Teen shoots self, ending US school hostage drama |
- Teen shoots self, ending US school hostage drama
- Leaked document: Singapore's Lee calls N Koreans 'psychopathic'
- China says urgent to restart Korea talks
- Election and cheeses
- Crisis in Selangor DAP inevitable if differences not resolved
- Trainee policeman kills six US troops in Afghanistan
- Malaysia announces new investments, energy incentives
- US hails historic Taiwan-China trade pact
- Somali pirates seize Malaysian vessel
- North Korea makes song and dance about "Juche" self-reliance
- Air pollution engulfs China's Shanghai after expo
- Life far from soothing for South Korea islanders at refuge spa
- Napoleonic soldiers laid to rest after 200 years
- Electrician stuns art world with trove of Picassos
- Asean Exchange Linkage: Bursa, SGX, SET to go live next year
- Euro slumps to fresh two-month lows in Asia
- S.Korean marine vets vow to defend border island, feed dogs
- ASEAN chief warns 2015 single market goal in peril
- Disney icon Mickey Mouse becomes videogame hero
- One mystery punter wins record Philippine lottery
| Teen shoots self, ending US school hostage drama Posted: 29 Nov 2010 04:56 PM PST CHICAGO: A 15-year-old youth took 23 students and a teacher hostage at a high school in a small Wisconsin town before turning the gun on himself, police said. The youth was hospitalised with a gunshot wound, with no immediate word on his condition, but the captives were unharmed, according to officials in Marinette, Wisconsin, where the drama unfolded yesterday. Marinette police chief Jeff Skorik said earlier reports on social network sites that students had been injured in the attack were incorrect. Skorik told a late night press conference the student who had held the hostages shot himself as police approached him after officers had heard three gunshots go off in the classroom. The male gunman, who was not identified, was transported to a local hospital where his condition or the nature of the injuries was not known late yesterday. "Emergency rescue personnel on stand-by treated the suspect and transported him to Bay Area Medical Center," a police statement said. The drama came to an end at 8.03pm today moments after the gunman had released five students to allow them to use the washrooms. After hearing gunfire, officers who had been in dialogue with the teacher, immediately entered the room, and saw the boy shoot himself. "The officers breached the door, entered the classroom and saw the suspect in front of the classroom," Skorik said. "At that time the suspect fired one shot, injuring himself with a self-inflicted gunshot wound." Skorik did not say where he was shot. The hostage-taker, an unidentified student, entered the classroom toward the end of the school day, around 3pm. Game plan Police had been hoping to resolve the drama without violence. "The game plan all along was to have the situation end peacefully," Skorik said. The youth, a student at Marinette High School, had entered the classroom with two handguns, a .22 calibre semi-automatic and a 9-mm pistol. Cartridge casings found on the scene revealed both weapons had been used, he added. The motive for the situation remained unclear according to Skorik, who noted the student was not known to local police. One parent told the Milwauke Journal Sentinel that the situation unfolded during a Western Civilization class. "We have no idea as far as motivations at this point," he said. The high school will be closed until further notice and grief counselors will be on hand once the decision is made to re-open, said Superintendent Timothy Baneck. The district had held a drill last fall to practise what to do if a shooter had entered the school, he added. Marinette is approximately 80km north of the city of Green Bay. The school has about 700 students. Police had earlier said there were 20 students and one teacher being held hostage. - AFP
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| Leaked document: Singapore's Lee calls N Koreans 'psychopathic' Posted: 29 Nov 2010 03:45 PM PST  SINGAPORE: Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew called North Koreans "psychopathic" and leader Kim Jong-Il a "flabby old chap" who craved public worship, a US diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks said. In the document detailing a conversation between Lee and US deputy secretary of state James B Steinberg in May last year, Singapore's elder statesman said he would be surprised if the North Koreans agreed to give up their nuclear weapons. "They are psychopathic types, with a 'flabby old chap' for a leader who prances around stadiums seeking adulation," said the document, classified as secret. Singapore's first prime minister who now holds the title of minister mentor in the Cabinet compared the plight of North Koreans to his experiences living through the Japanese occupation of his country during World War II. "MM Lee noted that he had learned from living through three and a half years of Japanese occupation in Singapore that people will obey authorities who can deny them food, clothing and medicine," the leaked document read. Nuclear-armed North Korea might also give up its "first-strike capacity" but would keep its atomic weapons "in case the USG (US government) decides to seek a regime change," the cable read. Lee also said he believed that Japan may "go nuclear" in response to North Korea's actions. Lee told Steinberg that China would prefer a nuclear-armed North Korea than a North Korea that has collapsed because it sees the country as a buffer state. "If China has to choose, Beijing sees a North Korea with nuclear weapons as less bad for China than a North Korea that has collapsed," Lee said, according to the account. If North Korea failed, South Korea "would take over in the North and China would face a US presence at its border," the cable said of Lee's views. -AFP
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| China says urgent to restart Korea talks Posted: 30 Nov 2010 01:12 AM PST BEIJING (Reuters) - It is extremely urgent and important to encourage dialogue on the situation on the Korean peninsula, China said on Tuesday, after calling over the weekend for emergency talks. 
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| Posted: 30 Nov 2010 01:04 AM PST Is election that messy at all? Rivalry, criticisms, factional infighting and menus are most definitely inevitable in any true election.
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| Crisis in Selangor DAP inevitable if differences not resolved Posted: 30 Nov 2010 01:03 AM PST The rise of the third force and rainbow effect are the aftermaths of the PKR national party elections and the Selangor DAP elections over the weekend. The two component parties of the Pakatan Rakyat should rightly emerge stronger after the party elections, but the contrary seems to be true.
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| Trainee policeman kills six US troops in Afghanistan Posted: 30 Nov 2010 12:48 AM PST ASADABAD, Tuesday 30 November 2010 (AFP) - Six American soldiers training Afghan police in a Taliban flashpoint were shot dead by one of their students in the deadliest such incident in at least two years, officials said Tuesday.
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| Malaysia announces new investments, energy incentives Posted: 30 Nov 2010 12:36 AM PST KUALA LUMPUR, November 30, 2010 (AFP) - Malaysian premier Najib Razak Tuesday announced 8.2 billion ringgit (2.59 billion dollars) worth of investments in the country and incentives to open up marginal oil and gas fields.
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| US hails historic Taiwan-China trade pact Posted: 30 Nov 2010 12:06 AM PST TAIPEI, Tuesday 30 November 2010 (AFP) - The United States on Tuesday said a sweeping trade agreement signed by Taiwan and China earlier this year would help bring peace and stability to the region.
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| Somali pirates seize Malaysian vessel Posted: 30 Nov 2010 12:05 AM PST Somali pirates have hijacked a Malaysian-flagged boxship with a crew of 23 west of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean, a regional maritime watchdog said Tuesday.
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| North Korea makes song and dance about "Juche" self-reliance Posted: 30 Nov 2010 12:36 AM PST SEOUL (Reuters) - Impoverished North Korea has long prided itself on its self-reliance, the principle of "Juche", but not many people know that the country's leader, Kim Jong-il, applied the same principles to... dancing. 
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| Air pollution engulfs China's Shanghai after expo Posted: 30 Nov 2010 12:01 AM PST SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A month after China's commercial hub of Shanghai finished its World Expo, with a theme of "better city, better life", the city is setting records for air pollution that some warn could scare off investors. 
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| Life far from soothing for South Korea islanders at refuge spa Posted: 30 Nov 2010 12:01 AM PST INCHEON, South Korea (Reuters) - Residents of a South Korean island shelled by North Korea last week have taken refuge at a mammoth spa, but life is anything but relaxing and the future looks bleak with no guarantee they will ever go home. 
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| Napoleonic soldiers laid to rest after 200 years Posted: 30 Nov 2010 12:04 AM PST VILNIUS, Lithuania, Nov 30 — The remains of 18 soldiers from Napoleon Bonaparte's Grande Armee were reburied in Lithuania yesterday, almost 200 years after the siege of Moscow failed and the men were forced to flee westwards in the freezing cold. A small group of French and Lithuanian officials, diplomats and soldiers attended the reburial of the ...
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| Electrician stuns art world with trove of Picassos Posted: 29 Nov 2010 11:19 PM PST PARIS, Nov 30 — Pablo Picasso was both hugely prolific and famously generous with his work, but was he enough of a free spirit to give hundreds of his early works — an invaluable collection — to his electrician? That question lies at the heart of a court case over the origin of 271 Picasso works — a treasure trove of original sketches, paintings ...
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| Asean Exchange Linkage: Bursa, SGX, SET to go live next year Posted: 29 Nov 2010 11:50 PM PST Bursa Malaysia, Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX) and the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) are set to go live on the Asean Exchange Linkage by the second half of 2011.
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| Euro slumps to fresh two-month lows in Asia Posted: 29 Nov 2010 11:30 PM PST TOKYO, Tuesday 30 November 2010 (AFP) - The euro slipped to two-month lows in Asian trade Tuesday a day after falling sharply as Ireland's massive bailout plan failed to allay fears for other European economies.
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| S.Korean marine vets vow to defend border island, feed dogs Posted: 29 Nov 2010 11:29 PM PST YEONPYEONG ISLAND, Tuesday 30 November 2010 (AFP) - Almost 100 South Korean marine veterans landed Tuesday on the island attacked by North Korea a week ago, vowing to defend it, ferret out spies -- and feed abandoned dogs.
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| ASEAN chief warns 2015 single market goal in peril Posted: 29 Nov 2010 11:22 PM PST ASEAN chief Surin Pitsuwan Tuesday urged member states to step up intra-regional trade, saying it was "difficult" otherwise to see the bloc reaching its goal of economic integration by 2015.
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| Disney icon Mickey Mouse becomes videogame hero Posted: 29 Nov 2010 11:10 PM PST SAN FRANCISCO, Tuesday 30 November 2010 (AFP) - Mickey Mouse makes his US debut as a videogame hero Tuesday in "Wasteland," featuring an alternate world that includes Walt Disney Company's long forgotten characters and attractions.
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| One mystery punter wins record Philippine lottery Posted: 29 Nov 2010 11:09 PM PST MANILA, Tuesday 30 November 2010 (AFP) - A mystery punter in the impoverished Philippines has become an instant multi-millionaire after winning the country's biggest-ever lottery jackpot, organisers said Tuesday.
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