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Life expectancy in North Korea has declined over the past 15 years, with an increase in infant mortality and more mothers dying in childbirth, according to new census figures. The communist regime’s legendary military might also appears to be far smaller than claimed, with figures showing just over 724,000 people working in government and defence [...]
KUALA LUMPUR: The wife of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said she was not involved in framing sex charges against opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, which he says is an attempt to kill his political career. Anwar, a former deputy premier who is battling charges of sodomising an aide, claimed Thursday the sex charges were masterminded [...]
MANILA: A drought in the Philippines has destroyed millions of dollars worth of crops, reduced the country’s water supply and is threatening widespread blackouts as power companies contend with low water levels in hydroelectric dams, officials said Friday. “It is such a difficult situation because we have just survived the typhoons in October that destroyed [...]
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama hosted the Dalai Lama at the White House on Thursday, brushing aside China’s warning that the talks with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader could further damage strained Sino-U.S. ties. Obama’s first presidential meeting with the Dalai Lama was sure to draw a fresh round of angry complaints from Beijing, which is [...]
NEW DELHI: Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama headed Wednesday for the United States and a long-awaited meeting with President Barack Obama that has infuriated China. For the 74-year-old Dalai Lama — vilified by Beijing as a “wolf in monk’s robes” — recognition by the White House is crucial to maintaining a critical international [...]
SEOUL: North Korea Tuesday heaped praise on leader Kim Jong-II as it marked his birthday with the customary national holiday, but took a softer tone towards the United States and South Korea after a turbulent year. Children nationwide received bags of sweets and biscuits, and the birthday has also been marked by a synchronised swimming [...]
SYDNEY: Five Australian Muslim men convicted of plotting to commit violent jihad in Australia were jailed on Monday for terms ranging from 23 to 28 years. The men were found guilty in October 2009 of conspiring to commit a terror attack between July 2004 and November 2005, by stockpiling weapons and chemicals to make bombs, [...]
TOKYO: The Internet plays an increasingly vital role as a forum of public opinion in China as other forms of media remain under tight Communist Party control, though government restrictions on the Web will likely intensify, experts said at a recent symposium held in Tokyo. The recent threat by the U.S. search engine giant Google [...]
TOKYO: He was charming and single, she was bored and stuck in a sterile marriage, and their encounter in the aisles of a local supermarket seemed like a chance for them to change their lives for the better. But the affair ended in betrayal, recrimination and death after a sequence of events as lurid as [...]
JAKARTA: A suspected member of late terror leader Noordin Mohammad Top’s network appeared in an Indonesian court Wednesday charged over twin suicide attacks on luxury hotels in Jakarta last year. The bombings killed seven people as well as the two suicide bombers and marked the bloody end of a four-year hiatus in attacks attributed to [...]
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim moved today to have the judge in his sodomy trial disqualified. The trial, which Anwar says is a plot to end his political career, began last week with a graphic testimony from a 24-year-old former aide Mohamad Saiful Bukhari Azlan who accuses Anwar of sodomising him. Anwar has [...]
KUALA LUMPUR: Three Iranians have been arrested attempting to smuggle drugs worth nearly four million dollars into Malaysia, where trafficking carries a mandatory death sentence, a customs official said Sunday. Customs deputy director Mohamad Subri Awang said the two women and one man were arrested on Friday with 13.6 million ringgit (4.0 million dollars) worth [...]
SEOUL: An American missionary who walked into North Korea proclaiming Christian salvation and demanding the resignation of the country’s dictator, Kim Jong Il, will be released after “repenting” of his crime, according to the country’s official media. The state-run Korean Central News Agency reported this morning that Robert Park, a 28-year-old US citizen of Korean [...]
SYDNEY: Thirteen people were wounded after a man detonated a makeshift bomb made of fuel and fireworks in a shopping mall in the northern Australian city of Darwin, officials said Wednesday. “There was an explosion… caused by a mixture of fuel and fireworks,” an ambulance spokeswoman told AFP. “Thirteen casualties were transported to Darwin Hospital [...]
BEIJING: China on Tuesday warned US President Barack Obama against meeting the Dalai Lama, saying it would “seriously undermine” Sino-US ties — the latest salvo in an escalating row between the two powers, reports AFP. Beijing also said no progress was made in the latest round of talks between Chinese officials and envoys of the [...]
KUALA LUMPUR: During more than three decades in politics, Anwar Ibrahim has spent a good share of his time behind bars — from his detention during his days as a rabble-rousing student leader in the 1970s to his imprisonment a decade ago on charges of abuse of power and sodomy. On Tuesday, a new trial [...]
BEIJING: Beijing has suspended visits between the Chinese and US armed forces in protest at Washington’s plan to sell weapons worth 6.4 billion dollars to Taiwan, state media said Saturday. The defence ministry official in charge of foreign affairs, Qian Lihua, had summoned the US Embassy in Beijing’s defence attache on Saturday afternoon to complain [...]
SEOUL: North Korea said Thursday it has detained an American for illegally entering its territory, in what would be the second such case in a month if confirmed, reports
KUALA LUMPUR: Three people were charged in a Malaysian court on Friday for the firebomb attack that gutted a church amid a row on the use of the word “Allah” by Christians, state news agency Bernama reported. The three, all ethnic Malay Muslims aged between 22 to 24 who work as motorcycle couriers, claimed trial [...]
KUALA LUMPUR: Worshippers found severed heads of pigs at two Malaysian mosques Wednesday following a spate of firebomb attacks on churches amid a dispute over the use of
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