Copyright (c) 2010 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/world/asia world Asia News en-us Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:24:08 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/world/asia http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100210/wl_asia_afp/unclimatewarminguschinaindia afp/20100210/unclimatewarminguschinaindia AFP world Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:24:08 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100210/wl_asia_afp/unclimatewarminguschinaindia"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100210/capt.photo_1265768405685-2-0.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=fPkXhwCbOsaqyhnVaHHi0w--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="A shroud of haze is seen over the city of Zengzhou in central China's Henan province in November 2009. The United States pressed China, India and other emerging powers to make clearer commitments to fighting climate change, warning that last year's Copenhagen accord risked being "stillborn."(AFP/File/Peter Parks)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The United States pressed China, India and other emerging powers to make clearer commitments to fighting climate change, warning that last year's Copenhagen accord risked being "stillborn."</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100210/wl_asia_afp/unclimatewarminguschinaindia"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100210/capt.photo_1265768405685-2-0.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=fPkXhwCbOsaqyhnVaHHi0w--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="photo" title="A shroud of haze is seen over the city of Zengzhou in central China's Henan province in November 2009. The United States pressed China, India and other emerging powers to make clearer commitments to fighting climate change, warning that last year's Copenhagen accord risked being "stillborn."(AFP/File/Peter Parks)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100210/bs_afp/japanautorecallcompanyhondaglobal afp/20100210/japanautorecallcompanyhondaglobal AFP business Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:31:51 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100210/bs_afp/japanautorecallcompanyhondaglobal"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100210/capt.photo_1265769100174-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=DtrkQAWzsIctFc7jE4xImQ--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Japanese automaker Honda on Wednesday recalled 437,763 vehicles worldwide, mostly in North America, to fix defective airbags.(AFP/File/Roberto Schmidt)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Japanese automaker Honda on Wednesday recalled 437,763 vehicles worldwide, mostly in North America, to fix defective airbags.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100210/bs_afp/japanautorecallcompanyhondaglobal"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100210/capt.photo_1265769100174-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=DtrkQAWzsIctFc7jE4xImQ--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="Japanese automaker Honda on Wednesday recalled 437,763 vehicles worldwide, mostly in North America, to fix defective airbags.(AFP/File/Roberto Schmidt)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100210/wl_nm/us_japan_politics nm/20100210/us_japan_politics Reuters world Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:14:59 GMT Reuters - Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said on Wednesday he will appoint a member of a waste-cutting task force as administrative reform minister, in a bid to boost flagging support ahead of a mid-year election. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_as/as_koreas_nuclear ap/20100210/as_koreas_nuclear AP world Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:08:44 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_as/as_koreas_nuclear"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.ed7c8b35ae814534a81338ef69868016.north_korea_koreas_nuclear_tok801.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=Deddbt702UV93NWZkQsJYg--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="In this photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, right, meets with senior Chinese Communist Party envoy Wang Jiarui, unseen, in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Wang was in North Korea on a mission to persuade the reclusive state to rejoin nuclear disarmament talks, reports said. Sitting at left is Kim Yong Il, international department director of the Workers' Party of Korea. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)" border="0" /></a>AP - A senior U.N. envoy pressed ahead Wednesday with international efforts to get North Korea back into nuclear disarmament talks, during the world body's first high-level visit to the reclusive state in nearly six years.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_as/as_koreas_nuclear"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.ed7c8b35ae814534a81338ef69868016.north_korea_koreas_nuclear_tok801.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=Deddbt702UV93NWZkQsJYg--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, right, meets with senior Chinese Communist Party envoy Wang Jiarui, unseen, in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Wang was in North Korea on a mission to persuade the reclusive state to rejoin nuclear disarmament talks, reports said. Sitting at left is Kim Yong Il, international department director of the Workers' Party of Korea. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100210/wl_asia_afp/britainmilitaryanimals afp/20100210/britainmilitaryanimals AFP world Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:03:44 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100210/wl_asia_afp/britainmilitaryanimals"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100210/capt.photo_1265763730765-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=101&q=85&sig=TcM1S17Iq6.Yz0FZN08t3w--" align="left" height="101" width="130" alt="London has defended the use of more than 100 pigs in military explosives tests in the past five years, saying the experiments had saved lives in Afghanistan and Iraq.(AFP/File/Viktor Drachev)" border="0" /></a>AFP - London has defended the use of more than 100 pigs in military explosives tests in the past five years, saying the experiments had saved lives in Afghanistan and Iraq.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100210/wl_asia_afp/britainmilitaryanimals"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100210/capt.photo_1265763730765-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=101&q=85&sig=TcM1S17Iq6.Yz0FZN08t3w--" align="left" height="101" width="130" alt="photo" title="London has defended the use of more than 100 pigs in military explosives tests in the past five years, saying the experiments had saved lives in Afghanistan and Iraq.(AFP/File/Viktor Drachev)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100210/pl_afp/afghanistanunrestusgermanymilitary afp/20100210/afghanistanunrestusgermanymilitary AFP politics Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:10:23 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100210/pl_afp/afghanistanunrestusgermanymilitary"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100210/capt.photo_1265760595116-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=aE3cZEYT.A0ZmhQPmwV1Cg--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="A helicopter flies from the Bundeswehr camp Marmal in Masar i Sahrif, Afghanistan to Kunduz in 2009. US commanders are weighing plans to send more American troops to northern Afghanistan, a region under the command of German forces, a US official said on Tuesday.(AFP/DDP/File/Michael Kappeler)" border="0" /></a>AFP - US commanders are weighing plans to send more American troops to northern Afghanistan, a region under the command of German forces, a US official said on Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100210/pl_afp/afghanistanunrestusgermanymilitary"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100210/capt.photo_1265760595116-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=aE3cZEYT.A0ZmhQPmwV1Cg--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="photo" title="A helicopter flies from the Bundeswehr camp Marmal in Masar i Sahrif, Afghanistan to Kunduz in 2009. US commanders are weighing plans to send more American troops to northern Afghanistan, a region under the command of German forces, a US official said on Tuesday.(AFP/DDP/File/Michael Kappeler)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan ap/20100210/as_afghanistan AP world Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:09:39 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.a604fef7e8be44fab47bd790e25a8e16.afghanistan_xbl110.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=DGG8oDP_jSUxsl6B0TL2qQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A U.S. Army flight medic looks through the window of a Black Hawk medical evacuation helicopter, during a mission in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010. The Talon MEDEVAC in Helmand is one of several army aero-medical units positioned around southern Afghanistan by the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, known as Task Force Pegasus. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)" border="0" /></a>AP - U.S. and Afghan forces pushed Tuesday to the edge of the southern Afghan town of Marjah, poised to seize the major Taliban supply and drug-smuggling stronghold in hopes of building public support by providing aid and services once the insurgents are gone.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.a604fef7e8be44fab47bd790e25a8e16.afghanistan_xbl110.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=DGG8oDP_jSUxsl6B0TL2qQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="A U.S. Army flight medic looks through the window of a Black Hawk medical evacuation helicopter, during a mission in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010. The Talon MEDEVAC in Helmand is one of several army aero-medical units positioned around southern Afghanistan by the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, known as Task Force Pegasus. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_uk_afp/japanusautocompanyrecalltoyotapartsbritain afp/20100209/japanusautocompanyrecalltoyotapartsbritain AFP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:53:52 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_uk_afp/japanusautocompanyrecalltoyotapartsbritain"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265726436020-1-0.jpg?x=87&y=130&q=85&sig=gWplSiSCL6Nd2vcsnhu9aw--" align="left" height="130" width="87" alt="Toyota said it will begin repairs to more than 180,000 cars in Britain on Wednesday as the Japanese automaker struggled to pull its reputation from the scrapheap amid a growing recall crisis.(AFP/File/Kazuhiro Nogi)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Toyota said it will begin repairs to more than 180,000 cars in Britain on Wednesday as the Japanese automaker struggled to pull its reputation from the scrapheap amid a growing recall crisis.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_uk_afp/japanusautocompanyrecalltoyotapartsbritain"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265726436020-1-0.jpg?x=87&y=130&q=85&sig=gWplSiSCL6Nd2vcsnhu9aw--" align="left" height="130" width="87" alt="photo" title="Toyota said it will begin repairs to more than 180,000 cars in Britain on Wednesday as the Japanese automaker struggled to pull its reputation from the scrapheap amid a growing recall crisis.(AFP/File/Kazuhiro Nogi)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/wr_nm/us_google_china_interview nm/20100209/us_google_china_interview Reuters technology Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:53:48 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/wr_nm/us_google_china_interview"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100209/i/r3475313235.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=dgUSIxDHWkdlr8U.bVTT_A--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="Google co-founder Sergey Brin participates in a panel discussion in Mountain View, California February 9, 2010. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Google Inc co-founder Sergey Brin said on Tuesday it has become "very hard to operate" in China, but he is optimistic that the Internet company can continue to "open up information for everyone everywhere, free of political censorship."</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/wr_nm/us_google_china_interview"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100209/i/r3475313235.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=dgUSIxDHWkdlr8U.bVTT_A--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="photo" title="Google co-founder Sergey Brin participates in a panel discussion in Mountain View, California February 9, 2010. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_airlines_american ap/20100209/as_japan_airlines_american AP business Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:50:26 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_airlines_american"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.a5fc98283d0b4599b7626d5af51d1333.japan_airlines_american_tok114.jpg?x=130&y=66&q=85&sig=2z9oup8JWhq37Nm8GsrecQ--" align="left" height="66" width="130" alt="In this Jan. 14, 2010 photo, a Japan Airlines airplane with a sign reading: 'oneworld' takes off from Haneda International Airport in Tokyo, Japan. Japan Airlines, wooed for months by Delta Air Lines with promises of cash and a broad global network, spurned the world's biggest carrier and opted to keep its alliance with American Airlines. The Japanese carrier said in a statement Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010 it will strengthen its partnership with American and the two airlines will jointly ask the U.S. and Japanese governments for antitrust immunity on trans-Pacific routes. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)" border="0" /></a>AP - Japan Airlines, wooed for months by Delta Air Lines with promises of cash and global reach, spurned the world's biggest carrier and opted to keep its alliance with American Airlines.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_airlines_american"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.a5fc98283d0b4599b7626d5af51d1333.japan_airlines_american_tok114.jpg?x=130&y=66&q=85&sig=2z9oup8JWhq37Nm8GsrecQ--" align="left" height="66" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this Jan. 14, 2010 photo, a Japan Airlines airplane with a sign reading: 'oneworld' takes off from Haneda International Airport in Tokyo, Japan. Japan Airlines, wooed for months by Delta Air Lines with promises of cash and a broad global network, spurned the world's biggest carrier and opted to keep its alliance with American Airlines. The Japanese carrier said in a statement Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010 it will strengthen its partnership with American and the two airlines will jointly ask the U.S. and Japanese governments for antitrust immunity on trans-Pacific routes. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_as/as_sri_lanka ap/20100209/as_sri_lanka AP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:13:42 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_as/as_sri_lanka"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.404ad2f9a816493f939744cd6a6c2fd2.sri_lanka_opposition_leader_del123.jpg?x=98&y=130&q=85&sig=HunJu6nqFoqvem5_r3Yz7g--" align="left" height="130" width="98" alt="Anoma Fonseka, wife of the Sri Lanka's defeated presidential candidate and former military chief Sarath Fonseka, reacts as she speaks to the media at her residence in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Sarath Fonseka has been arrested and will be court-martialed for allegedly planning to overthrow the government while serving as the head of the army. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)" border="0" /></a>AP - Sri Lanka's president dissolved parliament Tuesday to make way for spring elections a day after authorities arrested a key opposition leader, crippling the only serious threat to the ruling party's stifling grip on power.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_as/as_sri_lanka"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.404ad2f9a816493f939744cd6a6c2fd2.sri_lanka_opposition_leader_del123.jpg?x=98&y=130&q=85&sig=HunJu6nqFoqvem5_r3Yz7g--" align="left" height="130" width="98" alt="photo" title="Anoma Fonseka, wife of the Sri Lanka's defeated presidential candidate and former military chief Sarath Fonseka, reacts as she speaks to the media at her residence in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Sarath Fonseka has been arrested and will be court-martialed for allegedly planning to overthrow the government while serving as the head of the army. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_as/as_afghan_avalanche ap/20100209/as_afghan_avalanche AP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:33:22 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_as/as_afghan_avalanche"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.9f869970911e4106b2e8edfad39ec820.aptopix_afghanistan_aqx123.jpg?x=130&y=83&q=85&sig=KBNgq7AEKJSufMiD0COMOQ--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="Afghans get into an army truck Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010, after being evacuated from the avalanche which struck the Salang Pass, some 100 kms noth of Kabul, Afghanistan. Officials said the avalanches have killed at least 28 people and left another 1,500 stranded in a snow-blocked mountain pass, with the Defense Ministry releasing a statement saying another 70 people have been injured as rescue efforts continued to dig out hundreds of vehicles stuck on the pass north of Kabul.(AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)" border="0" /></a>AP - A series of avalanches engulfed a mountain pass in Afghanistan, trapping hundreds of people in their buried cars and killing as many as 64 people so far, authorities said Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_as/as_afghan_avalanche"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.9f869970911e4106b2e8edfad39ec820.aptopix_afghanistan_aqx123.jpg?x=130&y=83&q=85&sig=KBNgq7AEKJSufMiD0COMOQ--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="photo" title="Afghans get into an army truck Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010, after being evacuated from the avalanche which struck the Salang Pass, some 100 kms noth of Kabul, Afghanistan. Officials said the avalanches have killed at least 28 people and left another 1,500 stranded in a snow-blocked mountain pass, with the Defense Ministry releasing a statement saying another 70 people have been injured as rescue efforts continued to dig out hundreds of vehicles stuck on the pass north of Kabul.(AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_as/as_china_earthquake_dissident ap/20100209/as_china_earthquake_dissident AP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:55:50 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_as/as_china_earthquake_dissident"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.d0d211eba9d541fa8a6ebfce3248f50c.china_earthquake_dissident_xbej101.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=h58SKrzqBVgkHhZzbKQvMw--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="FILE - In this May 17, 2008 file photo, student ID tags are placed on the ground at the Juyuan Middle School, following the May 12 earthquake, in Dujiangyan, in China's southwest Sichuan province. A Chinese court Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, sentenced an activist who investigated the deaths of thousands of schoolchildren in the country's massive 2008 earthquake to five years in jail for inciting subversion of state power, the man's lawyer said. (AP Photo/Greg Baker, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - A Chinese activist who investigated the deaths of thousands of children crushed in their schools during the Sichuan earthquake was sentenced Tuesday to five years, underscoring the government's determination to suppress questions about why the buildings fell.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_as/as_china_earthquake_dissident"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.d0d211eba9d541fa8a6ebfce3248f50c.china_earthquake_dissident_xbej101.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=h58SKrzqBVgkHhZzbKQvMw--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this May 17, 2008 file photo, student ID tags are placed on the ground at the Juyuan Middle School, following the May 12 earthquake, in Dujiangyan, in China's southwest Sichuan province. A Chinese court Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, sentenced an activist who investigated the deaths of thousands of schoolchildren in the country's massive 2008 earthquake to five years in jail for inciting subversion of state power, the man's lawyer said. (AP Photo/Greg Baker, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_as/as_china_panda_rescue ap/20100209/as_china_panda_rescue AP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:55:31 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_as/as_china_panda_rescue"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.830d9e74759f4f2f872bacc070bf4c56.china_panda_xvt101.jpg?x=84&y=130&q=85&sig=eRQmDJYuY8f0aA8pO0X15w--" align="left" height="130" width="84" alt="A panda eats bamboo in Beijing Zoo in Beijing, China, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)" border="0" /></a>AP - It was like getting a cat out of a tree &mdash; Sichuan style.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_as/as_china_panda_rescue"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.830d9e74759f4f2f872bacc070bf4c56.china_panda_xvt101.jpg?x=84&y=130&q=85&sig=eRQmDJYuY8f0aA8pO0X15w--" align="left" height="130" width="84" alt="photo" title="A panda eats bamboo in Beijing Zoo in Beijing, China, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_as/as_indonesia_drinking_deaths ap/20100209/as_indonesia_drinking_deaths AP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:28:35 GMT AP - Indonesian police say eight people have died after drinking liquor laced with methanol on the country's main island of Java. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_as/as_philippines_massacre ap/20100209/as_philippines_massacre AP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:09:45 GMT AP - Philippine prosecutors filed charges Tuesday against the head of a powerful clan and 195 others in the biggest and deadliest murder case since the country's World War II war crimes trials. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_as/as_sri_lanka_opposition_leader ap/20100209/as_sri_lanka_opposition_leader AP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:06:03 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_as/as_sri_lanka_opposition_leader"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.404ad2f9a816493f939744cd6a6c2fd2.sri_lanka_opposition_leader_del123.jpg?x=98&y=130&q=85&sig=HunJu6nqFoqvem5_r3Yz7g--" align="left" height="130" width="98" alt="Anoma Fonseka, wife of the Sri Lanka's defeated presidential candidate and former military chief Sarath Fonseka, reacts as she speaks to the media at her residence in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Sarath Fonseka has been arrested and will be court-martialed for allegedly planning to overthrow the government while serving as the head of the army. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)" border="0" /></a>AP - Sri Lanka's opposition called Tuesday for countrywide protests after its defeated presidential candidate was arrested for allegedly plotting to overthrow the government while serving as army commander.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_as/as_sri_lanka_opposition_leader"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.404ad2f9a816493f939744cd6a6c2fd2.sri_lanka_opposition_leader_del123.jpg?x=98&y=130&q=85&sig=HunJu6nqFoqvem5_r3Yz7g--" align="left" height="130" width="98" alt="photo" title="Anoma Fonseka, wife of the Sri Lanka's defeated presidential candidate and former military chief Sarath Fonseka, reacts as she speaks to the media at her residence in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Sarath Fonseka has been arrested and will be court-martialed for allegedly planning to overthrow the government while serving as the head of the army. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_as/as_antarctica_whaling ap/20100209/as_antarctica_whaling AP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:53:38 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_as/as_antarctica_whaling"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100206/capt.f17c734cb05a4e4dbe4a4f3c3589c705.antarctica_whaling_tok801.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=AcWEFX0cGykarNsC3ppLWg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="In this photo released by the Institute of Cetacean Research of Japan, anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd's ship the Bob Barker, right, and the Japanese whaling ship Yushin Maru No.3 collide in the waters of Antarctica Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010. It was the second major clash this year in the increasingly aggressive confrontations between conservationists and the whaling fleet. (AP Photo/Institute of Cetacean Research)" border="0" /></a>AP - Activists vowing to stop the killing of whales exchanged water-cannon fire with a Japanese whaling fleet they are tailing in the Antarctic Ocean, as sea confrontations that have led to collisions and a sunken vessel continue.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_as/as_antarctica_whaling"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100206/capt.f17c734cb05a4e4dbe4a4f3c3589c705.antarctica_whaling_tok801.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=AcWEFX0cGykarNsC3ppLWg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this photo released by the Institute of Cetacean Research of Japan, anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd's ship the Bob Barker, right, and the Japanese whaling ship Yushin Maru No.3 collide in the waters of Antarctica Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010. It was the second major clash this year in the increasingly aggressive confrontations between conservationists and the whaling fleet. (AP Photo/Institute of Cetacean Research)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan ap/20100209/as_pakistan AP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:47:30 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.a8280349d2544dffbd1a66055b334fd4.pakistan_daily_life_xmm104.jpg?x=130&y=81&q=85&sig=c7j8hOPuX50OC9euW1B03w--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="Elderly Pakistani men line up to get a ration of rice during a donated food distribution in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)" border="0" /></a>AP - Aid groups in Pakistan need nearly $538 million over the next six months to help hundreds of thousands of people displaced by army clashes against the Taliban, the U.N. said in an international appeal Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.a8280349d2544dffbd1a66055b334fd4.pakistan_daily_life_xmm104.jpg?x=130&y=81&q=85&sig=c7j8hOPuX50OC9euW1B03w--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="photo" title="Elderly Pakistani men line up to get a ration of rice during a donated food distribution in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_as/as_australia_eating_a_rat ap/20100209/as_australia_eating_a_rat AP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:56:11 GMT AP - A British broadcaster has been convicted of animal cruelty after two reality show contestants skinned, cooked and ate a rat during filming in Australia.