BANGKOK - THAI officials on Friday filed a criminal complaint against protesters and requested US$530,000 (S$784,119) in compensation for damage done to government offices during a three-and-a-half month siege.
KUALA LUMPUR - SOME 3,000 Malaysians protested on Friday against Israel's invasion of Gaza, burning Israeli flags and effigies of President George W. Bush.
The mainly Muslim protesters, waving Palestinian flags and chanting anti-Israel slogans, marched to the US Embassy in downtown Kuala Lumpur from a nearby mosque after Friday prayers.
ASEAN tourism ministers have agreed to promote travel within the region as part of efforts to boost tourism arrivals which have been dwindling due to the global financial turmoil.
And the youth market, in particular, is one segment that they will be working on, the ministers of the 10-member grouping announced at a joint press conference in Hanoi on Friday afternoon.
PHNOM PENH - CAMBODIAN Prime Minister Hun Sen may not attend a regional summit in neighbouring Thailand next month, his spokesman said on Friday, after it was rescheduled following months of protests in Bangkok.
Government spokesman Khieu Kanharith said it would be costly and difficult for Hun Sen to attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) meeting, recently moved from the capital to the seaside town of Hua Hin.
