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Please enter a valid phone number. Please enter your Phone Number. Send Thanks! A link has been sent. Done Top Asian News at 9:30 a.m. GMT 11 minutes ago Content preferences Done OHN TAW GYI CAMP, Myanmar (AP) Born just over a year ago, Dosmeda Bibi has spent her entire short life confined to a camp for one of the world's most persecuted religious minorities. And like a growing number of other Muslim Rohingya children who are going hungry, she's showing the first signs of severe malnutrition. Her stomach is bloated and her skin clings tightly to the bones of her tiny arms and legs. While others her age are sitting or standing, the baby girl cannot flip from her back to her stomach without a gentle nudge from her mom. KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) Malaysia's state investment company said Friday it plans to make Malaysia Airlines fully government owned, removing it from the country's stock exchange before carrying out an overhaul of the carrier that is reeling from double disasters. Khazanah Nasional, which owns 69 percent of Malaysia Airlines, said it has proposed to the carrier's board that it buy out minority shareholders at 27 sen (8 cents) a share, which is 29 percent higher than the airline's average share price over the previous three months. The takeover would cost 1.38 billion ringgit ($429 million). SHANGHAI (AP) A British investigator and his American wife charged with illegally trading in the personal details of Chinese nationals testified Friday that they bought such information to help companies combat fraud. Peter Humphrey and Yingzeng Yu operated a firm in Shanghai that helped companies screen potential business partners and employees. Their arrest last August sent a chill through foreign businesses. It came as Beijing tightened controls over information and prompted warnings that investigation of legitimate matters might be curtailed. NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and top diplomats from Europe and Asia are meeting to discuss regional security issues this weekend. The meeting opened Friday for talks among ministers from 10 Southeast Asian countries and expands over the weekend to comprise 27 countries who are members of the so-called ASEAN Regional Forum, including the United States, Russia, China, India, South Korea and North Korea. Here are things to watch for: DISPUTES WITH CHINA SYDNEY (AP) Australia's prime minister dubbed Russia "a bully" and threatened stronger sanctions against the country on Friday following Russia's ban on most Western food imports. Russia's government on Thursday banned most food imports from the West, including the U.S., European Union and Australia, as retaliation against sanctions related to the crisis in Ukraine. BANGKOK (AP) Thailand's military-dominated interim legislature on Friday held its first meeting since it was appointed by the junta following a coup more than two months ago. The 197-member National Legislative Assembly will enact laws and nominate the interim prime minister, who will then choose Cabinet members. Its appointment last month was part of the junta's roadmap to return Thailand to elected democracy, expected to take place by October 2015. PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) They were leaders of Cambodia's infamous Khmer Rouge, the fanatical communist movement behind a 1970s reign of terror that transformed this entire Southeast Asian nation into a ruthless slave state a place where cities were emptied of their inhabitants, religion and schools were banned, and anyone deemed a threat was executed. When the nightmare ended, in 1979, close to 2 million people were dead a quarter of Cambodia's population at the time. SANTA ANA, California (AP) Sophany Bay saw her two young daughters and son die at the hands of the infamous Khmer Rouge in Cambodia after the family was forced from their home and she was sent to toil in the fields under the movement's reign of terror. Nearly four decades later, the mental health counselor who helps Cambodian-Americans cope with the trauma of the 1970s-era killings said she finally felt a sense of justice after a United Nations-backed tribunal convicted two top leaders of crimes against humanity. PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) Opposition lawmakers in Cambodia on Friday ended a 10-month boycott of Parliament, joining the assembly for the first time after reaching a breakthrough political deal with the country's ruling party. Legislators from the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party had refused to take their seats after alleging results of last year's general election were rigged. KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday opened a second day of talks in Afghanistan aimed at preventing the fragile country from collapsing into political chaos after disputed elections. Kerry paid a courtesy call on Afghan President Hamid Karzai and met later with the two men former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah and former Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai locked in a bitter dispute over who will succeed Karzai. KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) An Afghan official says Taliban fighters stormed a police checkpoint overnight in southern Helmand province, killing four policemen. Deputy district Governor Mohammad Rassoul says the attack happened in Sangin district and that the Taliban have captured the checkpoint. BEIJING (AP) One of China's best-known rights lawyers and a bold government critic whose accounts of torture drew international criticism of Beijing was released from prison Thursday but appeared to be under close supervision by the authorities. The United States urged China to allow Gao Zhisheng to come to the U.S. to be reunited with his family if he chooses. His wife lives in San Francisco. VATICAN CITY (AP) Pope Francis' upcoming trip to South Korea will provide him with an unusual opportunity to speak directly to the Chinese leadership: His plane is due to fly through Chinese airspace, and Vatican protocol calls for the pope to send greetings to leaders of all the countries he flies over. When St. John Paul II last visited South Korea in 1989, China refused to let his plane fly overhead. Instead, the Alitalia charter flew via Russian airspace, providing John Paul with a first-ever opportunity to send radio greetings to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. He said he hoped to soon visit Moscow. WASHINGTON (AP) The State Department is urging China to allow a dissident lawyer who was freed from prison Thursday to come to the United States to be reunited with his family if he so chooses. Spokeswoman Marie Harf welcomed Gao Zhisheng release upon completion of his sentence, and urged China to free all its remaining prisoners of conscience. Politics & Government