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Tuesday, 26 May 2009
INDONESIA will return to Bangladesh 114 Rohingya boat people who arrived earlier this year in rickety wooden boats, while the status of nearly 280 others is still being considered, officials said yesterday. Two groups of Rohingyas, an oppressed...
A CYCLONE slammed into parts of Bangladesh and eastern India yesterday, triggering tidal surges and flooding that forced some half a million people from their homes and killed almost three dozen people.Storm officials in coastal Bangladesh moved...
Sultan of Selangor back in M'sia SEPANG, MALAYSIA: The Sultan of Selangor, Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah, returned to Malaysia yesterday after undergoing heart surgery for mitral valve repair at the Stanford University Medical Centre in Palo Alto,...
ASIAN and European foreign ministers held talks in Vietnam yesterday that were quickly overshadowed by North Korea's nuclear test and outrage at the trial of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.The global financial crisis, pandemic flu and...
MALAYSIA'S opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said yesterday he is confident a court will find no evidence of sodomy when his case, which has inflamed political passions in Malaysia, resumes in July. Anwar, who spent six years in jail on a 1998 sodomy...
THE communists have no place in the country because their sins for killing thousands of people in the then Malaya cannot be forgotten, said Information, Communications and Culture Minister Dr Rais Yatim.As such, he urged leaders who had expressed...
MYANMAR'S military regime has "strongly rejected" a statement by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations condemning the trial of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, state media said yesterday.The ruling junta accused Thailand, which...
THAILAND'S "Yellow Shirt" protest movement, which helped topple premier Thaksin Shinawatra in 2006 and occupied Bangkok's airports last year to oust his allies, formed a new political party yesterday.More than 30,000 supporters of the...
Monday, 25 May 2009
THE Tamil Tigers yesterday admitted for the first time that their leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, was killed a week ago by Sri Lankan government troops."We announce today with inexpressible sadness and heavy hearts that our incomparable leader...
LAWYERS for Myanmar pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi said yesterday they were preparing to open the defence case at her trial this week, as the junta looked set to face further pressure from the West.The tribunal's second week promises to be...
THE Sultan of Kelantan, Sultan Ismail Petra Ibni Almarhum Sultan Yahya Petra, arrived in the city-state yesterday for a follow-up treatment for a heart ailment at a Singapore hospital.The Sultan was brought to Mt Elizabeth Hospital near Orchard Road...
THOUSANDS of South Korean mourners paid their last respects yesterday to former president Roh Moo-Hyun, whose shock death by apparent suicide came as he faced a massive corruption scandal.Roh's body lay in state in his hometown of Gimhae, a day...
PAKISTAN'S military said yesterday it had seized several key areas in the Swat valley's Taliban-held main town, as their battle to regain control of the northwest entered a crucial phase.Troops moved into Mingora on Saturday, fighting street-by-...
NEARLY 5,000 ethnic Tamil Malaysians gathered at one of the country's iconic Hindu temples yesterday to protest acts of 'genocide' against Tamils in Sri Lanka following the end of hostilities there.The demonstration by one of the world's largest...
POLICE raided a Malaysian opposition party's headquarters to search for seditious material, sparking accusations yesterday of a crackdown on political dissent.The hourlong search late Saturday marked the first time police had raided the Democratic...
FORMER Indonesian president Megawati Sukarnoputri and her running mate, notorious former military general Prabowo Subianto, made their presidential bid declaration at a rubbish tip yesterday.They addressed an estimated 50,000 supporters, most...
AS AUNG SAN SUU KYI'S trial enters its second week, taxi driver Thein Aung offered a widely held view on its eventual outcome. "She's innocent," said the 45-year-old law graduate who drives an old Toyota on the streets of army-ruled...
COMMUNIST guerrillas tortured and killed an army soldier they abducted last week in the southern Philippines, military officials said yesterday as they condemned the killing as "deplorable."The bullet-riddled body of Army Staff Sgt Rolen...
ASIAN powers hold the key to persuading Myanmar's ruling junta to release opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, France's human rights minister said yesterday ahead of key meetings in Asia this week.France and Europe have done everything that they can...
Cambodian soldier dies in border blast PHNOM PENH: A Cambodian soldier was killed and two civilians were injured in a landmine blast near a disputed part of the border with Thailand, the military said yesterday. The incident happened on Saturday...
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