Hong Kong - Drunk drivers in Hong Kong are being offered the chance to phone the Automobile Association (AA) and get a tow home for the price of a taxi ride, the rescue service said Wednesday.
The AA has set up a team of vans and drivers to take late-night calls from members, pick them up and then either drive them in their own car or arrange a tow truck to take their car home.
Zamboanga City, Philippines - Government troops rescued a kidnapped 7-year-old boy and killed one of his captors Tuesday in the southern Philippines, a Marine commander said.
Brigadier General Rustico Guerrero said the boy was kidnapped by two motorcycle-riding gunmen in front of his house in Isabela City in Basilan province, 900 kilometres south of Manila.
Guerrero said the suspects fired at a nearby marine checkpoint as they tried to escape along with their victim, but Marines chased them into a nearby village.
New Delhi - A scandal at one of India's leading information technology companies, Satyam Computer, rocked the country's parliament on Tuesday, with several members demanding details of how the government was handling the case.
Ramalinga Raju, former chairman and founder of Satyam, said on January 9 that he had been falsifying the company's accounts for several years and had inflated assets by over 1 billion dollars.
Raju and two other senior officials of the company are currently in custody.
Kuala Lumpur - A Malaysian opposition lawmaker resigned Tuesday in response to a scandal which erupted after her nude photos, believed to be taken without her consent while she was sleeping, were circulated widely via cell phone.
The People's Justice Party, led by opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, decided Tuesday to accept Elizabeth Wong's resignation as assemblyman for the central Selangor state.
Hanoi - Police will prosecute the poachers who killed two rare langurs in central Vietnam last month, officials said Tuesday.
On January 21, forest wardens stopped a man transporting animal carcasses out of the forested Hon Heo Peninsula in central Khanh Hoa province. Mixed in among several goat carcasses were those of two rare black-shanked Douc langurs.
Brisbane, Feb. 17: Controversial Indian-born surgeon Dr. Jayant Patel had a 100 per cent complication rate for inserting dialysis catheters, leading to the procedure being outsourced to a private hospital, a Brisbane magistrate's court has heard.
The Australian quoted Bundaberg Base Hospital nurse Robyn Pollock as telling Dr. Patel''s committal hearing that the surgeon had inserted six renal patients'' catheters in the 12 months from August 2003.
Hong Kong - Drunk drivers in Hong Kong are being offered the chance to phone the Automobile Association (AA) and get a tow home for the price of a taxi ride, the rescue service said Wednesday.
Zamboanga City, Philippines - Government troops rescued a kidnapped 7-year-old boy and killed one of his captors Tuesday in the southern Philippines, a Marine commander said.
New Delhi - A scandal at one of India's leading information technology companies, Satyam Computer, rocked the country's parliament on Tuesday, with several members demanding details of how the government was handling the case.
Kuala Lumpur - A Malaysian opposition lawmaker resigned Tuesday in response to a scandal which erupted after her nude photos, believed to be taken without her consent while she was sleeping, were circulated widely via cell phone.
Hanoi - Police will prosecute the poachers who killed two rare langurs in central Vietnam last month, officials said Tuesday.
Brisbane, Feb. 17: Controversial Indian-born surgeon Dr. Jayant Patel had a 100 per cent complication rate for inserting dialysis catheters, leading to the procedure being outsourced to a private hospital, a Brisbane magistrate's court has heard.
