Southeast Asia
Gulf Times - Two defence volunteers died when armed men broke into a factory early yesterday in the southern Thai province of Narathiwat and started shooting, police said, blaming the attack on insurgents. |
GMA News - Employees of the Supreme Court on Friday afternoon started a novena Mass for a "fair and truthful" trial for impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona. |
Inquirer.net - By Jocelyn R. Uy IT'S FUN. The new marketing campaign launched by the Department of Tourism to attract visitors to the Philippines. |
Malaysia Star - PETALING JAYA: Pakatan Rakyat will have a 500-member uniformed marshall force to ensure the Jan 9 rally at the Jalan Duta court carpark is carried out in a peaceful and orderly manner, said PKR deputy president Azmin Ali. |
Malaysia Star - By FONG KEE SOON GEORGE TOWN: Twenty-two Chinese nationals were among 37 people arrested in a raid on a call centre run by a “Macau-scam” syndicate here. |
Asian Correspondent - By Edwin Espejo Jan 07, 2012 7:00AM UTC GENERAL SANTOS CITY (Jan 7) - Barely 24 hours after a publisher of a local tabloid was gunned down in cold blooded fashion, hired assassins struck again. |
International Business Times UK - By Emanuelle Degli Esposti: Subscribe to Emanuelle's RSS feed India's crime branch officers hold a seized head of a Royal Bengal tiger outside a hotel in Nagpur March 16, 2011. |
TODAYonline - by Lin Yanqin SINGAPORE - Rather than an approach that assumes "top earners are also top talent", the Workers' Party (WP) has recommended a more "people-up" approach in setting ministerial salaries. |
Inquirer.net - By DJ Yap, Miko Morelos THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD. A narcotics agent guards four Chinese nationals (above) suspected of operating a “shabu” laboratory at 504 Acacia Ave. |
Sun.Star - By Michael Andrew W. Yu THOUSANDS of Catholic devotees and religious people are expected to join the annual procession celebrating the feast of Black Nazarene on Monday. |
Bernama - PENAMPANG, Jan 6 (Bernama) -- The Sabah chapter of the once-dormant Sarawak-based State Reform Party (STAR), a proponent of an opposition coalition of Sabah and Sarawak-based parties to contest in the next general election, was launched here Friday. |
Jakarta Globe - Indonesian jet fighters maneuver above Makassar, South Sulawesi. Papua New Guinea has reportedly made threats to kick the Indonesian ambassador out of the country after what is described as an incident in Indonesian airspace last November. |
Capital New York - By Dana Rubinstein During his regular Friday morning appearance on WOR's "The John Gambling Show," Mayor Michael Bloomberg discussed the challenges facing the governor's proposed convention center and casino in Queens, while also expressing some ... |
Journal Online - THE lawyer of retired Armed Forces chief Gen. Roy A. Cimatu yesterday denounced the findings of the Department of Justice (DOJ)'s panel of prosecutors recommending his indictment for plunder along with ten others on the basis of “spurious” documents ... |
ABS CBN News - MANILA, Philippines - Philippine rescuers dug through rock and mud Friday looking for people feared buried by a deadly landslide at a remote gold mining community, as officials vowed to shut down unsafe mine sites. |
TODAYonline - by Tanya Fong SINGAPORE - Pro bono legal services to help the needy are set to get a leg up here, as the legal year opens. In his address to the legal fraternity at the Supreme Court yesterday morning, Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong announced that the ... |
World
New Zealand Herald - A general view of the explosion scene at Midan neighborhood, in Damascus, Syria. Photo / AP A bomb exploded Friday at a busy Damascus intersection, killing 25 people and wounding dozens in the second major attack in the Syrian capital in as many weeks, ... |
Wall Street Journal - By DREW HINSHAW Gunmen stormed a shopkeepers' meeting in northeast Nigeria and killed at least 20 members of a predominantly Christian ethnic group, apparently following through on an Islamic militia's ultimatum to kill Christians if they fail to leave ... |
Voice of America - 06 January 2012 Obama Sets Plan for 'Leaner' Military TO DOWNLOAD the MP3 of this story, click on the MP3 link in the upper right corner of the page. |
Pakistan Daily Times - The unprecedented arrest and jailing of a former Turkish army chief has left the country's financial markets unmoved but adds to a steady rise in political risk that foreign investors could be ignoring at their own peril. |
BBC News - By Rachel Harvey BBC South East Asia Correspondent British Foreign Secretary William Hague described his visit to Burma as a gesture of good intent on the part of the UK in the light of recent changes. |
Jerusalem Post - By REUTERS Western countries discuss tapping up to 14 million bdp of oil from emergency stockpiles if Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz; action would be five-times larger than any other release from reserves. |
Atlanta Journal Constitution - By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA AP BAGHDAD - A decision by a Shiite militia to transform itself from an armed, anti-American movement into a viable political force could complicate Iraq's political crisis and strengthen Iran's clout in this country as US ... |
Washington Post - UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations has launched a major humanitarian emergency effort following intertribal violence in South Sudan that may have left thousands dead and some 50000 people in urgent need of aid. |
Sky News Australia - Video for this article is not available as your browser either does not support JavaScript and/or Flash Player 9+ or they are currently disabled in your browser settings. |
Huffington Post (blog) - For all the brouhaha surrounding President Obama's recess appointments this week of three new members for the National Labor Relations Board and of Richard Cordray to serve as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, ... |
Pakistan Daily Times - ISLAMABAD: Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz has submitted his BlackBerry Personal Identification Number (PIN) to the commission investigating the memogate scandal. |
CNN (blog) - Editor's Note: Elliott Abrams is former senior director for the Near East and deputy national security adviser handling Middle East affairs in the George W. Bush administration. |
Malaysia Star - By KAREN CHAPMAN and NURHIDAYAH RAMLI PETALING JAYA: Students from public universities should be allowed to attend the “Free Anwar 901” rally on Monday if the event has a permit and is lawful, said Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled... |
ABC Online - Fiji's interim government has taken a step towards democracy by lifting the country's draconian emergency laws today. The Public Emergency Regulations were lifted at midnight, in line with the Fijian military regime's promise to consult Fijians on the ... |
msnbc.com - By msnbc.com staff and news services A smoggy Beijing day is seen last Dec. 5, and compared to a clear one on Aug. 18. Beijing officials said Friday they'll be publishing more detailed smog readings -- a win for residents and their unusual ally: the US ... |
Sky News Australia - The Czech Republic has granted asylum to the husband of Ukraine's jailed opposition leader and former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Czech Interior Minister Jan Kubice said. |
Business Recorder (blog) - Seoul shares closed down Friday as institutional investors abandoned the market, but trimmed losses after briefly extending falls on unsubstantiated rumours of a possible downgrade to France's credit rating and a North Korean nuclear accident. |
China Post - A tearful Chen Shui-bian completed funeral rites for his mother-in-law yesterday morning. Unrestrained by handcuffs or leg irons, Chen donned mourning clothes and proceeded into the memorial hall on his hands and knees, in compliance with traditional. |
Patch.com - Bishop Gabino Zavala, an auxiliary bishop for the San Gabriel Pastoral Region, submitted his resignation to the pope. By City News Service A Los Angeles bishop resigned his post this week with the Catholic church after admitting he is the father of two ... |
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