Siemens trains the biggest cause of rail delays

MELBOURNE'S troubled Siemens trains are causing more delays on the rail network than any other issue, freedom of information documents reveal.

Deported Hmong held by Lao army in squalid camp

VIENTIANE: The 4500 ethnic Hmong asylum seekers - including more than 40 probably bound for Australia - who were forcibly deported from Thailand in late December are being held in squalid secret camps in remote parts of Laos, guarded by soldiers.