Asia-Pacific
Monday 06 July 2009
- Hong Kong grandmother arrested over home-alone girl on window ledge
- Shoppers in Hong Kong face plastic-bag tax to cut waste mountain
- Ethnic clashes kill at least four in China's far west
Sunday 05 July 2009
- North Korea praises military after new missile launches
- South China storms kill at least 15, displace 400,000
- Freedom of expression in Hong Kong on decline, journalists say
- 5 dead, 35 hurt by explosion outside Philippine church (Roundup)
- Thai activists face charges for closing airports (Roundup)
- Train-bus crash kills 11, injuring 15 in Indonesia
- Hong Kong gamblers get five extra horse racing days to bet on
- President Hu Jintao travels to G8 meeting
- Taiwan, China ties improve, but still differ on unification
- China calls for calm over North Korean missile launches
- Australian foreign minister hails relationship with Malaysia
- 5 dead, 35 hurt by explosion outside Philippine church (1st Lead)
- Four dead in bomb blast outside Catholic cathedral in Philippines
- Thai activists face charges for closing airports
- Californian defends hot dog title with world record
Saturday 04 July 2009
- US calls North Korea's newest missile launches "not helpful"
- UN secretary general "deeply disappointed" in Myanmar (Roundup)
- UN secretary-general deeply disappointed" in Myanmar (1st Lead)
- New North Korean missile tests boost tensions (Roundup)
- Campaigning ends in Indonesian presidential poll
- North Korea tests seventh missile, South Korea says (4th Roundup)
- 150,000 evacuated as storms batter southern China
- North Korea tests six missiles, South Korea says (3rd Roundup)
- Report: North Korea launches five more missiles (2nd Roundup)
- Myanmar junta snubs United Nations secretary-general
- Report: North Korea fires four more missiles (Roundup)
- Thai prime minister to meet UN secretary-general
- Vietnamese premier sued again over bauxite projects
- Report: North Korea fires three more missiles (3rd Lead)
- Report: North Korea fires two more missiles (2nd Lead)
- Bangkok introduces back-to-nature scheme for urban elephants
- Report: North Korea fires two more missiles (1st Lead)
- Report: North Korea fires two more missiles (Urgent)
Friday 03 July 2009
- Chinese man of many names charged in New Zealand
- Seoul to spend billions on thwarting North Korea threat (Roundup)
- UN secretary-general meets Myanmar junta chief (Roundup)
- "Disgrace" by Australia director wins prize at Taipei Film Festival
- Three new dinosaur species found in Australia
- Gunman who targeted Hong Kong democracy leader is jailed
- Australia's Rudd sets agenda for Asia/Europe trip
- Hong Kong teenager faces jail for making bomb that blew off hand
- Australians entranced by rejected baby koala
- Philippine navy to deploy additional troops to troubled south
- Jack and Mia beat Bekam and Bodelle in boring Australia
- German man stabbed to death in central Philippines
- South Korea criticizes North Korea's rocket tests
- Vietnam sentences poachers for killing rare ape
- UN secretary-general arrives in Myanmar to press junta (1st Lead)
- Japan has high hopes for Amano in nuclear non-proliferation post
- Woman drops sex complaint against former government minister
- Myanmar court postpones Aung San Suu Kyi's trial again
- Shrinking Australian town goes for growth
- Vietnam cuts list of death penalty crimes
- UN secretary-general arrives in Myanmar
- Japan may respond if Pyongyang missile launch threatens security
- Tradition of supporting parents falling out of favour in Hong Kong
- Hong Kong employer fined for forcing maid to kowtow 100 times
