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Rescue efforts resume in quake-stricken Beichuan, China, after fears of a flash flood spark panic.

The UK prime minister accuses Burma's military rulers of neglecting survivors of Cyclone Nargis.

The US announces a resumption of food aid to North Korea, thought to be facing famine this summer.

A US marine is convicted of assaulting a 14-year-old girl on the Japanese island of Okinawa.

At least eight people are shot and killed in a bank robbery in the Philippines, police say.

A senior US diplomat says North Korea appears to have handed over full details of its plutonium programme.

Police in Vietnam say they have found nearly nine tons of cannabis in a shipment of blue jeans from Pakistan.

Australia asks Fiji to increase security for its top diplomat after a second "credible" death threat in two weeks.

More than 90% of Burmese voters approve a new constitution in a referendum, state media say.

England and New Zealand lose almost the whole of day three of the first Test to rain.

The UN should stay in East Timor for at least five more years, President Jose Ramos Horta tells the BBC.

Philippine president Gloria Arroyo has pardoned nine army officers convicted of a 2003 coup plot.

Human Rights Watch accuses the Uzbek government of silencing witnesses to the 2005 Andijan killings.

Australian bank St George accepts a takeover offer worth A$19bn from its larger rival Westpac.

South Korea says it has killed Seoul's entire poultry population in a bid to curb the spread of bird flu.

Australia's military clears its troops of wrongdoing in an Afghan battle that left two women and a baby dead.

Shares in the world's largest miner BHP Billiton rise on speculation about investment from China.

Japan's economy grew at a brisk annual rate of 3.3% in the first three months of 2008, official figures show.

A summary of Chinese bloggers and internet forums reaction to events in Tibet and the protests disrupting the torch relay.

Four Chinese people from across the globe reflect on the protests and meaning of the Games.

Six months after protests in Burma ended in a military crackdown, people in the capital Rangoon describe the atmosphere in the city and their fears for the future.

People in Malaysia are preparing to vote in a general election on Saturday 8 March. Here Malaysians discuss the issues that will decide their vote

A series of features following the route of the Olympic torch around China, the focus turns to Xiamen.

A Thai journalist being sued by a Tesco subsidiary for defamation says he will continue to criticise the company's practices.

A Chinese businessman sentenced to death for spying for a Taiwanese organisation did not receive a fair trial, his daughter says.

The BBC's Asia Bureau Chief Paul Danahar responds to Chinese readers' views, after the website became accessible to people in China for the first time in years.