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Lindsay Hawker was killed in Tokyo in 2007. Lindsay's parents, Julia and Bill Hawker, at their home yesterday

Suspect who bought a new face to evade justice is held

Man accused of Lindsay Hawker's murder is caught, despite plastic surgery

Inside Asia

Pakistan's nuclear-capable air-launched Ra'ad cruise missile is paraded in Islamabad during National Day in 2008

US 'wants to guard Pakistan's nuclear arsenal'

Wednesday, 11 November 2009

Concern that weapons could fall into enemy hands prompted drastic plan, claims 'New Yorker' report

A South Korean watches footage of the 2002 clash between the South and North Korean navies at a railway station in Seoul yesterday

North and South Korea clash on the high seas

Wednesday, 11 November 2009

US envoy to visit Pyongyang for rare one-on-one talks with reclusive communist regime

Thai fury as Thaksin starts Cambodian job

Wednesday, 11 November 2009

The Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, wanted at home for a conviction on corruption charges, arrived in Cambodia yesterday to take up a government job offer that has set off a diplomatic row with Bangkok.

Murder suspect Tatsuya Ichihashi is shown before (left) and after cosmetic surgery

Murdered teacher's father hails Japanese arrest

Tuesday, 10 November 2009

The main suspect in the murder of British teacher Lindsay Hawker has been arrested by Japanese police.

South Korean Commodore Lee Ki-Sik, chief of the Intelligence Operation Division, speaks at a briefing on the clash of North and South Korean navies at the Defense Ministry in Seoul

Korean navies clash ahead of Obama visit

Tuesday, 10 November 2009

North and South Korea's navies clashed briefly in the Yellow Sea today, just ahead of a visit to Asia this week by US President Barack Obama, in an incident that left a northern vessel damaged.

Pakistan Fashion Week

Couture, Karachi-style

Tuesday, 10 November 2009

Forget the Taliban, think tailoring. Andrew Buncombe and Omar Waraich discover a silkier side to Pakistan

North Korea's reclusive dictator 'has six luxurious armoured trains'

Tuesday, 10 November 2009

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il – known for shunning air travel – has six luxurious trains equipped with reception halls, conference rooms and hi-tech communication facilities, a South Korean newspaper reported yesterday.

Singles in Ibaraki dig for yams… and marriage partners

Fertility crisis in Japan: let the state find you a mate

Tuesday, 10 November 2009

A fertility crisis has forced local authorities in Japan to go into the lonely hearts business

China executes nine people over riots that left 200 dead

Tuesday, 10 November 2009

Nine men have been executed for participating in violent ethnic riots in China's mainly Muslim north-west that left nearly 200 people dead.

President Obama

Obama likely to send only 30,000 more troops

Monday, 9 November 2009

The US administration is likely to announce the dispatch of at least 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, amid increasing calls in Britain for a withdrawal from the war in the face of a rising death toll. The announcement that the 200th and 201st members of the British forces have been killed in combat in the conflict – the eighth in five days – came on Remembrance Sunday, with public figures in the UK questioning further involvement and yet another opinion poll showing a majority want our troops pulled out.

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