A man has been jailed in Hong Kong for burning the national flag, in the first sentence of its kind.
South Korea has suspended seven local savings banks citing the weak state of their finances.
More than a million people in central and western Japan have been urged to leave their homes as a powerful typhoon approaches.
Owners of some of Burma's most antiquated cars have been queuing in Rangoon to exchange their old vehicles for permits to import newer models.
Polio has spread to China for the first time since 1999 after being imported from Pakistan, the World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed.
HuluComedians talked about protesting and celebrities talked guns on this week's late-night shows.
On The Daily Show, correspondent John Oliver stopped by Occupy Wall Street. He found that the protest would be so much easier to support, were it not for the protesters themselves.
