A man in southern China died of bird flu on Saturday, a week after being admitted to hospital, although he apparently had not been in contact with poultry. It has been the country’s first deadly case in more than a year, state media reported.
It's all about the Sarkozy and Merkel eurozone agreement in today's papers - who can't agree whether the French president should be congratulated, or if he's sold the country down the river.
Our weekly review of the news in Asia looks at the return of the devastating bird flu pandemic in China, what "the frontline of the war on terror" (namely Pakistan) thinks of Barack Obama, and how lese-majesty is still a crime in Thailand.
