KUALA LUMPUR - HEALTH officials have confirmed Malaysia's third case of swine flu after a 23-year-old man who returned from a holiday in the United States tested positive for the virus.
TANGERANG (Indonesia) - AN INDONESIAN mother-of-two who sent an email to friends complaining about her treatment at a local hospital was charged with defamation on Thursday and faces six years' jail.
KUALA LUMPUR - MALAYSIA'S Islamic opposition ruled out a rapprochement on Thursday with the main party in the governing coalition, silencing those who want to heal political divisions among the country's Malay Muslim majority.
KUPANG (Indonesia) - INDONESIA has detained 59 Afghan and Pakistani migrants on eastern Sumba island and arrested four alleged people-smugglers trying to send them to Australia, police said on Thursday.
The migrants were travelling from neighbouring Sumbawa island's coastal town of Bima to Australia on Wednesday, East Sumba police chief Petra Putra said.
