Hong Kong democrats retain veto power in election (AFP)
Democrats retain veto power in Hong Kong election (AP) AP - Hong Kong's pro-democracy camp has won more than a third of seats in legislative elections, retaining its veto power over major legislation. China foreign minister to meet Indian PM, hold talks on border row (AFP)
Student hacks into Bangladesh's elite force website (AFP)
Democrats face key test as Hong Kong votes (AFP)
Congress seen passing India nuke deal eventually (Reuters) Reuters - The odds of the U.S. Congress passing a U.S.-India civil nuclear deal this year are long, U.S. congressional aides and analysts said on Sunday, but the deal is all but certain to win approval eventually. India focuses on care for flood victims as rescue winds down (AFP)
28 SKorean city councillors indicted for corruption (AFP)
Deal reached to save India's cheap car plant (AFP)
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AP - The U.S. military said Sunday it has new evidence about civilian casualties from an American attack that Afghanistan says killed scores of women and children and it is sending a senior officer to the country to review its initial finding that no more than seven civilians died.
AFP - Hong Kong's pro-democracy parties won more than one third of seats in weekend elections, retaining the key power to veto legislation in the city's legislature, results showed Monday.
AFP - China's foreign minister arrived in India on Sunday for talks with top officials on a long-standing border row which triggered a brief but bloody war in 1962, officials said.
AFP - Bangladesh's elite security force, the Rapid Action Battalion, has arrested a student and three of his friends for hacking into its website, a spokesman for the unit said Sunday.
AFP - Hong Kong voters headed to the polls Sunday in lower numbers, with the city's pro-democracy parties scrambling to avoid heavy losses and several high-profile politicians facing potential defeat.
AFP - India was grappling on Sunday with the task of feeding and housing close to a million villagers displaced by huge floods in the eastern state of Bihar, as the rescue effort wound down.
AFP - South Korean state prosecutors have indicted more than a quarter of Seoul's city councillors for corruption in the biggest crackdown on local legislatures, officials said Sunday.
AFP - Tata Motors can go ahead with making the world's cheapest car at a factory in eastern India after talks yielded a compromise ending violent protests against the plant, officials said Sunday.
