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Tuesday, 19 May 2009
THE United Nations and the World Bank pledged yesterday closer coordination with Southeast Asia in tackling the rising threat of natural disasters in the heavily-populated region. The World Bank and the United Nations International Strategy for...
THE leader of Taiwan's pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) yesterday vowed to launch a referendum in a bid to stop the signing of a major trade pact with rival China."The DPP will get the endorsement of one million people in...
SULTAN of Perak Sultan Azlan Shah cannot dismiss Chief Minister Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin from his office because the latter does not hold office at the pleasure of the ruler.This is the ruling of High Court Judge Abdul Aziz Abdul Rahim when he...
SOUTH KOREAN scientists said yesterday they have succeeded in developing a human vaccine against Influenza A (H1N1). Researchers from South Korea's Chungnam National University, led by Professor Seo Sang-heui from the college of veterinary...
SOMALI officials yesterday appealed for international help to establish a properly equipped coastguard, saying it was the key to eradicating rampant piracy off its coast.Deputy Prime Minister Abdirahman Aden Ibbi said in a speech to an international...
MAOIST lawmakers stormed Nepal's parliament and demonstrated inside the assembly hall yesterday to block a vote for a new prime minister a move that could prolong the country's political crisis.The members of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)...
MALAYSIA'S ruling coalition decided yesterday not to contest a special election triggered by an opposition lawmaker's resignation, but denied it was cowed by a recent spate of electoral losses.Prime Minister Najib Razak said his National Front...
SRI LANKAN troops won the final battle in one of the world's most intractable separatist wars, and put the island nation under government control for the first time since 1983, the military said.In the climactic final gunbattle, special forces...
A YOUNGER brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai said he survived an assassination attempt yesterday when gunmen sprayed his convoy with rocket and machine-gun fire, killing one of his bodyguards.Ahmad Wali Karzai - who heads the provincial...
VIETNAM has shut down a website it ran jointly with China, officials said yesterday, as diplomatic tensions escalated over islands claimed by both countries.The two sides created the Web site in 2006 amid great fanfare in order to promote bilateral...
MYANMAR opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi went on trial yesterday and faces a further five years in detention, sparking threats of tougher international sanctions against the military regime.Suu Kyi, charged with breaking the terms of her house...
THE European Union called on yesterday for an independent inquiry into alleged violations of humanitarian and human rights laws in Sri Lanka.EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels said the 27-nation bloc was "appalled" by reports of...
10 killed in south Philippine landslide MANILA: Landslides triggered by several days of heavy rains killed 10 people and about 20 more were missing in a mining village in the southern Philippines, local government officials said yesterday. About 30...
A COMMITMENT by six Asia-Pacific nations to protect a huge swathe of ecologically rich coral reef is an important step, although the pact is non-binding and key details still need to thrashed out, conservationists said.Indonesia, Malaysia, East...
THE Philippines needs tougher laws to deal with the more than 1 million illegal firearms in the country, some of which may have been smuggled in from Afghanistan for use by Muslim guerrillas, officials said yesterday.The firearms many of which are...
PAKISTANI jets and helicopters yesterday bombarded militant targets in Swat, where troops entered strategic towns in a pincer thrust towards the Taliban-held capital of the northwest valley.Pakistan's deadly offensive against Taliban fighters...
Monday, 18 May 2009
INDONESIAN President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is a clear favourite to win a second term in office in a July election, helped by the resilient performance of Southeast Asia's largest economy during the global crisis.The poll line-up was finalised...
MYANMAR pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will protest her innocence when she goes on trial starting today, her party said as the ruling military junta freed her personal doctor from detention.The 63-year-old met her lawyer on Saturday at the...
MYANMAR'S Southeast Asian neighbours have stayed largely silent over the trial of opposition icon Aung San Suu Kyi, in a fresh display of the bloc's impotence as a diplomatic force, observers say.The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean)...
THE Pakistani government yesterday urged people stranded by a military offensive against Taliban militants in the Swat valley to try to get out.Many civilians are believed to still be inside Mingora, the main town in Swat, after the army launched an...
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