BANGKOK - THAI Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on Wednesday rejected accusations by Amnesty International that security forces had engaged in 'systematic' torture in the country's insurgency-hit south.
MAJENE (Indonesia) - RELATIVES of some 230 people listed as missing three days after a ferry sank without trace in Indonesia's Makassar Strait angrily demanded the government step up search efforts on Wednesday.
YANGON - MYANMAR police arrested 277 drug traffickers last month, state media reported on Wednesday, as the world's second-largest opium producer sought to show it was cracking down on the narcotics trade.
JAKARTA - A LEADING Indonesian business association warned on Wednesday that about half a million people will lose their jobs in the country this year due to the global financial crisis.
'About half a million people will lose their jobs this year. Especially those in the construction, manufacturing and the plantation sectors,' Indonesian Employers Association chairman Sofjan Wanandi told AFP.
