South Asia News

China tells its airlines not to pay charges to the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme, aimed at cutting carbon emissions.

Floods continue to threaten Queensland in eastern Australia, with 3,000 evacuated and the town of St George expecting to be worst affected.

Three Tibetans set fire to themselves in China in an anti-Beijing protest, reports say, meaning 19 people have now self-immolated in a year.

At least nine people are killed in a car bomb attack on police headquarters in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, officials say.

Australia's Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd warns Europe faces an "early grave" if it continues to ignore Asia's rise.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will visit China next week to discuss the future of Canada's oil products.

George Esper, who reported on the fall of Saigon for the Associated Press during the last days of the Vietnam war, dies at the age of 79.

Cambodia's UN-backed genocide court rejects an appeal by Khmer Rouge jailer Duch and increases his sentence to life imprisonment.

Thousands of former Maoist fighters in Nepal begin the process of demobilisation, five years after they ended their armed revolt.

The number of deaths worldwide from malaria has been underestimated, according to data published in the medical journal the Lancet.