Thailand
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.
LOS ANGELES - David Carradine's widow filed a wrongful death lawsuit Thursday against a French company handling the actor's last film, claiming it failed to provide proper services to protect him.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Fugitive Thai banker Rakesh Saxena has been handed over to Thai authorities and is en route to Thailand after the Supreme Court of Canada turned down his request to hear his case, ending one of the longest extradition fights in Canadian history.
HUA HIN - Leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations inaugurated the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) in the summit held here Friday, Xinhua reported.
Cha-AM - The Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) was scheduled to inaugurate later Friday the region's first intergovernmental human rights commission, which critics have already dismissed as a "toothless" body.
