The first precipitation in 106 days has fallen in northeast China; Taiwan has been shaken by the arrest of an army general alleged to have leaked classified information about the military's command and control system to China; The government of Japan may freeze $21.6 million dollars set aside for the planned relocation of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to a site in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture

A Chilean judge suspended criminal trespassing charges against a Rapanui family yesterday -- despite their six-month takeover of a $50 million hotel development on their ancestral land; A candidate for governor of Guam has lost his challenge to the election results in the U.S. territory's Supreme Court; Climate scientists are warning islands west of Fiji in the Coral Sea and the North Tasman region are at risk of more cyclone activity before the current season finishes at the end of April.

Clashes between Thai and Cambodian troops over a disputed area surrounding a 900-year-old Hindu temple have continued for a fourth day; South Korea has intercepted a North Korean fishing boat a few miles south of the disputed sea border and close to Yeonpyeong island, which was shelled by the North last year; The US Army has rejected a request for ethnic Hmong leader Vang Pao to be buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery.

The government of Tonga has removed the state of emergency regulations installed in 2006; The American Samoa government is cutting back employee hours next week to make up for a $7.2 million dollar deficit; The Solomon Island’s government is facing a deadlock after 5 cabinet ministers defected to the opposition; Violence broke out on Rapa Nui Saturday where armed Chilean police evicted the Hitorangi Clan from the Hanga Roa Hotel. The clan claims the facility sits on their ancestral lands (this story was updated verbally by the news host, and is not part of the audio file).

A two-day summit in American Samoa aimed at establishing a climate change framework for Pacific communities has ended; The government of Tonga has confirmed that an American-based company has begun exploring the island’s first off-shore oil project; A team of independent experts are in the Solomon Islands to review the partnership framework between the Regional Assistance Mission and the Solomon Islands government.

The president of South Korea has urged North Korea to seize a "good chance" to improve relations, as the two sides prepare for talks aimed at easing months of high tensions; Japan's sumo bosses are investigating a match-fixing scandal in which 13 senior wrestlers have been implicated; Forest loss across the world has slowed, largely due to a switch from felling to planting in Asia.

A third person has died in New Caledonia from a post-cyclone outbreak of leptospirosis, a disease transmitted by animal urine; Gov. Benigno R. Fitial said his Saipan administration will pursue employee termination because of continuous budget shortfall that reached some $6 million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2011 alone; The American Samoa chamber of commerce is forming a think tank whose task it will be to entice new businesses and industries to American Samoa

Burma's highest court has upheld the dissolution of the pro-democracy party led by Aung San Suu Kyi; Cambodia says it will not remove its flag from a pagoda on a disputed piece of land near Preah Vihear temple, despite a request from Thailand; A growing number of Vietnamese nationals are taking advantage of a large gap between Vietnam’s official and unofficial exchange rates.

The UN’s refugee agency in Papua New Guinea says border-crossers seized from Papua will not be returned to the Indonesian province; Emergency personnel in Samoa say three deaths following Cyclone Wilma could have been avoided; Inland churches on Tonga’s Ha’apai islands are accommodating people who lost their homes during cyclone Wilma; Investors in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands are exploring the potential for offshore aquaculture.