TAIPEI - THE curator of the Beijing Palace Museum began a high-profile visit on Sunday to arrange an exhibition of Chinese relics in Taiwan, the rivals' first joint cultural program for six decades.
DHAKA - POLICE in Bangladesh were on Sunday hunting for more than 1,000 border guards accused of murder during a bloody mutiny in which 77 people have so far been confirmed dead.
HONG KONG - LAST month was the hottest February in Hong Kong since records began in 1884 and the latest sign of the city's long-term warming trend, meteorologists said on Sunday.
The monthly mean temperature was 20.5 degrees Celsius (68.9 degrees Fahrenheit), the highest yet for the particular month, the Hong Kong Observatory said in a statement.
TOKYO - TOKYO shifted its bid to host the Summer 2016 Olympics into higher gear on Sunday by temporarily closing the city's landmark highway bridge to let 5,000 people march to promote the Japanese capital.
