LOS ANGELES - THE Los Angeles Zoo will not get a trio of rare golden monkeys from China as promised, after the city spent more than US$7 million (S$10.2 million) to build them a new home and hired a feng shui expert to see that it was suitable.

COLOMBO - JAPAN on Thursday urged Sri Lanka to develop closer ties with the international community as Colombo tries to rebuild the war-battered north of the island after decades of bloody ethnic conflict.

LONDON - AID agencies in Pakistan face having to stop work due to a funding shortfall, threatening support for the huge numbers displaced by conflict in the northwest of the country, Oxfam said on Thursday.