Copyright © 2007 Yahoo! Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Co. Reg. No. 199700735D). All Rights Reserved. http://beta.malaysia.news.yahoo.com/asia-pacific.html en-en Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:32:00 +0800 5 http://beta.malaysia.news.yahoo.com/asia-pacific.html http://sg.yimg.com/i/my/mastheads/222x39_ma_malaysia_news.gif 39 222 http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/afp/20081012/tap-srilanka-unrest-fighting-2a5be5e.html /afp/20081012/r_t_afp_ap_other/tap-srilanka-unrest-fighting-2a5be5e_1 Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:32:00 +0800 Sri Lankan troops killed 18 Tamil Tiger rebels during ground and air assaults on their northern mini-state, the defence ministry said Sunday. AFP http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/afp/20081011/tap-us-japan-crime-murder-suicide-d1078a1.html /afp/20081011/r_t_afp_ap_jp/tap-us-japan-crime-murder-suicide-d1078a1_1 Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:44:00 +0800 A Japanese businessman hanged himself in a Los Angeles jail cell where he was awaiting trial for plotting his wife's murder here in 1981, prosecutors said Saturday. AFP http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/afp/20081011/tap-pakistan-unrest-2a5be5e.html /afp/20081011/r_t_afp_ap_other/tap-pakistan-unrest-2a5be5e Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:49:00 +0800 Tribesmen in northwestern Pakistan buried their dead on Saturday after a suicide attack killed at least 40 at a mass meeting called to tackle Taliban militancy in the area. AFP http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/ap/20081012/tap-as-us-koreas-nuclear-8th-ld-writethr-d3b07b8.html /ap/20081012/r_t_ap_ap_as/tap-as-us-koreas-nuclear-8th-ld-writethr-d3b07b8_1 Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:26:00 +0800 AP http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/ap/20081012/tap-as-japan-mazda-ford-4cec4ac.html /ap/20081012/r_t_ap_ap_jp/tap-as-japan-mazda-ford-4cec4ac_1 Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:17:00 +0800 Mazda denied Saturday that a decision had been made by troubled Ford Motor Co. to sell its stake in the Japanese automaker, but didn't rule out a possible deal. AP http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/afp/20081011/tap-nkorea-kim-skorea-2a5be5e.html /afp/20081011/r_t_afp_ap_other/tap-nkorea-kim-skorea-2a5be5e_2 Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:15:00 +0800 North Korean television on Saturday showed photographs of Kim Jong-Il, the first time in almost two months the reportedly ailing leader has been pictured by the communist state's official media. AFP http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/cna/20081012/tap-120-conflict-spore-silat-federation-231650b.html /cna/20081012/r_t_cna_ap_sg/tap-120-conflict-spore-silat-federation-231650b Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:36:46 +0800 SINGAPORE: The infighting in the four—month—old executive committee of the Singapore Silat Federation, which is also known was Persisi, is finally over. Channel NewsAsia http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/ap/20081012/tap-as-pakistan-4th-ld-writethru-d3b07b8.html /ap/20081012/r_t_ap_ap_as/tap-as-pakistan-4th-ld-writethru-d3b07b8_1 Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:36:00 +0800 Pakistan accused the U.S. and Afghanistan on Saturday of not doing enough to stop Islamist militants from crossing into its territory. AP http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/cna/20081011/tap-096-average-price-sea-contemporary-a-231650b.html /cna/20081011/r_t_cna_ap_sg/tap-096-average-price-sea-contemporary-a-231650b Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:49:08 +0800 SINGAPORE: For close to a decade, Chinese and Indian contemporary art has been setting record new prices every year. Channel NewsAsia http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/cna/20081012/tap-099-75-year-old-retiree-loses-s-4000-231650b.html /cna/20081012/r_t_cna_ap_sg/tap-099-75-year-old-retiree-loses-s-4000-231650b Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:19:27 +0800 SINGAPORE: Some 10,000 people in Singapore paid out half a billion Singdollars for structured financial products linked to the now bankrupt Lehman Brothers. Channel NewsAsia