Asia/world

Top Indian court in landmark rape ruling
Intercourse on broken promise of marriage is not a sex attack, it rules

Comfort women to meet Osaka mayor face to face
Two go to Japan after mayor's comment that WWII comfort women were a 'necessity'

Anger at Beijing's grip on bishop elections
New regulations grant state-backed BCCCC final say on new bishops

Trouble brews as Bangladesh is hit by tea workers' strike
Workers are thought to receive world's lowest wages

Renewed call for concerted Catholic vote in elections
Catholic numbers 'amounted to swing vote' in last week's Philippines poll

Obama says Myanmar will free more political prisoners
Concern expressed over recent anti-Muslim violence

Government defends crackdown on Islamist media
Paper and TV channels were inciting anarchy, says Bangladesh minister


















