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.

KLANG, Feb 20 (Bernama) -- Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said
desecration of houses of worship and dumping severed pig heads at mosques did
not reflect 1Malaysia's failure.

Reuters - French retailer Carrefour, which has been looking to crack the restrictive India market for seven years, plans to kick off its operations in the country this year by setting up a wholesale business.

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.

Reuters - India's food price inflation, which is near 18 percent, will moderate in the next two to three months, C. Rangarajan, the prime minister's economic adviser, said on Friday.