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Friday, 22 May 2009
FORMER Taiwan president Chen Shui-bian yesterday dismissed his lawyers to protest against his corruption trial which he claimed was a political witch hunt.Chen told the court that he intended to dismiss his three lawyers and stop summoning witnesses...
SOUTH Korea's top court yesterday authorised doctors to halt life-sustaining treatment for a comatose woman, approving a request for euthanasia for the first time in the country.The Supreme Court, upholding a lower court decision, supported a...
PHILIPPINE troops killed 10 communist rebels in an assault on a rebel encampment in the southern Philippines yesterday the military said. Armed forces spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Romeo Brawner said troops swooped down on the rebel lair in Kabantao...
ARMED residents foiled an attempt by Taliban fighters to expand their reach in Pakistan's Swat Valley as foreign aid for refugees fleeing an army offensive in the northwestern region passed US$200 million ($300 million), officials said yesterday.The...
PAKISTANI Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani appealed yesterday for urgent aid to relieve the growing crisis posed by the displacement of up to two million people who fled fighting with the Taliban.Addressing representatives of international donors...
MALAYSIA'S new premier Najib Razak began his first official visit to Singapore yesterday, with plans to rise above the long-running quarrels that have undermined relations between the neighbours.Najib, who was sworn in last month, began the two-day...
THE American man at the centre of the trial against Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has said he swam to her house after having a vision that her life was in danger, Suu Kyi's lawyers said yesterday.It is the first indication of Yettaw's...
MUSLIM clerics are seeking ways to regulate online behaviour in Indonesia, saying the exploding popularity of social networking sites like Facebook could encourage illicit sex.Around 700 clerics, or imams, gathering in the world's most populous...
INDONESIAN air investigators yesterday sifted through the charred debris of a military transport plane that crashed into homes before bursting into flames, killing more than 100 people.Investigators were trying to work out why the C-130 Hercules,...
The junta clamps down anew despite global pressures to drop the case MYANMAR again barred diplomats and journalists from the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday, as international pressure mounted on the military junta to drop the case against the...
Man burns US$70,000 due to feng shuiHONG KONG: A disgraced Hong Kong politician burned US$70,000 ($105,000) on the advice of a feng shui master who told him it would help him avoid jail for vote-rigging, a news report said yesterday. Gilbert Leung...
THERE are about 4,000 to 5,000 active fighters in the restive provinces in southern Thailand, Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban said yesterday. Despite that, he said a solution to the conflict was not in using force but in creating better...
Thursday, 21 May 2009
US AUTHORITIES have urged President Hamid Karzai to create a new executive post to help improve day-to-day governance in Afghanistan, Karzai's chief spokesman said yesterday.The matter was discussed during Karzai's visit to Washington two weeks ago...
THE US military said yesterday 20-35 civilians had been among 80-95 people, mostly Taliban, killed in air strikes in western Afghanistan early this month, disputing the Afghan government's toll of 140 civilians killed.In a new incident that shows...
ARMY-ruled Myanmar opened the trial of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday in an apparent bid to calm growing international outrage at the regime and its latest crackdown on the Nobel Peace laureate.Suu Kyi appeared healthy and confident...
MEDECINS Sans Frontieres (MSF) yesterday denounced the Thai army for systematically bullying their staff and the Hmong refugee population at Huai Nam Khao camp which has prompted the aid group to stop all its activities at the camp in protest."...
MALAYSIA may revive a proposal to build a new bridge to neighbouring Singapore, officials said yesterday a contentious project that was once an irritant in bilateral ties.Prime Minister Najib Razak may raise the issue when he meets his Singaporean...
TAIWAN'S President Ma Ying-jeou yesterday renewed his call on China to withdraw ballistic missiles aimed at the island as a precondition to launching talks on political relations.Taiwan says China's military has targeted the island with more than 1,...
INDONESIA'S president said yesterday that if he was elected for a second term his government could improve the investment climate to lift economic growth to 7 per cent, while ensuring that the poor were protected.The economy is set to be the key...
A SMALL-TOWN Australian doctor used a household drill to release a blood clot from the brain of a boy following a bicycle accident in what was hailed yesterday as an act of extreme bravery and skill.Nick Rossi, 13, began bleeding in the brain after...
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