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Shareholder activist resigns from HKEx

Following a disagreement with management, David Webb resigns from Asia’s largest listed bourse

Japan shows surprise growth spurt

China exports and shipments to other emerging economies provide strongest quarter in four years, but analysts warn rising energy and raw material costs will weigh on next two quarters

US to announce N Korea food aid package

The US intends to provide 500,000 tonnes of aid over a one-year period starting in June, say US officials

Islamabad’s tribal deals spark concerns

Pakistani efforts to negotiate peace deals with militants in the border regions with Afghanistan have raised concerns in Kabul and Washington

China quake toll ‘could reach 50,000’

The sharp rise in the expected death toll indicates hopes are fading for tens of thousands of people trapped under collapsed buildings as rescuers struggle to reach them

Burma junta calls for rice planting help

Military rulers have appealed for international help to get its cyclone-hit Irrawaddy Delta farmers back to their paddy fields, amid concerns about future food shortages

Police call Jaipur bomb claim credible

A little-known Indian group claimed responsibility for bomb blasts that killed 63 people in Jaipur on Tuesday and warned India against supporting the US and UK on international issues

UN hits at spy-led Afghan killings

Foreign spies in Afghanistan are leading informal groups of local fighters in secret raids in which Afghan civilians have been killed, a United Nations official says

Japan sends rescue workers to quake zone

Two groups of 30 rescue workers are expected to take sniffer dogs and heat-sensing equipment to Sichuan province

Beijing reins in coverage of quake

Death toll rises to at least 20,000 as Beijing steps up reporting controls on China’s biggest natural disaster for 30 years

Little-known group says it set off Jaipur blasts

Philip Stephens: Burma’s victims pay bill for foreign policy realism

Indonesia losing $16bn a year to theft

Kabul asks for $50bn to rebuild

Burma’s diaspora converts anger to aid

China’s death toll nudges 15,000

Refugees trek for days to seek help for buried villages

House votes to block war funds

Bhutto party vows allegiance to coalition

World Bank changes tack on Manila road bids

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