A critically-endangered Sumatran elephant has been found dead in Indonesia's Aceh province, an official said Wednesday, the second death from suspected poisoning within a month.
Clarke to drive in Queensland rallyAustralian captain Michael Clarke will swap his cricket whites for a driving suit when he takes part in the International Rally of Queensland this month, organisers announced Wednesday.
Man Utd's Ferguson meets KagawaJapan international Shinji Kagawa revealed Wednesday that he had met Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson, as rumours swirl that the Borussia Dortmund star is eyeing a move to the Premier League.
China, Japan hold maritime talks on islands rowChina and Japan are holding high-level maritime talks expected to focus on a group of uninhabited islands that are at the heart of an ongoing territorial row between the two countries.
Taiwan president fined for Facebook campaigningTaiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou has been fined Tw$500,000 ($17,000) by electoral authorities for urging his Facebook followers on polling day to vote for him, the Central Election Commission has said., the Central Election Commission has said.
Dog, nappy and football found in Aussie crocRangers who shot a saltwater crocodile that was terrorising pets in northern Australia found a dog, a pair of shorts, a football and a nappy in its stomach, according to a local report.
Hackers booby-trap foreign policy group websitesInternet security researchers warned that foreign policy and human rights websites are being booby-trapped by hackers in what appears to be cyber espionage.
China dissident tells US of abuse of familyA dissident at the center of a standoff between Beijing and Washington accused Chinese authorities of a pattern of abuse against his family as he again took his case to US lawmakers.
US says visas ready for Chinese activist and familyThe United States said Tuesday that visas are ready for activist Chen Guangcheng and his family once the Chinese authorities allow him to leave the country for the United States.
China, Japan, US to witness 'ring' solar eclipseAt sunrise in some parts of China and Japan and by sunset in the western United States, a partial solar eclipse is set to slink across a narrow swath of the Earth on May 20 and 21.
NATO invites Pakistan to key summitPakistan welcomed a NATO invitation Tuesday to attend key talks on the future of Afghanistan in Chicago next week but remained non-committal on ending a nearly six-month blockade on supply routes.
Malaysia
- Malaysian free after year-long abduction ordeal
- Asia helps drive Facebook's 1-billion goal
- US shares winning educational reform with Malaysia
- Poaching puts pressure on Malayan tiger: group
- BERSIH 4.0 with a million demonstrators?
- Malaysia police hold five over Dutch boy kidnapping
- Malaysia exports grow 4.4. percent in Q1
- Malaysian families seek British justice for 1948 massacre
- Malaysian massacre victims seek British justice
- Malaysian clerics issue fatwa against demos
- Malaysia seizes hundreds of cobras and turtles
- BBC, Al-Jazeera decry alleged Malaysia censorship
- Abducted Dutch boy freed in Malaysia after ransom paid
- Abducted Dutch boy freed in Malaysia
- Nayati returns home
Singapore
- Singapore shippers welcome EU strike on Somali pirates
- SIA to suspend services to Athens, Abu Dhabi
- Facebook co-founder Saverin to stay in Singapore
- Oil sharply lower in Asia on eurozone worries
- Oil lower in Asian trade on eurozone worries
- Software piracy costs record $63.4 billion in 2011: study
- 'Singapore Girl' can now fly well into her 50s
- Ferrari crash fuels Singapore anti-foreign sentiment
- Asia safe from Europe woes, no China hard landing: Fitch
- Oil slips on Greek worries, Saudi call for lower prices
- Premium Asian carriers hit by severe crosswinds
- P&G shifts top executives to Singapore
- Oil falls on weak Chinese data, OPEC supply rise
- SIA seeks tie-ups in India, China as profits flounder
- Crude down in Asia on US inventory gain
Indonesia
- World Bank agrees $2 bn loan for Indonesia
- Indonesian court charges Australian over drugs
- Indonesian organisers fight for Lady Gaga gig
- Rare elephant found dead in Indonesia: official
- Russian plane crash probe focuses on voice recorder
- World Bank agrees $2bln loan for Indonesia
- Indonesia team finds crashed Sukhoi's black box
- Indonesia team finds crashed Russian jet's black box
- Indonesian police veto Lady Gaga show
- Indonesian police refuse permit for Lady Gaga show
- Indonesian police refuse permit for Lady Gaga concert
- Indonesia opening up to prison swaps: report
- Emergency transmitter found at Indonesia jet crash site
- Russian jet in Indonesia crash was replacement
- N. Korea head of state on 1st tour since power handover
Thailand
- Frozen tiger parts among Thai police wildlife haul
- Roadside bomb injures 17 in southern Thailand
- Thai central bank raises 2012 growth forecast
- Thai PM insists no reform of royal defamation law
- Mekong murder suspect flown to Beijing
- Asia-Pacific set for slower growth: UN
- Laos says building of controversial dam on hold
- New hopes for Myanmar peace talks: experts
- Hundreds gather to mourn Thai lese majeste convict
- Thai lese majeste convict 'died of liver cancer'
- Myanmar bomb suspect sentenced to death: lawyer
- Thai prisoner's death reignites royal slur debate
- Thai 'prisoner of conscience' dies in jail: lawyer
- Thailand requests arrest of Myanmar rebel leader
- Three die in 69-storey plunge from Thai skyscraper
Philippines
- Philippines bans fishing near disputed shoal
- World Bank $275 mn loan to tackle Philippines sewage
- Philippines names 'special envoys' to China
- Malaysian free after year-long abduction ordeal
- Philippines may buy fighters other than US
- US attack submarine docks in Philippines
- Philippines to register undocumented workers
- Marubeni to build $1 bn Philippine rail project
- Philippines, China impose fishing bans in disputed sea
- Eleven killed in Philippine bus plunge
- Philippines works to heal banana split with China
- Philippine workers free to go to Iraqi Kurdistan
- China denies war preparations for South China Sea
- Philippine fruit impounded amid China sea spat
- China denies preparing for war over South China Sea
Vietnam
- Frozen tiger parts among Thai police wildlife haul
- S.Africa seizes 10 rhino horns from Vietnamese home
- US-Vietnamese prisoner's wife appeals for US help
- Vietnamese Company Starts Mobile Phone Service in Mozambique
- Ariane rocket launches two Asian satellites
- Renown German-born Vietnam War photographer dies
- Taiwan treats Vietnamese woman with ageing disorder
- Vietnam media seeks answers on police 'assault'
- Vietnam arrests Christians for 'anti-state activity'
- Vietnam bloggers battle tightening censorship
- Vietnam 'cancer-cure' horn habit threat to world rhinos
- Vietnam dissident has jail appeal rejected
- Vietnam bloggers face May 15 trial: lawyer
- Taiwan sets up airborne unit for Spratlys
- Air Lease buys 8 Boeing 787s for Vietnam Airlines
International, Regional and Malaysia news on MSN News Malaysia.
World stocks and the euro fell and borrowing rates for eurozone countries signalled alarm on Wednesday at new elections in Greece, prolonging agony for the eurozone.
- Baron Cohen pulls camel stunt at Cannes
- High blood pressure affects 1 in 3: WHO
- Moody's to downgrade 21 Spanish banks: report
- Indonesian organisers fight for Lady Gaga gig
- Hackers booby-trap foreign policy group websites
- Ratko Mladic's UN war crimes opens in The Hague
- Bosnia war crimes trial of Mladic opens
- Bosnia war crimes trial of ex-army chief Mladic to open
- Ferdinand out of Euros, reports say
- Ferdinand set for Euro heartbreak: reports
