BANGKOK - THAILAND'S foreign minister is among dozens of 'Yellow Shirt' protest leaders who will face charges relating to a crippling airport blockade in Bangkok last year, police said.

Police issued summonses to 36 leading members of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), including foreign minister Kasit Piromya, a former member of the group, Police Lieutenant General Wuthi Puavej said late on Saturday.

KUALA LUMPUR - MALAYSIAN authorities have confiscated 900 boxes of coffee laced with Viagra, a newspaper report said on Sunday.

Health Ministry officials raided a company in Kuala Lumpur that marketed the coffee as an energy booster, The New Straits Times said. The report did not say whether the package labelled Viagra as an ingredient.

HANOI - HEAVY rains triggering floods and landslides in mountainous northern regions of Vietnam have killed at least eight people, destroyed houses and damaged roads, the government said on Sunday.

Landslides killed six people in Bac Kan province as of late on Saturday, and cut off roads, telecommunications and power supply to a district after heavy rains fell on Friday night, the government said in a disaster report.