Southeast Asia
 | Philippine Headline News - MANILA, JANUARY 16, 2012 (INQUIRER) By Cathy Yamsuan - Most likely, his presence would be acknowledged but Chief Justice Renato Corona will not be called to the witness stand if he shows up in the Senate on Monday to attend the opening session of his ... |
 | Jewish Telegraphic Agency - JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israel's Counter-Terrorism Bureau issued a warning to Israelis to stay away from Bangkok out of fear of a terrorist attack. |
 | The Online Zamboanga Times - by Faye P. Velasco MANILA - The Philippines reiterated anew its call on the other members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to take a united and decisive role in the resolution of the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) disputes ... |
 | Bernama - KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 15 (Bernama) -- Umno information chief Datuk Ahmad Maslan described some of opposition's ideas as "strange" and stressed that these could be detrimental to the country and lead to social disintegration. |
 | Daily Monitor - Chief Justice Benjamin Odoki (R) and his deputy Alice Mpangi-Bahigeine at High Court on Friday. PHOTO by A. Wesaka By Anthony Wesaka (email the author) The Chief Justice says the Judiciary needs more funding for its headquarters. |
 | Castanet.net - by The Canadian Press - Story: 69745 A moderate earthquake roused people from sleep but caused no injuries or damage in the northern Philippines early Sunday, officials said. |
 | Inquirer.net - By Cris Evert B. Lato, Nestor P. Burgos Jr. CEBU CITY—Bienvenido Bacalla Jr., 22, has been joining the Sinulog Grand Parade since he was eight. |
 | BBC News - Parliament confirmed the Communist Party's nomination of Nguyen Minh Triet, the party chief in Ho Chi Minh City, as president in June 2006. |
 | New Straits Times - By LEE KENG FATT AND SHARANPAL SINGH RANDHAWA, KANGAR IT is important for the people to remember the measures taken by the government to improve their welfare and not to fall into the traps laid by the opposition, Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri ... |
 | Inquirer.net - By Leoncio Balbin Jr. VIGAN CITY—Former Ilocos Sur Rep. Ronald Singson arrived on the family-owned 18-seat jet at the airport here at 4:30 pm on Saturday, hours after his release from the Hong Kong jail where he served 11 months of an 18-month sentence ... |
 | New Straits Times - Question: Your statements recently that the Chinese community will be left without representation in government were seen as a threat by many and didn't seem to go down well with some Chinese voters. |
 | TODAYonline - by Sara Grosse SINGAPORE - Singapore's investments in anti-flood measures must be just as effective in managing droughts, the other extreme weather condition, Environment and Water Resources Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said yesterday at a community ... |
 | Malaysia Star - By ZORA CHAN KUCHING: SUPP has identified five candidates who it thinks have bright chances of winning in the next parliamentary election. |
 | BusinessWorld Online Edition - CAGAYAN DE ORO -- The city government has agreed to grant business chamber members adversely affected by tropical storm Sendong (international name: Washi) relief from unpaid real property penalties and surcharges. |
 | Los Angeles Times - A diocese of sorts has been created by the pope for those who convert to Roman Catholicism, an illustration that the culture wars outside the church have come to dominate debates among Christians. |
World
 | 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. |
 | Sky News - UN chief Ban Ki-moon has demanded that Syria's president stops killing his own people and said the "old order" of one-man rule and family dynasties is over in the Middle East. |
 | ABC Online - Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage - torture, the use of hostages, forced labour, mass deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassination, ... |
 | TODAYonline - Outside the Kuomintang's Taipei headquarters, the victors smiled under thin plastic hoods, cheering in relief as much as in celebration. |
 | Telegraph.co.uk - Gunmen detonated bombs around a police building in the Iraqi city of Ramadi before storming it wearing explosive-belts and dressed as policemen, killing seven officers. |
 | Voice of America (blog) - French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe has awarded Burmese pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi one of France's highest honors. |
 | Ynetnews - Romania's government called an emergency meeting late Sunday to discuss violent protests that show no sign of abating after demonstrators angry about austerity measures hurled stones and firebombs at police. |
| Jewish Telegraphic Agency - JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israel's Counter-Terrorism Bureau issued a warning to Israelis to stay away from Bangkok out of fear of a terrorist attack. |
 | Gulf Today - LAHORE: A bomb ripped through a Shiite procession killing 18 marchers and wounding over 20 others in the central Pakistani town of Khanpur on Sunday, police officials said. |
 | msnbc.com (blog) - Damage is seen on the Doola 3, an oil tanker carrying petroleum, after it exploded in waters off South Korea's western port city of Incheon Jan. 15. |
 | Forbes - December was not a good month for Prime Minister Noda, punctuated as it was by the humiliating trip to Beijing I described in a previous post, and occupied increasingly loud (but pointless) carping and posturing by increasingly unserious opposition ... |
 | Hindustan Times - Chinese security forces on Saturday fired into a crowd of Tibetans in Sichuan Province as they tried to take away the body of a Tibetan man who died after self-immolation. |
 | Sky News - The Prime Minister has agreed to hold talks about Scottish independence with Scotland's First Minister. It follows claims from Alex Salmond that a number of requests for a meeting with David Cameron had been refused. |
 | Zee News - Kathmandu: China has responded positively to Nepal's request to extend its railway line from Tibet to Kathmandu and ultimately establish a link with Lord Buddha's birthplace Lumbini, located close to the Indo-Nepal border, Nepalese Deputy Premier ... |
 | Politico (blog) - By ALEXANDER BURNS | Thanks to Gingrich and company, Democrats have been handed a gift that's likely to keep on giving all year. |
 | Voice of America - January 15, 2012 Retired General Sworn in as Guatemalan President VOA News Retired general Otto Perez has been sworn in as Guatemala's new president. |
 | Reuters - By Alexandra Alper | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama celebrated the legacy of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. |
 | The Associated Press - CAIRO (AP) - Reform leader Mohammed ElBaradei's surprise pullout from the presidential race has laid bare the messiness of Egypt's transition to democracy with less than six months left for the ruling generals to hand over power. |
 | Daily Mail - By Daily Mail Reporters Though the vast majority of people are outraged over the deplorable behaviour of the four Marines taped urinating on dead bodies in Afghanistan shown in a video circulating the internet, controversial comedian Bill Maher and one ... |
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