PARIS - ASIAN nations need to act now to reform their pension systems to deal with demands from a rapidly ageing population over the next two decades, the OECD said here on Wednesday.
HONG KONG - A HONG Kong hospital has lost the body of a baby boy and is still unable to locate his corpse more than three weeks after his death, an official said.
TOKYO - JAPANESE Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone will visit Thailand, Cambodia and Laos this weekend for talks on issues expected to include recent political turmoil in Bangkok, officials said on Friday.
BEIJING - THE wife of billionaire Chinese appliance retailer Wong Kwong-yu has been detained as police investigate Wong for possible financial offenses, according to news reports.
Mdm Du Juan, who resigned in December as a member of the board of directors of Wong's Gome retail chain, is under police guard in Beijing, the newspaper Shanghai Securities News and the magazine Caijing reported, citing unidentified sources.
