Southeast Asia
 | Philippine Headline News - MANILA, JANUARY 2, 2012 (TIMES) Written by : RITCHIE A. HORARIO CORRESPONDENT - Supreme Court (SC) Chief Justice Renato Corona might escape trial before the Senate impeachment court. |
 | Malaysia Kini - YOURSAY 'RPK is feeling home sick. He just wants to come home without going straight behind bars. In the end, he sold out his principles. |
 | ABS CBN News - By David Dizon, abs-cbnNEWS.com MANILA, Philippines - The Department of Health on Monday is eyeing a total ban on the use of firecrackers for individuals after 454 people sustained firecracker-related injuries as of January 1. |
 | New Straits Times - By ROY SEE WEI ZHI National Service trainees departing from Wangsa Maju, Kuala Lumpur, for their camp yesterday. Pic by Afendi Mohamed Defence Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi having a chat with a National Service trainee before departure. |
 | Malaysia Star - PETALING JAYA: A video posted on YouTube of the demonstration early Sunday by student activists of Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI) shows chaotic scenes as police try to disperse the group. |
 | Jakarta Post - From issues such as Timor Leste's struggle for independence to Papua, Australian Cabinet papers have revealed that Australian policies in the region have always taken Indonesia's reactions into consideration. |
 | Straits Times - (From left) Mr Cork, Ms Vicharelli, Ms Helliwell, Mr Corliss, Mr Pouchert and Ms Empinotti posing with their parachutes after leaping off the MBS SkyPark observation deck yesterday to mark the new year. |
 | Philippine Star - MANILA, Philippines - Days after a weather disturbance brought floods in Mindanao, another Low Pressure Area (LPA) is now threathening southern Philippines. |
 | GMA News - Power and water services will be fully restored soon in Cagayan de Oro and Iligan cities, areas hit hard by tropical storm "Sendong" (Washi), the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said. |
 | Journal Online - AIRPORT authorities were forced to divert and cancel several flights yesterday due to poor visibility at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport caused by smoke from firecrackers used during the New Year revelry. |
 | Times of India - JAKARTA: A 5.3-magnitude earthquake rattled the northern tip of Indonesia today, geologists said, but there were no immediate reports of damage. |
 | GMA News - At least 56 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) over the New Year weekend arrived in the Philippines from Syria amid escalating violence there. |
 | Straits Times - The overturned Chrysler van driven by Republic of Singapore Air Force serviceman Lim Boon on Interstate 84 in Idaho. His wife Pey Ah Hoon, 33, was killed when she was flung from the vehicle, which had been headed for Mountain Home Air Force Base. |
 | Bangkok Post - Heavy rain and flash floods are causing New Year's havoc in the South, with one man feared dead, eight hikers missing, and evacuations ordered. |
 | The Borneo Post - LUMUT: Seven people were killed in a crash involving two cars and a trailer laden with LPG cylinders at Batu 6, Jalan Sitiawan-Lekir Saturday night. |
 | Malaysia Star - By KOW KWAN YEE Lifeless: Firemen and MPPP workers dragging the dead dolphin to bury it at Tanjung Bungah beach. “It was close to dying, so I called the (state) Fisheries Department but there was no reply,” he claimed. |
World
 | Voice of America (blog) - Syrian security forces were said to have killed at least seven more protesters Sunday as an Arab League advisory body called for the immediate withdrawal of monitors from the country, saying the unit is failing to prevent government troops from ... |
 | Pakistan Observer - Tehran—Iranian nuclear scientists successfully tested the first nuclear fuel rod containing natural uranium, IRNA reported on Sunday. |
 | Indian Express - TOKYO: A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck under the sea south of Japan Sunday, shaking buildings in the capital but causing no apparent damage or tsunami. |
 | Seattle Post Intelligencer - North Koreans bow in front of a portrait of the late leader Kim Jong Il outside a stadium in Pyongyang as people paid respects to him on New Year's Day Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012. |
 | TIME - By Joe Klein | @JoeKleinTIME | January 1, 2012 | + A quiet day here before tomorrow's grand campaign finale for Iowa. After last night's Des Moines Register poll solidified the top tier– Romney, Paul and Santorum–the question becomes: what next? |
 | The Independent - Here are my favourites in the series of Questions to Which the Answer is No from the past 12 months. I didn't have time to comment on this curiosity before Christmas. |
 | International Business Times AU - By Windsor Genova | January 2, 2012 12:06 PM EST One of three former followers of the doomsday cult that caused the sarin gas attacks in Tokyo's subway trains and stations in 1995 has surrendered to police after 17 years on the run to escape ... |
 | Los Angeles Times - Firefighters in Hollywood were called Sunday evening to a large fire in an abandoned two-story home where transients sometimes live, authorities said. |
 | Irish Times - VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI in his New Year's homily yesterday praised young people as key to securing a future of hope despite what he called “shadows on the horizon of today's world”. |
 | Sin Chew Jit Poh - People watch fireworks along Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro on December 31, 2011 during celebrations attended by over three million people to mark New Year's Eve festivities. |
 | Irish Times - COPENHAGEN - Denmark, which assumed its six-month presidency of the European Union yesterday, is expected to attempt to ensure Britain does not stray too far from the fold as the EU grapples with the debt crisis. |
 | Times of India - MOSCOW: Russian Police detained as many as 60 protesters in a central Moscow Square as they tried to hold an unscheduled demonstration against Prime Minister Vladmir Putin's rule. |
 | Philippine Star - NAIROBI (Xinhua) -- Seven passengers perished after two boats collided late Sunday off Kenya's Indian Ocean island of Lamu, according to hospital sources. |
 | New York Times - BEIJING - The brother of a prominent dissident rights lawyer who had been missing for 20 months said Sunday that the lawyer, Gao Zhisheng, was being held in a prison in the remote western region of Xinjiang. |
 | Wall Street Journal - By CAROL E. LEE HONOLULU—President Barack Obama heads into 2012 with a legislative agenda that essentially consists of just a single item—a long-term extension of a payroll tax holiday—deferring a fight over deficit reduction and the Bush-era tax cuts ... |
 | Indian Express - Major roads blocked by uprooted trees and debris dumped by cyclone Thane in Cuddalore district and Puducherry were cleared for traffic on Sunday as relief operations intensified to restore power to the affected areas where the toll has gone up to 47. |
 | CNN (blog) - A whole new year to play with their 'fear' and 'hate'. It's such a radical change isn't it? lol Jesus Christ, our beloved Lord & Saviour was born 2012 years ago... Too bad that he left already and didn't take your sorry lot with him. |
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