India detains Chinese soldier at flashpoint border

Indian forces have detained a Chinese soldier on the disputed Himalayan frontier of Ladakh where the world's two most populous countries fought a deadly battle last year, the military said yesterday. It is the second detention on the high altitude border since the pitched battles in June in which 20 Indian soldiers and an unknown number of Chinese troops were killed.  The Indian army said in a statement that the People's Liberation Army soldier was "apprehended" on the Indian side of the Line of Actual Control in the early hours of Friday and taken into custody. The People's Liberation Army Daily, which is run by China's military, said the soldier went missing in "the darkness and complicated terrain" and insisted India was informed.