KUALA LUMPUR - MALAYSIAN opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has lost a final bid to have his sodomy trial held in a lower court, ending a long wrangle over where the case should be heard, his lawyer said on Thursday.

The Court of Appeal rejected the application and affirmed an earlier decision that the politically charged case should be heard in the High Court. The trial is due to start July 8.

PHNOM PENH - A FORMER child survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime's main torture centre sobbed on Thursday as he told Cambodia's war crimes court of his harrowing separation from his mother at the jail.

MARAN - ORIENTATION ceremony for 1,000 new students of Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) Jengka on Tuesday descended into chaos when dozens of female students got hysterical, the New Straits Times reported on Thursday.