February 5, 2009 Thursday
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QUETTA (Pakistan) - A SIX-MEMBER team of US investigators arrived in the Pakistani city of Quetta on Thursday to probe the kidnapping of a top American UN official, local police and security officials said.

 
Bullish Chinese Year of the ox?

BEIJING: Chinese companies had started the year on a sombre note amid a worsening economic outlook.

Fake diabetes drug kills 2

BEIJING - CHINESE police are hunting a man suspected of selling a fake diabetes medicine that killed two people, state media reported on Thursday, in the latest scandal to blight the nation's chaotic drug industry.

More than 15,000 bottles of the bogus drug have already been seized across China, Xinhua news agency and other media reported.

Japan police act on blog posts

TOKYO - JAPANESE police said on Thursday they would charge more than a dozen people for defamatory posts on a comedian's blog alleging he was involved in a murder, in one of the country's first cases of its kind.

   
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