3-YEAR PRISON SENTENCE FOR EX-ROMANIAN DIPLOMAT
FILE – A Jan. 12, 2011 file picture shows former Romanian diplomat Silviu Ionescu at a court room in Bucharest, Romania. A Romanian court on Wednesday, March 27, 2013, handed…
Southeast Asia
GENERAL: MYANMAR MILITARY STAYING IN POLITICS
By ERIKA KINETZ Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, in yellow, talks with Deputy Border Affairs Minister Maj. Gen. Zaw Win, left, during Myanmar’s 68th anniversary celebrations of Armed Forces…
VIETNAM ACC– USES CHINA OF FIRING FLARE AT FISHERMEN
In this photo released by China’s Xinhua News Ahency, crew members of a fishery administration ship attend a ceremony before leaving the Xingang Port of Haikou, capital of south China’s…
CYPRUS BAILOUT PROMPTS MUTED RELIEF IN MARKETS
By PAN PYLAS A TV crew reports stock princes in front of an electronic stock indicator of a securities firm in Tokyo, Monday, March 25, 2013. A last-minute package of…
MYANMAR’S ARMY PATROLS CENTRAL CITY AFTER VIOLENCE
In this Thursday, March. 21, 2013 photo, armed Myanmar police oficers provide security around a smoldering building following ethnic unrest between Buddhists and Muslims in Meikhtila, Mandalay division, about 550…
KHMER ROUGE’S IENG SARY DIES DURING GENOCIDE TRIAL
By SOPHENG CHEANG FILE – In this Nov. 23, 2011 file photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, former Khmer Rouge Foreign Minister Ieng Sary sits…
OBAMA URGES END TO ASIA’S MARITIME DISPUTES
President Barack Obama meets with Brunei’s Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, Tuesday, March 12, 2013, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) WASHINGTON (AP) —…
SYRIAN REBELS TREATED UN HOSTAGES LIKE ‘GUESTS’
By JIM GOMEZ CORRECTS DAY HOSTAGES WERE RELEASED TO SATURDAY INSTEAD OF FRIDAY- Armed Forces of the Philippines spokesperson Col. Arnulfo Burgos Jr. gestures as he talks to reporters about…