Southeast Asia
 | TVNZ - Thai authorities have arrested a Lebanese suspect after being warned by Israel of a possible attack in Bangkok, the deputy prime minister said on Friday, adding that police had stepped up security and he was confident the situation was under control. |
 | Inquirer.net - By Jerome Aning MANILA, Philippines—A team of volunteer lawyers will issue daily updates at the end of each hearing during the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona, according to Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) president Roan ... |
 | Bernama - BUKIT GANTANG, Jan 14 (Bernama) -- Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said public confidence in the Barisan Nasional (BN) leadership at the federal and state levels is growing because the coalition fulfills its pledges according to its ... |
 | New Straits Times - By Lian Cheng KUCHING: Sarawak United Peoples' Party (SUPP) has identified five out of its seven parliamentary candidates to contest in the next general election. |
 | Bernama - KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 13 (Bernama) -- Police have called on distributors of alarm clocks for information of anyone buying three of the clocks at a time from them recently. |
 | gulfnews.com - By Gilbert P. Felongco, Correspondent Manila: A Middle East-based migrant workers' group is urging authorities in the capital to investigate the brutal death of a Filipino migrant worker who arrived last Tuesday from Bahrain. |
 | Inquirer.net - By Dona Z. Pazzibugan MANILA, Philippines—Navy Flag Officer in Command Vice Admiral Alexander Pama will recommend the dismissal of four Navy officers implicated in the 1995 murder of Navy Ensign Philip Pestaño. |
 | Jakarta Post - Reporters Without Borders was shocked to learn that Wisut “Ae Inside” Tangwittayaporn, a freelance journalist and member of the Red Shirts political movement, was gunned down in a drive-by shooting on Thursday in the southwestern resort island of ... |
 | Philippine Star - By Michael Punongbayan (The Philippine Star) Updated January 14, 2012 12:00 AM 0 MANILA, Philippines - Retired Supreme Court associate justice and now Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales is worth P40.749 million, according to her statement of assets, ... |
 | Inquirer.net - The launch of the Department of Tourism's new “It's More Fun In The Philippines” campaign has led to debates between people who either love or hate it. |
 | AsiaOne - SINGAPORE - A Bangladeshi man was arrested after he tried to smuggle himself out of Singapore early this morning by hiding in the backseat of a car. |
 | Bloomberg - Enlarge image 'Made in Cambodia' 'Made in Cambodia' Brent Lewin/Bloomberg Making men's shirts in Phnom Penh for British retailer Marks & Spencer. |
World
 | Pakistan Daily Times - YANGON: Myanmar freed dozens of political prisoners on Friday in an amnesty that could embolden the opposition and put pressure on the West to lift sanctions as one of the world's most reclusive states opens up after half a century of authoritarian ... |
 | Fox News - | AP WASHINGTON - Pentagon leaders scrambled Thursday to contain damage from an Internet video purporting to show four Marines urinating on Taliban corpses - an act that appears to violate international laws of warfare and further strains US-Afghan ... |
 | TVNZ - Thai authorities have arrested a Lebanese suspect after being warned by Israel of a possible attack in Bangkok, the deputy prime minister said on Friday, adding that police had stepped up security and he was confident the situation was under control. |
 | The Guardian - The Taishang, the million Taiwanese who work in China, are rushing back home to vote in Saturday's presidential and legislative elections, urged on by their mainland bosses to vote for the incumbent nationalist candidate because he has established ... |
 | Wall Street Journal - By EMILY MALTBY President Obama announced Friday that he is elevating the head of the US Small Business Administration, Karen Mills, to become a Cabinet member. |
 | Huffington Post - The death of Kim Jong Il has left North Korea, a nation shrouded in mystery, in a time of radical uncertainty. And while the spotlight has been on North Korea in its transitional era, all that was revealed to the outside world is just how veiled North ... |
 | Pakistan Daily Times - NEW DELHI: An Indian court has threatened to block sites such as Facebook and Google unless they take steps to eliminate “offensive and objectionable” content. |
 | Pakistan Daily Times - VIENNA: Iran has agreed to a high-level visit by UN nuclear inspectors, most likely in the last week of January, in an attempt to clear up allegations of a covert weapons programme, diplomats said Friday. |
 | Washington Post - Five months ago, in this space, I wrote that something was wrong with the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial. The quotation inscribed on the monument's left flank had been so badly excerpted that a modest statement of King's was turned into a ... |
 | BBC News - David Cameron has described Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad's behaviour as "appalling", saying the leader has "lost the consent of his people". |
 | Chicago Tribune - MOSCOW (Reuters) - Several leaders of recent anti-government protests in Moscow snubbed a media award ceremony on Friday with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, whose spokesman said they had missed their chance for dialogue by not turning up. |
 | Pakistan Daily Times - ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani telephoned the top British diplomat in the country this week, expressing fears that the army might be about to stage a coup, a British official and an official in Islamabad said on Friday. |
 | Houston Chronicle - People wait for food distribution in Pibor, in South Sudan's Jonglei state on January 12, 2012. The UN says that it has registered over 2000 people that have fled here from a wave of tribal violence between the Murle and Nuer people in recent weeks. |
 | Vanguard - BY NDAHI MARAMA, Maiduguri Igbo people in Maiduguri have expressed disappointment with the Borno State government over its alleged nonchalance towards the welfare of victims of Boko Haram Islamic sect attack in the state. |
 | AFP - QUITO - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad headed for home on Friday after achieving his goal of securing the backing of four Latin American allies in his country's nuclear standoff with the West. |
 | Pakistan Daily Times - TOKYO: Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda appointed fiscal hawk Katsuya Okada as his deputy in charge of tax and social security reform in a cabinet reshuffle on Friday, vowing to forge ahead with sales tax increases despite a deadlocked parliament. |
 | Reuters - | CAIRO (Reuters) - Former president Jimmy Carter said Friday that Egypt's first parliamentary poll since a popular uprising swept Hosni Mubarak from power "accurately" reflected the will of Egyptians. |
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