Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 1000 GMT, April 9

U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter arrived in South Korea, the second leg of his first Asian tour since he took office in February, a South Korean Defense Ministry official said Thursday.

The official said by phone that Carter arrived in the afternoon in Osan Air Base near Seoul, without elaborating further. (S.Korea- US-Defense-Secretary)

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SEOUL -- South Korean Prime Minister Lee Wan-koo Thursday urged Japan not to distort history, saying that history will sternly judge Japan in the future.

"(Japan) should not make historical distortions, which are not based on facts," Lee told reporters at the government complex in Seoul. "(Japan) cannot hide the solemn truth. History will sternly judge Japan sometime in the future." (S.Korea-Japan-History)

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NEW DELHI -- An Indian special court Thursday found 10 people, including the founder of information technology company Satyam, guilty in the country's biggest corporate fraud case.

The court in the southern city of Hyderabad found founder and former chairman Ramalinga Raju and nine others guilty of cheating, forgery and criminal breach of trust in the case. (India-Corporate Fraud)

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COLOMBO -- Bangladesh has raised concerns over the recent wave of threats faced by Bangladeshi expatriates working in Maldives after a recent spike in violence saw two Bangladeshi nationals murdered and three stabbed in capital Male, a statement from the high commission said on Thursday.

The statement said that the high commission had held meetings with President Abdulla Yameen, Home Minister Umar Naseer and Police Commissioner Hussein Waheed to maintain safety of their citizens in Maldives. (Maldives-Bangladesh-Expatriates) Endi