Malaysia

Prosecutors have asked the Tirana First Instance Court to sequester two bank accounts belonging to an arrested businessman, with $940,000 (?824,000) and 18.5 million lek (?131,000) in them, as well as two luxury automobiles.   

Egypt opened its borders with the Gaza Strip for the first time in months on June 13, allowing Palestinians to enter and leave the isolated coastal strip.
                   

European aircraft maker Airbus believes the United States will be the biggest customer for its A400M military transport plane, despite a fatal crash involving one of them during a test flight last month.

Locals are infuriated at ten tourists who posed naked at Mount Kinabulu in Malaysia on Friday, blaming them for the 5.9 magnitude quake that killed 18 climbers. The photos of the ten hikers spread through social media, infuriating locals.

Myanmar brought ashore more than 700 "boat people" it had kept at sea for days aboard a seized vessel, as the United States on June 3 called on the country to help solve a migrant crisis by recognising the rights of its Muslim Rohingya minority. 

Photos of underwater sculptures, featured on National Geographic magazine's list of the world's top 25 wonders, will be displayed in Istanbul, at its Military Museum. 

President Barack Obama has urged Myanmar to end discrimination against its ethnic Rohingya minority if it wants to succeed in its democratic transition from decades of junta rule.

South Korea on June 2 reported its first deaths from MERS, in the largest outbreak outside the Middle East that has infected 25 people and triggered widespread public alarm.

A 58-year-old woman died of acute respiratory failure on Monday and tests later came back positive for the MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) virus, the health ministry said.    

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu said Ankara would have sheltered the Muslim Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants with merchant ships close to the Andaman Sea if Indonesia and Malaysia had not.

Çavu?o?lu made the remarks at a live televised interview in ?zmir province late May 29. "Turkey offered help with the issue and will continue its support," he said.

On tiny specks in the disputed Spratly archipelago of the South China Sea, Vietnamese and Filipino children skip to school each day. Not far away, China is building lighthouses and weather stations on reclaimed land. Further north, a Chinese cruise ship takes "patriotic" tourists to a separate group of contested islands.