JAKARTA - INDONESIA'S president said on Wednesday that if he was elected for a second term his government could improve the investment climate to lift economic growth to 7 per cent, while ensuring that the poor were protected.
MANILA - PHILIPPINE customs officials said on Wednesday they foiled an ivory-smuggling effort from Tanzania, seizing elephant tusks worth about US$2 million (S$4.53 million).
KUALA LUMPUR: Singapore and Malaysia must not allow thorny 'legacy issues' to hamper closer cooperation in other areas such as Johor's Iskandar development, said Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak in an exclusive interview with The Straits Times ahead of his visit to Singapore on Thursday and Friday.
He said he was hopeful of putting Iskandar high on the agenda of the visit even though there were no specific issues to discuss and the visit is to establish a working relationship with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
ANG SNUOL (Cambodia) - CAMBODIA on Wednesday officially unveiled its first textbook about the murderous Khmer Rouge regime, with officials handing out thousands of copies to students and teachers.
More than 1,000 pupils joined their teachers for a ceremony at Hun Sen Ang Snuol High School, a few miles from the UN-backed court set up to try top Khmer Rouge leaders who ruled the country in the late 1970s.
