Xinhua Asia-Pacific News Summary at 0600 GMT, Dec. 11

SYDNEY -- The first Air China flight from Beijing to Brisbane has landed safely on Monday afternoon, with the new route set to be a huge boon for the Australian State of Queensland.

The 12 and a half hours flight will operate four times per week between the two cities and is expected to add a further 191 million Australian dollars (143.69 U.S million dollars) to the State's economy every year. (Australia-China-Flight)

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SEOUL -- An arrest warrant was sought Monday by South Korean prosecutors for a lawmaker of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party over allegations that he had received bribes from the country's spy agency when he served as the finance minister under the previous government.

The Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office requested a warrant to detain Rep. Choi Kyung-hwan of the Liberty Korea Party for bribery charges. (S.Korea-Opposition-Bribery)

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TOKYO -- Japanese man Takahiro Shiraishi was on Monday charged by the police with the murder in October of a 25-year-old woman.

It is the second such warrant served on Shiraishi who has admitted to killing and dismembering nine people in his apartment near Tokyo. (Japan-Killer-Charge)

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SEOUL -- South Korea, the United States and Japan kicked off a two-day maritime exercise to trail ballistic missiles possibly from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in waters near the Korean Peninsula and Japan, local media reported Monday citing Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).

The trilateral military drill, which would last from Monday to Tuesday, was aimed to detect and track ballistic missiles possibly from the DPRK. The exercise does not involve a stage to destroy the detected missile. (S.Korea-U.S.-Japan-Exercise) Enditem