4:01pm

Beijing calls for end to Myanmar fighting

Rare rebuke after another artillery shell lands in China

A woman wades through a flooded street in downtown Jakarta ©AFP 10:40am

Floods paralyse Indonesian capital

Monsoon rains displace at least 10,000 in Jakarta

Ambitious: Abraham Samad, head the KPK, aims to wipe out the ‘cancer’ of corruption in Indonesia ©AFP 9:59am

Indonesia’s graft-buster aims high

Tough fight to change nation’s reputation for corruption

Sufi cleric and leader of the Minhaj-ul-Quran religious organisation Muhammad Tahirul Qadri ©Reuters From PAKISTAN 5:10pm

Pakistan reaches deal with rebel cleric

Government tries to defuse crisis after four days of protests

Marine Weapons Company lieutenant issues orders as marines advance against Taliban ©AFP From AFGHANISTAN 4:36pm

Nato officer denies ‘zero option’ plan

No request received from Obama administration, he says

CHINA 2:22pm

Scientist hits out over China air quality

Chinese expert blames pollution on lack of political reform

Global Insight from CHINA 12:50pm

China’s smog emerges from invisible cloak

Politicians face calls to act on air pollution

From UK 10:52am

Hague hails closer ties with Australia

Countries to sign new defence and security co-operation treaty

From GLOBAL ECONOMY Jan 16, 2013

Research rewrites global trade data

US trade imbalance with China shrinks under OECD findings

Jan 16, 2013

Myanmar set to unveil reforms to donors

Proposals include granting autonomy to central bank

Jan 16, 2013

Pakistan cleric steps up calls for reform

Moderate fails to secure opposition support

Global Insight Jan 16, 2013

Curtain rises on new Pakistani drama

Army flexes muscles as pressure mounts on Zardari

David Pilling from COMMENT Jan 16, 2013

Hong Kong sees the light through a haze

The city is finally addressing its pollution problem but is not going far enough

Jan 16, 2013

Laos under pressure to step up probe

Concern raised on disappearance of prominent local civic leader

From UK Jan 16, 2013

UK defence minister bullish on arms sales

Corruption risks in emerging markets are ‘manageable’

CHINA Jan 16, 2013

Foreign direct investment in China falls

Rising costs make country less attractive to multinationals

Jan 16, 2013

Car bomb targets Afghan spy agency

Kabul attack comes days after Karzai returned from US

Jan 16, 2013

Hong Kong commits $1.3bn to cleaner air

CY Leung says pollution and property prices are priority

From PAKISTAN Jan 15, 2013

Pakistan in crisis over PM’s arrest order

Protesters clash with security forces in Islamabad

Notebook from COMMENT Jan 15, 2013

Exasperated India reacts to a tragedy

Cultural contradictions exposed by the fatal gang-rape confront the middle class, says Victor Mallet

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