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Malaysian police said today they have broken up a child trafficking syndicate and rescued 21 children and babies.

'Going there with arms is not the way to resolve this,' President Benigno Aquino criticises Filipino gunmen in his first public comments on the issue.

'Our followers will stay in Lahad Datu. Sabah is our home,' says Sultan Jamalul Kiram of his 400 followers there.

A statement from the office of his son, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, says the 89-year-old former leader was resting at home.

UPDATED 12.30PM Speaking in Sydney, Xenophon says the order to deport him came 'probably from the PM’s office'.

Ex-Singapore PM Lee Kuan Yew is recovering in hospital after suffering from an irregular heartbeat, the gov't said today.

The trial judge said that Ng's actions were ‘not corrupt’ as he had been in an intimate relationship with Ms Sue the whole time.

An ex-diplomat allegedly hit three pedestrians while driving a car belonging to the Romanian mission in Singapore, killing a 30-year-old Malaysian.

Eight executives from Securency and NPA have also been charged over the alleged racket, which involved contracts in Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam.

Eight tiger skins, and 22 tiger skulls and bones were discovered at the home of Nor Shahrizam Nasir in Kedah in February last year.

The state minister of land development says the state will only need four, and not 12, dams to cater to its energy demands.

The new act has also come under criticism for giving authorities too much power to hold people for up to 28 days without charge.

Surveying consumers in 11 countries, Ovum says 68pct of respondents said they would select a 'do not track' feature if this was available.

The US$1.2 billion Solaire Manila Resorts with 500 hotel rooms is one of four gaming operations licenced at Manila’s bayside Entertainment City.

‘While Malaysians were celebrating the New Year, their gov't was forcibly returning Uighur asylum seekers to a dangerously uncertain fate in China.’

It was found dead of suspected poisoning, the latest in a series of fatalities that has shaken conservation efforts.

Sabah wildlife department ‘highly suspects’ the animals died due to poisoning after it found severe ulceration and bleeding in their digestive tracts.

The by-election will test the public mood two years after the ruling party suffered its worst ever poll performance in the 2011 GE.

A former Singaporean newspaper worker has been arrested for threatening an opposition leader and his family ahead of a by-election, his employer and police said today.

Self-styled Argentine superhero Menganno, a former cop, finds himself charged with carrying an unlicensed gun. 

‘The way you cut vegetables, cut the hand of the person who touches you the same way,’ a Shiv Sena official tells women.

The ministry is working with the operator of the facility to fly the body of the man identified as Chong Chung Ngen back to Malaysia.

Singapore today announced increased cash bonuses for parents of newborn babies and introduced paternity leave as part of a package of measures to boost population and reduce dependence on foreigners.

Najib will be accompanied by Foreign Minister Anifah Aman and other officials on the one-day visit on Tuesday, says an aide.