PATHEIN, Myanmar: Myanmar’s junta held a referendum on a new
constitution Saturday, despite warnings more people would die unless
it focused on delivering emergency aid for survivors of last
week’s cyclone.
In surreal scenes, voting booths were erected
close to makeshift camps for the homeless, and the country’s
military regime continued to hold up tons of urgent relief supplies
at the airport.
WASHINGTON: George McGovern, the Democrats’ defeated presidential
candidate in 1972, called Wednesday on Hillary Clinton to bow out of
this year’s race and threw his support behind frontrunner Barack
Obama.
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia says it will spend more money subsidizing oil
and gas this year than on developing the country with Prime Minister
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi calling for a review of all major projects.
BANGKOK: Thailand’s Prime Minister Samak
Sundaravej, who
has a notoriously combative relationship with his country’s press,
threatened on Sunday to sue two local newspapers.
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