PEKANBARU (Indonesia) - FOUR rare Sumatran elephants were found dead in northwestern Indonesia near an oil palm plantation and are believed to have been poisoned by villagers, a conservationist said on Thursday.
PHNOM PENH - A KHMER Rouge leader's defence lawyer at Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes trial said Thursday that confidential documents on an official's Leninist beliefs appeared to have been stolen from his office.
Michiel Pestman, the Dutch defence lawyer for the former regime's ideologue Nuon Chea, said he became aware of the 'security incident' Wednesday when he found four confidential papers from his office floating in a pond at the court.
BANGKOK - THAILAND'S health authority Thursday confirmed the first human-to-human case of swine flu inside the kingdom, bringing the total number of infections in Thailand to eight.
A 19-year-old man from northern Thailand had contracted the A(H1N1) virus from one of his parents, both of whom had been infected during a recent trip to the United States, Public Health Minister Witthaya Keawparadai said.
