Covert Islamisation Part 2: What the bishops found out

Covert Islamisation Part 2: What the bishops found out

Covert Islamisation Part 2: What the bishops found out

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:00 AM PST

By BOB TEOH

In Part 1, the Catholic Church in Sabah has exposed a covert ploy to convert under-aged students to Islam in Labuan and complained that non-Muslim students at the Labuan Matriculation College between 17 and 18 years old, "are constantly subjected to various forms of harassment, ridicule and pressure to change their religion."

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Up to 37.5 per cent rebates, discounts on expressways during CNY

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 12:39 AM PST

Motorists using 24 expressways during the Chinese New Year will enjoy toll rebates and discounts of between five and 37.5 per cent.

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Myanmar starts peace talks with top Kachin leaders in China

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 12:10 AM PST

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's government started talks with top commanders of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) rebel group in China on Monday to try to rescue a faltering peace process and end one of the country's bloodiest ethnic conflicts.

Syrian opposition chief under fire for talks with Assad allies

Posted: 03 Feb 2013 10:07 PM PST

MUNICH, Feb 4 – Syria's opposition leader flew back to his Cairo headquarters from Germany yesterday to explain to skeptical allies his decision to talk with President Bashar al-Assad's main backers Russia and Iran. The Russian and Iranian foreign ministers, and US Vice-President Joe Biden, portrayed Syrian National Coalition leader Moaz ...

Three bodies found at blast site, toll reaches 36

Posted: 03 Feb 2013 10:01 PM PST

MEXICO CITY, Feb 4 – Mexican rescue workers found three more bodies over the weekend amid the rubble of a deadly blast that tore through state oil firm Pemex's main office complex, the government said, as search efforts appeared to near a close. The death toll from Thursday's explosion stands at 36, Pemex said via Twitter. Rescue workers had been ...

Malala has successful skull surgery

Posted: 03 Feb 2013 08:55 PM PST

LONDON, Feb 4 – A Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating girls' education has undergone successful surgery at a British hospital to reconstruct her skull and help restore lost hearing. A team of doctors carried out a five-hour operation on Saturday on 15-year-old Malala Yousufzai, who was shot in October and brought ...

Man stripped and beaten blames Egyptian police

Posted: 03 Feb 2013 08:21 PM PST

CAIRO, Feb 4 – A man who was beaten and dragged naked across the ground during a demonstration on Friday told the public prosecution that Egyptian riot police were responsible for the incident, reversing an earlier statement in which he blamed demonstrators. A video of Hamada Saber, 48, being beaten with truncheons by helmeted police has ...

Fidel Castro votes, chats in Cuban election

Posted: 03 Feb 2013 08:13 PM PST

HAVANA, Feb 4 – Retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro voted in Cuba's general election yesterday and chatted with well wishers and Cuban reporters in Havana for more than an hour, in his first extended public appearance since 2010. Castro had voted from his home in three previous elections since taking ill in 2006 and ceding power to his brother Raul ...

Obama urges Boy Scouts to end gay ban

Posted: 03 Feb 2013 06:52 PM PST

WASHINGTON, Feb 4 – President Barack Obama yesterday encouraged the Boy Scouts of America to end its ban on gay members and leaders, days before the group is expected to vote on the controversial and long-standing rule. In an interview with CBS, anchor Scott Pelley asked the president if he believed scouting should be open to gays. "Yes," Obama ...

Deadly Pemex blast tests Mexico’s new president

Posted: 03 Feb 2013 06:18 PM PST

MEXICO CITY, Feb 4 – A deadly blast at Mexican state oil firm Pemex's headquarters is the first key test of new President Pena Nieto's promise that his party has broken with a past of shady cover-ups, and if handled properly, could help him overhaul the lumbering giant. The disaster on Thursday struck two months into Pena Nieto's presidency, just ...

Analysis - At last EU has Cyprus leverage, but will it use it?

Posted: 03 Feb 2013 10:54 PM PST

PARIS (Reuters) - For the first time since Cyprus joined the European Union nearly a decade ago, its partners have financial leverage to press for a settlement of the island's almost 40-year division.

Vietnam hands down long jail terms in subversion case - TV

Posted: 03 Feb 2013 10:47 PM PST

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A court in Vietnam has sentenced a man to life in prison and given jail terms of up to 17 years to other defendants after they were found guilty of subversive activities, state-run Vietnam Television said on Monday.

Selangor govt fails to set aside suit by 711 water consumers

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 12:02 AM PST

The High Court here today rejected with costs the application by the Selangor government and Menteri Besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim to set aside a suit filed by 711 water consumers in the state.

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Sungai Air Tawar rep not to contest in next election

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 12:02 AM PST

Sungai Air Tawar assemblyman Datuk Raja Ideris Raja Ahmad said today he would decline to be fielded for the sixth time in the next general election.

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Blood on the tracks at Malaysia's first 'zombie run'

Posted: 03 Feb 2013 11:46 PM PST

Malaysians smeared with fake blood roamed a jungle range on the outskirts of the capital Kuala Lumpur Saturday in the Southeast Asian's country's first "zombie run".

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US winter almost over: Phil the groundhog

Posted: 03 Feb 2013 11:42 PM PST

It's official, at least according to America's most celebrated groundhog: spring is around the corner.

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Suu Kyi enchanted by Harry Potter books

Posted: 03 Feb 2013 11:42 PM PST

Democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi revealed her love of JK Rowling's Harry Potter books as she waxed lyrical about her favourite reads at Myanmar's first international literary festival on Saturday.

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Tokyo zoo stages 'zebra escape'

Posted: 03 Feb 2013 11:41 PM PST

About 60 staff at a Tokyo zoo chased around a keeper dressed as a zebra on Friday in a drill to simulate one of the park's animal inhabitants making a break for freedom.

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Vienna museum to welcome art buffs in the buff

Posted: 03 Feb 2013 11:40 PM PST

Vienna's Leopold Museum said Friday that visitors are welcome to strip off at a special nudist night later this month and admire its popular "Nude Men" exhibition as nature intended.

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Solar smartphone to debut at Mobile World Congress

Posted: 03 Feb 2013 11:38 PM PST

French company Wysips will present an entirely functional smartphone with a solar component beneath the screen that provides it with enough energy to ensure the phone is permanently charged.

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