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China iPad assemblers speak out (Feb 6)
Miss Chen stares curiously at the iPad. Even though she works overtime in a factory in southwestern China that manufactures them, she's never seen the finished product.


China disputes reports of self-immolations by Tibetans (Feb 6)
The Chinese authorities have contested reports that three Tibetans set themselves on fire last week in a remote area of southwestern China.


China bars airlines from EU tax plan (Feb 6)
The Chinese government has barred the country's airlines from complying with a European Union charge on carbon emissions, escalating a dispute that officials have warned could turn into a trade war.


Philippines issues local tsunami alert (Feb 6)
A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Monday off the third-largest island in the Philippines, prompting the country to issue a tsunami alert for the coastlines near the epicenter.


Australian authorities urge residents to flee floods (Feb 6)
Australian authorities on Monday pleaded with hundreds of people, who had chosen to remain in a town in the path of rising flood waters, to vacate their homes.


Ministry: Suicide car bomber targets kills 7 (Feb 5)
A suicide car bomb exploded Sunday in southern Afghanistan's Kandahar City, killing seven people and wounding at least nine, the interior ministry said.


Recovery mode in PNG ferry sinking (Feb 5)
Authorities in Papua New Guinea said Sunday it may be time to shift from rescue to recovery mode in their search for 98 people who remain unaccounted for in last week's ferry sinking.


U.S. brigadier general dies in Afghanistan (Feb 5)
U.S. Brig. Gen. Terence Hildner died in Kabul of apparent natural causes, officials said, making him one of the highest ranking officers to die in Afghanistan.


Civilian deaths rise in Afghanistan (Feb 4)
The rate of civilians killed in the decade-long conflict in Afghanistan rose again in 2011, according to a new United Nations report .


Khmer Rouge prison chief gets life (Feb 3)
Cambodia's war crimes court rejected the appeal a man who ran a Khmer Rouge regime torture prison and instead increased his sentence to life imprisonment.