KUALA LUMPUR - MALAYSIA'S Islamic opposition has won a special election seen as a test of support among the ethnic Malay majority.

The Election Commission says the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party defeated Prime Minister Najib Razak's ruling party with a razor-thin majority of 65 votes to retain the legislature seat in northern Kelantan state.

BANGKOK- A THAI court on Tuesday issued arrest warrants for an army officer and a policeman as suspects in an assassination attempt on a leading political activist, a court official said.

The pair, both of junior rank, will face police questioning over alleged involvement in the attack on Sondhi Limthongkul, founder of the 'Yellow Shirts' protest movement, on April 17.

YANGON (Myanmar) - AN 87-YEAR-OLD member of Myanmar's pro-democracy party has been sentenced by the military regime to a two-year prison term for alleged defamation, a party member said Tuesday.

Kyaw Khaing - a member of the National League for Democracy headed by Aung San Suu Kyi, who faces a five-year prison term herself if found guilty in an ongoing trial - was sentenced Monday by a court in Tauggok in northwestern Rakhine State, said Thein Hlaing, a senior party member there.