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.
WASHINGTON - D.C. Police say bridge Duke Ellington in the Northwest, that Washington was reopened after an investigation of a suspicious package.
Tisha glove police spokesman, said that the call came in autour 08: 10 Friday for the bridge that carries Calvert Street on Rock Creek.
Glove, explains team explosive ordinance responded, but no dangerous materials were found. It has no more information.
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