Southeast Asia
 | Malaysia Kini - COMMENT Those who claimed that Anwar Ibrahim's acquittal by the High Court last week on a charge of sodomy was a game-changing move must have felt, after the Attorney-General's Chambers filed a notice of appeal yesterday, rather like North Korea's ... |
 | TODAYonline - BANGKOK - Thailand's Criminal Court has approved an arrest warrant for an alleged accomplice of Lebanese suspect Hussein Atris, who has been detained on suspicion of being involved in a terrorist plot. |
 | Bulatlat - By Giovanni Tapang, PhD The ongoing impeachment trial at the Senate for the removal of Chief Justice Renato Corona is slowly becoming an early afternoon telenovela. |
 | New Straits Times - By MINDERJEET KAUR Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak (in white shirt) visiting SMJK Chong Hwa, Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Pic by Effendy Rashid KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said civil servants should not worry about the ... |
 | Inquirer.net - AGENTS of the National of Investigation in Central Visayas (NBI-7) were surprised after learning that Director Magtanggol Gatdula was dismissed for being implicated in a kidnap-extortion case of a Japanese national. |
 | Financial Times - By Shazia Mirza I have done stand-up comedy all over the world. Occasionally in strange places: a tent, a kebab shop, a public toilet. |
 | Huffington Post - After surviving an attack from an angry mob, an Indonesian atheist is facing jail time for posting the phrase "God doesn't exist" on his Facebook page. |
 | Malaysia Kini - YOURSAY 'She should sue for RM250 million so that she could use the money to settle the NFC loan with the government.' Quigonbond: It's a puzzle that Wanita Umno chief Shahrizat Abdul Jalil is saying she's been defamed. |
 | Voice of America (blog) - The United Nations says Cambodia is refusing to permit a Swiss investigating judge to take his place on the tribunal trying suspected Khmer Rouge war crimes, blocking at least two pending cases. |
 | Journal Online - FOREIGN Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario yesterday commended the Filipino crew of MV Costa Concordia for their heroism and dedication to their work. |
 | Free Malaysia Today - PETALING JAYA: Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Nazri Aziz's argument that public disclosure of assets by ministers and family members is dangerous has no merit at all. |
 | AFP - BANGKOK - Thailand's premier on Thursday defended her appointment of a cabinet minister who is on a US blacklist owing to alleged business links to Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe. |
 | Aljazeera.com - Thousands of residents in the Philippines marched through the streets of Baguio on Friday to protest the planned destruction of pine trees to make room for a parking garage. |
 | Tuoitrenews - A peach blossom budding at Pa Khen Hamlet in Moc Chau District in the northern mountainous province of Son La signals the coming of Tet. |
 | New Straits Times - By SHARANJIT SINGH Datuk Dr Teng Hock Nan (centre) and Penang Barisan Nasional leaders with a copy of the white paper on the Tang Hak Ju case after a press briefing in Tajung Marina yesterday. |
World
 | Stuff.co.nz - Red and gold, vibrant dragons have swept through Auckland, bringing good fortune in the Chinese New Year. More than 20000 Aucklanders are expected to celebrate the Year of the Dragon at the Chinese New Year Festival and Market Day at ASB Showgrounds ... |
 | Wall Street Journal - By STACY MEICHTRY And SABRINA COHEN The attorney for Italy's embattled cruise-ship captain suggested Friday the ship's operating company bears a share of the blame for a deadly delay in evacuating the Costa Concordia's passengers, as further accounts ... |
 | Malaysia Star - By John Irish and Ahmed Qiam PARIS/CHARIKAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - France threatened on Friday to pull out early from the NATO-led war in Afghanistan after a rogue Afghan soldier opened fire on French soldiers, killing four and wounding about 15 ... |
 | Newsday - World Newsday > News > World Radical sect touts killings in Nigeria Published: January 20, 2012 8:25 PM By IBRAHIM GARBA AND SALISU RABIU. |
 | TVNZ - Mathias Ortmann, Fin Batato and Bram Van der Kolk, and Kim Dotcom at the North Shore District Court. - Source: ONE News A police raid on an Auckland mansion at the centre of an FBI-led bust on the world's largest file-sharing site put a stop to the ... |
 | CNN International - By Roland Martin, CNN Contributor Newt Gingrich participated in the CNN South Carolina Republican Debate in Charleston on Thursday, January 19, 2012. |
 | San Jose Mercury News - By Jonathan Weisman WASHINGTON -- Congressional leaders on Friday indefinitely shelved two anti-piracy bills that had rallied the Internet and rocked Capitol Hill, dealing a major defeat to the traditional media industry while emboldening a new breed ... |
 | Slate Magazine - Burma's Nobel laureate muses on the sweeping reforms in her country and whether she will be its president. By Lally Weymouth|Posted Friday, Jan. 20, 2012, at 8:20 PM ET Photograph by Frederic de la Mure/AFP/Getty Images. |
 | msnbc.com (blog) - NBC's Ayman Mohyeldin speaks to supporters of Syrian President Bashar Al Assad who turned out Friday in Damascus. Editor's note: Cairo-based NBC News correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin is reporting from inside Syria this week. |
 | The News International - “A theory of collective state benefit guides the process of repealing extraneous immunity protections and draws the line between immune and non-immune conduct more appropriately than the normative hierarchy theory” - Lee M Caplan, in State Immunity, ... |
 | GMA News - Foreign workers in Taiwan may be allowed to extend their stay there by as much as three years - this after Taiwan lawmakers voted to extend the maximum length of employment for foreign migrant labor in blue-collar sectors from nine to 12 years. |
 | The Independent - Alejandro Cao de Benos - or 'Zo', as his comrades call him - is a devoted follower of the late Kim Jong-il and vigorously defends the North Korean government he represents. |
 | KFYR-TV - President Obama`s decision earlier this week to block the Keystone XL Pipeline, a 1700 mile long project that would start in western Canada and end at the Gulf Coast, was met with strong opposition from North Dakota Republicans in both the House and ... |
 | CNN (blog) - It was slightly before midnight last Friday when Mahmoud Abu Rahma was walking home from his office at the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights in Gaza City. |
 | BBC News - A cargo ship has run aground on the Dutch coast 20km (12 miles) west of Amsterdam after its anchor slipped in an overnight storm. The empty vessel appeared to be stable after drifting towards the coast and rescue services said there was no sign of any ... |
 | Boston.com - By Jeffrey Collins and Kristin M. Hall AP / January 20, 2012 COLUMBIA, SC—Federal investigators say two fatal medical helicopter crashes within the last two years were caused by pilots trying to outrun storms. |
 | Capital Public Radio News - California Governor Jerry Brown is signaling he's open to moving the $11 billion water bond off this November's ballot. The governor's comments Thursday appear to differ from the position of some lawmakers, including the Speaker of the Assembly. |
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