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Sunday, 24 May 2009
INDONESIA'S military is likely to experience more deadly crashes like the one that killed 100 people this week unless the government boosts defence spending, analysts said.Investigators retrieved one of four engines from the C-130 Hercules that...
GUNMEN kidnapped a French tourist in Pakistan yesterday, snatching him from a group of compatriots, who included women and children, in the southwestern province of Baluchistan, police said.The 41-year-old man was kidnapped in an area where ethnic...
IN PENANTI state by-election, the majority to be garnered by the winning candidate is what matters now as the four-cornered contest is deemed as a walkover for opposition's Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR).The ruling Barisan Nasional (BN), the major...
UNITED NATIONS aid agencies must be given "unhindered access" to nearly 300,000 people displaced by Sri Lanka's war against separatist Tamil rebels, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said yesterday.Wrapping up a lighting 24-hour visit to Sri Lanka, Ban...
Delhi wants friendship with PakistanNEW DELHI: India's new government said yesterday it was ready extend "the hand of friendship" to arch-rival Pakistan as long as Islamabad moves to dismantle militant groups based on its soil. SM Krishna...
CHINESE authorities said yesterday they would open areas devastated by last year's Sichuan earthquake to tourists as the region struggles to recover from the natural disaster, state media reported.Nearly 87,000 people were killed or left missing in...
Saturday, 23 May 2009
THE United Nations launched an appeal yesterday for US$543 million ($815 million) for more than two million people displaced by fighting in northwest Pakistan, where officials said villagers were turning against the Taliban.The military launched an...
AUSTRALIA'S Tasmanian devil, the world's largest surviving marsupial carnivore, will be listed as endangered because of a contagious and deadly cancer, the government said yesterday."This disease has led to the decline of about 70 per cent of...
THE court trying Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has agreed to accept the charge against her. The trial can now proceed to a verdict that could see her jailed for up to five years.Suu Kyi's lawyer said yesterday that the presiding...
SRI LANKA has for the first time made public its heavy casualties from the last phase of the 25-year war, and the UN chief flew to the island on yesterday to push for a rapid end to a lingering humanitarian crisis.Officials said over 6,000 soldiers...
INDIAN Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was sworn in for a second term yesterday, even as talks broke down between his party and a key coalition partner.President Pratibha Patil, dressed in an elaborate white green and gold sari, administered the oath...
SINGAPORE and Malaysia will consider literally building new bridges to improve an often uneasy relationship, their leaders said yesterday.Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said options to improve the relationship included better rail links,...
BANGLADESH stepped up vigilance at its border with Myanmar after a fresh influx of Rohingya Muslims was reported, officials said yesterday.Rohingya refugees have presented problems for several other countries in the region in recent months, with...
EUROPEAN foreign ministers will press Myanmar at an Asia-Europe meeting next week to end the trial of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, but analysts expect only lukewarm backing from their Asian counterparts.The Suu Kyi trial, which entered its...
MALAYSIA'S ruling coalition yesterday won the latest round in a battle for control of a northern state, which has been in crisis since the opposition alliance was booted out in February.Perak has been in limbo since defections cost the Pakatan...
LAO authorities are investigating how a British woman facing trial on a drug charge became pregnant while in custody, a government spokesman said yesterday.Samantha Orobator, 20, was detained in August after allegedly being caught with 680 grams of...
MUSLIM clerics in Indonesia's East Java province yesterday banned the faithful from gossiping and flirting on social networking websites such as Facebook and Friendster. The clerics also urged Facebook and Friendster to curb what they called...
POLICE have freed 32 mentally handicapped people forced to work "like slaves" in brick kilns in eastern China and arrested 10 people suspected of holding them, state press said yesterday.Up to 80 policemen raided the two kilns in Anhui...
N Korea issues ship banSEOUL: North Korea appears to be preparing to test-fire short-range missiles after banning ships from waters off its northeast coast, a report said yesterday. A vehicle mounted with a missile launcher has been seen moving...
Friday, 22 May 2009
CHILDREN are being abducted, with tacit government approval, from camps housing those displaced by Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict, human rights groups charged yesterday.The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers said it had received verified...
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