FOUR MORE people in Asia were tested positive for the A(H1N1) flu on Wednesday.

South Korea confirmed two more cases of swine flu, raising the country's total number of people infected with the virus to 29.

The new cases of A(H1N1) influenza infection were found in a 22-year-old Korean woman who arrived from Texas last week and in a South African teacher of English, a health ministry spokesman said.

The English teacher was from a language institute where a total of 19 teachers had been infected before Wednesday, he said.

Two Koreans were quarantined at an airport on Wednesday after showing flu symptoms.

According to the latest tally by the World Health Organization, the virus has caused 92 deaths and infected 12,954 people in 46 countries since it was first uncovered last month.

Meanwhile, two children who last week flew to Japan from the Philippines are infected with the A(H1N1) flu virus, Japanese officials said on Wednesday.

The seven-year-old boy and his four-year-old sister live in the Philippines but have been in the central Japanese city of Shizuoka since last week, municipal officials said.

They arrived at the Chubu international airport on Friday with their parents, a Japanese father and a Filipina mother, and another sister. The nationalities of the infected children could not immediately be confirmed.

The boy was staying at his grandparents' home when he developed a fever on Monday, according to a spokesman of the city government. The girl became feverish late on Tuesday.

Japan had confirmed more than 350 swine flu cases by early Wednesday, including eight people who had tested positive at the Narita international airport near Tokyo, the health ministry said. -- AFP