Southeast Asia News

The Chinese People's Liberation Army garrison troops in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region have conducted their annual rotation.

Like scores of journalists, I attentively listened as Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong delivering his closing remarks, and for the last time answering journalists' questions.

The prison chief being tried for running a Khmer Rouge torture center apologized but said he was only following orders and couldn't stop the abuse and the thousands of killings there, as prosecutors sought a 40-year prison sentence.

Detained Thai national Sivarak Chutipong would have a chance to see his mother on Friday, first ever after two-week detention for a charge of spying, the Thai Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.

INDONESIA'S chief of detectives, whose role in a corruption scandal sparked a public outcry, has been moved aside to a 'non-job', a police spokesman said on Tuesday.

Indonesia's Vice-President Boediono denied Wednesday any wrongdoing in a contentious 704-million-US-dollar bank bailout at the centre of the country's latest corruption scandal.

Police officers carry the body of a massacre victim which they recovered along a mass grave at a hillside in Datu Ampatuan, Maguindanao province, southern Philippines, on Tuesday, Nov.

WORTHY TRIP: A group of 16 blind hikers from Japan, South Korea and Taiwan celebrate after they felt their way to the peak of Jade Mountain in Central Taiwan.

A man in Taiwan was robbed of more than $2 million in cash that he had just withdrawn from the bank, a police official said on Tuesday.

Cambodia yesterday lashed out at the Thai government over an allegation of taking control of the Thai-owned air-traffic-control company.

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS In this CD cover image released by Columbia Records, Bob Dylan's "Christmas in the Heart," is shown.

INDONESIAN anti-graft activists called for protests on Tuesday over what they see as the president's ham-fisted efforts to whitewash a major corruption scandal involving top police and prosecutors.

AFP, Tanjung Balai The captain of an Indonesian ferry which sank killing 29 people rejected claims of overcrowding Monday and blamed a freak storm for the disaster, as officials launched an investigation.

A judge reserved ruling Monday on whether a former Philippine National Police officer who served prison time for receiving classified U.S. government documents will be extradited to face murder charges back home.

Gunmen ambushed a caravan of political supporters and journalists on their way to file election papers Monday, killing at least 21 people in a massacre considered shocking even for a region notorious for violence between rival clans.

"Dozens of reports are released from around the world every year to tell the story of Taiwan's fishing fleets out of control," she said.

Philippine troops have killed a senior commander of al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf militants wanted for kidnappings and bombings, the military says.

TAIPEI: About 60 percent of Taiwan's youth have considered suicide while more than 30 percent lack direction in life, because of a lack of public role models and weakened family support, a magazine survey found this week.

But civil lawyers representing victims argued Monday that Duch had failed to acknowledge the full extent of his guilt.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's daughter plans to hold shares in Cambodia Traffic Air Services after the Cambodian government has temporarily taken over management of the firm, a Thai senior official confirmed Saturday.