INDONESIA has tightened security at an island prison where the three Bali bombers are being held ahead of their immiment execution, fearing a reprisal attack, a senior official said today
FIVE people were killed and tens of thousands moved to safety as tropical storm Fung-wong lashed eastern and southern China, state media reported today
US presidential hopeful Barack Obama has sent a letter to the Dalai Lama backing the rights of the "people of Tibet", a spokesman for the exiled Buddhist spiritual leader said
THE wife of Thailand`s deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was convicted today of tax evasion in the first ruling against his family since the 2006 coup that toppled him from power