GENEVA - TAIWAN sent its first delegation to the World Health Organisation (WHO) annual meeting Monday in nearly four decades after seeing China bloc its participation for years.

KATHMANDU - NEPAL'S Maoists disrupted parliament on Monday, preventing an alliance of 22 political parties that has a majority from forming a new government and ending a political crisis in the young Himalayan republic.

BEIJING - WORKERS at China's biggest Internet search engine postponed a two-week-long strike on Monday, despite failing to reach an agreement over compensation issues, a US-based financial newspaper said.