HONG KONG - THE wife of former NKF chairman Richard Yong pleaded guilty here on Monday to a charge of money laundering, more than a year after she and her husband were arrested in the territory.

On Shu Kio, who had been out on bail since her indictment on Aug 31 last year, was remanded in custody following her conviction. Sentencing was adjourned to next Tuesday.

ISLAMABAD - PAKISTAN arrested a senior leader of the group widely suspected of being behind the Mumbai attacks, responding to intense US pressure to crack down on militants, an official said on Monday.

Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi - who according to Indian media reports was named by the lone surviving gunman as a key planner of the attacks - was detained with 14 other people during a raid on a camp in the disputed region of Kashmir.

BANGKOK - THAILAND'S main opposition party called for an emergency parliament session on Monday to prove its majority and form the next government - a surprising reversal of fortunes that some suggested was engineered by the politically potent military.

Democrat Party Secretary-General Suthep Thuagsuban filed a formal request for convening Parliament to demonstrate it has the support of enough legislators to form the next government and end months of political paralysis.

DUBLIN (Ireland) - OIL that ended up in animal feed could force Ireland to destroy 100,000 pigs, food safety officials said on Monday as the European Union advised that nations did not need to ban Irish pork imports.

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland has traced the problem to machine oil added to foodstuffs at one small animal-food maker in southeast Ireland. The maker, Millstream Power Recycling Ltd., supplied the oil-tainted feed to 10 pig farms in the Republic of Ireland and nine others in the British territory of Northern Ireland.