• Crowds take to the streets in Pakistan-administered Kashmir to protest at the killing of pro-independence leader Sardar Arif Shahid.
  • Police in London investigate complaints against the UK-based leader of Pakistan's MQM party to see if he has violated British law.
  • Part of a shoe factory has collapsed in Cambodia, leaving at least two people dead, officials say.
  • A ceiling collapse at a Cambodian shoe factory has killed at least six workers, police said, with regional industrial safety in the spotlight after last month's disaster in Bangladesh.    
  • Part of a shoe factory collapses in Cambodia, leaving at least two people dead and more feared trapped, officials say.
  • Indian doctors have rejected claims that an eight-year-old British girl who died while visiting family in Punjab may have been killed for her organs.    
  • Honda to supply engines to McLaren team from 2015
  • As hundreds of thousands of people pack into evacuation shelters, Bangladeshi authorities have raised the danger level to seven out of 10 in low-lying areas around Chittagong and Cox's Bazar
  • A coin toss decides who wins as mayor in a central Philippines town after two candidates received the same number of votes.
  • A coin toss has decided the lucky winner of mayor for a small Philippine town, after rival candidates were tied at the end the vote count.    
  • Cyclone Mahasen struck the southern coast of Bangladesh on Thursday, lashing remote fishing villages with heavy rain and fierce winds that flattened mud and straw huts and forced the evacuation of more than one million people.    
  • Thousands of refugees displaced by sectarian violence and living in camps along the country’s western coast distrust government order to relocate
  • Kim Jong-un reportedly fathered a baby girl in 2010 with an unknown woman, more than two years before his wife gave birth to the couple's first child, it has emerged.    
  • The US voices concern and calls for a quick resolution as a row between Taiwan and the Philippines over the death of a fisherman escalates.
  • Taipei steps up its naval patrols in the South China Sea after Manila fails to apologise for its role in the fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman
  • Tiawan has suspended all hiring of Filipino workers and has recalled its envoy to Manila following a row over the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman and a perceived lack of contrition from the Philippine government.    
  • Real gross domestic product increased by 0.9% in the three months to March, or 3.5% in annualised terms, government data show
  • More than two-thirds of business leaders say in a survey that the Asian country would reach or pull ahead of the continent in innovation by 2023
  • The Arctic Council has granted permanent observer status to China and six others, in a signal of the polar region's growing international importance.    
  • For a country in its demographic sweetspot, with a highly motivated and entrepreneurial population, the economy is not growing fast enough
  • While 30 mainly European retailers are happy to sign an accord on fire and building safety, US retailers have lambasted it as impractical
  • China has agreed the technical details of a free-trade agreement with Switzerland and the deal is likely to be signed in coming months
  • Carmakers expanded domestic production during the last period of yen weakness, only to be burnt when the yen shot up and demand collapsed
  • Kenneth Bae, the US citizen given 15 years hard labour by North Korea, has begun his sentence, according to state media, who added that he will serve his sentence in a "special prison".    
  • Trade chief vows to press ahead with investigation into Huawei and ZTE after months of fruitless talks – and amid increasingly hostile trade relations

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