Visit One News Page for the latest Asia-Pacific news from around the world, aggregated from leading sources including newswires, newspapers and broadcast media. Search millions of archived news headlines. This feed provides the latest Asia-Pacific news headlines. http://www.onenewspage.com/latest/Asia-Pacific.htm (c) copyright One News Page. All headlines and description content (c) by the accredited news source - see http://www.onenewspage.com/tc.php#accreditation for further details. 15 webmaster@onenewspage.com (One News Page Webmaster) Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:03:41 +0000 http://static.onenewspage.com/ONPglobe100.png http://www.onenewspage.com/latest/Asia-Pacific.htm en-us Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- A coal-mine explosion in the northeastern Chinese province of Heilongjiang has killed 11 miners and trapped 128, the State Administration of Work Safety said on its Web site. Reported by Bloomberg 17 minutes ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6041122/Coal-Mine-Explosion-in-China-Kills-11-People.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:46:15 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6041122/Coal-Mine-Explosion-in-China-Kills-11-People.htm Reported by TopNews 19 minutes ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6041040/Maoist-violence-and-corruption-are-key-election-issues.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:44:50 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6041040/Maoist-violence-and-corruption-are-key-election-issues.htm Reported by TopNews 19 minutes ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6041041/Myanmar-Laos-sign-travel-and-tax-treaties.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:44:50 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6041041/Myanmar-Laos-sign-travel-and-tax-treaties.htm Reported by TopNews 19 minutes ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6041042/Managua-braces-for-demonstrations-for-against-President-Ortega.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:44:50 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6041042/Managua-braces-for-demonstrations-for-against-President-Ortega.htm Reported by TopNews 19 minutes ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6041043/Peru-shocked-by-claim-of-murders-to-collect.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:44:50 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6041043/Peru-shocked-by-claim-of-murders-to-collect.htm Reported by TopNews 19 minutes ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6041044/Top-global-jazz-musicians-to-play-in-capital.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:44:50 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6041044/Top-global-jazz-musicians-to-play-in-capital.htm Reported by TopNews 19 minutes ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6041045/Green-lifestyle-statement-Bangalore-kids-cycle-to-school.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:44:50 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6041045/Green-lifestyle-statement-Bangalore-kids-cycle-to-school.htm Reported by TopNews 19 minutes ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6041046/Australians-warned-of-catastrophic-fire-danger.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:44:50 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6041046/Australians-warned-of-catastrophic-fire-danger.htm The Australian Medical Association is warning against complacency when it comes to swine flu and is urging more people to get vaccinated. Reported by ABC News 19 minutes ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6041035/AMA-warns-against-swine-flu-complacency.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:44:27 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6041035/AMA-warns-against-swine-flu-complacency.htm , Ohio (AP) — The jury in the trial of an Ohio police chief accused of breaking into the home of a woman who carried twins for Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick has ended Reported by Sify 20 minutes ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6041026/Parker-Broderick-surrogacy-case-jury-breaks.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:44:06 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6041026/Parker-Broderick-surrogacy-case-jury-breaks.htm A gas explosion at a coal mine in north-east China trapped 139 workers early Saturday, local media reported. Reported by Sify 20 minutes ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6041027/Gas-explosion-traps-139-coal-miners-in-north.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:44:06 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6041027/Gas-explosion-traps-139-coal-miners-in-north.htm BANGKOK - A LEADING rights group on Saturday called on the Thai government to allow 158 Lao Hmong refugees, who have been detained for three years pending deportation, to be resettled in four western countries. New York-based Human Rights Watch said the group were being 'held in poor and abusive conditions' and should be allowed to leave for the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, and Australia, which have agreed to resettle them. Reported by Straits Times 21 minutes ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6041019/End-Hmong-detention.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:43:08 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6041019/End-Hmong-detention.htm A gas explosion at a coal mine in northeastern China on Saturday killed 11 miners and trapped more than 100 others, according to state media reports. Lax safety standards make Chinese mines the most dangerous in the world. Reported by France 24 21 minutes ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6041013/CHINA-Mine-blast-kills-11-traps-more.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:42:39 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6041013/CHINA-Mine-blast-kills-11-traps-more.htm Even as the British economy seems to be improving, some analysts worry that its underlying structural flaws could mean the country won’t be able to sustain its recovery. Reported by NYTimes.com 21 minutes ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6041001/In-Britain-Visions-of-Japan-Decade-of.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:42:13 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6041001/In-Britain-Visions-of-Japan-Decade-of.htm Pakistan expressed fear that a large increase in foreign troops in Afghanistan could push militants across the border into its territory and called on the United States to consider that concern as it develops its new war strategy. Reported by NYTimes.com 21 minutes ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6041002/World-Briefing-Asia-Pakistan-Fears-of-Militant.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:42:13 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6041002/World-Briefing-Asia-Pakistan-Fears-of-Militant.htm An American soldier has admitted that he may have run over a Japanese man who was found dead two weeks ago on the southern island of Okinawa. Reported by NYTimes.com 21 minutes ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6041003/World-Briefing-Asia-Japan-Soldier.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:42:13 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6041003/World-Briefing-Asia-Japan-Soldier.htm Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Sands China Ltd. and its parent Las Vegas Sands Corp., the casino company controlled by billionaire Sheldon Adelson, raised HK$19.4 billion ($2.5 billion) in a Hong Kong share sale conducted at the low end of the offered range. Reported by Bloomberg 26 minutes ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6040984/Sands-China-Raises-Billion-in-Hong.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:37:26 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6040984/Sands-China-Raises-Billion-in-Hong.htm A day after a group of Shiv Sena activists vandalized the office of the IBN Lokmat in Pune and attacked the staff, the Shiv Sena is unrepentant. In its mouthpiece Saamna, the party says, “Nikhil Vaghle spoke against Bal Thackeray in his programme for a letter which the Shiv Sena chief had written to Sachin as a father. We assaulted those who spoke against the Shiv Sena supreme.” Shiv Sena has claimed responsibility for the attacks on IBN's offices in Mumbai and Pune on Friday evening. Party spokesman Sanjay Raut said that "criticism of Bal Thackeray would not be tolerated.” Reported by NDTV.com 29 minutes ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6040936/Sena-unrepentant-for-news-channel-attack.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:34:52 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6040936/Sena-unrepentant-for-news-channel-attack.htm Eight years after his father, former President Joseph Estrada, was forced out of Malacañang, Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Estrada was back in Malacañang Friday for the first time since that fateful day in January 2001. Reported by Inquirer.net 33 minutes ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6040853/Estrada-son-returns-to-Malaca%C3%B1ang.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:30:22 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6040853/Estrada-son-returns-to-Malaca%C3%B1ang.htm Immigration Commissioner Marcelino Libanan has been unanimously elected chair of the Directors-General of Immigration Departments and Heads of Consular Affairs Divisions of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs (DGICM) during its 13th meeting hosted by the Philippines. Reported by Inquirer.net 33 minutes ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6040854/Immigration-confab-picks-Libanan-chair.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:30:22 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6040854/Immigration-confab-picks-Libanan-chair.htm The fate of a dog that bit a toddler at South Yarra in Melbourne this morning is yet to be decided. Reported by ABC News 35 minutes ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6040845/Toddler-mauled-by-dog-in-hair-salon.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:29:06 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6040845/Toddler-mauled-by-dog-in-hair-salon.htm Republicans are seizing on this week's recommendations for fewer Pap smears and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care — and to try to chip away support by women Reported by Sify 35 minutes ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6040835/GOP-Health-test-recommendations-could-affect-care.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:28:58 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6040835/GOP-Health-test-recommendations-could-affect-care.htm The 100 Pipers Jazz Utsav 2009 on Saturday and Sunday will feature some of the biggest names in international jazz. Reported by IndiaTimes 35 minutes ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6040831/Top-global-jazz-musicians-to-play-in-Delhi.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:28:34 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6040831/Top-global-jazz-musicians-to-play-in-Delhi.htm FORMER Ren Ci Hospital founder Ming Yi was jailed 10 months on Saturday, while his former personal assistant, Raymond Yeung, was jailed for 9 months on charges over an unauthorised loan from the charity's funds to his aide in 2004.The two were found guilty on Oct 7. Reported by Straits Times 35 minutes ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6040830/Ming-Yi-aide-jailed.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:28:17 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6040830/Ming-Yi-aide-jailed.htm Michael Jackson's deathbed doctor waited over an hour to call for help when he realized the pop star wasn't breathing, and could not be found for hours afterward, according to a search warrant.The document, which police filed to support their request to search a Las Vegas pharmacy in August, provide new insight into what went on at his Los Angeles mansion on June 25 when the 50-year-old "King of Pop" went into cardiac arrest and died. Reported by France 24 36 minutes ago. http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6040804/Jackson-doctor-waited-over-an-hour-before-911.htm Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:27:41 +0000 http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Asia-Pacific/20091121/6040804/Jackson-doctor-waited-over-an-hour-before-911.htm