YANGON - VERDICTS in the trial of Myanmar's democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi may be postponed again because of the continued hospitalisation of the American defendant who swam to her home, a lawyer and hospital sources said on Monday.
A court was scheduled to deliver the verdicts on Tuesday, ending the 64-year-old Nobel laureate's nearly 3-month-long trial on charges that she violated the terms of her house arrest by allowing American John Yettaw to stay at her home for two nights.
JAKARTA - FINGERPRINT analysis has confirmed that a man killed by Indonesian police at the weekend was not fugitive terror suspect Noordin Mohammed Top, a counter-terror police officer said on Monday.
Officials were publicly sticking to their line that only DNA tests would confirm the identity of the body but a source involved in the investigation told AFP Noordin remained at large.
KUALA LUMPUR - MALAYSIA'S Prime Minister Najib Razak on Monday refused to confirm whether a captured Sri Lankan Tamil Tiger rebel leader was detained on Malaysian soil.
The defeated rebels have demanded answers from Malaysia on what they describe as the 'abduction' last week of their new leader, Selvarasa Pathmanathan.
TAIPEI - TAIWAN'S aviation authorities said on Monday that scheduled regular flights between the island and China would begin later than expected as the mainland still had some technical issues to resolve.
Taiwan's Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) said the first of the historic trips would take off on August 31, a few weeks later than planned.
