YANGON - OFFICIAL media in military-ruled Myanmar told citizens on Friday they would be irresponsible if they did not vote in a November election, a poll seen as a sham by many, especially with the main opposition party not running.
This was the first time that state newspapers, seen as a mouthpiece of the army regime, have broached the subject of a boycott.
MANILA - AN ENTIRE Philippine island lost electrical power on Friday after a snake reportedly climbed onto a power transmission line, causing it to short out.
The snake slithered on a transmission line on Bohol island, a popular tourist site, before dawn, resulting in the electrocution of the reptile and the breakdown of a power transformer, ABS-CBN television reported in its website.
KUALA LUMPUR - MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Najib Razak on Friday warned that a threatened burning of the Quran in Florida would enrage Muslims around the world and have 'very costly' consequences.
Pastor Terry Jones, leader of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, had said the event planned for the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks would be cancelled, but then renewed his threats to set fire to Islam's holy book.
BATU PAHAT (Malaysia) - VISITING elderly relatives on the first day of Hari Raya Aidilfitri has become a tradition among many Muslim families in the country.
Robani Syukor, 70, often brings his children and grandchildren to see their uncle Surif Tamjis, 82, the oldest living relative in the family.
