February 27, 2009 Friday
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HUA HIN (Thailand) - THE Association of South-east Asian Nations said on Friday it will send hundreds of Rohingya boat people back to military-ruled Myanmar, which rights groups fear gives them little in the way of protection.

Meeting at its annual summit, the 10-member bloc agreed to compile and pool information and interviews on the Rohingyas, who washed up on the shores of Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia having fled oppression in Myanmar.

 
M'sia economy grew only 0.1%

KUALA LUMPUR - MALAYSIA'S trade-driven economy grew a dismal 0.1 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2008 from a year earlier, bringing full-year growth to 4.6 per cent, the government said on Friday.

Asean inks FTA with Aus, NZ

HUA HIN (Thailand) - SOUTH-EAST Asian ministers signed a major free trade deal with Australia and New Zealand on Friday as they opened a regional summit focused on the global economic meltdown.

21 protest leaders summoned

BANGKOK - THAI police on Friday summoned 21 leaders of a royalist protest group to hear charges related to their disruptive six-month campaign last year to topple the previous government.

   
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