourage at the time. 
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| NEWSMAKER - Chinese Nobel winner a ceaseless campaigner Posted: 07 Dec 2010 10:59 PM PST BEIJING (Reuters) - China's most prominent dissident, Liu Xiaobo, has been a thorn in the government's side since 1989 when he joined student protesters on a hunger strike days before the army crushed the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement. 
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| Australia blames US, not WikiLeaks, for leaks Posted: 07 Dec 2010 10:59 PM PST BRISBANE, Australia (Reuters) - The Australian government on Wednesday blamed the United States, not the WikiLeaks founder, for the unauthorised release of about 250,000 secret U.S. diplomatic cables and said those who originally leaked the documents were legally liable. 
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| China casts net wide in Nobel Prize crackdown Posted: 07 Dec 2010 10:59 PM PST BEIJING (Reuters) - China is conducting a sweeping crackdown on dissent ahead of this week's awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo, casting the net wide to prevent friends and family attending. 
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| Five-year-old thrown from Mumbai train in seating dispute Posted: 07 Dec 2010 11:28 PM PST MUMBAI, Wednesday 8 December 2010 (AFP) - A five-year-old girl was thrown out of a moving train in Mumbai during an argument between her family and another passenger over sharing a seat, police said on Wednesday.
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| Chinese group to award rival peace prize Posted: 07 Dec 2010 11:06 PM PST BEIJING, Wednesday 8 December 2010 (AFP) - A shadowy Chinese group said Wednesday it planned to award a rival version of the Nobel Peace Prize as Beijing ramps up efforts to discredit the Nobel's choice of jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo.
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