Rafidah will hand over post in mid-2009

4/8 Umno Wanita chief Rafidah Aziz says she will stand for election this year. She will only hand over the chief’s post to deputy Shahrizat Abdul Jalil mid-2009.

4/8 Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who exposed Stalin’s prison system in his novels, has died near Moscow at the age of 89.

4/8 Philippine Supreme Court blocks government from signing Malaysia-brokered land deal with MILF Muslim separatists, deal could have ended hostilities.