KUALA LUMPUR - MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Najib Razak announced several populist measures on Saturday to mark his first 100 days in office, and promised equal opportunities for all under his '1Malaysia' policy.

The measures, aimed at 'the man on the street", follow a series of announcements made since his appointment in April to attract foreign investment and to help avert the country's first economic contraction in a decade.

HANOI - VIETNAMESE doctors who reveal the sex of a foetus to parents could lose their licences, state media reported on Saturday.

The proposal by the Ministry of Health is designed to address an imbalance in the number of boys to girls, said Duong Quoc Trong, deputy head of the General Department of Population and Family Planning. He was quoted by Vietnam News.

KUPANG (Indonesia) - INDONESIA has found 15 of the 74 Afghan migrants who went missing in treacherous waters en route to Australia, police said on Saturday.

The asylum seekers, who have been missing since Wednesday, are being held by police on Sumbawa island, Bima city police chief Tjatur Abrianto said.