■ CHINA
One-night stands not popular
A new survey of the first generation born under the one-child policy has found they are more open but still conflicted about sex, and don’t approve of one-night stands, the China Youth Daily said on Wednesday. The survey, carried out by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences on people born between 1976 and 1986, found that their average age for first sexual experience was 22.8 years, the newspaper said. But more than 96 percent of the surveyed first had sex with their partner, rather than just a one-night stand. Nearly 20 percent first had sex before the age of 20. “The survey found that on the one hand they had sex earlier but on the other it was in a stable relationship,” the paper said. “This shows the contradictions felt in the first generation of single children towards sex.” Most did not approve of one-night stands, and almost three-quarters said they would never try homosexuality, the report said. More than 97 percent wanted children of their own and 61 percent said that in an ideal world they would like to have two children.
■ MALAYSIA
Trio charged in deaths
A 19-year-old man and his two cousins have been charged with murder for allegedly beating to death the young man’s parents in a bizarre ritual meant to cure them of smoking and other problems, officials said on Wednesday. A magistrate ordered Muhammad Nizam Mohamad Ibrahim and his cousins Muhammad Ilyas, 23, and Muhamad Fauzi Abdul Razak, 21, held for psychiatric observation for a month and set a trial date of Nov. 14. Muhammad Nizam’s 47-year-old father and 41-year-old mother were beaten to death with brooms and motorcycle helmets during a family gathering in an apartment in Kuala Lumpur early this month. A teenage girl was severely injured in the ritual and remains hospitalized. The couple were apparently willing participants in the ritual, which went awry as the beating became frenzied.
■ INDIA
Dalai Lama stays in hospital
The Dalai Lama is to stay in hospital for several more days to undergo checks following keyhole surgery last week to remove gallstones, a doctor said yesterday. “The Dalai Lama will be released not before Saturday as he prefers to stay here rather than check into a hotel and then report to us for periodic checks,” a doctor from the Sir Ganga Ram hospital in New Dehli said. “He is having a good time and is quite cheerful.”
■ SINGAPORE
T-shirt trio in trouble
Three people who showed up at the Supreme Court in T-shirts printed with a kangaroo dressed in a judge’s gown face contempt charges, They had “scandalized the judiciary by publicly wearing identical white T-shirts, imprinted with a palm-sized picture of a kangaroo dressed in a judge’s gown,” the attorney general said on Tuesday The three had appeared in court in May to watch opposition leader Chee Soon Juan (徐順全) cross-examine Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (李顯龍) and his father Lee Kuan Yew (李光耀) in a three-day hearing that saw the politicians hurl insults at each other.
■ CAMBODIA
Border skirmish halted
An army official says a gunfight that broke out between Thai and Cambodian troops on Tuesday night at a disputed border zone has stopped and talks were under way. Brigadier General Yim Pim said the fighting “has paused” and commanders from both sides were trying to negotiate a ceasefire.
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