Yangon, Myanmar—Several regions in Myanmar were
declared disaster zones Sunday after Tropical
Cyclone Nargis packing winds up to
190-kilometers-per hour (120-mph) smashed
hundreds of houses and knocked out electricity.
Kuala Lumpur—Malaysia on Sunday said it was
considering using its chip-based national
identity card to prevent visitors from Singapore
and Thailand buying cheap subsidised fuel meant
for locals. Its latest plan comes as the
government begins radically reviewing its fuel
subsidies, expected to cost 43 billion ringgit
(13.6 billion dollars) this year if oil prices
hover around 120 dollars per barrel.
Moscow—Georgia has called on the United Nations
to send more observers to the separatist
Georgian region of Abkhazia to check on the
increase in Russian troops there, a
parliamentary spokesman said.
London—UK’s largest Muslim organisation-The
Muslim Council of Britain has expressed concern
over the success of far right candidate of the
British National Party in the Thursday’s
election of London Assembly and thought its
awareness campaign did not yield desired result.
HILLARY Clinton said to Keith Olbermann on ABC,
“If Iran were to become a nuclear power, it
could set off an arms race,” and invite “massive
retaliation” against Iran. Of course! One has to
be blind not to see who the aggressors are in
the region. There is already an arms race in the
Middle East!
