Southeast Asia
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Prosecutors were searching for the former editor-in-chief of Playboy Indonesia on Friday after he failed to show up to begin his two-year jail sentence for publishing pictures of scantily clothed women.
BANGKOK - A Thai court on Friday ordered the ex-wife of deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to return a valuable plot of land she bought from the government while her husband was the country's leader.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - A U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal was expected to issue a decision Monday in the trial of the Khmer Rouge's chief jailer and torturer - the first verdict involving a leader of the genocidal regime that created Cambodia's killing fields.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - The brother of one of a handful of Westerners killed by the Khmer Rouge returned to Cambodia for a landmark verdict in a war crimes tribunal, saying there can never be adequate justice for his family.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A court acquitted a Malaysian woman of killing her Indonesian housemaid, her lawyer said Thursday, in a case that highlighted complaints about the abuse of foreign domestic workers.
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