KUALA LUMPUR - MALAYSIAN police said on Tuesday they had arrested 14 protesters including opposition lawmakers after they launched a hunger strike to protest the government's takeover of a northern state.

Perak has been in crisis since February when the sultan ordered the Pakatan Rakyat alliance, which forms the national opposition, to cede its control of the state after defections disrupted the delicate balance of power.

JAKARTA - DISABLED pedestrians in Indonesia are required to wear signs identifying them as handicapped under new traffic regulations passed unanimously by parliament on Tuesday.

BANGKOK - A VILLAGE chief in southern Thailand was so upset by the corpses of slain women being left in an isolated part of his town and predictions of a shaman that more were to come, that he erected a sign simply reading, 'No Dumping Dead Bodies Here'.