TOKYO - THAILAND'S prime minister sought to ease Japanese investors' worries on Friday, telling a business seminar that his country's flagging economy was "back on track" and its political system working again after recent turmoil.
JAKARTA - INDONESIA said on Friday that it would consider granting refugee status to hundreds of Muslim migrants from Myanmar and urged other countries to stop abusing them and casting them out to sea.
IPOH - MALAYSIAN police fired tear gas on Friday at supporters of an opposition leader who was forcibly removed from his office when he refused to cede his post as chief minister in a political tussle over which party controls the state's legislature.
The ruling National Front coalition says it wrested control of the Perak state legislature after three opposition lawmakers switched loyalties and became 'friendly independents'. Perak was one of five states in the hands of Mr Anwar Ibrahim's three-party opposition alliance. But National Front lawmaker Zambry Abdul Kadir was sworn in as the new chief minister on Friday.
PHNOM PENH - CAMBODIA and Thailand agreed on Friday to withdraw the remaining troops on their disputed border to avoid a repeat of last year's armed clashes near a 900-year-old Hindu temple.
