Issue: March 22, 2007 (Archive)

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Thai general tells of al-Qaeda tactics
Muslim Islamic separatists in Thailand are adopting al-Qaeda tactics, a top Thai general said in a revealing insight on the country's troubled south.

Vaccine injustice puts peace at risk, warns Jakarta
The inability of poor countries to get vaccines in an influenza pandemic may threaten world peace, Indonesia's health minister claimed Wednesday.

Oxfam raps drugmaker
International aid agency Oxfam accused a US drugmaker Wednesday of abandoning Thailand's sick and trying to intimidate the government over its decision to break a patent on a key AIDS drug.

Korean air force chief off course
South Korea's air force chief has quit because he was found to have played golf as the nation mourned the death of a Korean soldier in Afghanistan.

Al-Qaeda battles leave 114 dead
Tribesmen loyal to the Pakistani government exchanged mortar and rocket fire with foreign al-Qaeda militants for a third day Wednesday in fighting that has left more than 114 people dead.

Musharraf stays under fire
Thousands of lawyers and Islamists called on Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf to quit Wednesday as fresh protests erupted over his removal of Pakistan's top judge.

Jury faces stark choices on Black
Deposed media baron Conrad Black was alternately portrayed as a lying thief and a betrayed victim in opening statements at his high-profile fraud trial in Chicago.

Chiquita executives sought in death squads case
Colombia's attorney general will seek the extradition of eight executives from Chiquita Brands International, the Ohio banana company that last week admitted paying US$1.7 million (HK$13.3 million) to right-wing death squads that have killed thousands in the South American country's long civil conflict.

Global warming to hit water supplies
Fresh water, the stuff of life, is set to become even more precious as global warming begins to bite, experts warn today, World Water Day.

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