PHNOM PENH: Cambodia’s strongman Prime Minister Hun Sen said the country risks civil war if the opposition wins polls later this year and tries to prosecute ex-Khmer Rouge members in his government.
His comments were issued as a rebuke to opposition leader Sam Rainsy, who has pledged to convict unnamed members of the government over their alleged roles under the murderous Khmer Rouge regime if his party takes July’s election.
“For sure, (civil) war will erupt if they (the opposition party) win the election,” Hun Sen, said in a speech broadcast on national radio.
Singapore hit by bomb hoaxes
SINGAPORE: A 34-year-old man has been arrested in Singapore over an online threat to bomb several locations in the city-state in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon attack, police said yesterday.
The man, whose name and nationality were not disclosed, was arrested on Thursday after posting the threat as a comment on a news article about the deadly bombings in Boston, police said in a statement.
“Preliminary investigations indicated that the suspect had no intention or means to carry out his threats,” said the statement.
Local daily The Straits Times reported the man had posted the comment on the Yahoo! Singapore website.
Making bomb threats in Singapore is an offence punishable by a maximum of five years in jail or a fine of up to Sg$100,000 ($82,000), or both.
Three bodies found in HK
HONG KONG: Hong Kong underwater search teams have recovered three bodies a day after two boats collided in fog in the city’s busy waterways, with three crew members still missing as police arrested the two captains.
The incident on Thursday night refocused attention on Hong Kong’s maritime safety, and came after a ferry crash in October claimed 39 lives in the city’s worst sea disaster in 40 years.
Search teams were deployed after a boat with 11 crew from mainland China carrying construction waste collided with another vessel on the southeast of the island and began to sink. Five crew were rescued soon after.
Taiwan executes six on death row
TAIPEI: Taiwan executed six more death-row inmates, just a few months after the same number of prisoners were put to death, as the debate continued over the need for capital punishment.
Three were executed in Tainan city in the island’s south and one each in the capital Taipei, eastern Hualien and central Taichung cities, the justice ministry said in a statement.
They were anaesthetised and then shot, it said.
Taiwan executed six prisoners in December 2012, five in 2011 and four in 2010 — the 2010 executions were the first after a hiatus that had lasted since 2005. With Friday’s executions, the number of death row inmates now stands at 50, according to the ministry.
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