Malaysia's ruling coalition wins, Vellu Samy trounced Malaysians on Saturday voted in a snap poll termed as a "litmus test" for the ruling coalition which is expected to return to power despite facing wrath of ethnic Indians, who seem to have voted against pro-government Indian leader Samy Vellu costing him his seat for the first time in eight terms.
Pakistanis feel Fahim was betrayed The Pakistan People's Party's senior party leader Makhdoom Amin Fahim has said party chairman Asif Ali Zardaris "unnecessary delay" in naming him as prime ministerial candidate has led to the perception that he was being humiliated and betrayed.
Forced marriage: UK scours for missing girls Grappling with the issue of forced marriages in the Asian community, the British government for the first time has ordered a nation-wide count of missing schoolgirls, following new reports of forced marriages within communities of origins in the Indian subcontinent.
'Osama bin London' jailed A man who described himself as Osama bin London and trained and recruited young men in terrorist training camps was jailed indefinitely on Friday.
National People’s Congress hostesses representing the Zhuang minority from China’s southwest Guangxi province run on Tiananmen Square on Saturday in Beijing, on International Women's Day, as a session on China’s annual parliament takes place inside the Great Hall of the People. Delegates to China's parliament have vowed to step up a crackdown on ethnic unrest, separatism and religious extremism in the western region of Xinjiang, state press said, where the region of 20 million people is largely populated by ethnic Uighurs and other Muslim minorities which have traditionally opposed Beijing’s rule of the area and clamoured for greater autonomy. AFP
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