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Wednesday, October 17, 2007 |
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IGNORES INTERNATIONAL ACTION
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Myanmar junta vows to ‘march on’ |
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YANGON: Myanmar’s military junta shrugged off Tuesday
international action to punish the regime for its crackdown on
dissent, vowing to “march on” even as Japan cut aid and European
nations widened sanctions.
State media also insisted there were no
political prisoners in the country and criticized a UN Security
Council statement deploring the violence used to quell the biggest
antigovernment protests in nearly two decades.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Regime change could create another Iraq–ASEAN
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SINGAPORE: Pushing through a sudden regime change in Myanmar could
“create another Iraq” and leave the country engulfed in
violence, the head of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean)
warned Monday.
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Taiwan’s Chen says no peace deal with China
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TAIPEI: Taiwan President Chen Shuibian snubbed on Tuesday a peace
overture made by China, saying Taipei would never sign what he
called a “surrender agreement” based on Beijing’s
“one-China” principle.
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Putin arrives in Iran for Caspian Sea summit
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TEHRAN: Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived on Tuesday in Iran
on the first visit by a Kremlin chief since the 1979 Islamic
revolution, defying reports a squad of suicide bombers planned to
kill him.
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Three Australian pupils mistake ‘ecstasy’
for sweets
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SYDNEY: Three Australian schoolchildren aged 10 and 11 were rushed
to hospital after mistaking suspected ecstasy tablets for sweets,
police said Tuesday.
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Possible successors of Hu take center stage
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BEIJING: The two men widely tipped as potential front-runners to
succeed Chinese President Hu Jintao stepped onto the national stage
on Tuesday, but stayed silent on the political intrigue surrounding
them.
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WORLDINBRIEF
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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia plans to “name and shame” sex
offenders including pedophiles by publishing their names on the
Internet and in newspapers, in a bid to curb assaults, a report said
Tuesday....
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