NEW DELHI - INDIA'S Supreme Court judges have voluntarily disclosed their assets, their website showed Tuesday, in a bid to promote transparency and boost confidence in the judicial system.

Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan led the charge, putting details of his belongings, including a nine-year-old hatchback car, 20 pieces of jewellery, three houses and land, on the court's official website.

BEIJING - FIFTY experts and scholars from China and Singapore attended the Fourth China-Singapore Forum in Beijing on Tuesday, reported Xinhua news agency.

Singaporean Ambassador to China Chin Siat Yoon said that both sides should understand and respect each other's core interests, and the forum played a key role in this respect.

SEOUL - NORTH Korea said on Tuesday it had completed reprocessing spent fuel rods at its Yongbyon nuclear plant and weaponised plutonium from the material, giving it more material to produce atomic arms.

The announcement comes as the reclusive state, hit with fresh UN sanctions to punish it for a nuclear test in May, has warmed up to the outside world in recent months and indicated it could return to stalled international nuclear talks.