Q+A - What's fuelling Thai-Cambodia border clashes?

Q+A - What's fuelling Thai-Cambodia border clashes?


Q+A - What's fuelling Thai-Cambodia border clashes?

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 12:31 AM PDT

PHANOM DONG RAK, Thailand (Reuters) - Thai and Cambodian troops are locked in the bloodiest border standoff in nearly two decades, with international calls for an immediate ceasefire and a lasting peace deal falling on deaf ears.



Move Mubarak to prison hospital, prosecutor says

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 12:31 AM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's public prosecutor ordered on Sunday that ousted President Hosni Mubarak be transferred to a Cairo prison hospital pending a corruption and murder probe after a doctor declared him well enough to travel.



New jail term for Cambodian opposition leader

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 12:34 AM PDT

A Cambodian court on Monday slapped exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy with yet another two-year jail term, this time for accusing the foreign minister of being a former Khmer Rouge member.

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Survey shows 40 pct of SMEs not ready for GST

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 12:33 AM PDT

A survey by the Associated Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Malaysia (ACCCIM) shows that 40 per cent of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are not ready to implement the goods and services tax(GST) system.

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Call to upgrade maintenance of Melaka tourist areas

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 12:33 AM PDT

Maintenance of the historical sites in Melaka has to be upgraded in the effort to draw more tourists, State Tourism, Culture and Heritage Committee Chairman Datuk Latiff Tamby Chik said today.

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Stability remains at Si Sa Ket on Thai-Cambodian border

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 12:32 AM PDT

Conditions have remained stable in Thailand's northeast Si Sa Ket province, along the disputed areas with Cambodia near Preah Vihear Temple, Thai News Agency (TNA) reported.

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Sri Muda assemblyman's sedition case set for mention June 20

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 12:32 AM PDT

The Sessions Court here today set June 20 for mention of a sedition case involving Sri Muda Assemblyman Shuhaimi Shafiei.

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Police report over Customs officer's death sent to A-G

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 12:31 AM PDT

Police have sent to the Attorney-General's Chambers the report of their investigation into the death of a Customs officer at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) building in Jalan Cochrane here.

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MBMMBI: 10,000 teachers to be specially trained this year, says Muhyiddin

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 12:31 AM PDT

The Education Ministry targets to train 10,000 English language teachers this year to raise their competency in teaching the subject.

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Sabah records surplus balance of trade last year

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 12:30 AM PDT

Sabah recorded a surplus balance of trade last year, registering RM15.674 billion, State Assistant Finance Minister Datuk Tawfiq Abu Bakar Titingan told the state assembly today.

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Sabah Chief Minister's dept records 98.6% of development expenditure last year

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 12:30 AM PDT

The Sabah Chief Minister's Department recorded 98.6 per cent, the highest among the state's ministries, of developmental expenditure for last year, Minister in the Chief Minister's Department Datuk Seri Nasir Tun Sakaran said today.

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Japan launches new mass search for bodies

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 12:17 AM PDT

Japan launched a massive search with 25,000 troops scouring its tsunami-ravaged northeast coast Monday for thousands of bodies still missing more than six weeks after the disaster struck.

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Food shortages focus of North Korea visit: Carter

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 12:16 AM PDT

A group of former statesmen led by ex-US president Jimmy Carter said Monday they will focus on food shortages, human rights and denuclearisation when they visit North Korea this week.

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Forgotten victims of Pakistan's Taliban war

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 12:15 AM PDT

Shadi Khan was once a proud soldier fighting the Taliban, but today he quivers in pain, socks bagged around metal pins after a bomb blew off his legs on Pakistan's deadliest battlefield.

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What race are you?

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 12:14 AM PDT

I just want to ask that under the "1Melayu, 1Bumi" movement, should Ong just turn around and walk away when he found that the trapped couple were Malays?

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Followers mourn death of Sai Baba

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 11:21 PM PDT

PUTTAPARTHI, Apr 25: Thousands of distraught devotees standing in line for over a kilometre outside his Prasanthi Nilayam ashram broke into tears as doctors said the 85-year-old godman had succumbed to multi-organ failure and breathed his last at 7.40 am.


540 Taliban fighters escape in mass jailbreak

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 11:15 PM PDT

KABUL, Apr 25: At least 540 Taliban militants, including 106 commanders, have escaped from Kandahar central prison in southern Afghanistan, an official says.


VIDEO: Gaddafi's compound bombed by Nato

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 11:21 PM PDT

A Libyan government spokesman has said the airstrike in Tripoli was an attempt to kill Gaddafi but it is not clear where he was at the time of the attack


TIMELINE - Protesters demand Saleh step down as Yemen ruler

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 11:29 PM PDT

Jan. 29, 2011 - Yemen's ruling party calls for dialogue with the opposition, in a bid to stem anti-government protests.



Plenty of wiggle room for Saleh as Yemen exit looms

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 11:29 PM PDT

DUBAI (Reuters) - The verbal acceptance of a Gulf Arab handover plan by the government of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh should begin the final countdown on his 33 years in power -- but leaves him considerable room for manoeuvre.



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