JAKARTA - INDONESIA'S parliament on Tuesday passed a controversial film law that requires more than half of movies shown in cinemas to be locally-produced and imposes restrictions on their content.

YANGON- THE party of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Tuesday it was hopeful that she would be unconditionally released after a court agreed to hear an appeal against her recent conviction.

MANILA - THE last missing passenger from a ferry that sank in southern Philippine waters with nearly 1,000 people on board has been found, disaster response officials said on Tuesday.

The survivor, a woman suffering serious injuries, was picked up by a passing fishing vessel shortly after the Superferry 9 sank on Sunday, the Office of Civil Defence in Manila said.