Indian opposition leader Advani resigns as BJP president
December 31, 2005Lal Krishna Advani, leader of the opposition in the Indian parliament, resigned from the presidency of his Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday. He is to be succeeded by Rajnath Singh, 54, the BJP general secretary.
Cambodian human rights center chief hit with defamation charge
December 31, 2005One of Cambodia's top human rights campaigners was detained Saturday for questioning on a defamation charge filed against him by the Phnom Penh municipal authority, a police official said. Kem Sokha, director of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, was confronted in his office in Phnom Penh in the early afternoon while a number of opposition parliamentarians and British Ambassador David Reader, chair of the European Union diplomatic missions to Cambodia, watched.