Chinese soldier detained by India after straying across border

Beijing urges India to fulfil promise to return corporal who it says got lost in disputed mountainous region after helping herd yaks

China's military has said it hopes India will honour its pledge to swiftly return a Chinese soldier, found lost along their mountainous and contested border zone, where both militaries have been locked in a tense standoff for decades.

India said on Monday that the soldier, Corporal Wang Ya Long, had been apprehended inside Indian-controlled Ladakh's Demchok area and was to be released soon.