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Saturday, 18 May 2013
ABOUT 30 security agents showed up just after midnight, breaking down the door to an apartment in the town of Daraya near the Syrian capital of Damascus. They grabbed a 24-year-old university student and drove off. That was a year ago. The...
THE dire manners and "uncivilised behaviour" of some Chinese tourists abroad are harming the country's image, said a top official who lamented their poor "quality and breeding", according to state-run media.Wang Yang, one of...
PROSECUTORS have pressed their case against leaders of a Singapore-based Christian church accused of embezzling millions of dollars to finance the singing career of the pastor's wife.Alleged sham investments by the City Harvest Church — a...
THE rural air services provided by MASwings for East Malaysia helped to increase the number of tourists to Sabah by five per cent, in the first three months of the year.State tourism, culture and environment minister Masidi Manjun said between...
JOSEPH Salang Gandum (pic), the PRS (Parti Rakyat Sarawak) information chief, has refused to accept his appointment in the new Federal Cabinet as Tourism and Culture Deputy Minister.PRS president Dr James Masing had tried to persuade Salang to...
INDONESIA executed three convicted murderers yesterday, an official said, the second time that the country has done so since 2008 in a move that drew condemnation from rights groups. Suryadi Swabhuana, Jurit, and Ibrahim, all Indonesians, were put...
Hong Kong arrests in Australian drug bustSYDNEY: Two men from Hong Kong were arrested Friday in Australia after methamphetamine with a street value of Aus$43 million (US$42 million) was found in a consignment of hairdressing products, police said....
FIGHTING between members of the Moro National Liberation Front and Moro Islamic Liberation Front broke out in Matalam, North Cotabato, on Thursday.Col Dickson Hermoso, spokesman of the militarys 6th Infantry Division, said at least 75 MILF fighters...
BANGLADESH and Myanmar cleaned up yesterday after a killer cyclone wrecked thousands of homes, relieved that the damage was not much worse after the storm weakened as it made landfall.At least 46 people were either killed by Cyclone Mahasen or while...
OVER 60 people were injured when a two-car train derailed on Hong Kong's light railway in the north of the city, throwing passengers onto the floor, police said yesterday.Groups of passengers sat dazed on the pavement near where the train derailed,...
THE appointment of 10 elected representatives from Sabah to the federal cabinet is seen as proof of the central government's recognition of the state leaders' important role in the nation's development. !Chief Minister Musa Aman said the...
Friday, 17 May 2013
TAIWAN held a military exercise yesterday in waters near the northern Philippines in response to the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman, after rejecting repeated apologies from Manila.President Ma Ying-jeou reiterated that the Philippines should take...
PROSECUTORS yesterday pressed their case against leaders of a Singapore-based Christian church accused of embezzling millions of dollars to finance the singing career of the pastor's wife.Alleged sham investments by the City Harvest Church came...
A SUICIDE car bomb targeted a foreign military convoy in Kabul yesterday, killing 14 people including six NATO personnel and two children in the deadliest attack in the Afghan capital for nearly a year.The powerful explosion, which struck at 8am in...
A COURT yesterday sentenced a Malaysian couple to 24 years in jail for starving their Cambodian maid to death, one of many such abuse cases straining ties between the country and its neighbours.Hardware store owners Soh Chew Tong, 44, and his wife...
LOCAL political activist Kanul Gindol described the appointment of three Kadazandusun Murut (KDM) leaders in Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak's cabinet as a landmark decision by the federal government in empowering Sabahans.He said the...
INDONESIAN police yesterday arrested two men with alleged links to a terror network targeted in recent raids and seized bomb-making material, machetes and swords, an official said.More than 20 suspects have now been arrested and eight killed in...
INDIAN police said yesterday they had arrested three cricketers, including Test bowler Shanthakumaran Sreesanth (pictured), after they allegedly accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars for spot-fixing. Eleven bookmakers were also arrested in...
Vietnam TV stationdrops foreign channelsHANOI: A Vietnamese satellite television station said yesterday it had stopped broadcasting foreign channels including CNN, BBC and Star World to comply with a new media law that came into effect this week....
THREE former local media practitioners, all of them women, have secured seats in the legislative bodies here and in nearby Koronadal City and South Cotabato province. Based on official results released by the Commission on Elections (Comelec),...
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