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Monday, 13 May 2013
TAIWAN yesterday sent four coastguard and naval vessels to strengthen patrols in waters near the Philippines following public outrage over the shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman by Filipino coastguards."The government is determined to protect...
PAKISTANI election winner Nawaz Sharif was in talks Sunday to form a new government, with fixing the shattered economy and tackling Islamist militancy likely to be his two biggest challenges.Partial, unofficial results from Saturday's election...
A DATABASE on bootleggers in Sarawak should be created as part of the fundamentals to formulate a programme that could eradicate alcohol abuse in the state, Sarawak Assistant Minister of Public Health, Dr Jerip Susil said, here on Saturday. !He...
NORTH Korea has criticised the arrival of the US aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in the South for a joint drill as an "extremely reckless" provocation and a rehearsal for war against the communist state. A US naval strike group led by the...
MYANMAR yesterday began moving people into emergency shelters as a cyclone threatened to batter a violence-wracked region home to tens of thousands of internal refugees.About 140,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in flimsy tents or...
BUSINESS groups in Mindanao said it would be business as usual on Election Day, ignoring the government's call to shut down their operations for a day to ensure enough power to conduct the midterm elections."We do not believe a work stoppage is...
OPPOSITION leader Anwar Ibrahim yesterday called Malaysia's recent elections "the mother of all frauds" as he kept up the pressure over polls he says were stolen by the 56-year-old regime.Anwar addressed tens of thousands in the...
AFGHAN President Hamid Karzai yesterday called on Pakistan's incoming government to help negotiate an end to the Taliban insurgency that has ravaged his country for nearly 12 years.Taliban militants use Pakistan's border areas as a refuge to launch...
China mine accident kills 27: State mediaBEIJING: An accidental explosion at a coal mine in southwest China killed 27 miners on Saturday, state media said, in the second deadly incident to hit the country's troubled industry in as many days. A total...
FIVE people were killed in separate ambushes in the volatile southern Philippines, police and the military said yesterday, and a radio reporter was kidnapped by armed men on the eve of mid-term elections.Two men armed with short firearms abducted...
FIVE people were killed in separate ambushes in the volatile southern Philippines, police and the military said yesterday, and a radio reporter was kidnapped by armed men on the eve of mid-term elections.Two men armed with short firearms abducted...
THE Dayak community should learn to try to be less over-reactive to any issues affecting them, says a Sarawak state minister. !A senior state minister, William Mawan Ikom, who is the Social Development Minister and the newly elected member of...
CHINA yesterday marked the fifth anniversary of the Sichuan earthquake which killed more than 80,000 but some said questions remained over the thousands of children who died as their schools collapsed.The 8.0 magnitude earthquake struck the...
Sunday, 12 May 2013
A US naval strike group led by the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz arrived off South Korea yesterday for drills, following joint exercises that infuriated North Korea.The Nimitz Strike Group includes 64 aircraft as well as cruisers and destroyers, said...
TWO person were killed, including a local municipal official, and at least six were reported wounded in a shootout late Friday night between supporters of two mayoral candidates in the southern municipality of Bataraza.The Philippine National Police...
SENIOR American and Afghan officials held talks yesterday to try to iron out the details of a key pact signed a year ago that defines the future of the United States' commitment to Afghanistan. The Strategic Partnership Agreement outlines a...
PRESIDENT Ma Ying-jeou said yesterday Taiwan would consider sanctions against the Philippines amid widespread public outrage at Manila over the shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman."We will definitely seek justice for our fisherman. We will not...
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...
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