LAHORE (Pakistan) - PAKISTANI police said on Thursday three Pakistani men had been arrested on suspicion of spying for arch-rival India since 2005 and being involved in a 2006 marketplace bombing.
BEIJING - POLICE in remote northwestern China arrested 16 foreign drug traffickers last year, mostly for heroin smuggling from central Asia, state media reported on Thursday.
SEOUL - THE top Japanese and South Korean nuclear negotiators held talks on Thursday on ways to revive stalled six-nation disarmament negotiations with North Korea.
Japan's Akitaka Saiki met his South Korean counterpart Kim Sook over lunch in Seoul.
TOKYO - OPPOSITION lawmakers grilled Prime Minister Taro Aso in parliament Thursday over his strategy of pulling the world's second-largest economy out of recession with a contentious plan to spend 2 trillion yen (S$33.5 billion) on a cash payout to every household and then raise taxes.
Yukio Hatoyama, a leader of the Democratic Party of Japan, the biggest opposition bloc, said Mr Aso's ruling Liberal Democratic Party has 'completely lost touch' with the people.
