MANILA, The Philippines (AP) — Philippine tax officials have filed a criminal complaint against boxing champion and lawmaker Manny Pacquiao for failure to submit documents to investigators looking into his tax returns. Prosecutors will now decide if there is enough evidence to bring the case to court, where Pacquiao could face up to two years in jail if convicted. Bureau of Internal Revenue regional director Rozil Lozares says a complaint was filed March 1 after Pacquiao failed to submit the documents despite three notices and a subpoena. He said Pacquiao’s 2010 tax return contained "discrepancies" concerning his many businesses and endorsements. Pacquiao was ranked by Forbes magazine last year as the world’s 24th richest athlete. Calls to Pacquiao’s office went unanswered.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Three Cambodian ministries have proposed regulating fishing in part of the Mekong River to protect the endangered Irrawaddy dolphin. The head of the semi-official Commission for Mekong Dolphin Conservation said the tourism, agriculture, and transportation ministries will propose a decree to Cambodia’s cabinet limiting fishing activity along a 112-mile stretch of the river. Touch Sieng Tana said the rule would ban the use of floating houses, fish cages, and gill nets. The large, almost invisible nets entangle all sorts of aquatic life. Fewer than 100 of the dolphins are estimated to live in the Mekong River.

LANGSA, Indonesia (AP) — Five Acehnese men convicted of gambling have been caned in public in the devout Islamic Indonesian province of Aceh. They were flogged six times each in front of hundreds of people at a field in East Aceh’s district capital of Langsa. The predominantly Muslim nation of 240 million people has a policy of secularism but allowed highly conservative Aceh province to implement a version of Sharia law. Chief of general crime at the prosecution office Putra Masduri said the five were among 20 people convicted of violating Sharia law in January. He did not disclose the offenses of the others not caned.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A North Korean orchestra recently travelled to Paris for a rare joint performance with a French orchestra led by a South Korean conductor. North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency says the Unhasu Orchestra performed with the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra. Organizers say it was the first performance by a North Korean orchestra in Europe. South Korean Chung Myung-whun, the French orchestra’s musical director, conducted. Ties have begun to warm between North Korea and the west after years of tension over Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program. North Korea and France do not have formal diplomatic relations, but France opened an office in the North last year to foster cultural exchanges.

MANILA, The Philippines (AP) — U.S. and Philippine troops will train for how to deal with the aftermath should a massive earthquake similar to last year’s quake that ravaged northeastern Japan hit Manila. Filipino military spokesman Col. Arnulfo Marcelo Burgos said next month’s drills would test how troops and disaster-response agencies would deal with a "Japan-like" quake that will be simulated using desktop computers at military headquarters in Manila. The maneuvers will form part of the two allies’ annual military exercises. Burgos says Japan — along with Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, Singapore, and Vietnam — will send observers to the quake drills. Japan and the Philippines lie in the Pacific "Ring of Fire," where most of the world’s quakes occur..