A Vietnamese satellite television station said Thursday it had stopped broadcasting foreign channels including CNN, BBC and Star World to comply with a new media law that came into effect this week. The channels, which already air with a 30-minute delay on live feeds to allow sensitive content to be blocked by government censors, were still widely available elsewhere in Vietnam Thursday, including on state-run giant VTV.

Japanese farm minister Yoshimasa Hayashi sought on Saturday the cooperation of Cao Duc Phat, Vietnam's minister of agriculture and rural development, in multilateral negotiations to conclude the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact, Japanese officials said. Hayashi also asked the minister to exchange information with him about the forthcoming TPP negotiations, the officials said.

Four British soldiers were laid to rest with full military honours in northern France on Tuesday, nearly a century after they were killed in action in World War I. The soldiers were interred in the Honourable Artillery Company (HAC) Cemetery at Ecoust-Saint-Mein near the northern town of Arras in a ceremony attended by relatives of two of the four men who it was possible to identify. Lieutenant John Harold Pritchard and Private Christopher Douglas Elphick were both killed during an attack by German forces near Bullecourt on the Hindenburg Line on the morning of May 15, 1917.

By Angus MacSwan LONDON (Reuters) - The Battle of Imphal/Kohima, when British troops fighting in horrendous jungle conditions turned the tide against the Japanese army in World War II, has been chosen as Britain's greatest battle. Kohima was picked over the more celebrated battles of D-Day and Waterloo in a contest organised by the National Army Museum. Rorke's Drift in the 1879 Zulu War and the Battle of Aliwal in the Anglo-Sikh War in Punjab in 1846 brought up the rear.