Beijing, Aug 7, 2006 - Taking a page out of the US military's handbook, parents in China have printed up playing cards with photos of their missing children in an effort to find them, state press reported Monday.
Bangkok, Aug 7, 2006 - Hundreds of Thais with HIV protested outside the Bangkok office of drugmaker GlaxoSmithKlein, to demand that the British pharmaceutical firm drop its effort to patent a key AIDS drug in Thailand.
Beijing, Aug 7, 2006 - The death toll in China from Tropical Storm Prapiroon has risen to 80, with nine others missing and more than 800,000 people forced from their homes, the government said Monday.
Tokyo, Aug 7, 2006 - China said Monday it was open to a visit by Japan's foreign minister to mend relations but insisted that Japan's premier should stop visiting a controversial war shrine.
Legaspi, Philippines, Aug 7, 2006 - Tens of thousands of people were being evacuated Monday in the Philippines amid fears a rumbling volcano, whose eruptions have been deadly in the past, was getting ready to blow again.
Colombo, Aug 7, 2006 - Sri Lanka will order a clean and independent investigation into the reported killing of 15 workers of a French charity during fighting in the northeast, the human rights minister told AFP Monday.
Beijing, Aug 7, 2006 - A Chinese official has been executed for spying on behalf of arch-rival Taiwan and a educational video has been made about the case to warn others, a government agency's website said Monday.
Madrid, Aug 7, 2006 - A 74 year-old man died overnight attempting to put out fires in northwestern Spain, officials said, raising to three the death toll from blazes still ravaging the Iberian peninsula Monday, as August offered a stark contrast to a quiet July.
London, Aug 7, 2006 - British energy major BP was shutting down the biggest oilfield in the United States on Monday to tackle a pipeline leak, driving up oil prices on prospects that US output might fall by eight percent.
Beijing, Aug 7, 2006 - China held a memorial ceremony Monday for Du Zhaoyu, a UN observer killed late last month in Lebanon, saying his death showed its army was a force for peace.
Tokyo, Aug 7, 2006 - South Korea's foreign minister was due late Monday in Japan as his country, along with China, renewed its criticism of visits by Japanese leaders to a controversial war shrine.
Moscow, Aug 7, 2006 - Russia is to launch a European weather satellite on October 7, the European Space Agency mission in Moscow said Sunday, giving a precise date for the launch after it was postponed three times in July.
Dire Dawa, Ethiopia, Aug 7, 2006 - The death toll from weekend flash floods in eastern Ethiopia has hit 206 and is expected to rise, officials said Monday, as rescue workers dug frantically to find hundreds reported missing.
Dire Dawa, Ethiopia, Aug 7, 2006 - Sobbing and wailing, grief-stricken survivors wandered the muddy streets of this devastated eastern Ethiopian town on Monday after weekend flash floods that killed more than 200 people.
Tokyo, Aug 7, 2006 - China has retracted a statement that it has begun production at an oil and gas field in the East China Sea in an area disputed with Japan, Japanese officials said Monday.
Beijing, Aug 7, 2006 - Workers at two more Wal-Mart outlets in China have unionised to bring the total number of trade unions at its outlets in the country to four, state media reported Monday.
