Reuters - The power producers expect the federal budget to reduce duties on coal imports to top up scarce domestic coal supply in a country where more than half the power plants are coal-fired, industry players and analysts said.

AP - The wife of an activist Chinese lawyer missing for more than a year challenged claims by authorities in China that he was working in a remote western region of the country and had been in touch with relatives, a human rights group said Thursday.

AP - About 20 people have been injured by turbulence aboard a United Airlines plane flying from Washington, D.C., to Japan.

AFP - Japan's central bank kept its super-low interest rates unchanged Thursday and defied political pressure to take new steps to beat stubborn deflation in the world's second-largest economy.

SHAH ALAM, Feb 19 (Bernama) -- Teoh Beng Hock's death was due to various
injuries caused by a fall from a high-rise building and not due to strangling or
penetration, said Sungai Buloh pathologist Dr Shahidan Md Noor.

AFP - Beleaguered Toyota said Wednesday it would fit all new models with a safety system that cuts engine power to prevent runaway car accidents behind its global recall of millions of vehicles.