| China announces plan to boost energy efficiency (AP) Posted: 26 Nov 2009 02:57 AM PST  AP - China announced plans Thursday to cut its carbon emissions by up to 45 percent as measured against its economic output — a target aimed at keeping its surging growth while still reining in pollution.
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| Sri Lanka opposition backs ex-military chief in poll (AFP) Posted: 26 Nov 2009 02:52 AM PST  AFP - Sri Lanka's main opposition party said on Thursday it would back former military chief General Sarath Fonseka in his bid to unseat President Mahinda Rajapakse in upcoming elections.
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| India marks one year after deadly Mumbai attacks (AFP) Posted: 26 Nov 2009 02:46 AM PST  AFP - India on Thursday marked the first anniversary of last year's deadly attacks on Mumbai with a show of security strength and prayers for the dead, as the government vowed a tough line to curb terror.
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| Mumbai commemorates anniversary of attacks (AP) Posted: 26 Nov 2009 02:46 AM PST  AP - Black-clad commandos rappelled down a building and Mumbai's police showed off their new gear Thursday in what was intended as a reassuring display of force a year after a terror attack across the city killed 166 people.
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| China unveils carbon emissions targets (AFP) Posted: 26 Nov 2009 02:46 AM PST  AFP - China announced its first targets for limiting carbon emissions on Thursday, joining the United States in revealing the stance it will take at next month's high-stakes climate summit.
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| Contractor helicopter missing in Afghanistan (AP) Posted: 26 Nov 2009 02:32 AM PST  AP - A helicopter belonging to an international military contractor has disappeared in Afghanistan, officials said Thursday.
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| Taiwan economy shrinks at slower pace in 3Q (AP) Posted: 26 Nov 2009 02:21 AM PST AP - Taiwan's economy contracted at a slower pace year-on-year in the third quarter and the government raised its growth forecast for 2010 as rising demand from mainland China spurs a recovery. |
| Dollar falls to 14-year low against yen (AFP) Posted: 26 Nov 2009 02:20 AM PST  AFP - The dollar slumped to a 14-year low against the yen on Thursday, prompting fears that a further surge could hurt a fragile recovery in the world's second largest economy.
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| Invading camels to be shot in Australian town (AP) Posted: 26 Nov 2009 02:15 AM PST  AP - Australian authorities plan to corral about 6,000 wild camels with helicopters and gun them down after they overran a small Outback town in search of water, trampling fences, smashing tanks and contaminating supplies.
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| Sreesanth wrecks S.Lanka in second cricket Test (AFP) Posted: 26 Nov 2009 02:09 AM PST  AFP - India's right-arm quick Shanthakumaran Sreesanth collected a five-wicket haul to leave Sri Lanka tottering at 219-8 on the third day of the second cricket Test here on Thursday.
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| Prime suspect in Philippine massacre surrenders (AP) Posted: 26 Nov 2009 01:25 AM PST  AP - A scion of a powerful pro-government clan suspected in the massacre of 57 people in an election caravan in the southern Philippines turned himself in Thursday amid mounting pressure on the president to crack down on lawlessness and warlords.
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| China's Internet buzzing over woman in black (AP) Posted: 26 Nov 2009 01:25 AM PST  AP - While President Barack Obama talked about Internet rights during his visit to China, the Internet here talked about a mystery woman in black.
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| China house church leaders sentenced (AP) Posted: 26 Nov 2009 12:53 AM PST AP - A court in northern China has sentenced five leaders of an unauthorized Protestant church to prison terms of up to seven years on charges including illegal assembly, rights groups reported Thursday. |
| Indonesian police stop Greenpeace forest protest (AP) Posted: 26 Nov 2009 12:42 AM PST AP - Police broke up a protest by the environmental group Greenpeace against deforestation on the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Thursday, arresting 12 foreign and six Indonesian demonstrators, an activist said. |
| Khmer Rouge prison chief could get 40 years (AP) Posted: 26 Nov 2009 12:32 AM PST  AP - Lawyers for the Khmer Rouge prison chief blamed for thousands of killings in Cambodia accused prosecutors Thursday of making him a scapegoat for all the horrors committed by the regime.
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| Patrols and turkey in Afghan war zone (AP) Posted: 26 Nov 2009 12:15 AM PST  AP - Thanksgiving Day for soldiers in this valley ringed by towering snowy peaks began with a 6-mile (10-kilometer) slog to aid village schools without desks and windows, and promises to end with five, once scrawny local turkeys soldiers have been fattening up for the past month.
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| 2 jailed for beating crocodile in Bangladesh (AP) Posted: 25 Nov 2009 11:45 PM PST AP - A court in southwestern Bangladesh has jailed two men for severely beating a pregnant crocodile at an Islamic shrine, a news report said Thursday. |
| Taiwan fines newspaper for motion crime news (AP) Posted: 25 Nov 2009 10:17 PM PST AP - A daily newspaper in Taiwan has been fined for illustrating news stories involving crime and violence in vivid animation on its Web site, an official said Thursday. |
| Bomb injures 3 people in northwestern Pakistan (AP) Posted: 25 Nov 2009 08:11 PM PST AP - A roadside bomb targeting a police officer exploded in the main northwestern city of Peshawar on Thursday, injuring three people in the latest of a wave of attacks to strike the area since the army launched a major anti-Taliban offensive last month. |
| State-run magazine reports on black jails in China (AP) Posted: 25 Nov 2009 06:44 PM PST  AP - It read like a muckraking expose: A magazine revealed a system of secret detention centers in Beijing where Chinese citizens are forcibly held and sometimes beaten to prevent them from lodging formal complaints with the central government.
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