Sep 10, 2010
YANGON OFFICIAL media in military-ruled Myanmar told citizens on Friday they would be irresponsible if they did not vote in a November election, a poll seen as a sham by many, especially with the main opposition party not running.
This was the first time that state newspapers, seen as a mouthpiece of the army regime, have broached the subject
Sep 10, 2010
YANGON OFFICIAL media in military-ruled Myanmar told citizens on Friday they would be irresponsible if they did not vote in a November election, a poll seen as a sham by many, especially with the main opposition party not running.
This was the first time that state newspapers, seen as a mouthpiece of the army regime, have broached the subject
Sep 10, 2010
MANILA AN ENTIRE Philippine island lost electrical power on Friday after a snake reportedly climbed onto a power transmission line, causing it to short out.
The snake slithered on a transmission line on Bohol island, a popular tourist site, before dawn, resulting in the electrocution of the reptile and the breakdown of a power transformer, ABS-CBN television reported in
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Sep 10, 2010
KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Najib Razak on Friday warned that a threatened burning of the Quran in Florida would enrage Muslims around the world and have 'very costly' consequences.
Pastor Terry Jones, leader of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, had said the event planned for the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks would be cancelled, but then
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Sep 10, 2010
BATU PAHAT (Malaysia) VISITING elderly relatives on the first day of Hari Raya Aidilfitri has become a tradition among many Muslim families in the country.
Robani Syukor, 70, often brings his children and grandchildren to see their uncle Surif Tamjis, 82, the oldest living relative in the family.
Sep 10, 2010
YANGON (Myanmar) FEARS that the deaths of two young men shot in a quarrel with troops could spark unrest prompted Myanmar state media to insist on Friday that the incident was 'not a fight' between the army and the public.
As authorities try to avoid anti-government feeling ahead of the country's first elections in two decades, the New Light
Sep 10, 2010
JAKARTA THE leader of the world's most populous Muslim-majority country, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, warned on Friday that a US pastor's plan to burn the Quran threatened global peace.
'This threatens peace and international security. This is something that endangers harmony among religious people,' Dr Yudhoyono said in a nationally televised address at the end of the Muslim
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Sep 9, 2010
KUALA LUMPUR A THAI diplomat in a northern Malaysian state has said his countrymen working in Malaysia are funding insurgents in Thailand's restive southern provinces, according to a report on Friday.
Thai consul general Surapon Petch-Vra, who is based in Kelantan state, told the New Straits Times Thai workers have been sending back money to groups involved in the
Sep 9, 2010
JAKARTA THE usually busy cities of Indonesia fell quiet yesterday, as tens of millions of Indonesians left to return to their villages, squeezing onto motorcycles, trains, buses and boats to celebrate the end of Ramadan at home.
In Jakarta, businesses were shut and construction sites fell silent, but the transport networks were crammed to capacity as travellers braved epic
Sep 9, 2010
BANDAR SERI BAGAWAN THE oil-rich kingdom of Brunei will undertake a major redevelopment of its airport at a cost of about US$111 million dollars over the next three years, an official said on Thursday.
The project will focus on improving passenger convenience and boosting baggage security, said Julian Fung, assistant chief executive officer and head of infrastructure development of
Sep 9, 2010
MANILA PHILIPPINE President Benigno Aquino said on Thursday he will form an elite force based on Britain's Special Air Service (SAS) to handle future hostage incidents, after a bungled rescue left eight Hong Kong tourists dead.
He said he decided to create the force after seeing local police commandos take almost an hour to assault a tourist bus hijacked
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Sep 9, 2010
MANILA PHILIPPINE medics had to throw away a donated kidney when a local airline refused to fly it, transplant doctors said on Thursday.
Cebu Pacific Air said it was protecting passengers from possible infection or contamination when it refused to allow the team who harvested the organ to carry the kidney in the cabin on the flight last month.
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Sep 9, 2010
MANILA PHILIPPINE investigators said for the first time on Thursday that police may have shot some of the tourists in a bungled operation that left eight Hong Kong residents dead on a bus in Manila.
'There is a big possibility that there (was) friendly fire,' Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said, adding experts are convinced some bullets could not
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Sep 9, 2010
MANILA PHILIPPINE Airlines' (PAL) cabin staff on Thursday formally advised the government they would go on strike at the end of Oct, saying the move would ground all flights by the loss-making flag carrier.
The 1,600-member cabin crew union said it had filed a strike notice with the labour ministry, which by law has 30 days to try to
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Sep 8, 2010
KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIAN religious officials said on Thursday they had detained and fined nine members of an Islamic sect for celebrating the Eid al-Fitr holiday two days early.
The Eid festival, marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, has been declared on Friday for most parts of the world including Malaysia, but members of Jamiah Al-Zikri Awwalun
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Sep 8, 2010
BANGKOK THREE unexploded bombs were found in Bangkok and surrounding suburbs in just a few hours, one of them in front of a school and one in a shopping mall, police said on Thursday.
The first device was discovered under a footbridge outside a school in central Bangkok on Wednesday morning, Major General Prawut Thavornsiri, the national police spokesman,
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Sep 8, 2010
MANILA SIX days before 57 people were massacred in a political rivalry that turned violent, family members of a clan accused of ordering the killing allegedly discussed the plot over dinner.
Its patriarch, Andal Ampatuan Sr, apparently gathered his siblings over dinner to ask them how they could stop their political rival from running for provincial governor, one of
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Sep 8, 2010
KUALA LUMPUR THREE victims of the Bukit Antarabangsa landslide on Dec 6, 2008 are suing its developer and Syabas for breach of duty of care and negligence.
In the first suit, engineer K. Thanarajah, his three children T. Thivesh Raj, 12, T. Avinesh Raj, 13, and T. Priyankka, five, as well as his firm, C S Engineering Management Sdn
Sep 8, 2010
PETALING JAYA MEDICAL microbiologist Prof Dr Jamuna Vadivelu warned that Malaysians must improve on their hygiene to reduce the risk of getting infected with leptospirosis.
Dr Jamuna, from Universiti Malaya, said the throwing of food and rubbish into gutters attracts rats. 'Special attention should be given to hawker centres and recreational areas where the bacteria from rats' urine and
Sep 8, 2010
MANILA PHILIPPINE investigators on Wednesday inspected the bullet-riddled bus where eight Hong Kong tourists died in a hostage crisis, in a bid to establish who was to blame for the killings.
The inquiry board members, a Hong Kong government representative, and the driver of the ill-fated bus arrived at a police warehouse where the vehicle was stored after last
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