PHNOM PENH, Cambodia A dispute over a 25-centimetre strip of land in Cambodia ended with a man murdering his brother and sister-in-law and then committing suicide, media reports said. Police in Prey Kanlaong province said 42-year-old Chev Thuy fatally stabbed his brother and sister-in-law and then hanged himself after a drawn-out argument over the inherited parcel of land. The Phnom Penh Post reported the family had previously asked the local land authority to help resolve the dispute but were unhappy with its resolution. KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia Being caught in "close proximity" in the middle of the night with a co-star has hastened the end of the marriage of popular Malaysian TV actor Norman Hakim. His wife Abby Abadi turned up with divorce papers - accompanied by 20 media persons - at a location where Hakim was shooting for a TV serial playing a local cop. Norman was detained by Selangor religious department officers at his office, charging him with khalwat (close proximity) with Memey. This is a crime under the Islamic law. The powerful youth wing of Nepal's ruling Maoist party has said it will start a protest programme in the India-Nepal border area if Indian authorities did not punish the policemen responsible for the alleged gangrape of two Nepali migrant women. Nepal newspapers reported that two Nepali women, who were part of a group of six travelling to Mumbai, were gangraped by policemen of India's Uttar Pradesh state Tuesday. The women were reportedly heading for the Gulf countries via India when they were stopped at the railway station in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur town. DHAKA, Bangladesh Twenty-one people died after drinking spurious liquor in northwest Bangladesh's Bogra and Joypurhat districts, The Daily Star newspaper reported. Police said 17 people died in Bogra and four in adjoining Joypurhat district after they took countrymade liquor supplied by drug dealers. Police have sealed off four shops and arrested nine people in the two districts, the newspaper said. HONG KONG Wealthy Hong Kong may be teetering on the brink of a recession but a prestige car number plate can still fetch more than US$46,000, auctioneers said. The car registration number 1234 fetched 360,000 Hong Kong dollars ($46,445) at a government auction where a total of 280 unusual plates raised just short of $345,000. However, of the 280 plates put up for auction, some 30 failed to reach their reserve price in a sign that the economic downturn is beginning to bite in one of the world's richest cities. Flood waters from southern China have pushed up river levels in northern Vietnam, worsening inundations across a wide region that have killed at least 120 people on both sides of the border. Vietnam, the world's third-largest rice exporter, has not released any crop damage estimates in the northern delta, but the government said nearly 260 000 hectares (642 000 acres) of rice, corn, sugarcane and fruit had been submerged. This natural disaster is characterised as the largest ever in Hanoi, by the government. KARACHI, Pakistan Pakistani police raided a child marriage ceremony and arrested a cleric who was presiding over the wedding of a four-year-old girl and a seven-year-old boy, police said. Pakistani law says people must be 18 to marry but some Islamic laws allow girls to marry after puberty. Despite the laws, young girls are often given away in marriage to settle disputes or pay off debts. Police said they raided a house after getting information that the girl was being married off by her father for about US1,000. China has urged US president-elect Barack Obama not to support independence for Taiwan, saying that the proper handling of the issue was key to good relations between Beijing and Washington. 'We urge the United States to honour its commitment ... honour the one-China policy and stop selling weapons to Taiwan,' foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang said. The 'one-China principle' states that there is only one China, which includes the mainland and Taiwan. The two split at the end of a civil war in 1949. Thailand’s premier has vowed to step up an anti-narcotics campaign, and defended ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra against accusations that his drugs war was mired in extra-judicial killings. Somchai Wongsawat said he was launching a 90 day campaign aimed at reducing drug use and trafficking in an extension of a crackdown initially started by his brother-in-law Thaksin, who was ousted in a coup in 2006. Thaksin launched his war on drugs in 2003, and human rights groups have said that at least 2,500 people were killed in extra-judicial killings during the campaign. Authorities in the Philippines have detained the captain of a ferry that overturned last week. Forty-two people were killed in the accident and nine others are missing. Police say the vessel appears to have been overloaded and was operating illegally. Maritime accidents are common in the Philippine archipelago due to tropical weather, badly maintained passenger boats and weak enforcement of safety regulations. Hundreds of people were killed in June, when a 23,000-tonne ferry - Princess of the Stars - capsized during a typhoon off the central island of Sibuyan. BEIJING, China China has released a well-known dissident after he served more than nine years of a 13-year prison sentence. Veteran activist Liu Xianbin was released from the Chandong prison in the south-western province of Sichuan. Liu, 40, was granted a sentence reduction of two years and eight months after working as a teacher at the prison, it said. His sentence was linked to his activities as a leading member of the banned China Democracy Party.
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