Asia news.

The article offers news briefs from Asia as of August 2017. Topics discussed include a 10-year-old rape victim whose plea for an abortion was rejected by the supreme court of India, has given birth to a baby girl; German nun Ruth Pfau was buried with fuli state honours in an unprecedented service for a foreign Christian in Pakistan; and a video footage showing that inspector-general Pujith Jayasundara threatened a lift operator as he failed to join the meditation session at police headquarters.