KUALA LUMPUR - MALAYSIAN archeologists have unearthed prehistoric stone axes that they said on Friday were the world's oldest at about 1.8 million years old.
JAKARTA- THE retail Islamic bonds offered by the Indonesian government for the first time were on sale on Friday in Indonesia, the world's biggest Muslim country.
SABANG (Indonesia) - INDONESIA said on Friday it will repatriate 174 'economic migrants' who fled Myanmar claiming persecution, as new accounts emerged of their harrowing sea journey and alleged abuse by the Thai navy.
BANGKOK - MORE than 5,000 police are to be deployed in the Thai capital on Saturday as supporters of ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra hold a massive anti-government protest, police said on Friday.