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Sunday, 12 May 2013
SARAWAK could have the nation's first housing estate set up specially for the fishing community.Santubong MP Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar said that the state government had agreed in principle to the project and a site in Sungai Cina near Sempadi had...
MILLIONS of Pakistanis turned out to vote in landmark elections yesterday, defying deadly Taliban attacks to take part in an historic democratic transition for the nuclear-armed state.Bomb attacks killed 12 people in Karachi while gunmen shot dead...
THE Indonesian police's anti-terror squad Densus 88 has conducted a massive nationwide manhunt against those suspected of being involved in terrorist activities, arresting some and killing those who fought it out with the authorities.The squad...
MYANMAR'S authorities were on alert yesterday as a cyclone threatened to hit the west of the country where around 140,000 people displaced by communal violence languish in flood-prone camps.Local radio in Rakhine State, rocked last year by violence...
ALL longhouse folks, whether they support the Barisan Nasional (BN), opposition or the independents, should close ranks and be united again now that the general election is over and the Gawai Dayak (Dayak communal festival) celebration is to come on...
INDIA'S opposition demanded yesterday the resignation of Congress Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, raising the stakes after forcing the exit of two cabinet ministers over corruption scandals.Pressure has been building for months on the premier, who is...
GREENPEACE ship Rainbow Warrior III has arrived in Jayapura, Papua, to document one of the world's most biodiverse environments.On its current tour, the Rainbow Warrior III will sail from Papua to Jakarta from May 9 to June 10."The Rainbow...
THE Philippines holds elections on Monday seen as crucial to popular President Benigno Aquino's efforts to transform society, but with deadly violence, corruption, and nepotism posing familiar threats.More than 18,000 positions will be contested in...
COUNTING got underway Saturday in Pakistan's landmark elections after millions of people defied deadly Taliban attacks to take part in an historic democratic transition in the nuclear-armed state.Polling stations officially closed at 6pm local time...
CAMBODIAN Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday welcomed the kingdom's opposition party Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) for its final decision to register for July's general election."I congratulate the opposition party for having its party...
BANGLADESHI doctors treating a "miracle" survivor pulled from ruins of a collapsed building after 17 days said yesterday she was doing "great" and had been reunited with her family.Reshma, 18, a seamstress dug out from the rubble...
TWENTY-ONE Malaysians were arrested in Singapore on Saturday for staging an illegal protest following the disputed elections in their neighbouring homeland, the city-state's police said.The Singapore Police Force (SPF) said in a statement that...
Saturday, 11 May 2013
DURING the war in Vietnam, US troops stored more than 98,000 buckets of Agent Orange at Bien Hoa airbase in the southern province of Dong Nai. After they overflowed several times, the contamination level far exceeded what regulations permitted.Today...
INDONESIA'S National Police's counter-terrorism unit, Densus 88, conducted a series of successful overnight operations against terrorists with links to the Abu Omar and Autad Rawa groups, the police say.The 20 terror suspects seven killed and 13...
THE Philippines admitted yesterday that its coastguard fired at a Taiwanese fishing boat in an incident that authorities in Taipei said left a crewman dead and triggered widespread outrage on the island.Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou demanded that...
RESCUERS yesterday pulled a woman alive from the ruins of a collapsed garment factory complex after she spent 17 days trapped in a basement under the rubble.Hours after officials had announced that the death toll had surged past the 1,000 mark,...
AFGHAN President Hamid Karzai said on Thursday that he could allow the United States to keep nine military bases in the country as part of negotiations over a long-term security pact with Washington.After more than 11 years of US-led military...
Laos, China to tackle human traffickingLAOS: Officials from Laos and China met on Thursday in Vientiane in a joint effort to fight cross-border human trafficking. The two-day meeting came after the two governments agreed to work more closely to...
CONSERVATION groups have mounted a signature campaign to stop a planned construction of a coal-fired power facility beside Rasa Island in southern Palawan, which is considered as the last remaining habitat of the critically endangered Palawan...
BOMBS exploded near party political offices in remote areas of Pakistan on Friday, killing four people on the eve of a landmark general election threatened by the Taliban with suicide attacks.Campaigning ended at midnight with impassioned pleas for...
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