Koreas hold talks on connecting rlys
Seoul: North and South Korea held talks on Tuesday on connecting the railways that run across their border, a physical link that would transform the relationship between the two sides of the divided peninsula.
5 drug traffickers get death in China
Beijing: A Chinese court has sentenced to death five drug traffickers and 14 others to life imprisonment, according to a media report on Tuesday.
15 dead in Vietnam floods, landslides
Hanoi: Flash floods and landslides killed 15 people in Vietnam’s mountainous north, officials said on Tuesday, after storms ravaged homes and wiped out crops.
11 killed in US drone attack : Afghan official
Kabul: An Afghan official says 11 people including six civilians have been killed in a US drone attack in northeastern Nuristan province.