SEOUL - More than 170 countries yesterday adopted what World Health Organisation chief Margaret Chan called a "game-changing" global pact to combat the illegal tobacco trade. The protocol, reached at a meeting in Seoul, gives signatory states five years to establish a tracking and tracing mechanism on cigarettes and every other tobacco product. The system will use non-removable markings and will be co-ordinated to detect illegal tobacco trading. AFP
AMSTERDAM - Two Dutch teenagers were sentenced to two years in juvenile detention and three years of compulsory therapy for ordering the death of a girl after an argument on Facebook. The case, known as the "Facebook murder", involved three teenagers from the Chinese community in the country. The victim, 15-year old Winsie, was fatally stabbed in January at the request of the boy and girl, who were aged 17 and 16 respectively at the time. Reuters