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Thursday, 21 May 2009
PAKISTAN yesterday boasted of a military victory in a small Taliban stronghold but struggled to provide for 1.5 million people who fled its onslaught as fears grow of a lengthening crisis.The military ordered the offensive last month under US...
A DEADLY frog fungus that has wiped out hundreds of amphibian species in the Americas is now devastating the populations of five frog species in the Philippines, experts said yesterday.A two-year nationwide survey by a team of US and Filipino...
INDIA'S Congress party, which surged back to power following month-long elections, was yesterday invited to form the next government.Congress, which campaigned on a pro-poor platform, was asked to form the government after Prime Minister Manmohan...
CAMBODIANS staged a re-enactment of Khmer Rouge crimes at a notorious "killing field" Wednesday as the country marked its annual "Day of Anger" for those who died under the regime.A crowd of some 2,000 people, including more than...
Wednesday, 20 May 2009
FORMER US President Bill Clinton yesterday urged leaders of the world's cities, which produce over two-thirds of greenhouse gas emissions, to act swiftly to save the planet for their grandchildren.Executives from the 40 largest cities plus 17...
INDONESIA is being tarnished by the inclusion of two former generals accused of rights abuses during the era of former strongman president Suharto as vice presidential candidates, rights activists said yesterday.President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is...
SRI LANKAN state television broadcast video footage Tuesday of what it said was the body of Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, hours after the rebels claimed he was still alive.The footage showed the upper part of a corpse dressed in...
THE Philippines wants to spend about US$1 million ($1.46 million) to improve military structures on disputed islands in the South China Sea, the navy chief said yesterday, despite warnings from China to stay away from the area.China warned its...
PAKISTAN is facing one of the world's worst displacement crises, with aid workers struggling to reach many of the two million people who have fled fighting, a top UN official said yesterday.Rashid Khalikov, director of the UN humanitarian office in...
AGGRESSIVE military action to curb piracy off the coast of Somalia can contain the scourge, but it will only be wiped out when a stable and strong government takes control of the lawless east African nation, senior US and European officials said...
A SECOND illegal immigrant from Myanmar held in a Malaysian detention centre has died from leptospirosis, a rare disease caused by a bacteria found in animal urine, news reports said yesterday. Camp officials said 26-year-old Sa La Hin, who had...
Dhaka police cross-dress to nab thievesDHAKA: Police officers across the Bangladeshi capital are donning wigs and wearing women's clothing to catch criminals targeting females on the city's streets, a senior official said yesterday. "We took...
MYANMAR'S Southeast Asian neighbours expressed "grave concern" yesterday at the trial of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, but the chair of their regional group, Thailand, ruled out sanctions.A day after European Union ministers said they...
MYANMAR'S ruling junta is apparently rushing the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi, a party spokesman said yesterday as police told the court how they arrested a US man who swam to the democracy icon's home.The claim came as Asian neighbours finally joined...
SATELLITE photos released yesterday show Pakistan has expanded two sites crucial to its nuclear programme as part of an effort to bolster the destructive power of its atomic arsenal, a US arms control institute said.The commercial images reveal a...
A NEW political party for Malaysia's ethnic Indian minority was launched yesterday, with its leader saying it would fight discrimination against the disadvantaged community.The Malaysian Makkal Sakti (People's Power) party is an offshoot of the...
PRESIDENT Hamid Karzai travelled to remote southwestern Afghanistan yesterday to meet survivors of deadly air strikes, and reiterated his demand for US forces to "stop bombing" civilians.Karzai took a military plane to the small town of...
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...
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