QUICK REACTIONS: The captain was informed by the ground crew that one of the plane's engines was on fire and immediately evacuated all 165 passengers and crew
By Shelley Shan and Jessie Ho
A China Airlines Boeing 737-800 airliner burst into flames yesterday moments after landing on the Japanese island of Okinawa after all 165 passengers and crew made a dramatic escape.

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ROADSIDE ATTACK: Police laid the blame for Governor Mohammed Ali al-Hassani's death on the Mehdi Army, which is loyal to the radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr
A roadside bomb killed the governor of southern Muthanna Province yesterday, police said, the second assassination of a top provincial official in just over a week.

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Local authorities may have covered up outbreaks of a disease that has killed tens of thousands of pigs in China, the nation's chief vet said yesterday, but insisted there was no cause for panic.

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Thailand's voters have approved an army-drafted constitution, but a hefty "No" vote suggests December's general election will be messy, with former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra still a potent political force.

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