World briefs

N KOREAN space agency officials say the country is developing a more advanced Earth observation satellite and are defending their right to conduct rocket launches whenever they see fit, despite protests by the United States and others that the launches are aimed primarily at honing military-use technologies.

USA-TAIWAN Taiwan’s opposition presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen says on a visit to Washington that if she comes to power in January elections, her government would have a responsibility to contribute to peace and stability in relations with mainland China.

INDIA A group of rebels using rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons ambush a military convoy in India’s insurgency-wracked northeast, killing at least 20 soldiers and wounding more than a dozen others.

MYANMAR says thousands of migrants left the country to seek better jobs elsewhere, and were not fleeing persecution, a day after bringing to shore about 730 migrants, the latest arrivals in Southeast Asia’s ongoing crisis. More on p12

CAMBODIA-AUSTRALIA Four asylum seekers rejected by Australia start a new life in Cambodia, becoming the first to be resettled under a deal between the two nations that human rights advocates criticize as misguided and inhumane.

JAPAN A solar-powered plane forced to land in Japan will be stuck on the ground for at least a week after wind gusts damaged one of its wings. Solar Impulse 2 was headed from China to Hawaii when its team decided to divert to Nagoya, Japan, because of bad weather ahead.

JAPAN-PHILIPPINES The Philippines may soon be getting military equipment from Japan as the Southeast Asian country looks to better defend itself in an increasingly tense territorial dispute with China.

PHILIPPINES More than 100 Filipino activists demand that China stop its increasingly assertive actions in the disputed South China Sea, and warn during a rally they could target Chinese economic interests.

PHILIPPINES A British man living in the Philippines for 10 years has been arrested to face charges he molested a 14-year-old boy in the United Kingdom, Filipino immigration authorities say.

USA The Pentagon disclosed Wednesday that it inadvertently shipped possibly live anthrax to at least 51 laboratories across the U.S. and in three foreign countries over the past decade, but it has yet to determine how it happened, who is to blame, why it was not discovered earlier and how much worse the embarrassment will get.