TOKYO - NORTH Korea has warned it will conduct a military firing exercise off its eastern city of Wonsan, Japan's Coast Guard said on Monday, in a possible indication of a missile test.
TAIPEI - THE producer of a strategically important Taiwanese jet fighter said on Monday it was discussing a deal on commercial aircraft manufacture with a Chinese company, despite concern from the island's military.
SRINAGAR - FOUR Indian police officials were suspended on Monday over their handling of a rape and murder case that has sent shockwaves through the disputed Muslim-majority Kashmir region, officials said.
The death of a 17-year-old girl and her 22-year-old sister-in-law has sparked widespread anti-India protests in the Kashmir Valley since their bodies were found in a stream on May 30.
TAIPEI - THREE members of former Taiwan president Chen Shui-bian's family admitted lying to investigators in a corruption case implicating him and several relatives, a report said on Monday.
