HEGANG, China (AFP) - - Too many miners were below ground at a Chinese coal mine where 104 workers were killed in a gas explosion, a safety official charged, as rescuers pressed on Tuesday with the hunt for four missing men.
Tropical weather returns to the Western Pacific on Wednesday.
MANILA (AFP) - - Hundreds of extra troops have been deployed in the southern Philippines after gunmen believed linked to a local politician kidnapped and killed at least 22 people, a military spokesman said Tuesday.
JAKARTA (AFP) - - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Monday sidestepped advice from his own fact-finding team to punish senior law enforcers over a huge corruption scandal that has gripped the nation.
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Rescuers plucked a woman from choppy waters Monday, some 25 hours after she jumped from a crowded ferry that sank in a storm off Indonesia's Sumatra island.
TANJUNG BALAI, Indonesia (AFP) - - The captain of an Indonesian ferry which sank killing 29 people rejected claims of overcrowding Monday and blamed a freak storm for the disaster, as officials launched an investigation.
MANILA, Philippines - Dozens of gunmen hijacked a convoy carrying journalists, and family and supporters of a candidate for provincial governor, killing at least 21 of the travelers Monday in the southern Philippines' worst political violence in years.
SINGAPORE, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Keppel Corp <KPLM.SI>, the world's top offshore oil rig builder, said on Monday it has won a contract worth about $200 million to build a rig for PetroVietnam.
MANILA (Reuters) - Gunmen kidnapped and killed at least 21 people in the southern Philippines Monday, apparently in a bid to prevent one of them filing her husband's nomination for elections next year, the military said.
BEIJING - At least two dozen people were arrested after more than 1,000 people took part in a violent protest against the closing of a market in southern China, hurling bricks at police and blocking roads, state media reported Monday.
HONG KONG (AFP) - - An increasing number of mainland Chinese migrants to Hong Kong are changing the spelling of their surnames to avoid discrimination in the former British colony, a report said Monday.
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - - Police are seeking the help of their British counterparts and Interpol to confirm if a convicted Malaysian child killer was deported here secretly, a top police official said Monday.
TAIPEI, Taiwan - A senior official from Taiwan says four of the island's fishing vessels have been detained by Myanmar for possibly entering the country's waters without permission.
SINGAPORE: Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong will visit Cambodia from 23—24 November at the invitation of Prime Minister Hun Sen.
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian television says a passenger ferry with more than 200 people onboard sank in rough waters near Sumatra island.