Thai, Cambodia troops clash again near temple, 1 killed

Thai, Cambodia troops clash again near temple, 1 killed

Thai, Cambodia troops clash again near temple, 1 killed

Posted: 05 Feb 2011 12:39 AM PST

BANGKOK, Feb 5 — Thai and Cambodian soldiers exchanged on their border fire for a second day today in a brief clash that killed a Thai soldier, the latest flare-up in a long-running feud over land around an 11th-century temple. Southeast Asia's regional grouping, of which both Thailand and Cambodia are members, said the deteriorating situation was ...


Egypt crisis will not affect Malaysian economy: Husni

Posted: 05 Feb 2011 12:19 AM PST

The political crisis in Egypt will not gravely affect the Malaysian economy because the value of bilateral trade and investment is very small, Second Finance Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah said today.

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Obama: Mubarak must make 'right decision'

Posted: 05 Feb 2011 12:14 AM PST

By Stephen Collinson

WASHINGTON, Saturday 5 February 2011 (AFP) -- US President Barack Obama has delivered a clear hint that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak should step down now, saying the proud "patriot" should listen to his people and make the "right decision." Obama did not explicitly call on Mubarak to resign, but said Friday the Arab strongman had already made the psychological leap of realizing his rule was ebbing, and now should reconsider his position amid a mass uprising.

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Ceasefire agreed but Thai-Cambodian border 'tense'

Posted: 05 Feb 2011 12:13 AM PST

By Michelle Fitzpatrick

PHNOM PENH, Saturday 5 February 2011 (AFP) -- Thailand and Cambodia negotiated an end to deadly fighting on their border on Saturday, both armies said, after at least four people were killed in clashes near a disputed temple.

"Thailand and Cambodia have agreed a ceasefire and both sides will not reinforce their troops," Thai army spokesman Colonel Sunsern Kaewkumnerd told AFP after military commanders from both sides met for talks in a border town.

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S. Korea set to announce piracy probe results

Posted: 05 Feb 2011 12:12 AM PST

SEOUL, Saturday 5 February 2011 (AFP) -- South Korea's coastguard plans to wrap up within days their investigation of five Somali pirates captured in a raid on a hijacked freighter in the Arabian Sea last month, an official said Saturday.

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Saboteurs blow up Egypt gas pipeline to Israel

Posted: 05 Feb 2011 12:11 AM PST

CAIRO, Saturday 5 February 2011 (AFP) -- Unknown attackers blew up an Egyptian terminal supplying gas to Israel near the Gaza Strip on Saturday, an official told AFP, amid raging protests against the regime of President Hosni Mubarak.

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International oil supply, demand balanced despite Egypt tension

Posted: 05 Feb 2011 12:09 AM PST

TEHRAN, Saturday 5 February 2011 (Bernama) -- The Iranian representative to the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Mohammad-Ali Khatibi said that the oil supply and demand in international markets is balanced despite the tension in Egypt, Mehr News Agency said Saturday.

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The longest 30km journey for Malaysian media in Egypt

Posted: 05 Feb 2011 12:08 AM PST

CAIRO, Saturday 5 February 2011 (Bernama) -- It was perhaps the longest 30km journey ever gone through by a group of Malaysian journalists here.

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Myanmar’s parliament appoints Thein Sein president

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 11:30 PM PST

YANGON, Feb 5 — Myanmar Prime Minister Thein Sein was chosen yesterday to become the military-run country's first civilian president in half a century, a cosmetic shift that does little to end the army's overwhelming influence on politics. The rise of Thein Sein, a 65-year-old loyalist of paramount leader Senior General Than Shwe, offers slim ...


Saboteurs attack Egypt gas pipeline

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 11:25 PM PST

CAIRO, Feb 5 — Saboteurs blew up a gas pipeline, state television said today, adding fresh turmoil to Egypt during unprecedented protests to end the 30-year rule of President Hosni Mubarak. State TV quoted an official as saying that the "situation is very dangerous and explosions were continuing from one spot to another" along the pipeline which ...


Philippine Muslim rebels hope for peace deal in a year

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 10:56 PM PST

CAMP DARAPANAN, Feb 5 — The largest Muslim guerrilla group in the Philippines hopes to conclude a peace deal with the government within a year despite the emergence of a breakaway faction that could put talks at risk. The 11,000-member Moro Islamic Liberation Front (Milf) has been fighting for Muslim self-determination in the south of the mainly ...


Somali women say Islamists becoming more draconian

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 10:29 PM PST

NAIROBI, Feb 5 — Women living in areas controlled by Somalia's Islamists say they are increasingly the target of more draconian rules meted out by the rebels bent on enforcing their ideologies. In the latest decree by the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group that governs most of southern Somalia, women in the seaside town of Kismayu have been banned ...


Protest

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 09:41 PM PST

Egyptian protesters chant slogans as they march from the White House to the Capitol during a demonstration in support of Egypt's uprising against President Hosni Mubarak in Washington DC.

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Egypt’s ElBaradei says could run for president

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 09:53 PM PST

VIENNA, Feb 5 — Nobel Peace Laureate Mohamed ElBaradei said yesterday he could run in Egypt's presidential elections if the Egyptian people asked him to, denying a report in an Austrian newspaper that he would not run. "This is not true," ElBaradei said in a phone interview with Al Jazeera. "If the Egyptian people want me to continue the change ...


Defiant Mubarak stays put amid mounting calls to quit

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 08:55 PM PST

CAIRO, Saturday 5 February 2011 (AFP) -- Egypt's defiant strongman Hosni Mubarak showed no sign of quitting Saturday after a "departure day" drawing tens of thousands opposed to his 30-year grip on power and international calls for him to quit.

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Times Square protesters say 'Mubarak must go'

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 08:54 PM PST

NEW YORK, Saturday 5 February 2011 (AFP) -- Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of New York's famed Times Square and downtown Chicago Friday, calling for the immediate departure of embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

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Moderate quake shakes Tokyo

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 08:51 PM PST

TOKYO, Saturday 5 February 2011 (AFP) -- A 5.3 magnitude quake shook Tokyo and other eastern Japanese cities on Saturday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

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Ten killed in China bus accident: state media

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 08:49 PM PST

BEIJING, Saturday 5 February 2011 (AFP) -- Ten people were killed when a minibus toppled into a reservoir in southeastern China, state media reported Saturday, in the latest fatal crash on the country's notoriously dangerous roads.

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Japan's major firms enjoy 24% profit gain: survey

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 08:46 PM PST

TOKYO, Saturday 5 February 2011 (AFP) -- Japan's major companies enjoyed a 24 percent profit gain in the three months to December, the fifth consecutive quarterly increase thanks to brisk foreign demand, a newspaper reported Saturday.

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Thai soldier dies in fresh fighting at Cambodia border

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 08:45 PM PST

PHNOM PENH, Saturday 5 February 2011 (AFP) -- A Thai soldier was killed in clashes with Cambodian troops at the two countries' border early Saturday, bringing the toll to three in the deadliest fighting between the neighbours in almost two years.

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