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Thursday, 24 May 2012
S Korea to carry out castration on rapistSEOUL: South Korea will chemically castrate a serial rapist who preyed on young girls, the first time it has employed the punishment under legislation passed in 2010, Korean media reported on Wednesday. The...
HUMAN Rights Watch on Wednesday condemned a Chinese "para-police" force nicknamed "X-Men" by the local media, accusing it of rampant brutality and illegal detentions for even minor offences.The New York-based rights group issued...
CHINA said Wednesday it has cancelled a high-level military trip to Japan, as the two neighbours bicker over a disputed island chain and a recent Uighur symposium in Tokyo that angered Beijing.Guo Boxiong, vice chairman of the powerful Central...
CANBERRA and Jakarta denied Wednesday doing a deal to have five years shaved off Australian drug trafficker Schapelle Corby's sentence in exchange for the release of Indonesian people-smugglers.Corby, 34, had her 20-year term for smuggling marijuana...
AN AMERICAN adventurer who helped rescue four climbers from Mount Everest last weekend has told of how a crowded push for the summit and bad weather created deadly conditions for mountaineers.Jon Kedrowski, 33, who was near the 8,848-metre (29,029-...
CHINA has deployed more government ships and fishing boats to a disputed shoal in the South China Sea amid a tense stand-off with Manila, the Philippine foreign department said Wednesday.As of Monday night, there were five Chinese government vessels...
MALAYSIAN opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was hit with criminal charges Tuesday for his part in an election reform rally, a case he denounced as another government attempt to remove him from politics.Anwar and two party colleagues were charged with...
CAMBODIA'S Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal was postponed Wednesday until next week to allow the oldest of the three former regime leaders on trial to recover from bronchitis.Trial hearings have been on hold since Ieng Sary, 86, was rushed to...
MORE than a third of malaria drugs examined by scientists in Southeast Asia were fake, and a similar proportion analysed in Africa were below standard, doctors warned on Tuesday."These findings are a wake-up call demanding a series of...
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Rock slides kill 9 in northern VietnamHANOI: An official in northern Vietnam says rock slides have killed nine people in two separate accidents at quarrying operations. Local official Nguyen Xuan Truong says four workers died at the scene following...
WITH UN peacekeepers set to leave Timor Leste at the end of the year, local police are striving to shed a reputation for rough justice as the nation learns to fend for itself 10 years on from independence.Every day at 8am, Carlos Almedia Jeronimo...
INDONESIA's government said on Monday it would protect a strip of peatland in Aceh province at the centre of an international storm over palm oil development, in a case that had become a test of the country's commitment to halt deforestation.!...
CHINA Monday criticised a vote by the US House of Representatives last week requiring the United States to sell 66 new fighter jets to Taiwan, describing the measure as interference by Washington.The Republican-controlled lower house of Congress...
HUNDREDS rallied for a second day in one of Myanmar's biggest cities on Monday to protest against chronic power outages, in the largest demonstrations since the army crushed a monk-led uprising nearly five years ago.!Several hundred marched...
THE 7th Miri City Day celebration was more than grand; it was a stylish one too because two of its events made it into the Malaysia Book of Records (MYBR).With more than 15,000 people watching, the Largest Orang Ulu Long Dance and Largest Line Dance...
ABOUT 1,000 Sarawakians boldly went bald for a good cause over the weekend, making this year's Go Bald the largest ever since the fund-raiser with a difference began four years ago.The annual head-shave raised about RM1mil with donations still...
ABOUT 1,700 people have been displaced by an armed conflict triggered by a family feud in a remote village in the borders of this town and Carmen, also in North Cotabato, officials said on Monday.Mayor Loreto Cabaya said the conflict did not happen...
INTERNATIONAL movie star Datuk Seri Michelle Yeoh was awarded the Darjah Seri Paduka Mahkota Perak which carries the title "Datuk Seri" during the investiture ceremony in conjunction with the Sultan of Perak Sultan Azlan Shah's 84th...
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
Russian plane crashvictims identifiedJAKARTA: Forensic experts say they have identified the remains of all 45 people on board the Russian plane that slammed into a jungle-clad cliff atop an Indonesian volcano. It's not clear what caused the Sukhoi...
THREE climbers from Germany, South Korea and Canada have died on their descent from the summit of Mount Everest, tour agents and officials said yesterday, with two other mountaineers also missing.The 61-year-old German and the South Korean aged 44...
