Cambodian officials allowed Thai diplomats Tuesday to make their first visit to a Thai national held on charges of spying on fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, Thai officials said.

Thai police said Tuesday they have arrested a Thai couple in Bangkok on charges of illegally trading African ivory after a tip-off by U.S. authorities.

Rockets slammed into a market northeast of Kabul on Monday, killing 12 civilians but missing their presumed target: a meeting between France's top general in Afghanistan and dozens of tribal elders and senior local officials.

At least 50 people are feared dead after a packed passenger ferry crashed into an oil barge in an area of Myanmar that was hit by a devastating cyclone last year, local officials said on Tuesday.

Britain's security depends on its success in Afghanistan, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said in a speech Monday, seeking to convince a skeptical public that his country has no choice but to keep fighting there.

South Korea announced its first greenhouse gas reduction target Tuesday, pledging to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases by 4 percent below 2005 levels by 2020.

Eight-year-old Abid Mehmood was sifting through the debris of the bombed market in Pakistan's north-western city of Peshawar for metal and plastic pieces when he found something unusual - a human eyeball.

Asia will receive a stockpile of 500,000 courses of H1N1 flu drugs by April next year to supplement any shortfall in the region, an official with a Japanese donor agency said on Tuesday.

Seven Papua New Guineans adrift in the Pacific Ocean for more than two months have been rescued but two have since died, the captain of the vessel which picked them up said Tuesday.

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's personal rating with voters has fallen in the past two weeks as he struggles to stem a rise in boatpeople arrivals, but his government remains ahead.