The secretive leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-il, is dead at the age of 69. A tearful announcer dressed in black appeared on North Korean state television Monday morning and announced Kim Jong Il’s death. She says Kim passed away on Saturday, from what she described as a “great mental and physical strain.”
Manila – The death toll rose to more than 500 as rescuers Sunday plucked bodies from the sea after floods devastated two southern Philippine cities and nearby areas, civil defence and Red Cross officials said. Soldiers, coast guard teams, local rescuers and volunteers scoured the waters off the southern cities of Cagayan de Oro and […]
A boat carrying more than 250 people, most of them from the Middle East and South Asia, has sunk off the coast of Indonesia’s main island of Java and more than 200 passengers are still missing. So far only 33 people have been rescued. Authorities say bad weather is hampering rescue efforts. Indonesian police blamed […]
Police are raiding illegal distilleries in eastern India, where the number of people who have died after drinking toxic home-brewed liquor has reached 170. At least 90 others in the Sangrampur area of West Bengal state remain critically ill. Local officials say 12 people have been arrested so far for allegedly making and distributing the […]
Villagers in the Chinese town of Wukan are now in open revolt as, in the fourth month of their land dispute with the government, they expelled all Communist Party officials. Last Sunday they also repelled an attempt by around a thousand police to retake the town using tear gas and water cannons. Negotiations were previously […]
CHIANG RAI: Three Burmese soldiers were killed during a clash with an armed group of criminals on the Mekong River during an international joint river patrol, according to security sources. The sources said a joint patrol force of Burmese and Lao soldiers clashed with a group of criminals believed to be led by Nor Kham, […]
Chinese unit joins multinational force to safeguard cargo shipping XISHUANGBANNA, Yunnan – The Chinese detachment of a four-nation armed Mekong River patrol was deployed on Friday as China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand established the law enforcement command center for the units in the port of Guanlei, in Yunnan province. The joint patrols have been established […]
The West Jakarta District Court has convicted six of a string of bombings, and responsibility for bomb alerts, a year ago on Java and sent them to prison. It is believed the group wished to begin a holy war. Prosecutors wanted eight years for 29-year-old ringleader Roki Aprisdianto but the court gave him a six-year […]
