KUALA LUMPUR - MALAYSIAN police on Saturday used watercannons on ethnic Indian demonstrators and arrested 17 protesting the ill-treatment of a detained rights group leader, an opposition politician said.
Lawmaker Gobind Singh Deo said nearly 400 supporters of banned Indian rights group Hindraf had gathered at a police station in the capital when police hit the crowd with chemical-laced water.
HONG KONG - A FAMOUS Hong Kong entertainer who appears in nude photos that were leaked on the Internet lashed out at movie star Edison Chen, who shot the pictures, for failing to protect the women in the images.
It was the first time actress Cecilia Cheung has spoken out since the photos Chen took of her and seven other local stars performing sex acts with him were widely circulated last year, setting off a scandal that shocked the Chinese-speaking community.
HUA HIN (Thailand) - FORMER Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has called off a planned speech in Hong Kong next week, his spokesman said on Saturday, after Thai authorities threatened to arrest him.
'He has decided not to fly to Hong Kong as he had earlier planned,' Thaksin's legal adviser Noppadon Pattama told Reuters.
