SRINAGAR (India) - PROTESTERS in Indian Kashmir set fire to a police van and stoned other security vehicles on Wednesday after the body of a missing young man was recovered in the regional capital Srinagar.
TAIPEI - A CORRUPTION crackdown on Taiwan's military has led to the investigation of 114 generals for allegedly taking bribes or bribing their way to the rank, a defence ministry report revealed on Wednesday.
The 40 lieutenant generals and 74 major generals are among 142 officers, the investigative report on internal corruption said, currently being probed by prosecutors for alleged graft.
MUMBAI - INDIA'S financial and entertainment capital is facing a 30 per cent cut in water supplies, despite an overnight deluge of monsoon rains on Thursday that left some streets and homes flooded.
The civic authorities in Mumbai introduced the reduction on Wednesday as levels ran 'precariously low' at the six lakes that supply the city with 3.3 billion litres of water a day.
ANSEONG (South Korea) - DRESSED in white or yellow t-shirts and black slacks, the dozens of people at Wednesday's ceremony looked like typical trainees for a South Korean company. But the high security at the green-fenced compound hinted at a different kind of induction programme.
They are North Korean defectors learning a new way of life in a capitalist society.
