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JANUARY 2009
1 JANUARY
Sri Lanka: troops, on Thursday January 1, capture a key town from Tamil Tiger rebels in the island's north after intense clashes that left at least 50 guerrillas dead, the defence ministry said. The fall of Paranthan, near the Tigers' political capital Kilinochchi, has effectively cut off the rebels' main supply line to several other strongholds, the ministry said in a statement. http://www.france24.com/en/20090101-government-troops-take-key-rebel-
town-sri-lanka-tamil-tigers
2 JANUARY
Sri Lanka's military have seized control of the Tamil Tiger rebels' de facto capital of Kilinochchi, President Mahinda Rajapaksa has announced. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/01/20091242244697512.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7807908.stm http://www.france24.com/en/20090102-sri-lanka-troops-take-control-key-
tamil-tiger-town-kilinochchi
The authorities in Vietnam have sacked the editors of the country's two largest pro-reform newspapers. Nguyen Cong Khe and Le Hoang were ousted months after two of their journalists went on trial over coverage of a government corruption scandal. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7807519.stm
3 JANUARY
Opposition lawmakers in South Korea have scuffled with security guards who tried to end their blockade of parliament in the capital Seoul. The MPs are protesting against plans by the ruling Grand National Party to push through more than 80 bills, including a major trade agreement with the US. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7809366.stm
5 JANUARY
India : The president of the pro-India National Conference (NC) party has been sworn in as the new chief minister of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. Omar Abdullah, 38, is the disputed state's youngest ever chief minister. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7811173.stm
6 JANUARY
Japan's foreign ministry has said it plans to ask Australia and possibly New Zealand and Chile to ban an anti-whaling ship from using their ports to refuel. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/01/
2009169445814449.html
Sheikh Hasina Wajed has been sworn in as Bangladesh's prime minister, a democratic move in the impoverished country after almost two years of rule by an army-backed regime. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/01/
200916135018846405.html
Thailand : The new Thai government has ordered ministries to act more decisively against those who violate laws protecting the image of the monarchy. The new minister for information and technology said the government was already blocking 2,300 websites deemed offensive to the monarchy. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7813269.stm
7 JANUARY
Cambodia : Tens of thousands of Cambodians have packed into a stadium in Phnom Penh to mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the murderous Khmer Rouge. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7814974.stm
8 JANUARY
Sri Lanka : Gunmen on a motorcycle Thursday shot and killed the editor of a Sri Lankan newspaper critical of the government, the second violent attack on media this week. http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/01/08/asia/AS-Sri-Lanka-Media-
Attack.php http://asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&
id=1664&Itemid=183
A 65-year-old democracy activist who tried to set up an opposition party in China has been sentenced to six years in jail, a human rights group said Thursday. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28555277/
An American missile strike on Jan. 1 in Pakistan's tribal areas killed two senior leaders of Al Qaeda, including one militant suspected of overseeing last September's deadly suicide bombing at a Marriott Hotel in Pakistan's capital, an American counterterrorism official said Thursday 8 January. In the past week, American officials have concluded that Hellfire missiles fired from a remotely piloted Predator aircraft operated by the CIA killed a Kenyan citizen who used the name Usama al-Kini and who was described as Al Qaeda's chief of operations in Pakistan, as well as his Kenyan lieutenant, identified as Sheik Ahmed Salim Swedan, the official said. http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/09/asia/09pstan.php
9 JANUARY
Sri Lanka : The Sri Lankan army captures Elephant Pass, the strategic causeway linking the Jaffna peninsula with the mainland, the president says http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7819386.stm
10 JANUARY
Officials from China's southern Guangdong province are reported to have gambled away more than $3m (£2m) of public money in recent years. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7821747.stm
11 JANUARY
Thailand : By-elections for a total of 29 new MPs tilted in favor of the Democrat-led coalition government, which won 19 more House seats while opposition Pheu Thai and Pracharaj parties got just 10. As a result, the government's majority was boosted to 255 from 236 compared to the opposition's 205 MPs, up from 195. http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2009/01/12/politics/
politics_30092986.php
13 JANUARY
Thailand : troops are engaged in "systematic" torture as they combat an insurgency in the south, Amnesty International says. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7825773.stm
14 JANUARY
Nepal : Thousands of people have joined the funeral procession of Uma Singh, the Nepali journalist murdered in the southern city of Janakpur on Sunday. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7826578.stm http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/SE%2BAsia/Story/
STIStory_325152.html
Police in southern China have broken up a gang that abducted migrant workers' children to sell in distant provinces, state media reports. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7827800.stm
North Korea is demanding that the United States readjust its focus in multilateral talks on ending the Communist state's nuclear weapons program, insisting that it will never give up its nuclear arms before Washington normalizes relations with Pyongyang. http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/14/news/north.2-407486.php
Singapore : A Singaporean who admitted plotting to crash a plane into the country's international airport has gone on trial in Indonesia for killing a teacher and plotting to blow up a bar. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/01/
20091140647945990.html
15 JANUARY
India : In the harshest statement to date, an Indian minister has threatened to break off business, transport and tourist links with Pakistan if it fails to help investigate the Mumbai terrorist attacks. http://www.asianewsnet.net/news.php?id=3427&sec=1
Thailand : soldiers are detaining illegal migrants from Bangladesh and Burma and forcing them back out to sea in boats without engines, survivors say. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7830710.stm
India : Leading Indian filmmaker Tapan Sinha has died in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta (Kolkata) at the age of 84. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7830022.stm
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has nominated his third son as successor and informed the ruling communist party leadership of his choice, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported. The nomination of Kim Jong-Un, 24, was totally unexpected even among party leaders, Yonhap said, quoting "well-informed intelligence sources." http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/402624/1/
.html
Beijing's crackdown on obscenity online may be a cover for a broader suppression of dissent. China kicked off the New Year with another crackdown of the Internet. A government-supported entity—the Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center, tasked with finding and fighting online content that violates the law—began by informing 19 popular Web sites, including Google and Baidu, China's two leading search engines, that they contain "vulgar content that violates social morality and damages the physical and mental health of youths." Only a few days later, they expanded their blacklist to 91 sites, including MSN and MySpace http://www.newsweek.com/id/179749
16 JANUARY
China's economic slowdown has increased the gap between urban and rural incomes by almost $1,600 last year, state-run media reports. The average income of a city dweller was 3.36 times higher than a rural villager in 2008, the China Business News newspaper reported on Friday, quoting statistics from the agriculture ministry. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/01/
200911674147809802.html
Private schools in Pakistan's troubled north-western Swat district have closed to comply with a Taleban edict banning girls' education, officials say.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7832715.stm
The authorities in China say they have found that most Chinese women would like to have more than one child. Family-planning officials say their research indicates that 70% of women want to have two babies or more. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7832440.stm
17 JANUARY
A well-known anti-corruption journalist, Nguyen Viet Chien, and a British national are among more than 15,000 prisoners to be released before term in Vietnam. Mr Chien, 56, was arrested last May and brought to trial in October for "abusing freedom and democratic rights" while covering the so-called PMU-18 scandal, in which government officials were accused of mis-using large amounts of public funds. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7833480.stm
The North Korean military declared an "all-out confrontational posture" against South Korea on Saturday as an American scholar said he was told by officials in North Korea that it had "weaponized" 30.8 kilograms of plutonium. http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/17/news/norkor.1-409776.php
19 JANUARY
Cambodia : Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, who is accused of murder, torture, rape and persecutions on political grounds, will appear at an initial hearing on February 17, a court document said on Monday. Duch, 65, headed the S-21 prison, the largest Khmer Rouge torture facility in the 1970s where up to 16,000 men, women and children perished after suffering gruesome torture. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/01/
200911995526641896.html http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/SE%2BAsia/Story/
STIStory_328116.html
A court in Thailand has sentenced an Australian author to three years in jail after finding him guilty of insulting the country's royal family. http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2009/01/19/national/
national_30093593.php http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/01/
200911942531718232.html
20 JANUARY
China has said it plans to step up the modernization of its armed forces, expanding the military's global reach, but at the same time calling on the incoming US administration to improve military relations between the two countries. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/01/
200912092726865304.html http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/20/news/china.1-411803.php http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-01/20/content_10688124_1.htm
China : Premier Wen Jiabao is due to travel to Europe next week, the foreign ministry has announced - but his trip will pointedly exclude France. Correspondents say Beijing continues to snub Paris because of a meeting between President Nicolas Sarkozy and the Dalai Lama late last year. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7839668.stm
Singapore : A Singaporean who met Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan confessed Tuesday to plotting attacks against Singapore's Changi Airport and a US navy logistics centre there, as he stood trial on separate terror charges in Indonesia. "We did plan to attack Changi airport in 2000 and Sembawang naval base in 1999, but our plan was foiled by the authorities," Mohammad Hasan bin Saynudin, 35, told. http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/403755/1/
.html
A leading political critic has been charged with insulting Thailand's king under the country's controversial lese majeste laws. Giles Ungpakorn, of Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University, was formally charged on Tuesday with insulting the monarchy in a book he authored criticising Thailand's September 2006 military coup. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/01/
200912075510997389.html
21 JANUARY
China media leave communism and dissent out of Obama speech
US President Barack Obama's inauguration speech left China's media scrambling on Wednesday, with many attempting to censor his references to communism and dissent http://www.france24.com/en/20090121-sina-sohu-internet-media-china-
censorship-obama-speech-communism-dissent
22 JANUARY
The Malaysia's government has announced a ban on the hiring of foreign labour in the key manufacturing and services sectors amid a deepening global economic crisis. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/01/
20091228418535985.html
China calls for the early repatriation of Chinese terrorist suspects from the United States' Guantanamo prison. "We oppose other nations taking these suspects and they should be repatriated to China immediately to be dealt with by the Chinese law, " said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-01/22/content_10704292.htm
Two men have been given the death penalty for their involvement in China's contaminated milk scandal. The former boss of the Sanlu dairy at the centre of the scandal was given life imprisonment http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-01/22/content_7422297.htm http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/28793167#28793167 http://www.france24.com/en/20090122-china-tainted-milk-scandal-two-
sentenced-death
23 JANUARY
Three Islamist rebels have been given life sentences in the Philippines for their part in one of the country's most deadly insurgent attacks. The three were convicted of killing 11 people by bombing a train station in the capital, Manila, in December 2000. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7846709.stm
The Awami League of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina wins a local poll boost following its victory in general elections last month. Candidates stood as independents in the elections held on Thursday but those affiliated with the Awami League won 306 of the 463 seats. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7847732.stm
25 JANUARY
Sri Lankan troops seize the last town held by separatist Tamil Tiger fighters,
Mullaittivu http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/01/
2009125133055917676.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7849684.stm http://www.france24.com/en/20090125-sri-lanka-troops-tamil-tiger-town-
mullaittivu http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/01/
2009126143222571233.html
28 JANUARY
The United Nations has warned of acute food shortages in parts of Burma, despite a better than expected rice harvest over the past year. Its World Food Programme has issued a report warning that six million people in Burma are now in need of food aid. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7856265.stm http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28888631/
29 JANUARY
A UN convoy has removed hundreds of people wounded in the crossfire between Sri Lankan government forces and Tamil Tiger fighters, the world body says, including 50 critically wounded children http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/01/
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FEBRUARY 2009
2 FEBRUARY
At least 13 people are killed after a hospital in northern Sri Lanka Mullaittivu district was hit in three artillery attacks, United Nations officials have said. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/02/20092213337621562.html
Some 20 million migrant workers have been thrown out of work across China as a result of the global economic slowdown, an official has said, as the government becomes increasingly worried over the risk of social unrest. http://english.aljazeera.net/business/2009/02/200922793720217.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7864293.stm
Aung San Suu Kyi, the detained Myanmar opposition leader, has said all political prisoners must be freed as a precondition for any visit to the country by the UN secretary general. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/02/
200922935807779.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7864250.stm
A protester has thrown a shoe at Wen Jiabao during a speech at Cambridge University and called the China prime minister a "dictator". The shoe landed about a metre away from Mr Wen and the protester, a young man, was then removed by security guards. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7865868.stm
4 FEBRUARY
The Thailand government has denied claims it is abusing Rohingya immigrants but has said it does not plan to grant asylum to members of the ethnic group who fled Myanmar http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/02/
2009248393921170.html
Myanmar's military government has called for economic and diplomatic sanctions against the country to be lifted before it will consider any reform or political reconciliation, state media has said. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/02/
2009245534355540.html
5 FEBRUARY
In Sri Lanka, government forces are claiming to have captured the biggest sea base of the rebel Tamil Tigers in the country's northeast. Military officials on Thursday February 5, said that the Tigers were now left with just 20km coastline in the northeastern district of Mullaittivu, following the fall of the Chalai base. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/02/
200925135348289156.html
6 FEBRUARY
A court in Pakistan has freed disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan from house arrest. Dr Khan, who has been under tight restrictions since 2004 for selling nuclear technology to foreign countries, can now leave home and receive visitors. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7873962.stm
In Malaysia, an opposition leader has been forcibly removed by police from his office in a political tussle over which party controls the state's legislature. Perak state's chief minister, Nizar Jamaluddin, described his removal as a "coup" and promised legal action. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7874068.stm
8 FEBRUARY
Hamid Karzai, the Afghanistan president, has called for a process of reconciliation with Taliban fighters who are not linked with al-Qaeda. "We will invite all those Taliban who are not part of al-Qaeda, who are not part of terrorist networks, who want to return to their country ... to come back to their country," he said at a security conference in the German city of Munich on Sunday. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/02/
200928101412448638.html
Minju Joson, the official daily of the North Korea's government, called South Korea's unification minister-designate Hyun In-Taek a "confrontational fanatic and sycophantic traitor." "If he is allowed to hold the post of the minister of 'unification,' the inter-Korean relations will grow worse and be pushed to collapse," Minju Joson said in a commentary monitored here. http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/407604/1/
.html
9 FEBRUARY
A female Tamil Tiger suicide bomber detonated on Monday at a camp for civilians who have fled Sri Lanka's ethnic war, killing 28 people, the military said, as the rebels faced imminent defeat. "Twenty soldiers, including three women soldiers were killed," a General said. "Another eight civilians were killed and 40 civilians were wounded." Dozens of injured troops were also rushed to hospital. http://www.france24.com/en/20090209-sri-lanka-tamil-tiger-suicide-
bomb-refugee-camp
The BBC World Service is to stop providing radio news to Sri Lanka's state broadcaster because of what it calls "deliberate interference". The BBC said many of its news reports in Sinhala, Tamil and English had been blocked or only partially broadcast. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7879743.stm
10 FEBRUARY
In Taiwan, Wu Shu-chen, former first lady has pleaded guilty to money-laundering and forgery but denied embezzlement charges in a high-profile corruption case
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7880656.stm
11 FEBRUARY
In Sri Lanka, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE) open fire on civilians crossing to the safety of government controlled areas from the uncleared areas in Puthukuduiruppu, killing 19 and injuring 69, including children.
http://www.island.lk/2009/02/11/news1.html
Iran says that a fatwa ordering the death of British writer Salman Rushdie was still valid 20 years after it was issued by the revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/World/Story/
A1Story20090211-121208.html
In Afghanistan, Taliban suicide bombers struck government buildings at three sites in Kabul, killing at least 20 people and wounding 57 in coordinated attacks that demonstrated the ease with which the insurgents can penetrate even Afghanistan's heavily fortified capital.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/02/11/asia/afghan.php
12 FEBRUARY
In Bangladesh, veteran Awami League (AL) leader Zillur Rahman is sworn in as the country's 19th president in a simple ceremony at Bangabhaban.
http://www.asianewsnet.net/news.php?id=3939&sec=1
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Zillur-Rahman-sworn-in-as-
Bangladeshs-new-President/422690/
13 FEBRUARY
The Thailand military officer at the centre of the controversy surrounding the expulsion of Rohingya asylum-seekers has defended his role. Col Manas Kongpan has insisted he always treated the Rohingya humanely, and accused some foreign media of deliberately tarnishing the Thai image.
14 FEBRUARY
As Russia marks the 20th anniversary of its withdrawal from Afghanistan, officials in Moscow are warning that US and Nato-led forces are making exactly the same mistakes as the Soviet Union made when it invaded the country in 1979 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7888566.st
In Pakistan, At least 35 people are killed, including many foreigners and nine others injured when a suspected pilotless US aircraft fired two missiles at a house in South Waziristan Agency. It has been reported that 25 Uzbeks were among the killed persons. http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/
Politics/15-Feb-2009/US-missile-strike-kills-35-in-Ladha http://www.france24.com/en/20090214-dozens-taliban-militants-killed-
us-missiles-strike-pakistan
15 FEBRUARY
Sri Lanka's ruling coalition wins control of two provincial assemblies, according to election results in a victory seen as an endorsement of government efforts to defeat separatist Tamil Tiger rebels. The governing United People's Freedom Alliance coalition won 34 of 56 seats in the Central provincial council and about 65 percent of the votes counted for the North Western provincial council in Saturday's elections, the Department of Elections said. Counting in one electorate was still not complete.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/02/15/asia/AS-Sri-Lanka-
Elections.php
In South Korea, cardinal Stephen Kim Sou-hwan, a spiritual leader of Koreans across the faiths, passed away at the age of 86. Kim, was revered for his role in promoting democracy and human rights
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/NEWKHSITE/data/html_dir/2009/02/17/
200902170046.asp
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=14492&size=A
16 FEBRUAY
Pakistan's government agrees to restore sharia, or Islamic law, in the Swat Valley and neighbouring areas of the country's northwest as part of a peace deal with local pro-Taliban fighters. The agreement was reached after talks in Peshawar between members of Tahrik-e-Nafiz Shariat Muhammadi and officials of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) government on Monday.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/02/20092177166785608.html
Japan's economy minister says that the country is facing its worst crisis since World War II after data for the last quarter of 2008 showed the economy shrank by 3.3 per cent.
http://english.aljazeera.net/business/2009/02/200921623641653880.html
17 FEBRUARY
The long-awaited UN-backed trial of a former Khmer Rouge leader in Cambodia opens at a Phnom Penh court, 30 years after the murderous regime fell. Kaing Guek Eav - better known as Duch - was head of a notorious prison camp and is accused of presiding over the murder and torture of at least 15,000 inmates.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7893138.stm
18 FEBRUARY
The chief minister of a Malaysia's state and his six member cabinet have been barred from attending the state parliament. V Sivakumar, the speaker of the assembly in the northern state of Perak, ordered the suspensions of Zambry Abdul Kadir and six others from the ruling Barisan Nasional (National Front) coalition. http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/2/19/nation/
3298984&sec=nation http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/02/
20092195240262400.html
19 FEBRUARY
US appeals for greater assistance in the war in Afghanistan have failed to win much support from Nato allies.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/02/
2009219145057278830.html
Myanmar's human rights situation remains 'challenging,' United Nations Special Human Rights Envoy Rapporteur Tomas Ojea Quintana concluded, winding up a six-day visit to the junta-ruled nation.
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/asiapacific/news/
article_1460440.php/Myanmar_human_rights_situation_%26quotchallenging%
26quot_admits_UN_envoy_
20 FEBRUARY
Two Tamil Tiger planes bomb the Sri Lankan capital Friday night, but one of them was shot down as it flew back towards the country’s north, military officials said.
http://www.sindhtoday.net/world/66283.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7902392.stm
China : Buddhist clergy in Tibet is warned not to take part in any political activity in the run-up to the anniversary of last year's massive protests against Chinese rule.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/02/
200922053111489207.html
Myanmar's military government announces an amnesty for more than 6,000 prisoners but do not mention whether any political detainees will be among those released.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29302719/
22 FEBRUARY
At least 73 miners have been killed and dozens remain trapped after a gas explosion in a coal mine in China's Shanxi province, the state Xinhua news agency reports.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/02/
20092222617523951.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-02/22/content_10869267.htm
http://www.france24.com/en/20090222-miners-dead-china-trapped-gas-
explosion
No more than a dozen "prisoners of conscience," including five Buddhist monks arrested in 2003, have been freed in military-ruled Myanmar as part of a general amnesty, opposition and activist sources said. The regime announced the release of over 6,000 inmates on Friday after United Nations human rights rapporteur Tomas Ojea Quintana ended a five-day visit during which he met a handful of political prisoners in Yangon's Insein Prison.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29325421/
23 FEBRUARY
Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger fighters have announced that they are ready to comply with international calls for a ceasefire, but they would not lay down their arms, according to the AFP news agency.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/02/
200922341351386686.html
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Asia/Story/
STIStory_341966.html
24 FEBRUARY
Sri Lankan soldiers have entered the last rebel-held town in the country's north after heavy fighting for full control of the territory, the military said. Defence officials said government troops swept into the town of Puthukudiyiruppu on Tuesday following fierce overnight clashes northeast of Colombo, the capital.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/02/
200922410421649558.html
25 FEBRUARY
In Bangladesh, a mutiny by paramilitary border security forces erupted in a daylong gunbattle in the heart of the congested capital on Wednesday, trapping schoolchildren for several hours and posing the biggest test yet to a newly elected government trying to reestablish civilian control after two years of army-backed emergency rule.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/02/25/asia/26banglacnd.php
http://newsfrombangladesh.net/view.php?hidDate=2009-02-25&hidType=TOP
Pakistan's Supreme Court has upheld bans on former prime minister and opposition leader Nawaz Sharif and his brother, Shahbaz, from elected office.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7909404.stm
Indian's investigators charged the lone surviving gunman from the Mumbai attacks with 12 crimes on Wednesday, including murder and waging war against India.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/02/25/asia/AS-India-Shooting.php
26 FEBRUARY
Bangladesh's border guards have ended their two-day mutiny, surrendering their weapons and freeing all hostages. A government spokesman said the crisis in Dhaka was over, as the toll stood at 20 dead and dozens injured, lower than a previous estimate of 50 dead.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7912392.stm
http://www.france24.com/en/20090226-137-army-officers-missing-after-
bangladesh-mutiny-rifle
27 FEBRUARY
In Pakistan, protests against a court order barring a former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, from holding office continued in major Pakistani cities Friday, and legislators from his party gathered outside the locked provincial assembly in Lahore vowing to stand by their leader.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/02/27/mideast/pakistan.php
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7914350.stm
In China, a group of mothers of those killed in the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square has urged China's leaders to fully investigate the deaths. The Tiananmen Mothers want the government to name the dead, compensate families and punish those responsible
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29425644/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7914074.stm
In China, a monk carrying a Tibetan national flag and shouting slogans set himself on fire in south-central China on Friday and then was shot at by police, a human rights group reported
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=14606&size=A.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/27/monk/index.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7916544.stm
28 FEBRUARY
Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's president, has issued a decree asking the country's electoral commission to bring forward elections scheduled for August 20. A statement from Karzai's office said on Saturday that the presidential election should be held by May, when his five-year term in office expires.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/03/2009313312819237.html
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MARCH 2009
1 MARCH
Bangladesh police say they are charging more than 1,000 border guardsmen in connection with a mutiny which left more than 140 people dead.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7917374.stm
2 MARCH
Military officials from North Korea and the U.S.-led U.N. Command held their first high-level talks in nearly seven years
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/03/02/nkorea.talks/
index.html
3 MARCH
Eight Pakistanis have been killed and up to six Sri Lanka's cricket players wounded by armed men in the eastern Pakistan's city of Lahore.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/03/20093342556242789.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7921430.stm
Bangladesh's security forces arrest Touhidul Alam , a man accused of being the "ring leader" behind a bloody mutiny by troops that has raised fears for the survival of the new civilian government. He is the prime accused in the events at the Bangladesh Rifles headquarters
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/412856/1/
.html
4 MARCH
Japan's opposition leader Ichiro Ozawa, whose party is favorite to win elections this year, has dismissed calls for his resignation.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7922691.stm
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/KC07Dh02.html
Ten former soldiers convicted of being involved in the Philippines' most prominent assassination case have been released from prison after more than two decades.
http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-03-04-voa14.cfm
China says it will increase military spending by a "modest" 14.9% this year to 480.6bn yuan ($70.2bn; £50bn).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7922699.stm
5 MARCH
The arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) would severely disturb political process of the Darfur region as well as peace and stability of the country, says Liu Guijin, the special representative of China for Darfur
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-03/05/content_10951598.htm
Thailand Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn opens a rail link over the Mekong river, linking Thailand and Laos. Two passenger trains will run the 30-minute return trip each day, serving about 500 people daily.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7925422.stm
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/03/
2009353165379622.html
China is ready to talk peace with Taiwan, the Chinese premier Wen Jiabao tells the National People's Congress that China was "ready to create conditions for ending the state of hostility" across the Taiwan Strait.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/03/
20093531841384340.html
6 MARCH
Two airlines in South Korea are to re-route flights after North Korea said it could not guarantee their safety.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7927520.stm
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/KC07Dg01.html
Police in Thailand have arrested the editor of a leading political website, on charges of carrying content that threatens national security. The Bangkok-based Prachatai website is well-known for carrying content that Thai newspapers will not publish.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7928159.stm
7 MARCH
China accuses the Dalai Lama of making unrealistic demands that go beyond his public commitment to greater autonomy for Tibet, rather than independence, in the latest reflection of the gulf between the two sides. http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/asiapacific/news/
article_1463289.php/China_slams_Dalai_Lamas_autonomy_demands_
Riot police in Malaysia fires tear gas to disperse thousands of people in Kuala Lumpur, who protested against the use of English in local schools.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/413788/1/
.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7930243.stm
8 MARCH
North Koreans go to the polls to elect legislators to the country's rubber-stamp parliament, a poll that may indicate who Kim Jong-il, the North Korean leader, is grooming as his successor.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/03/
2009386325419670.html
Japanese want Ozawa to quit. A total of 57 per cent of voters think Ozawa should step down as DPJ leader to take responsibility for the scandal, according to the 1,686 people polled by the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper after one of his aides was arrested on suspicion of taking illegal political donations.
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Asia/Story/
STIStory_347544.html
President Obama has suggests there could be talks with moderate elements of the Taleban in Afghanistan as part of a process of reconciliation.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7930865.stm
9 MARCH
In Sri Lanka, Vinyagamoorthi Muralitharan , the former deputy leader of the Tamil Tigers, known by his nom de guerre, Col Karuna, is named the new non-cabinet minister for national integration and reconciliation.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7933561.stm
10 MARCH
In Sri Lanka a suicide bomb kills 10. At least one minister was among more than 20 people injured in the blast at the town of Akuressa, 160km (100 miles) south of the capital, Colombo.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7934095.stm
http://webcastr.com/videos/underground/Suicide-Bomber-Attack-Caught-
on-Video.html
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/03/
200931013517425644.html
A US navy mapping ship that the Pentagon says was "harassed" by Chinese ships over the weekend, was conducting illegal operations in the South China Sea, China's foreign ministry has said.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/03/
200931013517425644.html
11 MARCH
The China's government hits back at what it called "lies" spread by the Dalai Lama about the situation in Tibet, saying the region had enjoyed wide democratic reforms under Chinese rule.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/03/
200931124424441564.html
In Malaysia, Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan and Attorney-General Tan Sri Gani Patail are cleared of fabricating evidence in the Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim "black eye" incident of a decade ago. Anwar had accused both Abdul Gani and Musa of tampering with evidence in an investigation into an alleged beating he received from then IGP Abdul Rahim Noor while in police custody in 1998.
http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Malaysia/Story/
A1Story20090311-127795.html
12 MARCH
In Pakistan, political activists begin an anti-government protest march. They want President Asif Ali Zardari to fulfill a pledge to reinstate all judges sacked under his predecessor.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7938846.stm
China is willing to talk with the Dalai Lama on the future of Tibet as long as the exiled spiritual leader abandons his "separatist stance", the Chinese premier says
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/03/
200931341131987384.html
The government of China must approve the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, and will not recognize any candidate that has not been endorsed by Beijing, a top official has said.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/03/
20093133841803523.html
Missiles fired by an unmanned US drone kill at least 24 people in Pakistan's Kurram tribal region near the Afghan border. The dead were local Taleban. Thirty others were injured.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7940921.stm
China's Premier Wen Jiabao calls on France to clarify its stance on Tibet, saying this was needed for damaged relations between Beijing and Paris to improve
http://www.france24.com/en/20090313-beijing-urges-france-clarify-
tibet-stance-wen-jiabao-dalai-lama
14 MARCH
Two Japanese warships have set sail to join an anti-piracy mission off the coast of Somalia. The two destroyers are expected to reach the Gulf of Aden in about three weeks.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7943826.stm
15 MARCH
Nawaz Sharif, the Pakistani opposition leader, has defied a house arrest order, leaving his residence in Lahore to join an anti-government rally.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/03/
200931584957164810.html
16 MARCH
Pakistan's government announces the reinstatement of Iftikhar Chaudhry, the deposed chief justice, in a bid to defuse the country's political crisis and end a protest march that was threatening to turn into a violent confrontation.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/03/
200931644935339947.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7945294.stm
Direct cruise ship lines open as cross-strait relations between China and Taiwan improve. Still contrasts remain. Taipei is set to cut army size but wants to buy US F-16 fighter jets and. It also wants Beijing to repeal “anti-secession” law which gave legal backing to military invasion.
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=14734&geo=6&size=A
China troops continue to arrest Tibetans at any sign of public protest, but the 11th Panchen Lama Gyaincain Norbu, recognized by Beijing (not by Tibetans), says that Tibet had a “bright future” thanks to the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=14730&geo=6&size=A
The Karmapa Lama, often seen as Tibetan Buddhism's third-highest figure, has spoken of his admiration for Chinese culture. He said he backed the Dalai Lama's policy of seeking greater autonomy for Tibetans rather than independence, but blamed Beijing for deadlocked talks.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7946099.stm
17 MARCH
Seven sharia (Islamic law) courts have opened in Pakistan's northwest Swat Valley region as part of a peace agreement signed between tribal leaders and the government last month.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/03/
200931715490896931.html
A bomb has exploded inside a police station in a mainly Tibetan area of China's Sichuan province, China's state media has reported.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/03/
200931764842672676.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/03/17/asia/tibet.php
18 MARCH
The World Bank has cut its forecast for China's economic growth in 2009, but said the country remained in good shape to keep expanding despite the global financial turmoil.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7949819.stm
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/03/
20093184551167145.html
The US says North Korea has refused to accept any further food aid supplies.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7949785.stm
19 MARCH
North Korea detains US reporters. It is believed that the two women journalists, working for a California-based online news company Current TV, were on the China side of the Yalu river, which forms border with North Korea, when they were arrested.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/03/
200931991511910229.html
20 MARCH
China's president has urged North Korea to restart stalled negotiations on dismantling its nuclear program saying he hoped all sides would work to "resolve their differences", Chinese state-run media has said.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/03/
200932034959624870.html
21 MARCH
Bangladesh says it will disband the country's border force and raise a new paramilitary unit to replace it.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/03/20093211532659351.html
In Thailand,Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and all five cabinet ministers targeted in the two-day censure debate survive no-confidence vote
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/politics/138109/govt-survives-no-
confidence-vote
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2009/03/22/politics/
politics_30098500.php
22 MARCH
The deposed senior of judge of Pakistan's supreme court has resumed his duties 16 months after he was was removed from his post by Pervez Musharraf, the former president. Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry spent Sunday tackling routine duties, such as approving dates for hearings in several criminal and civil cases and appointing several panels of jurists
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/03/
200932261319968604.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7957489.stm
China's police have arrested six people following riots that targeted a police station in an ethnic Tibetan part of the western province of Qinghai, state media have said.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/03/
200932284233315306.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7957597.stm
South Africa's embassy in New Delhi has denied travel documents to Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, barring him from attending a peace conference in Johannesburg
http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20090322-
130260.html
23 MARCH
Police of China have arrested nearly 100 monks after what they describe as a riot by hundreds of Tibetans, according to state media.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/03/
200932342245812956.html
Malaysia's government imposes a ban on two main opposition newspapers, ahead of key political developments. Harakah and Suara Keadilan have been told they cannot publish for the next three months, with immediate effect.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7959518.stm
24 MARCH
Hong Kong Secretary for Home Affairs Tsang Tak-shing is the most senior official to go to Taiwan in an official capacity since Hong Kong was handed over to China in 1997
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Asia/Story/
STIStory_354082.html
25 MARCH
At least 20 demonstrators, most of them women, were hurt on Wednesday when dozens of anti-riot police dispersed a rally near the U.S. embassy protesting against the United States' military presence in the Philippines. Dozens of left-wing activists, including the women's group Gabriela, have been holding almost daily protests near the U.S. embassy in the capital to call for the termination of a security treaty between Manila and Washington.
http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20090325-
131029.html
In India, Sister Prema, whose name means love, is the new superior of the Sisters of Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=14834&size=A
26 MARCH
Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak is elected chief of Malaysia’s ruling party, UNMO
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/03/26/asia/malay.php
The corruption trial of Taiwan's former president begins. Chen Shui-bian has denied accusations that he and his wife embezzled millions of dollars
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/03/
200932663432449636.html
27 MARCH
A bomb explodes at a mosque near the town of Jamrud in the Khyber agency in north-west Pakistan, killing at least 50 people
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7967594.stm
28 MARCH
At least 27 people, including seven soldiers, have been killed in fighting between Philippine security forces and members of the largest Muslim anti-government group in the south of the country
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/03/
2009328402571989.html
China's authorities mark the inaugural "Serfs' Liberation Day" with ceremonies and speeches extolling the virtue of Chinese development in Tibet.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7969245.stm
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-03/28/content_11088550.htm
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/03/
200932855238503988.html
29 MARCH
Varun Gandhi, great-grandson of India's first premier Jawaharlal Nehru, is detained in Uttar Pradesh state for whipping up religious hatred in an allegedly anti-Muslim speech he made on the campaign trail earlier this month. Gandhi, 29, has been at the centre of a political storm since cameras filmed him allegedly telling a rally that the BJP would "cut the heads of Muslims" and comparing a rival Muslim candidate to Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
http://www.france24.com/en/20090329-india-varun-gandhi-indira-
grandson-detained-anti-muslim-speech-campaign
30 MARCH
Pakistani troops say they have taken control of a police academy after unidentified attackers had overrun the facility, killing up to 50 people and taking many officers hostage.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/03/
2009330115046679194.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7971993.stm
31 MARCH
In Thailand, the government has called off its weekly cabinet meeting as thousands of protesters continue to lay siege to government offices in Bangkok. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has stayed away from Government House since the demonstrations began six days ago.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7973652.stm
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APRIL 2009
1 APRIL
Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai has been urged by the UN and Western aid agencies to abolish a new law that they say legalises rape within marriage.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7977293.stm
China and France have agreed to restore high-level contacts, ending a rift that began after French President Nicolas Sarkozy met the Dalai Lama last year. The announcement by the Chinese foreign ministry came shortly before Mr Sarkozy was to meet President Hu Jintao in London ahead of the G20 summit.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7976396.stm
2 APRIL
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, the Malaysian prime minister, has formally submitted his resignation to the country's king, paving the way for the appointment of his deputy as Malaysia's sixth prime minister.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/04/
20094225054815632.html
3 APRIL
Najib Razak is sworn in as Malaysia's sixth prime minister. He took the oath of office in front of the Malaysian king at a ceremony at the palace broadcast live on national television.
http://www.france24.com/en/20090403-razak-sworn-new-prime-minister-
malaysia
At least two Thai soldiers have been killed and up to 10 others wounded in a clash between Thailand and Cambodia's troops on a disputed stretch of the shared border, the latest in a long-running feud over a 900-year-old Hindu ruin.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/04/
2009439393639316.html
5 APRIL
Defying World, North Korea Launches Rocket
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/world/asia/06korea.html?_r=1&
ref=global-home
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/04/
20094524010906839.html
6 APRIL
The Sri Lankan military is claiming to have killed hundreds of fighters of the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) after three days of fighting, pushing the remaining rebels into a small "no fire" zone.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/04/20094632217309432.html
Security forces in Bangladesh have arrested the head of a UK-based charity who had been sought after weapons were found at a school it funded. Officials said Dr Faisal Mostafa, who runs the Manchester-based Green Crescent, was arrested with a local aide on Monday.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7985454.stm
China: 2 Tibetans Sentenced to Death. Two others were given suspended death sentences, and another life imprisonment.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/09/world/asia/09briefs-brfCHINA.html?
_r=1&ref=asia
7 APRIL
In Thailand, a Major held for mastermind plot to assassinate privy counselor
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2009/04/07/politics/
politics_30099828.php
8 APRIL
Tens of thousands of North Koreans have rallied in Pyongyang to celebrate what the official media say was a successful satellite launch over the weekend.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7988939.stm
9 APRIL
In North Korea, newly elected parliament renews Kim Jong-il as its supreme military leader at its newly elected parliament
http://www.france24.com/en/20090409-north-korea-new-parliament-
session-kim-jong-il-rocket-launch-satellite
11 APRIL
A summit of Asian leaders in Thailand is cancelled after anti-government protesters broke into the venue in the resort of Pattaya.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7994465.stm
http://www.france24.com/en/20090411-thailand-pattaya-protests-asean-
summit-postponed-asian-leaders-evacuations
12 APRIL
In Thailand, soldiers and tanks have appeared in Bangkok after Thai authorities declared a state of emergency, a day after protests stopped a major Asia summit
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7995606.stm
13 APRIL
Two men have been killed in Bangkok as anti-government protesters and soldiers fought battles on the streets of the Thailand capital. More than 100 people were also injured in violence on Monday 13 between troops and thousands of "red shirt" protesters demanding the resignation of Abhisit Vejjajiva, the Thai prime minister, and his government
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/04/
200941315656292843.html
http://www.france24.com/en/20090413-thailand-bangkok-protests-thaksin-
anti-government-red-shirt-protesters
The UN Security Council on Monday unanimously condemned North Korea for its long-range rocket launch on 5 April and agreed to tighten existing sanctions against Pyongyang
http://www.france24.com/en/20090413-un-security-council-condemns-
rocket-launch-tighter-sanctions-north-korea
14 APRIL
A Bangkok court has issued arrest warrants for Thaksin Shinawatra, the exiled former prime minister of Thailand, and 13 of his supporters after violent demonstrations that left two people dead and scores injured. The anti-government "Red Shirts" called off their protests earlier on 14 April as the military tightened its grip on the city.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/04/
2009414122215253915.html
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=14974&size=A
The Taleban in Afghanistan have publicly killed a young couple who they said had tried to run away to get married, officials say. The man, 21, and woman, 19, were shot dead on Monday in front of a mosque in the south-western province of Nimroz.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7997749.stm
15 APRIL
In Afghanistan, scores of Shia women protest against a new law, which they will take women's civil rights in the country back to the days of the Taliban. Human rights activists and lawyers gathered outside a Kabul university on Wednesday demanding "justice" and handing out a declaration saying the Shia Personal Status Law "insults the dignity of women".
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/04/
2009415121510610460.html
Benedict XVI accepted today, 15 April, the resignation of Hong Kong cardinal Zen, presented because the cardinal has reached the age limit. The new bishop is the current coadjutor bishop John Tong Hon. Despite the "hopes" of the Patriotic Association, he has already expressed the "expectation" of full religious liberty for Chinese Catholics
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=14993&size=A
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8000904.stm
16 APRIL
Thaksin Shinawatra, the exiled Thailand prime minister, gets a Nicaraguan passport naming him an "ambassador on a special mission", saying he can help bring in investment. The government in a statement said the former Thai leader received the passport in February after a meeting with Daniel Ortega, the Nicaraguan president.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/04/
200941644555101354.html
17 APRIL
The leader of Thailand's yellow-shirted protest movement is shot and hurt in an apparent assassination attempt. Sondhi Limthongkul's People's Alliance for Democracy helped oust ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra in 2006 and brought down a pro-Thaksin government last year
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8003531.stm
http://www.france24.com/en/20090417-thailand-royalist-movement-yellow-
shirt-leader-sondhi-limthongkul-wounded-car-attack
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2009/04/18/politics/
politics_30100727.php
India asks the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to allow civilians trapped in the so-called No Fire Zone (NFZ) to leave the area to secure locations, and requested the Sri Lankan government to extend the two-day ceasefire so that civilians can move out of the tiny NFZ to safe places.
http://www.island.lk/2009/04/18/news2.html
In India, the lone surviving suspect of last year's deadly attacks in Mumbai has said that he was tortured by police into confessing his involvement in the attacks. Mohammed Ajmal Amir Iman, also known as Kasab, told a judge that he had confessed under duress and wished to retract his confession, Abbas Kazmi, his lawyer said.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/04/20094180150438571.html
19 APRIL
South Korea has accepted a North Korean proposal to discuss a joint industrial park, setting up the first high-level meeting between the two nation for a year. The meeting is announced amid tensions over Pyongyang's decision to expel nuclear inspectors and restart the Yongbyon reactor.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/04/
20094198115182638.html
21 APRIL
A Sri Lankan government deadline for rebel Tamil Tigers to surrender, or face what it called a “final assault”, is passed with the military vowing to continue its offensive in the northeastern region of the island nation.
http://www.france24.com/en/20090421-tamil-tigers-government-ltte-
surrender-deadline
22 APRIL
Malaysia's government says it will immediately remove a 30 per cent requirement for ethnic Malay ownership of investments in parts of the services sector as it tries to boost the country's flagging economy.
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/SE%2BAsia/Story/
STIStory_367015.html
Suspected Maoist rebels in eastern India who held up a train carrying 300 passengers end their siege after a four-hour standoff, officials said. The suspected rebels seized the train, apparently to protest that some former comrades are taking part in general elections that are under way in the country.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/04/22/india.hijack/
index.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8011660.stm
Pushing deeper into Pakistan, Taliban militants establish effective control of a strategically important district just 70 miles from the capital, Islamabad
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/world/asia/23buner.html?_r=1&
ref=global-home
24 APRIL
In Thailand, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva yesterday pledged he would ensure peace and normalcy by relying on relevant laws following the lifting of emergency rule yesterday
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2009/04/25/politics/
politics_30101313.php
Nearly 6,500 civilians have been killed and 13,000 wounded in fighting in Sri Lanka over the past three months, according to a UN report.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/04/
200942481818915538.html
The abbot of two convents in a Tibetan region of western China is expected to be sentenced next Tuesday on charges of weapons possession and embezzlement, according to his two lawyers. The abbot is believed to be the most senior religious figure put on trial following waves of detentions aimed at suppressing a widespread Tibetan uprising last year.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/25/world/asia/25tibet.html?_r=1&
ref=asia
25 APRIL
North Korea has started to extract plutonium from spent fuel rods at a nuclear facility, its foreign ministry has said. The announcement comes hours after a UN Security Council committee placed three North Korean companies on a UN blacklist for aiding the country's missile and nuclear programmes.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/04/
2009425443471519.html
26 APRIL
Sri Lanka’s ruling coalition sweeps elections to the Western Provincial Council, that includes the capital Colombo, after a high pitched campaign seeking support for the military offensive aimed at crushing the Tamil Tigers. President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s United People Freedom Alliance (UPFA) secures 65 percent of the total votes cast, leaving the opposition badly battered. The United National Party (UNP) led by former prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe came second with 30 percent
http://www.sindhtoday.net/world/91539.htm
27 APRIL
In India, flamboyant Bollywood actor, producer and director Feroz Khan dies after losing a year-long battle with cancer.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8019917.stm
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/
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29 APRIL
The foreign ministers of France and Britain urge the Sri Lankan government to call a truce in the war with Tamil Tiger separatists to allow tens of thousands of civilians to escape
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/04/
200942944447881718.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8023925.stm
30 APRIL
At least 34 people are killed and 50 others injured in clashes in Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city, local hospital officials have said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8026215.stm
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MAY 2009
1 MAY
The Sri Lanka's government admits carrying out air raids in the so-called no-fire zone in the country's northeast, where the army is battling Tamil Tiger fighters.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/05/20095141557222873.html
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/05/20095181633285656.html
Nepal's army chief is fired by the ruling Maoists in a row over the integration of their former fighters into the armed forces
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8031302.stm
4 MAY
Nepal's Prime Minister Prachanda resigns after his decision to sack the army chief was rebuffed by the President
http://www.thehindu.com/holnus/000200905041920.htm
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/05/20095494952290711.html
A South Korea's naval patrol has saved a North Korean ship from attack by pirates in the sea off Somalia, military officials in Seoul have said. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/05/
2009548597540598.html
6 May
In Afghanistan, up to 100 Afghanistan civilians are killed during an air raid by US forces during a joint operation targeting suspected fighters
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/05/20095672330997508.html
The leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan pledge to work together as three-way talks with the US on regional security began in Washington
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/05/
200956151342887893.html
7 May
China says 5,335 schoolchildren died or remain missing after last year's devastating Sichuan earthquake. It is the first time that Chinese authorities have given an official estimate
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8037273.stm
8 MAY
Mas Selamat Kastari, a member of the al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) group,the suspected leader of a Southeast Asian Islamic group accused of plotting a 9/11-style attack on Singapore's international airport is recaptured in Malaysia more than a year after he escaped from a Singapore jail in late February last year.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/05/
20095874138801454.html
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/
STIStory_374061.html
Pakistan send fresh troops to the volatile Swat valley after ordering the army to "eliminate" extremists battling government forces for control of the key northwest district
http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/
Politics/08-May-2009/Pak-orders-military-to-eliminate-Swat-militants
9 May
Official results in Indonesia's parliamentary elections confirm the president's Democrat Party in first place with 20.85% of the vote. Its two main rivals - the PDIP and Golkar - both trail with around 14% each of the vote.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8042095.stm
11 May
The communist authorities in Laos, one of Asia's poorest nations, sign a decree to allow local non-governmental organizations for the first time
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/SE%2BAsia/Story/
STIStory_375341.html
Ichiro Ozawa, head of the Democratic Party of Japan, tells he had decided to resign because he does not want the scandal involving one of his aides to cloud the elections, which must be held by Sept. 10
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_JAPAN_POLITICS_ASOL-?
SITE=YOMIURI&SECTION=HOSTED_ASIA&TEMPLATE=ap_national.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8043226.stm
12 MAY
Japan and Russia sign their first nuclear energy co-operation agreement during a visit to Tokyo by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The deal will enable the transfer of Japanese technology to Russia and the sale of more nuclear fuel to Japan.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8046778.stm
14 MAY
Myanmar's military government charges Aung San Suu Kyi, the country's opposition leader, with violating the terms of her house arrest after an American allegedly sneaked into her home, her lawyer has said. Kyi Win said the Nobel Peace laureate's trial would start on May 18, adding that she could be jailed for up to five years.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/05/
200951424352954276.html
In Sri Lanka, the army thwarts what would have been one of the last LTTE counter attacks on troops now positioned south of the no firing zone
http://www.island.lk/2009/05/14/news1.html
16 May
Sri Lankan troops capture the last patch of coastline held by the separatist Tamil Tigers
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/05/20095162495687972.html
India's Congress party wins an almost overwhelming victory in the general elections, leading by more than 60 seats in beating the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), TV projections said. The projections, based on counting of electronic machines of the Election Commission, said the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) has won 230 seats out of 525 seats counted so far. The BJP won 160 and Third Force 73. Eighteen seats are still being counted.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/16/content_11383721.htm
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/05/
2009516111237578238.html
Japan's opposition Democratic Party has chosen Yukio Hatoyama, the grandson of a former prime minister, as leader ahead of elections later this year.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8053175.stm
17 MAY
Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels admit defeat in their 37-year battle for an independent ethnic homeland, with their few remaining fighters encircled in the jungle by soldiers."This battle has reached its bitter end," the Tigers' chief of international relations, Selvarasa Pathmanathan, said in a statement carried on the pro-rebel Tamilnet website.
http://www.france24.com/en/20090517-sri-lanka-tamil-tigers-admit-
defeat-ceasefire-independence-struggle-37
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/05/
200951751122621855.html
18 May
The leader of the Tamil Tiger rebels, Velupillai Prabhakaran, is dead, the Sri Lankan military has said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8055015.stm
20 MAY
Sri Lanka celebrates victory over the Tamil Tigers with a national holiday on Wednesday as the army hunted down fugitive rebels, shooting dead eight thought to have escaped from the final battle
http://www.france24.com/en/20090520-sri-lanka-celebrates-victory-
calls-war-crimes-probe-tamil-tigers
An Indonesian military transport plane carrying troops and their families has crashed on the island of Java, killing at least 98 people, officials say
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8058721.stm
21 May
Britain announces a climbdown over settlement rights for Gurkha veterans, saying all of the Nepalese fighters who have served at least four years can apply to live here.
http://www.france24.com/en/20090521-gurkha-veterans-win-british-
settlement-rights-military-uk
22 May
India's new government, with Manmohan Singh as prime minister, takes the oath of office in the capital, Delhi. Mr Singh is taking charge for a second time, only the second PM after Jawaharlal Nehru to be returned to power following a full five-year term.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8062815.stm
23 MAY
Former South Korea President Roh Moo-hyun plunged to his death off a mountainside near his home on Saturday, sending shockwaves throughout the nation
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/NEWKHSITE/data/html_dir/2009/05/23/
200905230049.asp http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/NEWKHSITE/data/html_dir/2009/05/23/
200905230055.asp
Madhav Kumar Nepal, former general secretary of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) is elected the new Prime Minister of Nepal
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/23/content_11424604.htm
24 MAY
Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels have admitted for the first time that their leader Velupillai Prabhakaran is dead.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8066129.stm
25 MAY
North Korea announces it has conducted a successful nuclear test, as it steps up what it says are moves to strengthen its nuclear deterrent. The test on Monday morning local time was followed shortly afterwards by reports from South Korea that the North had also tested a short-range missile.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8066615.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/25/world/asia/25nuke-text.html?_r=1
http://www.france24.com/en/20090525-pyongyang-has-staged-second-
nuclear-test-north-korea-south-korea-yonhap
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/
countriesandterritories/northkorea/nuclear_program/index.html
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Asia/Story/
STIStory_381725.html
26 May
North Korea fires two more missiles, hours after the UN Security Council unanimously condemned its nuclear test, South Korean reports say.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8067711.stm
The Sri Lankan government says it was holding 9,100 suspected former Tamil Tiger rebel fighters, most of whom were being sent for 'rehabilitation and vocational training'. Media Minister Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena said, however, that 1,600 were still being questioned about their alleged links to 'terrorist attacks' committed during the island's decades-old civil war
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Asia/Story/
STIStory_381968.html
Sri Lanka's defence secretary has rejected the Tamil Tigers' offer to enter a democratic process after their military defeat by government forces.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8067524.stm
Pakistan's Supreme Court has overturned a ban that prevented opposition leader Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz from running for political office.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8068082.stm
27 MAY
North Korea threatens military action against Seoul, one day after South Korea joined a US-led initiative to intercept ships carrying illicit weapons, further escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8069457.stm
Lawyers for the detained Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi say judges have rejected their request to call four defence witnesses. They say only one defence witness is being allowed in her trial on charges of breaking house arrest regulations[/color]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8069397.stm
29 MAY
Tens of thousands of mourners have lined the streets of the South Korean capital for the state funeral of Roh Moo-hyun, the country's former president, who committed suicide last weekend while being investigated for corruption.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/05/
200952935752612687.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8073100.stm
30 May
Pakistan's army says it has regained control of the Swat valley's main town, Mingora, after Taliban rebels decided not to put up a pitched battle.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8075136.stm
In China, deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army says no “to nuclear proliferation” ad invites the international community to keep calm. North Korea is ready to test fire another intercontinental ballistic missile within the next two weeks.
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=15390&size=A
31 MAY
Thousands have marched in Hong Kong to mark the forthcoming 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen killings, in one of the few such events on Chinese soil.
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JUNE 2009
1 JUNE
In Malaysia, the opposition People's Alliance, led by former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, wins the seat in the northern Penang state assembly with more than 6,000 votes
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/SE%2BAsia/Story/
STIStory_384130.html?vgnmr=1
3 JUNE
In Thailand, a new political party is launched by the People's Alliance for Democracy, called Karn Muang Mai or New Politics - and its first leader is Sondhi Limthongkul, as expected earlier, but Somsak
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/topstory/30104255/Somsak-first-leader-
of-PAD-party
4 JUNE
In Hong Kong, an estimated 150,000 people gather in Victoria Park for the annual event, which was addressed by one of the 1989 student leaders, Xiong Yan. Other Tiananmen veterans were banned from entering the territory
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8083569.stm
In India, for the first time a Dalit woman,Meira Kuma, is elected as speaker of the Parliament
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=15430&size=A
5 JUNE
North Korea proposes reopening talks with South Korea on the future of the Kaesong factory park. The complex is run by South Korean companies, employs North Korean workers and is based just north of the border.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8084558.stm
6 JUNE
North Korea's recent actions were "extraordinarily provocative" and the US does not mean to "reward" them, President Barack Obama, says referring to North Korea's latest nuclear and missile tests.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8087060.stm
8 JUNE
A North Korea's court sentences two female American journalists to 12 years of hard labor. The court found the two women guilty of committing an unspecified "grave crime" and illegally crossing into North Korea
http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-06-08-voa3.cfm
The mayor of China's southern boom town of Shenzhen, Xu Zongheng, is being questioned as part of a corruption investigation, state media has said. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8088672.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/10/world/asia/10china.html?ref=asia
12 JUNE
The United Nations Security Council votes in favor of imposing tougher sanctions against North Korea over a nuclear test that the country conducted in May
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/06/
200961216133166258.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8097370.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/world/asia/13nations.html?_r=1&
ref=asia
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/KF13Dg01.html
13 JUNE
North Korea warns that it will increase its nuclear activities and could launch military action against the US and allies after the UN Security Council announced new sanctions over last month's atomic test.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/06/
200961361534368421.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8098484.stm
14 JUNE
Vietnam authorities arrest Le Cong Dinh a high-profile lawyer for allegedly conspiring against the government
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8099416.stm
15 JUNE
Japan's opposition Democratic Party (DPJ) wins Chiba local election, with a landslide, ahead of general elections that must be held this year, the third big municipality win for the DPJ in the past two months after both Nagoya and Saitama.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8099950.stm
16 JUNE
The leaders of India and Pakistan meet for the first time since last November's Mumbai (Bombay) attacks
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8102223.stm
http://www.france24.com/en/20090616-singh-zardari-meet-first-time-
mumbai-attacks-india-pakistan-sco-summit-russia
21 JUNE
A court in Burma has sentenced two supporters of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to 18 months in prison after they prayed for her release.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8111738.stm
23 JUNE
Airbus officially delivers its first China's made plane. The aircraft, one of the firm's A320 mid-range models, was unveiled at a ceremony at the firm's factory outside the northern Chinese city of Tianjin.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8114464.stm
24 JUNE
One of China's most prominent political activists, Liu Xiabo, is formally arrested for inciting subversion
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8116044.stm
25 JUNE
The United States extends economic sanctions against North Korea for another year as tensions grow over its nuclear activities. Barack Obama, moves to prolong restrictions on property dealings with the North that were due to expire on June 26.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/06/
20096251450631653.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/world/asia/26korea.html?ref=asia
26 JUNE
Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang delivered a snub to Taiwan by turning down a widely-leaked invitation to be the first leader of the former British colony to visit the island.
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/asiapacific/news/
article_1486104.php/
Hong_Kong_leader_turns_down_invitation_to_visit_Taiwan__Roundup__#ixzz
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28 JUNE
Japan and South Korea agree at a summit in Tokyo that the international community needs to put further pressure on North Korea against its nuclear testing program
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/asiapacific/news/
article_1486353.php/
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Vietnam’s great war hero, Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, stands up to defend his country once again, this time against what he says would be a huge mistake by the government — a vast mining operation run by a Chinese company.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/29/world/asia/29iht-viet.html?_r=1&
ref=asia
30 JUNE
Taiwan lifts decades-old ban on investment by Chinese
http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20090630-
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JULY 2009
1 JULY
Tens of thousands of people have marched in Hong Kong to push for more democracy on the 12th anniversary of the city's transfer to Chinese rule.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8127829.stm
A North Korean cargo ship being tracked by the US navy has reportedly changed course and is thought to be heading for home. The freighter Kang Nam was suspected of carrying a banned arms shipment for Myanmar.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/07/
20097183326138445.html
2 JULY
In Afghanistan, almost 4,000 United States Marines, backed by helicopter gunships, pushed into the volatile Helmand River valley
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/world/asia/03afghan.html?ref=asia
In India, a court on Thursday July 2 ruled gay sex was not a crime, a verdict that will bolster demands by gay and health groups that the government scrap a British colonial law which bans homosexual sex http://www.france24.com/en/20090702-india-high-court-overturns-ban-
legalises-gay-homosexual-sex
4 JULY
In Myanmar, Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary general, says that his request to see the democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi had been rejected by the country’s ruling generals.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/world/asia/05myanmar.html?_r=1&
ref=asia
North Korea tests 7 missiles in the Sea of Japan. A challenge to the U.S. and the UN
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=15691&geo=6&size=A
5 JULY
Violence in China's restive western region of Xinjiang has left at least 140 people dead and more than 800 people injured, state media say. Several hundred people have also been arrested after the violence erupted in the city of Urumqi
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8135203.stm
7 JULY
In China, new protests have flared in Urumqi, two days after 156 people died and 800 were injured in the western Chinese city. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8137519.stm
8 JULY
Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono wins his second term in office on the back of recent economic and political stability. An unofficial quick count gave Yudhoyono 60 percent of the vote. Megawati Sukarnoputri was second at 27 percent, with Vice President Jusuf Kalla at 13 percent
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/07/08/president-yudhoyono-
track-reelection.html
9 JULY
The Philippines government plans to resume peace talks with communist rebels next month, officials have said. The agreement to return to talks was reached after the government promised not to arrest rebel negotiators or demand an immediate ceasefire.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8141630.stm
10 JULY
About 1,400 people are dying every week in a camp set up in Sri Lanka to detain Tamil refugees from the country's civil war, a British newspaper reports.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/2009/07/200971035954492173.html
11 JULY
China announces measures to boost cross-Straits entertainment, educational co-op with Taiwan http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-07/11/content_11692555.htm
13 JULY
Police shot dead two knife-wielding Muslim Uighurs in China's restive Urumqi city as violence flared again despite a massive security crackdown.
http://www.france24.com/en/20090713-police-shoot-dead-two-uighurs-
urumqi-xinjiang-china-ethnic-violence
15 JULY
Australia's prime minister warns China that its handling of the case of four mining executives accused of corporate espionage is being closely watched by the rest of the world.
http://english.aljazeera.net/business/2009/07/2009715434742677.html
The foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan have met on the sidelines of a summit in Egypt to discuss terrorism.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8151066.stm
16 JULY
India said formal peace talks with Pakistan could not resume until those behind last year's Mumbai attacks were brought to justice
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Asia/Story/
STIStory_404136.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8150989.stm
17 JULY
At least nine people have been killed and scores injured in near simultaneous bomb blasts at two luxury hotels in the Indonesia's capital, Jakarta
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8155084.stm
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/07/
200971712713953274.html
Pakistan's Supreme Court overturns a hijacking conviction against former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Sharif was found guilty of "hijacking" then army chief Pervez Musharraf's plane, by not allowing it to land in October of 1999
http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-07-17-voa15.cfm
20 JULY
An accord between India and the United States is reached in New Delhi clearing the way for the sale of US-made weapons to India
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/07/20097203375638188.html
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=15832&size=A
Taiwan restores former president Chiang Kai-shek's name to a Taipei memorial hall housing a statue of him - the latest salvo in a partisan battle over the former Nationalist leader's legacy
http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20090720-
155947.html
21 JULY
Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso dissolves parliament's lower house for an August 30 election http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/07/21/world/international-us-
japan-election.html?ref=asia
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8160900.stm
22 JULY
People in Asia have seen the longest total solar eclipse this century, with large areas of India and China plunged into darkness
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8161578.stm
http://www.france24.com/en/20090722-longest-total-eclipse-21st-
century-asia-darkness-july-22
23 JULY
Abu Bakar Bashir, a prominent cleric in Indonesia, defends July 17's twin bombings in Jakarta which killed nine people and left more than 50 injured saying that the use of terror is justified in the war against non-Muslims
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/07/
200972375038500389.html
24 JULY
Indonesia's election commission confirms Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, has been re-elected to a second five-year term. According to final result Yudhoyono won 61 per cent of the vote in the July 8 election. Megawati Sukarnoputri came in second at 27 per cent; while Jusuf Kalla scored 12 per cent.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/07/
200972472450265800.html
In South Korea, Chung Sye-kyun, chairman of the main opposition Democratic Party, said he would discard his parliamentary seat in protest over the ruling party's unilateral passage of contentious media bills.
http://www.asianewsnet.net/news.php?id=7015&sec=1
27 JULY
North Korea reiterates that it will not return to six-party talks on its nuclear programme[/u], indicating instead that it wants bilateral talks with the US
28 JULY
Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer has arrived in Japan for a visit which has prompted an angry reaction from China
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8171791.stm
29 JULY
Zhuo Lin, widow of China's late leader Deng Xiaoping, died in Beijing Wednesday 29 July. She was 93
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-07/29/content_11793394.htm
31 JULY
Death of Corazon Aquino, former president of the Philippines (1986-1992)
http://www.france24.com/en/20090801-former-president-aquino-succumbs-
cancer-philippines-democracy-corazon
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8179496.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7324443.stm
http://www.inquirer.net/specialreports/coryaquino/
31 JULY
The emergency rule imposed in Pakistan two years ago by Pervez Musharraf, the country's former president, was unconstitutional, the country's supreme court has ruled.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/07/
2009731153545939928.html
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AUGUST 2009 MAIN FACT IN ASIA
1 AUGUST
Thousands of people have demonstrated in the Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur, against a controversial, decades-old law allowing detention without trial.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8179513.stm
3 AUGUST
Police in China have detained another 319 people suspected of involvement in deadly ethnic violence in the western Xinjiang region last month, state media has reported
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/08/
20098335032572162.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8181563.stm
4 AUGUST
Bill Clinton, the former US president, arrives in North Korea on an unannounced visit apparently aimed at negotiating the release of two American journalists
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8182716.stm
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/08/
20098421911294599.html
In Cambodia, a court has orders an opposition member of parliament to pay $4,100 in damages after finding her guilty of defaming the country's prime minister. A municipal court in the capital Phnom Penh ruled on August 4 that Mu Suh-Kwor of the Sam Rainsy Party had defamed Hun Sen when she tried to sue him over comments he allegedly made about her conduct during last year's election campaign
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/08/
20098473759679640.html
5 AUGUST
Tens of thousands of mourners gather in the Philippines' capital Manila for the funeral of former President Corazon Aquino
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8184761.stm
5 AUGUST
Two American journalists freed by North Korea after months of detention return home accompanied by former President Bill Clinton, who secured their release in a meeting with the reclusive state’s leader Kim Jong-il
http://www.france24.com/en/20090805-clinton-leaves-country-with-freed-
us-journalists-special-pardon-kim-jong-il
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8184689.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8185260.stm
Commandos tackle S Korea strikers
6 AUGUST
Barack Obama insists that the only way for North Korea to improve ties with Washington is to give up its nuclear programme and halt what he called its "provocative behaviour". The US president's comments followed the return to the US of two journalists, freed from a 12 year prison sentence by North Korea
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/08/
20098632022918949.html
7 AUGUST
The new leader of the defeated Tamil Tiger separatist group has been arrested, Sri Lanka's military officials have said. Selvarajah Pathmanathan, who was wanted by Interpol in connection with allegations he smuggled arms for the Tigers for decades
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/08/20098773917105764.html
The Pakistan's most wanted man, Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, is killed by a US missile
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8188859.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8191105.stm
8 AUGUST
Sri Lanka helds its first post-war elections in two Tamil-majority cities in the north
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/08/2009884741752632.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8191031.stm
11 AUGUST
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burma pro-democracy leader, is sentenced to three years of hard labor for violating the terms of her house arrest, but her sentence was quickly commuted to a new term of house arrest of up to 18 months
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/world/asia/12myanmar.html?_r=1&
ref=asia
12 AUGUST
Indonesia's Constitutional Court rejected opposition complaints of irregularities surrounding last month's presidential polls, confirming Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's re-election
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/448427/1/
.html
13 AUGUST
Military officials in the Philippines say at least 23 soldiers have been killed after government forces launched what they called a "decisive" operation against the Abu Sayyaf in the south of the country. According to the military, at least 20 Abu Sayyaf gunmen were killed in the fierce clashes on Basilan island
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/08/
200981335129116286.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8198684.stm
15 AUGUST
Taiwan's president has said the death toll from the floods triggered by Typhoon Morakot could top 500 people.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/08/
20098149414289785.html
17 AUGUST
Thousands of supporters of Thailand's former prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, have joined a rally in Bangkok to present a petition to the king, seeking a royal pardon for his 2008 corruption conviction
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/08/
20098174323179370.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8204589.stm
North Korea agrees to reopen its border with South Korea and allow tourism and family reunions to resume, the North's KCNA news agency said
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8204516.stm
18 AUGUST
Kim Dae-jung, the former South Korea's president who led the fight for democracy in his country and championed the so-called "Sunshine Policy" of engagement with North Korea, has died at the age of 85, hospital officials in Seoul have said
http://www.france24.com/en/20090818-former-president-kim-dae-jung-
nobel-laureate-dies-83-south-korea
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/08/
20098186155505110.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8206490.stm
20 AUGUST
Presidential elections in Pakistan
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8173389.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8212306.stm
22 AUGUST
A North Korean delegation paying a rare visit to South Korea to mourn former president Kim Dae-Jung held breakthrough talks with a government minister. on Saturday. The meeting is the first since a conservative government came to power in Seoul in February last year and took a tougher line with the North
http://www.france24.com/en/20090821-hyun-taek-unification-minister-
north-korean-delegation-meeting-south-seoul
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8215563.stm
Pakistan's Taliban movement has named Hakimullah Mehsud, a close associate of ex-leader Baitullah Mehsud, as its new leader
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8216062.stm
23 AUGUST
North Korean envoys deliver a message from their leader Kim Jong-Il when they meet South Korea's president, raising hopes of an end to high tensions which had sparked fears of military clashes. "I'm leaving with good feelings," Kim Ki-Nam, a close aide to Kim Jong-Il, told reporters as he left for the airport later
http://www.france24.com/en/20090823-south-korea-president-meets-north-
korea-envoys-pyongyang-kim-jong-il
25 AUGUST
A first satellite launched by South Korea's first space rocket has fallen to Earth and burnt up after missing its designated orbit http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/08/
2009825233939179441.html
30 AUGUST
Japanese voters swept the opposition to a historic victory. Media forecasts give the DPJ 308 of the 480 seats in the lower house to the LDP's 119, almost an exact reversal of their previous standing http://www.france24.com/en/20090830-japan-aso-democratic-party-
conservative-election
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8229368.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8229988.stm
31 AUGUST
The Dalai Lama arrives for a five-day tour of southern Taiwan, which was ravaged by a typhoon three weeks ago that left at least 650 dead
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/28/world/asia/28taiwan.html?_r=1&
ref=asia
http://www.france24.com/en/20090904-dalai-lama-leaves-taiwan-after-
controversial-visit
A court in Taiwan has sentenced the island's former first lady to a year in jail for giving false testimony, as a wide-ranging corruption trial that also implicates her husband comes to an end. Wu Shu-chen, wife of Taiwan's former president Chen Shui-bian, was convicted on charges of asking her children to lie during a probe into the case.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/09/
20099243811794686.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8233342.stm
At least 67 people have been killed after a powerful earthquake struck near the Indonesian island of Java. Dozens of properties collapsed in the city of Tasikmalaya on the west of the island and thousands of people have been evacuated, officials said
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8233344.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8235100.stm
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SEPTEMBER 2009
3 SEPTEMBER
Thousands of ethnic Han protesters swarmed around government buildings in Urumqi, the provincial capital of Xinjiang (China) to demand that local leaders clamp down on ethnic Uighurs after rumors spread that they were trying to spread H.I.V. by sticking hundreds of Han with tainted needles
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/world/asia/04china.html?_r=1&
ref=asia
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8235305.stm
A United Nations expert urges the Sri Lanka's government to set up an independent probe into the authenticity of a video clip aired in Britain allegedly showing Sri Lankan troops executing prisoners
http://www.france24.com/en/20090903-sri-lanka-united-nations-urges-
probe-extrajudicial-execution-video-troops-human-rights
4 SEPTEMBER
"Uranium enrichment tests have been successfully carried out and that process is in the concluding stage," the North Korea's KCNA news agency said. Uranium enrichment would give Pyongyang a second way to make a nuclear bomb - but it also said it was continuing to reprocess and weaponise plutonium
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/09/
20099402655311868.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8237204.stm
In China, five people have are killed and 14 wounded during protests over security, an Urumqi official said. Police used tear gas and public appeals Friday to break up crowds marching on government and Communist Party offices in Urumqi
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32689688/ns/world_news-asiapacific/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8238768.stm
At least 90 people are killed in northern Afghanistan after a Nato aerial raid on two hijacked petrol lorries
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/09/200994465561117.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8238714.stm
5 SEPTEMBER
The Communist party chief of Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang region (China), has been sacked after days of protests that left five people dead. No official reason was given for Saturday's dismissal of Li Zhi
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/09/
20099510166606363.html
http://www.france24.com/en/20090905-top-official-sached-urumqi-deadly-
protests-xinjiang-china-communist-party
7 SEPTEMBER
Taiwan's premier Liu Chao-shiuan resignes, after the government was heavily criticised for its slow response to last month's typhoon. Mr Liu is replaced by the ruling party's secretary general, Wu Den-yih
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8241760.stm
A Dhaka court take into cognizance the charges against former prime minister and Bangladesh Nationalist Party Chairperson Khaleda Zia, her son Tarique Rahman and four others in a case for embezzlement of 20 million taka (US$290,697) by forming Zia Orphanage Trust
http://www.asianewsnet.net/news.php?id=7681&sec=1
8 SEPTEMBER
China' official media say that mass social unrest has increased in 2009, despite tighter security measures and greater police deployment. Ordinary Chinese increasingly resort to street protests to demand justice because of the absence of legal means to protect their rights
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=16268&size=A
9 SEPTEMBER
The son of the late former Philippines president Corazon Aquino, Benigno Aquino, announces that he will run for president in next year's elections
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/09/
20099915850920620.html
Cambodia’s prime minister accused foreign judges and prosecutors at the UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal of seeking to arrest new suspects as part of a plot by foreign governments to incite unrest
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/SE%2BAsia/Story/
STIStory_427553.html
China announces plans to build 42 new high-speed railway lines over the next three years. China will have added 13,000km of high-speed lines by 2012, shortening journey times considerably for the expected seven billion annual passengers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8246600.stm
10 SEPTEMBER
Taiwan’s incoming Premier Wu Den-yih announces the new line-up for the Cabinet, reshuffling some key positions, but keeping most of the incumbent members.
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2009/09/10/
224004/New-Cabinet.htm
11 SEPTEMBER
Chen Shui-bian, Taiwan's former president, and his wife have been jailed for life on corruption charges involving millions of dollars
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/09/
200991183242997249.html
The Pakistani Army announce the arrest of the chief spokesman of the Taliban in Swat. It is the first capture of a senior Taliban figure to be officially announced by the Pakistani authorities
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/12/world/asia/12pstan-.html?_r=1&
ref=asia
12 SEPTEMBER
The US said it is willing to negotiate with North Korea in an attempt to bring Pyongyang back to six-nation talks on nuclear disarmament, a state department official says
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/09/
200991232321701890.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8251950.stm
14 SEPTEMBER
Indonesia's province of Aceh passes a new law making adultery punishable by stoning to death. The law also imposes severe sentences for rape, homosexuality, alcohol consumption and gambling
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8254631.stm
15 SEPTEMBER
Taiwan’s former president Chen Shui-bian says the life sentence he was handed by a court was 'invalid' and reiterated claims that his case was politically motivated.
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Asia/Story/
STIStory_430161.html
16 SEPTEMBER
In Japan, Yukio Hatoyama, who led his party to a landmark victory in elections last month, takes office as prime minister and named a cabinet of loyal allies after a half-century of virtually uninterrupted, one-party rule
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/world/asia/17japan.html?ref=asia
http://www.france24.com/en/20090916-hatoyama-new-centre-left-prime-
minister-premier-democratic-party-japan
Pakistan's military says it has arrested another important Taliban leader in troubled Swat district
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8258869.stm
17 SEPTEMBER
Indonesia’s most wanted Islamic militant, Noordin Mohammad Top, dies during a police raid on a house in Central Java overnight, lifting a major security threat in Southeast Asia.
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/SE%2BAsia/Story/
STIStory_430875.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8260207.stm
18 SEPTEMBER
In China, the fourth plenum of the Communist Party’s 17th Central Committee ends its four-day meeting without any major announcement. Against all expectations, Vice-President Xi Jinping has not been appointed vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission, a post that would have sealed him as the heir of President Hu Jintao.
http://temasekreview.com/?j3kxhKr2
19 SEPTEMBER
In Thailand, thousands of red-shirted protesters rallied in Bangkok amid tight security Saturday to mark the third anniversary of a military coup against former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra
http://www.france24.com/en/20090919-no-coup-overthrow-anniversary-
says-army-head-thailand-thaksin-abhisit-anupong-shinawatra-paojinda-
vejjajiva-bangkok
20 SEPTEMBER
Thailand "Yellow Shirt" protesters have clashed with police and villagers at an ancient temple in territory at the centre of a dispute between Thailand and Cambodia.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/09/
200991911642927739.html
21 SEPTEMBER
More than a dozen Abu Sayyaf fighters have been killed after government forces attempted to arrest rebel leaders in the southern Philippines, officials have said.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/09/
20099215128684578.html
22 SEPTEMBER
China has banned foreign tourists from traveling to Tibet ahead of a parade in the capital to mark 60 years of Communist rule amid stepped-up security across the country to ensure nothing mars the celebrations.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/09/22/world/AP-AS-China-Tibet-
Tourism.html?_r=1&ref=asia
24 SEPTEMBER
The United States will pursue both engagement with and sanctions against Myanmar in an effort to push its military leaders toward democratic reform, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says
http://www.france24.com/en/20090924-us-burma-ready-engage-directly-
with-junta-hillary-clinton
26 SEPTEMBER
Rival Koreas resume family reunions
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/09/
200992653050374353.html
28 SEPTEMBER
Government officials in the Philippines have appealed for urgent international aid after admitting they have been overwhelmed by the worst flooding seen in the country in decades
http://www.france24.com/en/20090928-philippines-government-plead-
international-aid-deadly-floods-toll-soars
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/09/
20099281612261393.html
Japan's Liberal Democratic Party elects Sadakazu Tanigaki as its new leader after its crushing electoral defeat last month
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8278567.stm
30 SEPTEMBER
At least 475 people are dead and thousands are trapped under rubble after a strong earthquake shook western Indonesia http://www.france24.com/en/20090930-earthquake-kills-sumatra-
indonesia-weather-padang
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/world/asia/02quake.html?_r=1&
ref=asia
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8284208.stm
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