BANGKOK - A GROUP that campaigns for journalists' rights called on Thai police on Thursday to drop complaints against a British Broadcasting Corp. journalist accused of slandering the country's king.
ZAMBOANGA (Philippines) - MUSLIM militants have freed a nursing student whom they held hostage for over two months in the southern Philippines, a government official said on Thursday.
LAM TUTUI (Indonesia) - WHEN the deadly waters of the Asian tsunami smashed into this fishing village in Indonesia's Aceh province four years ago, not one house was left standing. Now there are too many of them.
Recovery has been uneven in the dozen countries hit by the 2004 Indian Ocean disaster, which killed more than 220,000 people. While some communities have rebounded and flourished on a multibillion dollar outpouring of aid, others have languished.
KUALA LUMPUR - THE father of a slain Mongolian woman has asked a Malaysian court to question the attorney general for failing to appeal against the acquittal of a prime suspect who has top government connections, a lawyer said on Thursday.
Mr Abdul Razak Baginda, a close friend of Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak, was acquitted in October of abetting the slaying of Altantuya Shaariibuu, a Mongolian interpreter who was shot in 2006.
