Nepal clash

More than 30 people were injured after the Armed Police Force and members of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (CPN-M) clashed in Kathmandu, Nepal yesterday. The clash took place after the Maoists tried to seize equipment and logistics being imported from India for riot control purposes, according to the National News Agency RSS.

Vaccines test

VIETNAM is testing bird flu vaccines on 10 volunteers and has so far received encouraging results, according to local newspaper Youth yesterday.

Pray for Aquino

Public figures of the Philippines, despite their different political positions, have expressed their sadness and hope yesterday after news came out that former President Corazon Aquino has been diagnosed with colon cancer.

Tunnel cave-in

FOUR workers were killed and another injured after a tunnel collapsed at a railway construction site in northern China early Tuesday, local authorities said.