Chinese police apologizes for arresting blogger

October 1st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani intelligence authorities have warned that extremists may try to hijack Chinese airplanes and kidnap Chinese nationals working in the country. Intelligence agencies have issued notice to the Law Enforcement Agencies (LEA) asking them to strengthen security measures in and around Chinese establishments inside Pakistan.

September 3rd, 2009 BEIJING - The Chinese government Thursday disputed two US journalists' account of their capture at the border between China and North Korea, saying it believed that the two women were not seized on Chinese territory. "According to the understanding of relevant departments, they did not find the situation as you described it," foreign ministry spokesman Jiang Yu told reporters when asked about the journalists' claim that North Korean border guards chased them across the border before arresting them.

September 1st, 2009 Chinese sentences dissident to 13 years jailBEIJING — A Chinese dissident who tried to organize a national meeting of the banned China Democracy Party has been sentenced to 13 years in jail for subverting state power, his lawyer said Wednesday. Xie Changfa, 57, was tried in April and sentenced Tuesday by the Changsha Municipal Intermediate Court in southern China's Hunan province, his lawyer Ma Gangquan said in a telephone interview.

August 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A 19-year-old Chinese boy was detained by police after he lodged a false complaint that his computer was stolen, when actually his mother had hidden it. Chen, who is from Foshan, Guangdong province, was so addicted to surfing the net that his mother frequently hid his system.

August 13th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - A woman blogger has claimed that the "assets" of the newly-crowned Miss Singapore Universe Rachel Kum are not 34-inch and she has given a fake measurement of her bust size. According to Sin Chew Daily, prominent blogger Yu-Kym examined Kum's pictures and alleged that she could have bragged about her 34-inch bust.

August 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Chinese robber, who snatched money from a man, is said to have been captured easily after he ran straight toward a police station after committing the crime. Zhang, 19, a migrant worker in the city, ran straight to the police station in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, reports the China Daily.

July 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Just hours after she was released by her kidnappers, a 10-year-old Chinese girl helped the police arrest them on Wednesday. Cops in Xuchang, Henan province, revealed that the little girl was kidnapped on her way to school in the morning.

July 14th, 2009 Chinese intellectuals call for release of UighurBEIJING — More than 100 Chinese writers and intellectuals have signed a letter calling for the release of Ilham Tohti, an outspoken Uighur economist who disappeared from his Beijing home last week and has apparently been detained. Tohti had in recent months sharpened his critique of problems in China's far west region of Xinjiang, where ethnic violence in the capital Urumqi earlier this month left 184 dead and 1,680 wounded.

July 12th, 2009 LAHORE - The Lahore Police has claimed arresting an agent of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), India's premier secret services organization. Lahore Police officials said they have arrested a man, Nazir Hussain, who was trying to smuggle Pakistan-made weapons to India.

July 8th, 2009 ROME - Chinese President Hu Jintao has pulled out of the Group of Eight summit that starts Wednesday, Italy's Ansa news agency reported. The decision not to attend the meeting was due to ongoing violence in China's western region of Xinjiang.

June 30th, 2009 BEIJING - The emergency call made by Michael Jackson's doctor after finding him unconscious has unexpectedly prompted Chinese netizens to criticize their country's emergency medical system. Netizens praised the American 911 dispatcher who handled the Jackson emergency call and criticized differences between the Chinese and American emergency services on popular Internet portals.

June 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON/DHAKA - Several newspaper reports across South Asia have claimed that Bangladesh is emerging as the haven of choice for South Asian terror operatives, and that there stay is being facilitated by both Bangladeshi and Pakistani intelligence services. According to the Christian Science Monitor (CSM), in recent days, Bangladeshi police have uncovered a plot that used Bangladesh to transit thousands of weapons to an Indian separatist group, and followed up by arresting key members of that group in Dhaka.

May 17th, 2009 PESHAWAR - Pakistan intelligence authorities have claimed arresting a son of the Taliban's Swat chapter spokesperson Muslim Khan. According to sources, Mudassir,Khan's son, was arrested while he was trying to appear in a recruitment examination for a post in the Airport Security Force (ASF).

May 11th, 2009 Chinese police make arrests in fake magazine scamBEIJING — Chinese police have arrested two alleged scam artists who solicited bribes from officials in return for positive coverage in their phony magazine, a newspaper reported Monday. The self-proclaimed manager and chief reporter of "China Social Survey" had promised to spin a story about industrial pollution violators into "positive propaganda," in return for a payoff from a district environmental protection bureau in the northwestern city of Yinchuan, the Ningxia Daily reported.

May 3rd, 2009 LONDON - Burma has been judged the worst country in the world for online restrictions in a report looking at the repression faced by bloggers. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, which has compiled a list of the 10 worst countries to be a blogger, says it wants to shame those governments that are most aggressively attempting to curtail and censor web activity.