Southeast Asia
 | gulfnews.com - By Gilbert P. Felongco, Correspondent Manila: The House of Representatives' panel prosecuting Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona urged the Senate to proceed with the impeachment as it refused the top magistrate's appeal to junk the move to ... |
 | Tempo - Manila, Philippines - Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert F. del Rosario arrived in the Syrian capital Damascus yesterday to facilitate the repatriation of 4000 Filipinos there, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said. |
 | Bangkok Post - Hackers launched a series of New Year's day attacks that temporarily shut down several Philippine government websites including the office of the vice-president, officials said Monday. |
 | Tempo - Manila, Philippines - The graft and ethics charges filed against former President now Pampanga Rep. Gloria M. Arroyo as a result of the botched National Broadband Network (NBN) deal were raffled off to the Fourth Division of the Sandiganbayan under ... |
 | Inquirer.net - By Christine Avendaño, Marlon Ramos The Court of Appeals has dismissed the rebellion case filed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) against members of the Ampatuan clan in connection with the massacre of 57 people in Maguindanao in 2009. |
 | gulfnews.com - By Gilbert P. Felongco, Correspondent A flood victim and her children seek shelter in a school turned into a temporary evacuation centre in Cagayan de Oro, northern Mindanao, Philippines. |
 | Gulf Today - By Manolo B. Jara MANILA: Philippine President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino ordered the release of $30 million to implement a major facelift and transform the country's rundown premier airport into a world class facility, a top Malacanang official reported ... |
 | BusinessWorld Online Edition - A REGIONAL Trial Court has withheld action on the petition of a former military general to recall an arrest warrant issued against him over charges of kidnapping two university students, the counsel of the victims' relatives said yesterday. |
 | Bangkok Post - As floodwaters started receding in the four southernmost provinces, the flooding expanded to four other provinces yesterday. People wade through run-off sweeping through Ban Phian village of tambon Thepharat in Sichon district of Nakhon Si Thammarat ... |
 | The Malaysian Insider - JAN 2 - Raja Petra Kamarudin has done it again. He's given another interview, timed just before possible elections, slagging off Pakatan Rakyat (PR). |
 | TODAYonline - SINGAPORE - Alternatives to the Stamford Canal to drain away rain water in the Orchard Road area are needed quickly, Minister for the Environment and Water Resources Vivian Balakrishnan acknowledged yesterday. |
 | Sin Chew Jit Poh - KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 2 (Bernama) -- The police will be setting up a special task force (STF) to investigate reports in several blogs on alleged police brutality when dispersing student demonstrators outside Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris in Tanjong ... |
 | Bernama - KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 2 (Bernama) -- The late Datuk Mohd Salleh Abdul Majid was today hailed as a leader who made extraordinary achievements while helming the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (now known as Bursa Malaysia) besides championing the Malay economic ... |
 | 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. |
 | KENS 5 TV - AP BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) - Unidentified gunmen killed five people and wounded eight in three attacks on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, police said Monday. |
World
 | TVNZ - Armed Syrian rebels captured dozens of members of the security forces by seizing two military checkpoints on Monday, the opposition said, even as the Arab League chief reported cautious progress in a peace monitoring mission. |
 | The Daily Star - By Steven R. Hurst WASHINGTON: Iowa Republicans gather in caucuses Tuesday to become the first in the US to chose a favorite to challenge President Barack Obama in the November elections, one day after their party's presidential candidates made their ... |
 | Salt Lake Tribune - By NASSER KARIMI AP Tehran, Iran • Iran test-fired a surface-to-surface cruise missile Monday in a drill its navy chief said proved Tehran was in complete control of the strategic Strait of Hormuz, the passageway for one-sixth of the world's oil supply ... |
 | The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - By Ryan Hutchins/The Star-Ledger Enlarge Star-Ledger Wire Services In this undated photo, Benjamin Colton Barnes is shown holding a high-powered weapon. |
 | Telegraph.co.uk - South Korea's president urged rival North Korea on Monday to use the transition of leadership after Kim Jong-il's death as a "turning point" to usher in a new era of peace on the tense Korean peninsula. |
 | Los Angeles Times - When an arsonist began preying on Hollywood last week, social media sites like Twitter quickly emerged as a clearinghouse for information. |
 | BBC News - Wildfires across large areas of central and southern Chile have left one person dead and hundreds of people homeless. Hundreds of people have followed orders to abandon their homes in danger areas, but on Monday a 75-year-old man who had refused to ... |
 | News24 - Abuja - Radical Islamist group Boko Haram issued an ultimatum on Monday, telling southern Christians living in the north to leave within three days or face further violence. |
 | MercoPress - Spain's economy is forecasted to contract in the first quarter of 2012 after shrinking in the previous six months admitted Economy Minister Luis de Guindos confirming analysts' expectations that the Euro zone fourth largest economy is already in ... |
 | Herald Sun - In an undated photograph, Egypt's ousted president Hosni Mubarak (2nd-R) and his wife Suzanne (C) pose for a family picture with their two sons Gamal (R) and Alaa (2nd-L) and the latter's wife Heidi al-Rasekh (L) at the Ittihadeya presidential palace ... |
 | Presseurop - English - At the height of the debt crisis, a small country, which is not a member of the Eurozone, has taken on the EU's six monthly rotating presidency. |
 | BBC News - Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are due to hold their first meeting in more than a year on Tuesday. Israeli envoy Yitzhak Molcho and Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat will meet in the Jordanian capital Amman alongside international mediators. |
 | New York Times - ISTANBUL - Ismail Haniya, the Hamas prime minister of Gaza, who is making his first official trip abroad since his Islamist movement took over the Palestinian strip in 2007, sought on Monday to strengthen ties with the Arab and Muslim world in the wake ... |
 | TODAYonline - Japan's Emperor Akihito waved to cheering New Year's well-wishers yesterday and said he shares in the disaster-struck nation's pain as well as hopes for its recovery, referring to the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. |
 | Philippine Star - The new year 2012 is just two days old. President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III echoed a New Year's Resolution of sorts, saying he intends to deliver what he promised to the Filipino people during the May, 2010 election campaign. |
 | Montreal Gazette - This undated photo shows the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Buildings. A major 7.0-magnitude earthquake rocked Tokyo Sunday, Japan's Meteorological Agency said, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injury and no tsunami warning was issued. |
 | Manila Bulletin - MANILA, Philippines - Sunday we mark the 45th World Day of Peace with the theme “Educating Young People in Justice and Peace” to engage “an urgent need in the world today: to listen to and enhance the important role of new generations in the ... |
 | Catholic Culture - China's government has finally admitted the arrest of a Christian human-rights activist who was taken into custody in February 2009. |
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