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Nato to boost Afghan measures
BRUSSELS: Nato military commanders will beef up security measures to prevent insurgents from infiltrating the Afghan army after French troops were killed by a renegade soldier, the alliance chief said. “We have already taken a lot of steps,” Nato Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told a news conference. “But in light of recent events we agreed to strengthen those efforts.” “There is a realisation about the need to better...
 
 
Abu Sayyaf commanders killed
MANILA: Three top commanders of the Al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf and the Indonesia-based Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) militant groups were among the 15 people slain in a pre-dawn air strike on the island province of Sulu in volatile Mindanao, a top military official reported on Thursday. In a press briefing, Colonel Arnulfo Burgos, the spokesman of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, identified the three commanders as Zulkriffli bin Hir...
   
Yeoh says ‘lifetime opportunity’ to play Suu Kyi
HONG KONG: Actor Michelle Yeoh said on Friday playing the role of Aung San Suu Kyi in the The Lady directed by French filmmaker Luc Besson was an opportunity of a lifetime, as the film about the Myanmar democracy leader made its debut in Hong Kong. But the Hong Kong-based, Malaysian-born star refused to be drawn on the film’s likely reception in Myanmar. “When I first heard that someone wants to make a movie about Aung San Suu...
 
 
N.Korea open to Seoul talks on terms: Official
PYONGYANG: North Korea is open to immediate talks with rival South Korea if Seoul responds to several preconditions for dialogue, a North Korean military official said on Thursday. But Ri Son Gwon, a colonel working for the Policy Department of the North’s powerful National Defence Commission, also challenged South Korea to “state to the world whether it honestly intends to enter into dialogue with us.” Meanwhile, the quarterly...
   
Khmer Rouge jailer’s sentence increased to life
PHNOM PENH: A Khmer Rouge jailer who oversaw the deaths of some 15,000 people had his sentence increased to life on Friday, bringing down the curtain on a landmark first case at Cambodia’s UN-backed war crimes court. Survivors of the regime’s reign of terror hailed the decision by appeals judges to raise the original jail term of 30 years handed in 2010 to Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, for war crimes and crimes against...
 
 
Rising cases of Mindanao malnutrition alarms UN
MANILA: A UN official expressed grave concern over the rising malnutrition cases involving especially children affected by tropical storm “Washi” that ravaged volatile Mindanao in December. Dr. Abdul Alim, the country representative of the UN Children’s Fund (Unesco), pointed out that while malnourished children have emerged as a major problem in Mindanao, the arrival of Washi (local name Sendong) has worsened the situation....
   
Philippines battles rebels after air strike
MANILA: Philippine troops battled extremists on a remote southern island on Friday where a day earlier three of Southeast Asia’s top terror suspects were killed in a US-backed air strike, the army said. Soldiers who approached the bombed area on the outskirts of a small village on Jolo island after the raid faced dogged resistance from surviving militants, regional military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Randolph Cabangbang said....
 
 
Philippine court suspends cabinet official over graft
MANILA: A special Philippine court on Friday ordered a 90-day preventive suspension for graft of a cabinet member of President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino. Secretary Nereus Acosta, Aquino’s adviser on environmental protection, told ANC News that he would obey the suspension order issued by the Sandiganbayan anti-graft court. Acosta also heads a government agency mandated by law to protect and prevent the speedy deterioriation...
   
Man dies playing video games in Taiwan
TAIPEI: A Taiwanese man died while playing video games at an Internet cafe as dozens of other patrons carried on for hours afterwards apparently unaware that they were sitting near a corpse, according to police. The 23-year-old checked in at the cafe in New Taipei city on Tuesday night and was found dead but still sitting rigidly on a chair with his hands stretched out the following night by a waitress, police said. The waitress...
 
 
 
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