Before dawn breaks tomorrow over the Buddhist Maha Vihara temple in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur, 67-year-old former teacher D. Santi will already be there, dressed in white and holding a small oil lamp.

India, May 30 -- Shi Yongxin, the former abbot of China's world-famous Shaolin Temple, has been sentenced to 24 years in prison after being convicted on multiple counts of embezzlement, ...