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Blogger detained under Malaysia's Security Act
11:15:52, 24 September 2008, Radio Australia News
Malaysia's Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar has confirmed that a local blogger is being detained for two years without trial under the country's security law for insulting Islam.
Boss killed in Indian workers protest
11:15:51, 24 September 2008, Radio Australia News
Sacked workers in India have beaten to death the boss of the Italian company that laid them off.
Finnish gunman left note: police
10:15:47, 24 September 2008, Radio Australia News
A student who went on a murderous rampage at a Finnish school, killing 10 people before turning his gun on himself, left behind a note that could explain the tragic act, police say.
PNG, Australian officials investigate murder of Aussie man
21:04:57, 22 September 2008, Radio Australia News
Papua New Guinea police and Australian officials are investigating the murder of an expatriate man in Port Moresby at the weekend.
26 Filipino sailors kidnapped off African coast
17:49:07, 19 September 2008, Radio Australia News
The Philippine government says efforts are under way to secure the release of 26 Filipino sailors kidnapped by pirates off the coast of Somalia.
Another blogger arrested in Malaysia
15:45:12, 18 September 2008, Radio Australia News
Malaysian authorities have arrested a second blogger, this time for reportedly displaying an upside down national flag on his website.
Explosives thrown at Japanese palace 'for fun'
15:45:10, 18 September 2008, Radio Australia News
A 34-year-old Japanese man has been detained for allegedly hurling explosive-laden fire extinguishers towards the Imperial Palace in central Tokyo.
17 drug couriers arrested in Malaysia
13:14:10, 18 September 2008, Radio Australia News
Authorities in the Philippines and Malaysia say they have broken up a major international drug ring.
AG under fire for Australian terrorism trial comments
10:26:01, 18 September 2008, Radio Australia News
Australia's Federal Attorney General is standing by his decision to speak out about the country's largest terrorism court case before it was completed.
Video of kidnapped Australian aired
09:35:27, 17 September 2008, Radio Australia News
Al Jazeera television has aired a video showing an Australian journalist kidnapped in Somalia last month.
Solomons police defend parents arrest
17:28:54, 11 September 2008, Radio Australia News
Solomon Islands police have defended their arrest of the elderly parents of a triple murder suspect.
Convicted Cambodian police chief's family in poverty
14:18:16, 9 September 2008, Radio Australia News
The family of former Phnom Penh police chief, Heng Pov, has asked the courts to unfreeze nearly $US1 million seized after his arrest.
Indonesia rejects Australian prison transfer
10:31:40, 8 September 2008, Radio Australia News
Indonesia's justice ministry has denied a prison transfer request by convicted Australian drug smuggler, Schapelle Corby.
Slavery criminalised in Nepal
08:15:26, 8 September 2008, Radio Australia News
Nepal's Maoist-led government has abolished the slavery-like Haliya system by freeing 20,000 people from the hands of moneylenders and landlords.
Samoan officer charged with manslaughter in Solomons
15:43:39, 5 September 2008, Radio Australia News
Solomon Islands prosecutors say they've been cleared by Samoa to prosecute a Samoan officer involved in a fatal car crash, while serving with the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands.
Anti-drug campaigner killed in Afghanistan
07:39:58, 5 September 2008, Radio Australia News
The head of Afghanistan's anti-drug court has been shot and killed in Kabul.
Xue pleads not guilty in NZ court
15:30:51, 4 September 2008, Radio Australia News
The father of the three-year-old girl abandoned at an Australian railway station a year ago has pleaded not guilty to killing his wife.
Singapore tycoon jailed for organ trading
15:30:49, 4 September 2008, Radio Australia News
Singapore retail tycoon Tang Wee Sung has been jailed for two hours and fined $US11,000 for lying to get approval for a kidney transplant and for organ trading.
India's child flood victims vulnerable to traffickers
12:12:22, 4 September 2008, Radio Australia News
Human traffickers are targeting vulnerable children in India's flood-effected Bihar state.
Australian charged in Thailand over alleged royal insult
11:43:15, 4 September 2008, Radio Australia News
A Melbourne man has been arrested in Thailand for allegedly insulting the royal family.
Pakistani police nab suspected suicide bomber
22:18:19, 22 August 2008, Radio Australia News
Pakistan police say they have arrested a would-be suicide bomber after two others blew themselves up outside an arms factory, killing 64 people.
Australian man in court for drug trafficking
20:37:34, 22 August 2008, Radio Australia News
An Australian man has been committed to stand trial in the Northern Territory Supreme Court, charged with smuggling drugs from Indonesia.
Further charges possible for Khmer Rouge torture chief
08:19:05, 22 August 2008, Radio Australia News
Prosecutors at the United Nations backed genocide tribunal in Cambodia are appealing to have additional charges lodged against Comrade Duch, the first of five Khmer Rouge defendants.
Glitter on flight back to Britain
08:19:05, 22 August 2008, Radio Australia News
Britain's foreign ministry says former rock star and convicted paedophile Gary Glitter has left Bangkok on a flight to London.
Malaysian tanker hijacked off Somali coast
22:31:13, 20 August 2008, Radio Australia News
A Malaysian tanker has been hijacked in the Gulf of Aden near Somalian waters, the latest in a wave of attacks in the region.
![Thousands of police have been deployed in the area where parliament house, the main metropolitan police headquarters and government house are located. [AFP]](http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/img/news/gallery/thai_protestclash_afp_081008.jpg "Thousands of police have been deployed in the area where parliament house, the main metropolitan police headquarters and government house are located. [AFP]")
![President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, the islands' leader for the past 30 years, faces five bitter rivals in the poll. [AFP]](http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/img/news/gallery/maldives_gayoom_afp_061008.jpg "President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, the islands' leader for the past 30 years, faces five bitter rivals in the poll. [AFP]")
![Anti-government demonstrators try to take cover after riot police fired tear gas at protesters blocking Parliament in Bangkok. [Reuters]](http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/img/news/gallery/thai_protest_rtr_071008.jpg "Anti-government demonstrators try to take cover after riot police fired tear gas at protesters blocking Parliament in Bangkok. [Reuters]")
![Smoke rises from Mount Soputan on the outskirts of Manado of Indonesia's North Sulawesi province. [Reuters]](http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/img/news/gallery/indon_soputan_rtr_071008.jpg "Smoke rises from Mount Soputan on the outskirts of Manado of Indonesia's North Sulawesi province. [Reuters]")
![The quake was felt over a wide area and razed the village of Nura of 960 residents in the Tian Shan mountains at an altitude of 2,000 metres. [AFP]](http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/img/news/gallery/kyrgyz_quake_afp_061008.jpg "The quake was felt over a wide area and razed the village of Nura of 960 residents in the Tian Shan mountains at an altitude of 2,000 metres. [AFP]")
![Several members of the United National Party, including the provincial chief, were among those killed in the bomb blast which also left 80 people injured. [AFP]](http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/img/news/gallery/lanka_blast_afp_061008.jpg "Several members of the United National Party, including the provincial chief, were among those killed in the bomb blast which also left 80 people injured. [AFP]")
