HONG KONG - A UNITED States crackdown on wealthy Americans accused of ferreting their money overseas to avoid paying taxes at home has spread to Hong Kong, a report said on Monday.
Court documents in the United States detail how Swiss banking giant UBS helped clients set up enterprises in the southern Chinese hub to hide money, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
NEW DELHI - INDIAN Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Monday that militants in Pakistan were plotting new attacks in India as he urged security forces to stay on high alert.
'There is credible information of ongoing plans of terrorist groups in Pakistan to carry out fresh attacks,' Mr Singh told a summit on internal security attended by the chief ministers from India's states.
KUALA LUMPUR - A SHARPENING of racial language from Malaysia's largest ruling party may put at risk Prime Minister Najib Razak's efforts to win back support from ethnic minorities and dampen his economic reform plans.
Mr Najib's United Malays National Organisation (Umno), the country's main ruling party, has ramped up language designed to to appeal to majority Malays who make up 55 per cent of the Southeast Asian country's 27 million population.
SYDNEY - A MAJOR inquiry into Australia's wildfire disaster earlier this year has found that warning systems are dangerously flawed, and residents in vulnerable areas need better, faster information to escape quick-moving infernos.
In its interim report, the government-appointed commission into the blazes that killed 173 people also said a policy allowing residents to decide for themselves whether to evacuate their homes needs to be changed to encourage more people to leave early.
