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Thai court allows activist to self defend against continued detention
The Ratchada Criminal Court in capital Bangkok will allow Sombat Boonngamanong, president of the Mirror Foundation, to defend himself on Friday against his continued detention, the Bangkok Post's website reported.
His lawyer Anon Nampa on Thursday requested the Court to allow his client, now in custody at the Border Patrol Police 1st Region Command Office in the central Pathumthani province, to speak before the court against the authorities request for an extension of his detention.
Italy to help fix Cambodian ancient artifacts
Italian ambassador told the Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Sok An Thursday that Italy is to build a laboratory center in Siem Reap province and send professors to train Cambodian students to fix broken artifacts.
Ambassador Michelangelo Pipan told Sok An that Italy has been pleased with helping the Kingdom to restore the Pre Rup Temple over the last four years.
Australian PM joins tax talks in Canberra
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Thursday returned to talks with the mining industry over the federal government's proposed resources super profits tax.
Gillard has been in Queensland for the funeral of Private Ben Chuck, one of the three Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan last week.
She flew back to Canberra on Thursday night to join her senior cabinet colleagues, who were locked in negotiations with the miners, Australian Associated Press reported.
Strict restrictions paralyze life in India-controlled Kashmir for third day
Curfew- like restrictions in Muslim dominated areas of India-controlled Kashmir Thursday paralyzed life for third straight day, officials and locals said.
The restrictions have been imposed by authorities in a bid to impede violent protests in the region.
5 injured in rocket attacks in Pakistan's Quetta city
At least five people were injured in three rocket attacks by unknown gunmen in Pakistan's Quetta city Thursday afternoon, reported local media The News.
According to the report, the rocket attacks took place at about 4 p.m. in three different places of Quetta, the capital city of Balochistan province in southwest Pakistan.
Lawyers of Thaksin campaigning to draw international attention
Lawyers of ousted former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra are separately campaigning to draw international attention to the suppression of the "red-shirts " protest by the Thai government, the Bangkok Post's website reported Wednesday.
20 militants killed, 17 injured in NW Pakistan
At least 20 suspected militants were killed and 17 others injured Wednesday in security forces action in northwest Pakistan's upper Orakzai tribal area, local media reported.
The action backed by air strike and carried out in various areas of the tribal region also destroyed six hideouts of the militants.
Pakistani forces stepped up military operation in March in Orakzai, the only tribal area that doesn't border Afghanistan but was adjacent to important settled districts like Hangu in northwestern Pakistan.
Sri Lanka, UN in confrontation on human rights panel
With UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon's appointment of an experts panel to advise him on alleged human rights abuses during the final battles between Sri Lanka's government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels in 2009, the island country is at loggerheads with the UN.
Rejecting the allegations, the government said the appointment of an experts panel without Sri Lanka's consent is a violation of sovereignty and also prejudicial to Sri Lanka's own investigation by a committee appointed by President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
Grenade attack kills 4 factory workers in SW Pakistan
At least four factory workers were killed when unidentified men threw hand grenade at their vehicle in Pakistan's southern Balochistan province on Wednesday, an ambulance service said.
The employees of a cement factory were heading to Karachi after finishing work when they came under hand grenade attack at the town of Hub, injuring several persons, witnesses and police said.
An ambulance service "Edhi Foundation" said that four people were killed in the attack.
Japan helps Vietnam cope with natural disasters
Japan agreed here on Wednesday to provide Vietnam with a program worth 22 million U.S. dollars to improve the country's capacity in coping with natural disaster caused by climate change.
Exchange of notes for this agreement was signed here on Wednesday by Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Mitsuo Sakaba and Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment Pham Khoi Nguyen.
The program is part of Japan's non-refundable aid for Vietnam in helping the country deal with natural disaster by collecting accurate and timely meteorological information.