KABUL - ELECTION organisers on Monday declared Mr Hamid Karzai Afghan president for a second term, cancelling a one-man presidential run-off following a diplomatic push led by UN chief Ban Ki Moon.
'We declare that Mr Hamid Karzai, who won the majority of votes in the first round, and is the only candidate in the second round, is the elected president of Afghanistan,' Indepedent Election Commission chairman Azizullah Ludin said.
JAKARTA - INDONESIANS protested online and in the streets on Monday against the arrest of two anti-graft officials and perceived moves to muzzle the country's once-powerful corruption watchdog.
Less than a week after it was launched, more than 400,000 people had joined a page on social networking site Facebook which aims to create a million-strong 'movement' in support of the detained officials.
WAITING time for Housing Board's highly popular rental flats has almost been halved from 21 months to 13 months after rules were tightened to weed out less needy cases.
The number of applications for the heavily-subsidised flats fell from 4,550 in February to 3,465 in September, HDB revealed in its annual report highlights on Monday.
