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Indian court to hear Mumbai gunman's plea

The Supreme Court in New Delhi will hear the appeal of Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab (left), a Pakistani citizen and the only gunman captured alive during the November 2008 Mumbai terror attack. Nine others, all Pakistanis, were shot dead during the two-day siege, in which almost 170 people were murdered. In July, Indian media reported that Kasab had appealed to the highest court against his conviction and death sentence. India is still seeking extradition of seven Pakistanis it has identified as conspirators behind the Mumbai attack. A Pakistani judicial commission is in India to conduct its own investigation into the attack.

Dissident faces trial over 'subversive' poem

Dissident Zhu Yufu will go on trial in Hangzhou Intermediate Court on charges of subversion, according to the Hong Kong-based Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, citing Zhu's wife. It said other local dissidents have been warned not to leave home today or have already been taken away from the city. Zhu, 60, was arrested in April for 'inciting subversion of state power'. His lawyer said the main reason for the indictment was a poem Zhu had written calling on people to gather at the time of the 'jasmine revolutions' in North Africa and the Middle East.

Bargain offer on UA Times Square's last day

Times Square's UA cinema complex is offering tickets for just HK$18 to mark the last day before it closes to make way for a shop selling luxury products. Times Square has said a new cinema complex will open on the 12th and 13th floors, but tomorrow's closure is seen as symptomatic of a decline in the city that gave the world such film greats as Bruce Lee, John Woo, Wong Kar-wai and the Shaw brothers. The Theatres Association says the number of cinemas has fallen from 120-plus in the late 1980s to about 40.

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