Dhaka - Bangladesh has imposed a ban on travelling abroad for war crimes suspects as part of its process to bring 1971 war criminals to justice, a senior minister said Sunday.
"The trials of the war criminals are in the process, and that's why the government has ordered some people not to leave the country," Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Shafique Ahmed said.
The minister mentioned neither the names nor the number of suspects affected.
Cotabato City, Philippines - A homemade bomb ripped through a passenger bus terminal in a southern Philippine city Sunday, but no one was hurt, police said.
The explosion occurred before dawn at the Husky Bus Terminal in Cotabato City, 960 kilometres south of Manila, according to Senior Superintendent Willie Dangane, city police chief.
Dangane said two buses and a concrete wall were partially damaged by the blast.
"Police investigators are looking into extortion and transport business rivalry as possible motives," he said.
Kuala Lumpur - Four Malaysian girls have filed a police complaint against their stepfather, an unemployed Indonesian, alleging that he raped and sodomized them for four years, a newspaper reported Sunday.
The sisters, aged between 12 and 19, were afraid to tell anyone about the abuse. They finally confided to a female relative on Thursday at a wedding, who then took the girls to the police.
Manila - Thousands of people marched on Saturday in the Philippine capital to denounce illegal drugs which afflict millions in the country.
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and senior government officials led the march along the length of Roxas Boulevard in downtown Manila, which was attended by schoolchildren and government employees.
Organizers of the march hoped to make it to the Guinness World Records bookas the world's first and largest march against illegal drugs.
Kuala Lumpur - Chinese women topped the list of foreign prostitutes arrested in Malaysia throughout 2008, followed by Indonesian nationals, a news report said Saturday.
A total of 4,496 Chinese women were detained during anti-vice raids conducted nationwide.
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian customs authorities detained an Indian national attempting to smuggle in 14.84 kilograms of the drug ketamine at an airport in the northern Penang state, a news report said Saturday.
The suspect, aged in his 50s, had stuffed the drugs into three stainless steel food containers, said state customs director Matrang Suhaili.
Dhaka - Bangladesh has imposed a ban on travelling abroad for war crimes suspects as part of its process to bring 1971 war criminals to justice, a senior minister said Sunday.
Cotabato City, Philippines - A homemade bomb ripped through a passenger bus terminal in a southern Philippine city Sunday, but no one was hurt, police said.
Kuala Lumpur - Four Malaysian girls have filed a police complaint against their stepfather, an unemployed Indonesian, alleging that he raped and sodomized them for four years, a newspaper reported Sunday.
Manila - Thousands of people marched on Saturday in the Philippine capital to denounce illegal drugs which afflict millions in the country.
Kuala Lumpur - Chinese women topped the list of foreign prostitutes arrested in Malaysia throughout 2008, followed by Indonesian nationals, a news report said Saturday.
