LONDON - THAILAND'S former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra urged the country's revered king to step in and heal divisions amid a wave of political unrest, in an interview published on Friday.
KUALA LUMPUR - MALAYSIA'S ethnic Chinese minority on Friday urged the government to introduce more business-friendly policies to help spur economic growth amid fears of a recession.
MANILA - SEVENTEEN Filipino seamen held hostage by Somali pirates have been freed, leaving 105 Philippines nationals still in the hands of pirates, the government said here on Friday.
BANGKOK - THAILAND'S government on Friday agreed to extend emergency rule for another three months over its Muslim-majority south, where more than 3,600 people have been killed in five years of unrest.
