PHNOM PENH - THE international prosecutor at Cambodia's Khmer Rouge war crimes court denied on Wednesday that his sudden resignation from the tribunal was due to a dispute with his local counterpart.
PHNOM PENH - CAMBODIA and the World Health Organisation on Wednesday confirmed the country's first case of H1N1 flu after an American girl visiting on a school trip tested positive for the virus.
JAKARTA - INDONESIA'S health minister confirmed on Wednesday the country's first cases of the H1N1 flu virus after an Indonesian pilot in Jakarta and a British woman in the resort island of Bali tested positive for the virus.
The 22-year-old British woman had been living in Australia, while the pilot, 37, had travelled to Australia and Hong Kong, Health Minister Siti Fadillah Supari said.
JAKARTA - TORTURE is rampant in Indonesian police custody and the government's reform efforts have failed to stop the abuse, Amnesty International said on Wednesday in a new report.
The human rights organisation demanded the Indonesian government acknowledge the problem and end the culture of impunity that allows police to act above the law in the world's most populous Muslim-majority country.