Southeast Asia
 | Bangkok Post - The next cabinet reshuffle could be just months away with deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra reportedly giving the Yingluck cabinet a six-month deadline to deliver. |
 | Malaysia Star - By STEVEN DANIEL KUALA LUMPUR: A fire broke out at a towering building under construction in KL Sentral, causing massive jams lasting almost six hours in various parts of the city as traffic was diverted from the Brickfields area. |
 | New Straits Times - By alang bendahara MACC advisory panel chairman Puan Sri Zaitun Zawiyah Puteh (right) and MACC chief commissioner Datuk Seri Abu Kassim Mohamed (left) at a corruption prevention advisory board meeting in Putrajaya yesterday. |
 | Malaysia Star - By RINTOS MAIL KUCHING: The state Public Service Department (PSD) must continue to be fair in their recruitment and promotions of civil servants. |
 | Yahoo!7 News - SURABAYA, Indonesia (AFP) - Thirty Pakistani and Afghan immigrants tunneled their way out of an Indonesian detention centre using spoons, nails and wooden sticks, an official said Wednesday. |
 | Free Malaysia Today - Pakatan Rakyat's struggle is a marriage of Anwar Ibrahim's personal objectives and that of DAP and PAS' 'consistent' causes. |
 | TODAYonline - Former Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has sent a letter to the Singapore media on the issue of ministerial salaries. Here is Mr Lee's letter in full: I listened to several of the speeches in Parliament on ministerial salaries and read the rest in the ... |
 | IEWY News - The Secretary-General has designated David Scheffer of the United States as the Special Expert to advise on the United Nations Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials, for an initial period of six months, replacing Clint Williamson, whose term of office ... |
 | Business Times (subscription) - By TEH SHI NING (SINGAPORE) Both sides of the House have 'taken a major step forward to bridge the once-wide gap' between them on the prickly issue of ministerial pay, said Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean yesterday as he brought to a close three ... |
 | Malaysia Star - By WONG PEK MEI KUALA LUMPUR: Bersih 2.0 chief Datuk S. Ambiga took the stand at the Suhakam public inquiry to testify about her experience at KL Sentral during the rally. |
 | Bernama - JAKARTA, Jan 18 (Bernama) -- The Indonesian government has launched a national movement for the eradication of the worst forms of child labour in a bid to step up its efforts to tackle the complex problem, according to China's Xinhua news agency citing ... |
 | Bernama - PUTRAJAYA, Jan 18 (Bernama) -- The case involving former Negeri Sembilan Director of Veterinary Services Datuk Dr Noor Soeraya Norsham, is an isolated one and does not mean that there is a weakness in the system of promotion, said Chief Secretary to ... |
 | Straits Times - Gary Yue is also accused of creating a link to a video of an Egyptian president being killed, with a comment that it should be re-enacted at the National Day Parade. |
World
 | Philippine Star - SAN FRANCISCO (Xinhua) -- More than 7000 websites including Wikipedia are blacking out their websites on Wednesday to protest the pending Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act, the latest move from Silicon Valley to take on Hollywood in ... |
 | TODAYonline - JERUSALEM - Israel's Defence Minister Ehud Barak said yesterday that any decision on attacking Iran because of its nuclear programme was "very far off", apparently seeking to lower the tone of increasingly nervous discourse as powers manoeuvre in ... |
 | Salt Lake Tribune - By NICOLE WINFIELD AP Rome • An Italian dad and his 5-year-old daughter. A retired American couple treating themselves after putting four children through college. |
 | BusinessWeek - By Edith Balazs and Jones Hayden Jan. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Hungary bowed to mounting pressure from lenders and regulators as Prime Minister Viktor Orban signaled he would compromise over disputed laws that halted bailout talks, boosting the country's ... |
 | Washington Post - An apple a day keeps the doctor away, but did you know a bowl of tangerines can usher in good fortune for the Lunar New Year? In Chinese, their name sounds like the word for luck. |
 | Canada.com - By Lee Berthiaume, Postmedia News January 18, 2012 OTTAWA - Millions of dollars in Canadian aid to Ethiopia could be under the microscope following reports tens of thousands of indigenous people are being forcibly relocated to make room for large, ... |
 | euronews - Myanmar's pro-democracy leader has been registered as a candidate in the country's partial parliamentary elections on April 1. The vote will be closely scrutinised by the West as a test of the commitment by Myanmar's military rulers to reform. |
 | GMA News - The visit of Thailand Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to the Philippines Thursday will be very short, lasting just almost five hours. |
 | Washington Post - FLORENCE, SC - On the morning after a bellicose debate performance that had the audience leaping to its feet, Newt Gingrich got this challenge from a retired Marine officer who had come to hear him speak at an art gallery here. |
 | BBC News - Pakistani PM Yousuf Raza Gilani is due to appear before the country's highest court over his refusal to reopen a corruption case against the president. |
 | The Independent - It's striking how you can take things for granted online. Since the Wikipedia blackout commenced, I ... An increasing number of Muslim women activists are receiving death threats, fatwas and even hate-mai... I've always been a big fan of Acid House ... |
 | Arab News - The Arab world has seen unprecedented upsurge in public anger against some governments since the Tunisian revolution. Many of the strongmen of the region have been overthrown and consigned to the dustbin of history, giving a strong sense of belief to ... |
 | Voice of America - January 18, 2012 Kim Jong Il's Eldest Son Paints Grim Outlook for North Korea in New Book VOA News A new book published in Japan says the eldest son of late North Korean ruler Kim Jong Il paints a grim outlook for North Korea under the leadership of ... |
 | Sydney Morning Herald - PHILIPPINE authorities are investigating the suspicious death of a well-known Australian priest who was found floating in a river in the Philippines. |
 | Irish Times - EGYPT'S RULER, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi has vowed that the military will protect the country from “grave dangers” it faces and has urged Egyptians to be aware of conspiracies to undermine the armed forces. |
 | TIME - By AP / BEN NUCKOLS Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) - As hundreds of Occupy protesters massed outside the gates of the White House, an apparent smoke bomb was thrown over the fence Tuesday night, forcing authorities to disperse the crowds. |
 | The Daily Star - As funeral processions for some of the 27 victims of the building collapse made their way through Ashrafieh Wednesday it became apparent that in addition to this tragic loss of life is the complete loss of credibility of the government and its ... |
 | ticklethewire.com - By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A fire at a suburban Chicago home may have been used to hide the murder of four people in the house, ATF agents have told the Associated Press. |
 | The Daily Yomiuri - The University of Tokyo should start enrollments in autumn rather than spring so its schedule matches a majority of universities abroad, a university panel has proposed in an interim report. |
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