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Asia NewsTopix News on Asia continually updated from thousands of sources around the net. Dalai Lama: China aims to annihilate Buddhism 10 Mar 2010 at 3:11am The Dalai Lama said Wednesday that Chinese authorities had rebuffed all his efforts to reach a compromise over Tibet and had instead engaged in systematic repression as part of a plan to "annihilate Buddhism" there, AP reported. Two landslides kill at least six in NW China 10 Mar 2010 at 3:06am At least six people are dead and about 20 are missing after two landslides buried more than 10 homes in northwest China's Shaanxi Province and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, local authorities said on Wednesday, Xinhua reported. 3/9/2010 - UK soldier "lobs Taliban grenade back at enemy" 9 Mar 2010 at 11:58pm Rifleman James McKie says he scooped up the hand grenade a ' which landed at his feet while he was on a rooftop in Sangin, southern Afghanistan on March 3 a ' and threw it straight back at insurgents. India wants to give women 1/3 of legislative seats 9 Mar 2010 at 7:15pm India's ruling Congress party supporters celebrate outside party leader Sonia Gandhi's house after the Women's Reservation Bill was passed by the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of parliament, in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Sri Lanka's detained opposition leader gets phone, ends hunger strike 9 Mar 2010 at 2:35pm In this Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010 file photo, Sri Lanka's defeated presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka waves to supporters during a protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Japan confirms Cold War-era 'secret' pacts with US 9 Mar 2010 at 10:04am While declassified U.S. documents have already confirmed such 1960s agreements, Tuesday's revelation broke with decades of official denials. Japanese government confirms "secret" pacts with the US 9 Mar 2010 at 5:55am A foreign ministry panel confirmed Tuesday that secret pacts between Japan and the United States on nuclear arms existed in the Cold War era, DPA reported. British boy kidnapped in Pakistan safe - police 9 Mar 2010 at 5:35am A five-year-old British boy kidnapped in Pakistan nearly a week ago is alive and police are making progress in the investigation, a police official said on Tuesday. The goat woman: Chinese grandmother, 101, grows mystery horn on forehead 9 Mar 2010 at 5:27am An elderly Chinese woman has stunned her family and fellow villagers by growing from her forehead a horn than resembles a goat's, Daily Mail reported. Stretch of oldest Great Wall identified in central China 9 Mar 2010 at 3:09am Chinese archeologists have identified the route of a 137-km stretch of China's oldest Great Wall in central Henan Province, on which the remnants of 30 km of wall is still standing, Xinhua reported. DPRK says fully ready for dialogue and war regarding U.S.military threats (UP... 9 Mar 2010 at 3:07am The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said on Tuesday the country is fully ready for dialogue and war, and will continue bolstering up its nuclear deterrent as long as the U.S. military threats and provocations go on, the official news agency KCNA reported. Pakistan arrests American-born al-Qaida 9 Mar 2010 at 2:49am Pakistani intelligence agents have arrested Adam Gadahn, the American-born spokesman for al-Qaida, in an operation in the southern city of Karachi, two officers and a government official said Sunday. Company owner, employee indicted in deadly New York City crane collapse 9 Mar 2010 at 1:08am A construction crane owner got a bargain-basement repair job on a giant rig, which fell apart and killed two workers when the fix failed, prosecutors said Monday in announcing manslaughter charges against the owner and a former mechanic. Bomb attack on Pakistani police kills 13 8 Mar 2010 at 8:32pm Rescue workers look for survivors in the rubble of the Federal Investigation Agency which was hit by a suicide bomb blast in Lahore March 8, 2010. Terror trial opens for 9 in Belgium 8 Mar 2010 at 4:04pm The nine were arrested in December 2008, after police intercepted an e-mail from one suspect they said suggested a suicide attack was imminent. |