SINGAPORE, Friday 27 August 2010 (AFP) - A Singapore company has banned its management from the country's two new casinos following reports a local businessman lost a fortune at the gaming tables, its founder said Friday.

BANGKOK, Monday 9 August 2010 (AFP) - The Thai government has warned that a South Korean-inspired fashion craze for black leggings could be putting teenagers at risk of catching potentially deadly dengue fever.

SINGAPORE, Wednesday 21 July 2010 (AFP) - A devoted Filipina maid inherited six million Singapore dollars (more than four million US) from her late employer after more than 20 years of service, a newspaper report said Wednesday.

JAKARTA, Tuesday 20 July 2010 (AFP) - Indonesia's highest Islamic body on Tuesday abandoned a proposal to ban Muslims from drinking the world's most expensive coffee, which is extracted from the faeces of a small mammal called the civet.

HANOI, Friday 2 July 2010 (AFP) - Thousands of Vietnamese have converged on a rubber farm after the discovery of a termite's nest resembling the image of Buddha, an official from the rubber company said Friday.

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, BRUNEI: A fishing enthusiasts recently caught a rare blackish green Toman when he went fishing with his friend.

MANILA, Friday 18 June 2010 (AFP) - A fake Roman Catholic priest has been excommunicated in the Philippines more than a year after he began celebrating masses at a Manila parish, the local church said Friday.

SINGAPORE, Thursday 10 June 2010 (AFP) - A US animal-rights activist said he was prevented by police Thursday from staging a one-man protest in a chicken suit at a KFC outlet in Singapore.

BANGKOK, Wednesday 9 June 2010 (AFP) - High school test results in Thailand have revealed a failure rate of more than 80 percent in mathematics, biology and computer studies -- among the teachers.

JAKARTA, Monday 7 June 2010 (AFP) - Estimates of the size and composition of Indonesia's booming population may remain just that despite an ongoing census, if the "discovery" of a 157-year-old woman is anything to go by.