Anti-government protesters in Thailand have taken their months-long campaign to a Bangkok airport where the prime minister and cabinet have set up temporary offices.

Heavy fighting is continuing in Northern Sri Lanka along three fronts near the Tamil Tiger's political headquarters in the town of Kilinochchi.

North Korea says it is clamping down on cross-border movements and is suspending a historic railway service in protest at what it calls South Korea's policy of 'confrontation'.

Maritime groups have called on the United Nations to mount an international naval blockade to halt the surge of piracy off Somalia.

China says it will reduce tariffs on agricultural and non-agricultural products by 20 to 30 per cent.

A former speaker of the Philippines House of Representatives and one-time ally of President Gloria Arroyo has accused the president of bribery.

A United Nations Security Council delegation has arrived in Kabul to assess Afghanistan's progress towards ending the Taliban-led insurgency and rebuilding after decades of war.

Police in the Australian state of Victoria say they are investigating the disappearance of two refugees from the Indonesian state of Papua.

The United States military has announced it will deploy up to 4,000 extra troops in Afghanistan.

The Australian defence minister, Joel Fitzgibbon, says he wants the United Nations to speed up its reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan.

Helicopter gunships have attacked Tamil Tiger rebel positions in northern Sri Lanka as ground troops moved closer to the rebels' political capital.

Bangladesh's top election official says polls to return the country to democratic rule will be held on December 29, in line with the demands of the party of ex-prime minister Khaleda Zia.

Riot police have beaten back hundreds of anti-poll protesters in Indian Kashmir as the state voted in the second stage of elections.

Pakistan's eight-month old civilian government has disbanded the political wing of the military's main spy agency to concentrate its efforts on counter-terrorism.

The global economic slowdown has sent palm oil prices crashing, spelling misery for many Indonesian and Malaysian farmers.

Leaders from Asia and the Americas have pledged to push global trade talks and to reform global lending institutions in an effort to keep the world from sliding into a deep recession.

An Islamic militant accused of plotting to blow up transatlantic airliners has been killed in Pakistan.

A grenade blast near the Thai prime minister's office has raised tensions ahead of Sunday's planned rally billed as a 'final battle' to oust the government.

Tibetan exiles have called for continued negotiations with China to try to achieve autonomy for the region.

Eight Thai anti-government protesters were wounded, one critically, in a pre-dawn bomb attack in Bangkok Saturday, emergency services said, ramping up tensions a day ahead of a major rally.

Pakistani officials say the alleged mastermind of a 2006 transatlantic plane bombing plot has been killed in a US missile attack.

A senior cleric in Malaysia says the country's Muslims should not practice yoga because it will erode their faith in Islam.

The head of Burma's military junta has made a rare call for all citizens to back a controversial 'road map' to democracy.

Pakistani intellegence officials say a missile strike by a suspected US drone aircraft has killed at least three militants in a northwestern tribal district known as a hub of al-Qaeda and the Taliban.