MANILA, March 6 (AFP) -- A six-year-old girl rescued her baby brother from a fire in the central Philippines despite suffering serious burns herself, local newspapers reported on Saturday.

PAK CHONG, Feb 26 (AFP) - They sport leather chaps and wide-brimmed hats, and dance to country music performed on a stage filled with line dancers in a celebration of the spirit of America's Wild West.

HANOI, Feb 25 (AFP) - A Vietnamese man who died this week and whose hair was so long it resembled a boa constrictor, may have had the world's longest mane, reports said Thursday.

HANOI, Feb 23 (AFP) - A poverty-stricken 97-year-old man in Vietnam won up to 400,000 dollars in a lottery, a report said Tuesday, sparking a frenzy among relatives eager to get a piece of his new-found wealth.

JAKARTA, Feb 22 (AFP) - Indonesian police raided Internet cafes Monday and rounded up dozens of students who were skipping school to play computer games or chat with their friends online.

JAKARTA, Feb 20 (AFP) - Indonesian wildlife officials found five fully-grown tigers during a raid on a house in the suburbs of Jakarta.

HONG KONG, Feb 15 (AFP) -- Hong Kong's luck will improve in the Year of the Tiger according to the results of an annual Lunar New Year fortune-telling ceremony held on Monday.

JAKARTA, Feb 2 (AFP) - An Indonesian tobacco company has agreed to pay the medical expenses of a man who lost six teeth when a cigarette mysteriously exploded in his mouth.

MANILA, Jan 27 (AFP) - Thousands of Roman Catholic priests in the Philippines were set to make mass confessions of their sins to each other on Wednesday.

MANILA, Jan 26 (AFP) - A group of dancing Philippine prisoners has created a new Internet video hit with a spectacular routine led by Michael Jackson's choreographer dancing to the title track of his posthumous DVD.