Asia correspondent Elizabeth Beattie

Fears are mounting that Manipur, in North East India, is on the brink of civil war. The state, which boarders Myanmar, is strategically significant, but tensions have long brewed with different armed separatist groups forming in across the state. There are reports groups have looted thousands of weapons from police armouries. In Japan, a parliamentary report released this week has found that 25,000 people were forcibly sterilised in Japan under its post-World War Two eugenics law. The law which targeted people with physical disabilities or those with mental illness challenges, was repealed in 1996. Two nine-year-olds were among those who were victims, And in Singapore, police are rolling out more patrolling robots, as the force continues to "augment frontline officers" as part of its strategy to boost police presence. Elizabeth Beattie is a journalist based in Tokyo.