MANILA - THE Asian Development Bank said on Wednesday it would invest US$140 million (S$213 million) in an Indonesian government-backed fund to support vital infrastructure projects in that country.
BANGKOK- THAILAND'S government said on Wednesday that it was open to talks with ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to end a fresh surge in political unrest that threatens to undo efforts to revive a slumping economy.
Thousands of Thaksin protesters have surrounded the seat of government in Bangkok for the past week in a bid to force out Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, the latest escalation in Thailand's three-year-old political crisis.
JAKARTA- A STRONG 6.1-magnitude earthquake shook Indonesia's Sumatran province of Bengkulu on Wednesday, the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency said.
The quake hit at 13.29 pm (2.29pm Singapore time) and was centred 227 kilometres southwest of Bintuhan in Sumatra island, at a depth of 30 km under the sea.
