Southeast Asia
 | Vancouver Sun - KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA - JANUARY 9: Malaysian opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim arrives outside the High Court to hear his sodomy trial's verdict on January 9, 2012 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. |
 | ABS CBN News - MANILA, Philippines (UPDATE) - After nearly 22 hours, the procession of the image of the Black Nazarene has ended. The image of the Nazarene reached the doors of the Quiapo Minor Basilica past 6 am, ending what could be considered as the longest ... |
 | Prensa Latina - 09 de enero de 2012, 18:09Jakarta, Jan 9 (Prensa Latina) Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd agreed at official talks to lead a joint drive against human trafficking. |
 | Journal Online - CHIEF Justice Renato Corona has created a team of spokespersons for his impeachment trial in the Senate. Court Administrator Midas Marquez said the communications group is composed of three private lawyers personally handpicked by the embattled SC ... |
 | TODAYonline - by Esther Ng The PUB should not have used the term "ponding", said Minister for the Environment and Water Resources Vivian Balakrishnan in Parliament yesterday. |
 | BusinessWorld Online Edition - THE GOVERNMENT peace panel has formally asked its Moro counterpart to ink a final peace deal within the quarter as talks resumed in Malaysia yesterday. |
 | Fiji Times - PORT MORESBY ( THE NATIONAL) - Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has reassured Jakarta that his government has no intention of expelling the Indonesian ambassador or closing the Indonesian embassy in Port Moresby over the Nov 29 Falcon ... |
 | The Malaysian Insider - By Clara Chooi SEREMBAN, Jan 7 - PAS leader Datuk Dr Hasan Ali is planning a meeting with Christian leaders and “victims of apostasy” to prove the existence of a movement to convert Muslims, Sinar Harian reported today. |
 | The Malaysian Insider - By Melissa Chi Karpal Singh attending the DAP National Convention at the Selangor SUK, Shah Alam January 8 2012. - Picture by Jack Ooi SHAH ALAM, Jan 8 - DAP chairman Karpal Singh called on “warlords and godfathers” in the party to fight the ruling ... |
 | TODAYonline - China yesterday rejected accusations by Manila that three Chinese ships had intruded into waters claimed by the Philippines, even as it took a tempered stance in its first official response to Washington's plan to expand its military presence in Asia. |
 | Jakarta Globe - Lawmaker Benny K. Harman defended the president against a recent survey stating a high level of dissatisfaction with corruption eradication efforts. |
 | Free Malaysia Today - KUALA LUMPUR: Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim's acquittal is expected to trigger a conflict in Umno, said PKR vice-president Tian Chua. |
 | Inquirer.net - By Leila B. Salaverria Militants on Monday said former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo could be charged with plunder based on the testimony of former ZTE consultant Dante Madriaga that the now Pampanga lawmaker herself confirmed to him the delivery ... |
 | Journal Online - SENATOR Edgardo Angara yesterday appealed to his countrymen not to be “strangers” in their own land as he urged them to explore the various tourist spots. |
 | Voice of America - Monday, 09 January 2012 More Discord Emerges in Office of Investigating Judges Kong Sothanarith, VOA Khmer | Phnom Penh Kasper-Ansermet “does not have legal accreditation to undertake any procedural action or measure” regarding cases at the tribunal. |
 | TODAYonline - Security measures for opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim and his family are being beefed-up, following an alleged attack on the bodyguard of his wife, Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, on Saturday night. |
 | TODAYonline - by Tan Weizhen SINGAPORE - More funds will be set aside for the Home Improvement Programme (HIP), which upgrades older Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats with improvements such as upgrading the toilets and fixing spalling concrete. |
World
| Vancouver Sun - KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA - JANUARY 9: Malaysian opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim arrives outside the High Court to hear his sodomy trial's verdict on January 9, 2012 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. |
 | The Daily Star - The Arab League's observer mission to Syria has reached its mid-way point after officials in Cairo discussed Sunday an initial report on the mission's findings and conclusions thus far. |
 | AFP - LONDON - Israel is preparing for Iran to become a nuclear power and has accepted it may happen within a year, the London Times reported on Monday citing an Israeli security report. |
 | ABC News (blog) - One-time Republican front-runner Newt Gingrich told ABC News today that he has to win the South Carolina primary on Jan. 21 if he's to have a shot at being the party's nominee. |
 | The Age - The passing of North Korean strongman Kim Jong-il has been marked by plunging temperatures, mourning bears and now, according to North Korean state media, by flocks of magpies. |
 | TODAYonline - BLOEMFONTEIN (South Africa) - Tens of thousands of chanting and dancing revellers in South Africa waved the green and gold of the African National Congress (ANC) as Africa's oldest liberation movement celebrated its 100th anniversary yesterday. |
 | Stuff.co.nz - STRONGLY WORDED: The pope arrives to give a new year address to the diplomatic corps accredited to the Vatican in which he made some of his strongest comments against gay marriage to date. |
 | Indian Express - Tehran: Iran announced on Monday it had sentenced a dual US-Iranian citizen to death for spying for the CIA, creating fresh grounds for hostility with Washington at a time when Tehran has responded to new US sanctions with military threats. |
 | New York Times - BEIJING - Three Tibetan monks in central China set themselves on fire this weekend, raising to 15 the number of suicides in the last year by Buddhist clergy members protesting aspects of Beijing's rule in Tibet. |
 | Reuters UK - By Martin Petty | YANGON (Reuters) - With his walking stick, long white hair and thick spectacles from a bygone age, Win Tin embodies the challenge facing the party that has led the campaign for democracy in Myanmar but now needs new blood to secure ... |
 | The Australian - THREE anti-whaling protesters aboard a Japanese whaling ship will be picked up by an Australian customs ship in a high-seas transfer in the Southern Ocean. |
 | Nigerian Tribune - The recent actions of the Boko Haram were as a result of frustrations created by northern leaders for a period of 38 years. The Niger-Delta region, however, sees the bombings by the disgruntled Northen religious sect as their (Northerners') way of ... |
 | Reuters Canada - By Lin Noueihed CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamists aim to deepen their control over Egypt's lower house of parliament on Tuesday in a final phase of voting overshadowed by a threat from a liberal party to boycott elections for the upper chamber. |
 | MiamiHerald.com - By ALAN BOSWELL NAIROBI, Kenya -- Threats of genocide and ethnically charged rhetoric are roiling South Sudan's Jonglei state one week after a days-long rampage by a tribal militia forced 50000 people from their homes and may have left thousands dead. |
 | Vancouver Sun - Iraqi policemen stand guard on January 6, 2012, as Shiites walk in the Dura neighbourhood of Baghdad on a main highway linking Baghdad to the central shrine city of Karbala to mark Arbaeen religious festival which is the 40th day after Ashura which ... |
 | Journal Online - THE overseas Filipino worker (OFW) who is in death row in Saudi Arabia for killing a fellow Filipino there is expected to be released within three months. |
 | TIME (blog) - By Karl Vick | @karl_vick | January 9, 2012 | + Exiled Palestinian Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal addresses a meeting with some 40 Palestinian prisoners who were freed by Israel but are to be deported overseas, in Cairo on October 18, 2011. |
 | NEWS.com.au - A UK celebrity chef has apologised after he was caught shoplifting cheese and wine from a chain supermarket. Sixty-year-old Antony Worrall of Ready Steady Cook fame was cautioned by police after he was caught stealing from a Tesco store in Oxfordshire ... |
 | Ninemsn - By ninemsn staff An Australian tourist says she felt like she was "slapped all over" after her bungee jumping cord snapped and she plunged into the Zambesi River, on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe. |
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