MANILA - A STATE of emergency declared in a southern Philippine province during a hostage crisis will continue indefinitely to support a new offensive to finish off al-Qaeda-linked militants, a senior official said on Monday.
JAKARTA - THE first of the Jakarta hotel bombings' seven victims was buried on Monday - just days after he again became a father.
The wife of 38-year-old Evert Mocodompis could not attend his funeral because she gave birth to their second child the day before he was killed, local media reported.
PHUKET - SOUTHEAST Asian foreign ministers will on Monday express 'grave concern' over North Korea's nuclear tests and vow to help Indonesia probe last week's Jakarta bombings, officials said.
KUALA LUMPUR - A MALAYSIAN prince sued his runaway Indonesian teen wife and mother-in-law on Monday for claiming he had raped and tortured the teen during their yearlong marriage, his lawyer said.
Tengku Temenggong Tengku Mohammad Fakhry, a prince in northern Kelantan state, filed a defamation suit in the High Court seeking 105 million ringgit (S$43.2 million) in damages from Manohara Odelia Pinot and her mother, said lawyer Mohamad Haaziq Pillay.
