Forced war suicides excised from books

31/03/2007

JAPAN said yesterday it ordered textbooks to delete references to the military forcing local people to commit suicide...

Rights probe nix

31/03/2007

A SRI LANKA court blocked access for an internationally supervised team probing grave human rights abuses as the island...

31/03/2007

PHILIPPINES police yesterday charged a gunman who took a busload of children hostage even as their parents rallied...

31/03/2007

FIFTY-SIX people, most of them foreigners, have been killed in the second day of fresh fighting between al-Qaeda-linked...

31/03/2007

BANGLADESH authorities executed six Islamic militant leaders yesterday accused of killing two judges and masterminding...

31/03/2007

NEPAL'S main parties and Maoists held crunch talks last night on forming a historic new government that includes the...

31/03/2007

b>Vietnam dissident priest jailed for 8 years HUE, VIETNAM: A dissident Roman Catholic priest in Vietnam was...

31/03/2007

JAPAN trucked its first ballistic missile interceptors to an air force base north of Tokyo yesterday in an effort to...

31/03/2007

IT WAS by far the most publicised Arab summit in recent years. The Arab leaders' meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has...

31/03/2007

MANY analysts are now focusing on the argument that if Palestinians are granted their right of return to historical...