Reuters - Two children were wounded in "unprovoked firing" by Indian forces across the de facto border dividing the disputed Kashmir region, Pakistani officials said on Tuesday.

AP - The first tsunami from Chile's earthquake has hit Japan's outlying islands, but the initial waves are small.

Reuters - One of the world's most powerful earthquakes in a century pounded Chile on Saturday, killing more than 300 people as it toppled buildings and triggered tsunamis that ravaged a port town and threatened Pacific coastlines as far away as Japan.

JASIN, Feb 28 (Bernama) -- The ruling on the use of insulated fish boxes
only applies to fish importers and not local fishermen, Agriculture and
Agro-based Industry Minister Datuk Seri Noh Omar said.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 28 (Bernama)-- People's Progressive Party (PPP) president
Datuk M. Kayveas today welcomed the proposal by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib
Tun Razak to open direct entry to individuals, political parties and
non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to join the Barisan Nasional (BN).