The Sri Lankan government has failed to make adequate welfare provision for the 136,000 Tamil civilians it plans to release from internment camps, rights activists and opposition parties said Sunday.
0000Twenty-one people were killed and another 232 were plucked to safety after a ferry sank in heavy seas off Indonesia's Sumatra island today, an official said.
0000The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has claimed almost 8,900 lives in two decades, the vast majority of them Palestinians, the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem said in a statement.
0About 100 bushfires were burning in eastern Australia today as a hospital was evacuated and 1,000 firefighters battled the blazes amid sweltering conditions.
0Southeast Asia's biggest budget carrier AirAsia plans to list on the Thai and Indonesian stock exchanges in a bid to tap the region's capital markets despite a turbulent year for airlines.
0The death toll from a coal mine blast in northeast China rose to 87 today, with 21 miners still trapped underground, in the nation's deadliest mining disaster in two years, state media reported.
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The PKR supremo says Malaysia has to reconnect with its democratic beginnings to give its people a new birth of freedom.
00UPDATED 4.50PM The second post-mortem on the remains of DAP political aide Teoh Beng Hock ended at 3.30pm. As for the details, his sister says 'wait for the inquest to start on Dec 9'.
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'Let me assure you that Bala has already undergone rigorous 'cross examination' by three senior lawyers, including myself, before these interviews were held.'
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