LONDON (Reuters) – BSkyB has extended its 24-year relationship with Walt Disney to create a new television channel which will show Disney films in Britain and Ireland. Sky Movies Disney will launch on March 28 and marks th e first time entertainment group Walt Disney has ventured into a co-branded, traditional movie channel, the companies said in a statement on Thursday. The deal comes amid sluggish growth in Sky's pay-TV service, with it adding 25,000 subscribers in the last three months of 2012, well down on the more than 100,000 users it used to routinely add each quarter. … In Myanmar, answers to ethnic conflict elusive
LAWA YANG, Myanmar (AP) -- Kneeling beside a line of freshly dug trenches carved like one long, open wound into a lush hillside, the rebel sergeant peered through dusty binoculars at all his troops had lost. EU wants Cambodia to pay more for Khmer Rouge crimes court
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – The European Union is calling on Cambodia to come up with mo re cash for a Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal, where resignations have slowed proceedings and some staff are threatening to strike after going for more than two months without pay. Up to 2.2 million people died under the ultra-Maoist Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 to 1979, a quarter of the population. The tribunal, set up in 2005, has found only one person, a relatively lowly prison chief, guilty of crimes connected with the killings. Under the agreement for the U.N. … Olympics-Swimming Australia launch probe into London misbehaviour
SYDNEY, Feb 21 (Reuters) – Swimming Australia has appointed a panel to investigate allegations of drunkenness, misuse of prescription drugs, breaching curfews, deceit and bullying by members of the London Olympic team. The allegations arose after Tuesday’s publication of two damning reports into the management and conduct of the swimming team, which produced Australia’s worst results in two decades at last year’s Games. …
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