Southeast Asia
Inquirer.net - By Cathy Yamsuan President Benigno Aquino III granted on December 21 the conditional pardon to British national William Robert Burton who was convicted of drug-related charges. |
Sky News Australia - Phuket Island on Monday held memorial ceremonies for more than 5000 lives lost during the December 26, 2004 tsunami that caught Thailand's Andaman coastline by surprise. |
Inquirer.net - The Aquino government's treatment of former President and now Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo regarding the cases she is facing has been “only fair,” according to seven out 10 Filipinos (69 percent) nationwide in a Social Weather ... |
Tempo - Manila, Philippines - The Senate Impeachment Court has been urged to summon Associate Justice Presbitero J. Velasco Jr. and Clerk of Court Enriqueta Vidal to testify in the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato C. Corona. |
PRI's The World - By Maria Bakkalapulo ⋅ December 26, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment The fishing vessel, used as a liferaft by 59 survivors, is a draw for tourists. |
Malaysia Star - GEORGE TOWN: The Star stands by the article written based on an interview with Deputy Chief Minister II Dr P. Ramasamy on Dec 21 by our journalist Ian McIntyre. |
Bernama - KAJANG, Dec 26 (Bernama) -- Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin reminded any group out to destroy the prevailing racial unity in the country to stop their actions as this could hamper national aspirations. |
Sydney Morning Herald - KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian wildlife authorities say the capture of a young female Borneo Sumatran rhino has given them a last chance to save the species from extinction. |
Philippine Star - By Edu Punay (The Philippine Star) Updated December 27, 2011 12:00 AM 0 MANILA, Philippines - Retired Army Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan may soon surface and face his indictment in court for the alleged enforced disappearance of University of the ... |
AFP - MANILA - Philippines on Monday warned flood survivors in the south of the country to brace for fresh floods, just days after tropical storm Washi whipped the region leaving more than 2000 dead or missing. |
Jakarta Post - Protesters in Makassar destroyed three police posts and four traffic lights in a demonstration against a police measure related to the death of three civilians involved in a mass rally in Bima, West Nusa Tenggara. |
Jakarta Post - The Home Ministry says that 93.5 percent of 244 regional leader pairs break up before the tenure ends between 2010 and 2011. The latest resignation was Jakarta Deputy Governor Prijanto, who quit only seven months before the next gubernatorial election ... |
World
Nigerian Tribune - THE National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has condemned the heinous attack on churches and waste of innocent lives on the Christmas Day by the violent Islamic Sect, Boko Haram. |
Sky News Australia - Fifty Arab League monitors have landed in Damascus to assess the situation in Syria amid a government crackdown on anti-regime protesters, private Dunya television channel report. |
The Chosun Ilbo - A series of executions and unexplained deaths since North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's son Jong-un was anointed heir to the throne in January 2009 were apparently meant to remove obstacles to the transition. |
Reuters - By Suadad al-Salhy | BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The head of the political bloc of anti-American Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called on Monday for new elections in Iraq after the biggest crisis in a year saw Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki move against two ... |
The Australian - Britain's Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, and his cousin, Zara Phillips, Princess Anne's daughter, visit their grandfather, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, who is recovering in Papworth Hospital near Cambridge, England. |
Voice of America (blog) - The UN's top human rights official has condemned the harsh prison sentences that China has recently handed down against pro-democracy activists. |
Indian Express - The US is using a “hedging strategy” to deal with the rise of China, and is strengthening alliances with old partners like Japan and shoring up ties with rising powers like India to create a regional network, says a commentary in China's state-run ... |
Pakistan Daily Times - By Asad Farooq KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has said that the present government has a very short time at its disposal while elections are evident ahead of their scheduled time. |
Ynetnews - After decades of war, hundreds of attacks and thousands of deaths, it is difficult to accept that one's enemy is changing - for the better. |
News24 - Khartoum - Anti-Sudan government forces in a "revolutionary front" pledged unity on Monday despite the killing of a top rebel, but an analyst dismissed their goal of toppling the Khartoum regime. |
Jerusalem Post - By HERB KEINON Analysis: Open Knesset debate over officially recognizing Armenian genocide was gut responding to deteriorated Turkish-Israeli ties. |
Voice of America - December 26, 2011 Japanese FM Assures Burmese Icon of Full Support VOA News Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba has met with Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, seeking to assure her of Tokyo's full support for expanded democratic ... |
Xinhua - SANTO DOMINGO, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) -- Haiti began to rescue survivors from the shipwreck of a ship with Haitian illegal immigrants in Cuban waters, in which at least 40 people died, Haitian authorities said on Sunday. |
Ahram Online - At his parents' house amid an exceptionally cheerful atmosphere, prominent blogger Alaa Abdel-Fattah on Monday received a multitude of press and television reporters, as well as supporters and friends, only one day after his release from military ... |
Daily Mail - By Daily Mail Reporter Iran began 10 days of naval exercises in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, raising concerns about a possible closure of the world's most strategic oil transit channel in the event of any outbreak of military conflict between ... |
International Business Times - By Sanskrity Sinha | Dec 26, 2011 07:52 AM EDT Preparations for the 13th Ice and Snow World in Harbin in China's Heilongjiang province are underway, ahead of its opening next year. |
WKYC-TV - THAILAND -- High waves continue pounding the Gulf of Thailand coastline for the second day ravaging many seaside provinces in southern Thailand. |
Telegraph.co.uk - Shanghai has become the latest major Chinese city to order users of popular microblogging and other social media sites to register their full names before being allowed to post messages. |
Taipei Times - By Chris Wang / Staff Reporter Democratic Progressive Party legislative candidate Julian Kuo, left, speaks during a press conference held by Taiwan Thinktank in Taipei yesterday. |
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