BANGKOK - THAILAND'S prime minister told his countrymen on Sunday that they can expect the nation's economy to contract further in the first quarter of this year and return to positive growth only toward the end of the year.
PANDI (Philippines) - PHILIPPINE health and agriculture officials arrived at a farm in this town near Manila on Sunday to begin slaughtering around 6,000 pigs to prevent the spread of the Ebola-Reston virus.
BANDA ACEH (Indonesia) - A EUROPEAN Union delegation visiting Aceh said on Sunday the EU was ready to send electoral observers to the Indonesian province's poll next month.
JAKARTA - INDONESIAN Vice President Jusuf Kalla on Sunday said Islamic banking had escaped the global economic crisis relatively unscathed as he took a swipe at the Western financial system.
