Sunday November 22, 2009

Teoh's second autopsy completed 3.15pm

The second autopsy on Teoh Beng Hock’s remains started at noon after the pathologists spent the morning discussing and performing X-ray and CT scans on the body.The autopsy was completed 3.15pm. The family does not know when the results will be revealed. However, they said that he will be reinterred on Tuesday.

Rescuers search for victims after a gas explosion at the Xinxing mine in Hegang, Heilongjiang province, China, Saturday. A gas explosion tore through a state-run coal mine in northern China on Saturday, killing scores of people and leaving at least 66 others trapped underground as rescuers worked hastily to save them. - AP

Rescuers worked in frigid cold to reach 21 miners trapped underground Sunday as the death toll from a huge gas explosion in a northern Chinese mine jumped to 87 - the deadliest blast to hit the beleaguered industry in nearly two years.

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Chin Peng - A prisoner of his past

As the 20th anniversary of the Dec 2, 1989 Peace Accord between the Malaysian Government and the Communist Party of Malaya draws nigh, Chin Peng, once Britain’s most wanted man, surfaces from exile to talk about the past, present and what little that is left of his future.

Chin Peng, at 85 is today an exile in Bangkok.

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