WASHINGTON - US CONSUMER spending rose slightly more than expected in June, a government report showed on Tuesday, likely pushed up by higher gasoline prices, and incomes saw their biggest drop in four-and-a-half years.
The Commerce Department said spending rose 0.4 percent, boosted by expenditures on nondurable goods, after a revised 0.1 percent increase in May, which was previously reported as a 0.3 per cent rise.
BANGKOK - A PILOT was killed and seven passengers hospitalised on Tuesday when a Bangkok Airways jet skidded and hit an old control tower as it landed on Thailand's resort island of Ko Samui, the airline said.
Thailand's public health ministry said 42 people were injured in the crash.
Among the injured, Bangkok Airways' president said four passengers - one Italian, two British and one Swiss - were hurt seriously.
BEIJING - THREE children of exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer appeared on Chinese TV to denounce her on Tuesday, but it was not possible to confirm if they were speaking of their own free will, with one shown in jail.
'The road my mother has chosen leads to a bottomless hole,' said one of her sons, 33-year-old Alim, shown speaking on state television from prison where he is serving a sentence for tax evasion.
KUANTAN- MALAYSIA Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak has launched the country's first Special Economic Zone that aims to bring in RM90 billion (S$36.9 billion) worth of investments and create 220,000 jobs by 2020.
The SEZ, covering an area measuring 25km by 140km from Kertih in Terengganu to Gambang and Pekan in Pahang, would attract more investments to the East Coast Economic Region (ECER), he said on Tuesday.
