LUCKNOW, India (AP) — A north Indian state is investigating how eyes have gone missing from two bodies at state hospitals. Uttar Pradesh official Achche Lal says organ traffickers are suspected and new autopsies are planned. The parents of a 16-year-old say his left eye was missing, though both eyes were intact when he died from a road accident in Lucknow. The boy’s father, Sohan Lal, said doctors told him "the eye might have fallen out." Relatives of a rickshaw puller who died from asthma filed a police complaint after finding his body with no eyes. A state hospital worker and two paramedics have been arrested. Ophthalmologist N.B. Singh says government waiting lists for eye transplants are up to six years long, while private hospitals charge at least $500.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian legislators have approved a law designed to prevent authorities from detaining suspects indefinitely without trial. The Security Offenses Bill is the centerpiece of Prime Minister Najib Razak’s pledge to reform decades-old laws that opposition and rights groups consider repressive. Rights activists nevertheless say the proposed law remains vulnerable to abuse. Opposition leaders insist it’s a government ploy to introduce superficial changes ahead of national elections expected within months. Parliament’s lower house passed the bill that limits detentions without charge to 28 days. The bill requires the formalities of being endorsed by the upper house and Malaysia’s constitutional monarch before it comes into force.

SINGAPORE (AP) — A newspaper says a Singapore man who set his neighbor’s cat on fire after the feline defecated in front of his apartment has been fined by a court. The Straits Times said a district court ordered 78-year-old Chua Tuang Seng to pay a fine of 3,000 Singapore dollars ($2,400) and to pay SG$1,235 to the cat’s owner for medical treatment. The paper said Chua pleaded guilty to "causing unnecessary suffering to an animal." It said Chua last year poured kerosene over a seven-year-old Persian tabby named Ricco and set its fur on fire with a lit piece of newspaper. The cat belongs to a neighbor on the floor above Chua. The paper said Ricco was hospitalized for four days and still has scars from the attack..

BANGKOK — Myanmar exiles living around the world are starting to come home to see for themselves if the country’s campaign of reforms is real. The vast majority are staying put so far, but those who have visited have found big changes in the Southeast Asian country that, until last year, was ruled by a military junta. One recent visitor, Aye Chan Naing, leads the Norway-based Democratic Voice of Burma, which broadcasts independent news in Myanmar. The government once considered the organization a threat to national security, but Aye Chan says he had positive talks with government officials and found a sliver of hope during his five-day trip. He says people are speaking out freely without getting followed, arrested, or punished.

BEIJING (AP) — A massive hacker attack crippled an overseas website that has been reporting extensively on China’s biggest political turmoil in years. North Carolina-based Boxun.com says it was forced to move to a new web hosting service last month after its previous host said the attacks were threatening its entire business. Website manager Watson Meng says he believes the attacks were ordered by China’s security services, but it isn’t clear where they were launched from. The assaults on Boxun’s server followed days of reporting on Bo Xilai, formerly one of the country’s most powerful politicians, who was suspended from the party’s Politburo amid accusations of his wife’s involvement in the murder of a British businessman.