Xinhua Asia-Pacific News Summary at 1600 GMT, June 23
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TOKYO -- Troubled Japanese tech giant Toshiba said on Friday that its shares will be demoted from the main section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) from August as its liabilities had exceeded its assets by the end of fiscal 2016.
The company, having yet to submit its full year financial statement, said that it expects its negative net worth for the year ended March to reach 581.6 billion yen (5.23 billion U.S. dollars), exceeding the earlier estimate of 540 billion yen. (Japan-Toshiba-Shares)
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TOKYO -- Hiroji Yamashiro, an anti-U.S. base activist in Japan's Okinawa, pledged here on Friday to continue his fights against the government's Futenma relocation plan and called for the scrapping of all the U.S. bases in Okinawa.
Yamashiro said at the Tokyo-based Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan on the occasion of the 72nd anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa that with the memory of the tragic battle still vivid in mind "people in Okinawa do not want to go through that (war) again, and do not want to have conditions like those days again." (Japan-Activist-U.S. Base)
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PHNOM PENH -- A Cambodian court on Friday afternoon convicted a Malaysian man of attempting to smuggle heroin worth 700,000 U.S. dollars out of Cambodia and sentenced him to life in prison, according to a verdict.
Ahmad Johari Chung, 23, was arrested on Sept. 12, 2016 at Phnom Penh International Airport en route to China's Taiwan via China's Macao with 1.08 kilograms of heroin strapped to his thighs. (Cambodia-Drug-Trafficking-Jail)
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TALUQAN, Afghanistan -- At least 10 Taliban militants have been killed in clashes in Takhar province, an army spokesman in the northern Afghan region said on Friday.
Taliban group commander Mullah Shakor is also among those killed in clashes for the control of Darqad district over the past two days and several more militants sustained injuries, Abdul Khalil said. (Afghanistan-Clashes-Death)
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ISLAMABAD -- At least 18 people were killed and over 100 others injured as twin blasts ripped through a market on Friday afternoon in Parachinar, capital city of Pakistan's northwest tribal area of Kurram Agency, reported local Urdu TV channel Geo.
The attack took place at about 5:30 p.m. local time when a handgrenade was hurled into the crowds of the people busy with shopping at a downtown market of the city for the coming Eid, a holiday which marks the end of the fast month Ramadan, said local media. (Pakistan-Blasts-Death) Enditem
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