MANILA - A TOP Asian security forum will next week conduct emergency relief manoeuvres in the Philippines, to rehearse its response to disasters such as Cyclone Nargis, officials said on Thursday.

PHNOM PENH - A FORMER Khmer Rouge prison chief on Thursday said regime leader Pol Pot was worse than China's 'Gang of Four' as he admitted further 'cowardly' deeds at Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court.

KUALA LUMPUR - MALAYSIA needs to enact a law to ban forced conversions, a controversial issue in this mainly Muslim country, rather than just relying on rulings from ministers, according to lawyers for a women fighting custody.