Monday, January 23, 2012

23 JAN 2012, MON: SEA & World

Southeast Asia


Anti-Corona solons join smear campaign

Tempo - 
Manila, Philippines - The media campaign believed to be aimed at pressuring Chief Justice Renato C. Corona to resign added a new dimension as 188 signatories of the Articles of Impeachment against him formally joined the movement.

Midas Marquez denies impropriety, hits Palace

Inquirer.net - 
By Marlon Ramos Supreme Court Administrator Jose Midas Marquez on Sunday denied allegations of irregularities in the use of the $21-million World Bank (WB) loan granted to the judiciary and slammed Malacañang for its “imprudent” leak of an aide-mémoire ...

Singapore PM hopes for Year of the Dragon baby boom

Yahoo!7 News - 
SINGAPORE (AFP) - Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Sunday he hoped "fervently" that Singaporeans would boost the city-state's stubbornly-low birth rates in the coming Year of the Dragon.

All systems go in India

Bangkok Post - 
Concrete progress on long-awaited FTA expected to be highlight of PM Yingluck's visit to New Delhi this week. India's "Look East" policy will be on full display with the visit of Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra this week, as both sides look to ...

Ibrahim Ali: Auditor-General must openly clarify NFC is not in a "mess"

Malaysia Star - 
By MARTIN CARVALHO KUALA LUMPUR: Malay rights group Perkasa's chief Datuk Ibrahim Ali wants the Auditor-General to publicly clarify that the controversial National Feedlot Corporation (NFC) project is not in the “mess” that he had originally reported.

Bangkok police on terror alert

Bangkok Post - 
Police are on 24-hour security watch at tourist locations and places of foreign interest in Bangkok as officers investigate supposed links between an arrested Lebanese man and terrorist plots.

Luisita farmers warn DAR of being used to reverse Supreme Court ruling

Philippine Star - 
ANGELES CITY, Philippines - Farmer-leaders at Hacienda Luisita warned yesterday the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) against being used as a tool to subvert the Supreme Court (SC) decision to distribute to them lands in the estate controlled by the ...

Ex-NBI chief saw kidnap victim, says DOJ

Inquirer.net - 
By Jerome Aning Magtanggol Gatdula, then National Bureau of Investigation director, checked on undocumented alien Noriyo Ohara a few hours after she was abducted in Pangasinan by unauthorized NBI agents on Oct. 29, 2010, according to a report of a ...

Low OFW voters' enrolment for midterm polls

Gulf Today - 
By Manolo B. Jara MANILA: A Commission on Elections (Comelec) official noted a low registration of qualified overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) being encouraged to vote in the May 2013 midterm polls.

Cambodia Refuses to Seat Swiss Judge at Khmer Rouge Tribunal

Voice of America - 
January 21, 2012 Cambodia Refuses to Seat Swiss Judge at Khmer Rouge Tribunal VOA News 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, ...

Motorcycle-borne felons a menace

gulfnews.com - 
By Gilbert P. Felongco, Correspondent Manila: The government has intensified its efforts to go after motorcycle-riding criminals across the country amid the continued scourge posed by these fast-moving felons.

Cagayan de Oro spring

Inquirer.net - 
A revolution is currently brewing in disaster-stricken Cagayan de Oro. And this revolution could become a new template for ousting abusive local government officials.

'Palace dropped ball on Marcos suit'

Inquirer.net - 
By Norman Bordadora MANILA, Philippines—Malacañang was no longer up to speed on developments in the P50-billion ill-gotten wealth suit that the government had filed 24 years ago against the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, the late Armed Forces chief of ...

Schools damaged by 'Sendong' in CDO, Iligan now functioning

Philippine Star - 
By Czeriza Valencia (The Philippine Star) Updated January 23, 2012 12:00 AM 0 MANILA, Philippines - Education Secretary Armin Luistro said yesterday that almost all schools in Cagayan de Oro and Iligan City that were damaged during tropical storm ...

Yudhoyono slams NGOs over Papua

Jakarta Post - 
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono reprimanded on Friday nongovernmental organizations that have regularly criticized how the Indonesian Military (TNI) handles security in Papua, saying that they have implied that the law should not be enforced in the ...

Palace won't comment on call to ban ZTE Corp.

Business Mirror - 
MALACAÑANG would not directly respond on the call to ban Chinese state firm ZTE Corp. from operating in the country for the continued refusal of its officials to testify on the botched multimillion-dollar national broadband network deal with the ...

Minivan driver suspected of reckless driving in fatal Gambir crash

Jakarta Post - 
The driver of a minivan who allegedly killed 8 people in an accident in Gambir, Central Jakarta, has been named a suspect for reckless driving by the police.

Indonesian arrested for not believing in god

Zee News - 
Jakarta: A 30-year-old Indonesian civil servant has been arrested on charges of blasphemy after he created a Facebook page that said he did not believe in god.

Army denies reports of huge casualties

gulfnews.com - 
By Gilbert P. Felongco, Correspondent Manila: The Armed Forces of the Philippines have denied claims made by insurgents that the government had suffered huge losses in the recent fighting in Southern Philippines' Bukidnon.

World


Syria: Bashar al-Assad given ultimatum to oversee transition to democracy

Telegraph.co.uk - 
Bashar al-Assad, the embattled president of Syria, was given an ultimatum last night by his Arab League neighbours to abandon his monopoly on power, create a coalition government with the oppositon and oversee a transition to democracy within six ...

Fireworks, dragon dances usher in Year of the Dragon

GMA News - 
With fireworks and dragon dances at midnight Sunday, the Chinese Filipino community in the Philippines ushered in the Year of the Dragon.

Costa Concordia: operation complicated by unregistered passengers

Telegraph.co.uk - 
Efforts to establish the exact number of people still missing from the Costa Concordia could be complicated by unregistered passengers who may have been on board the stricken vessel, the head of the search operation has admitted.

Death toll may hit 250 in Kano bombings

The Nation Newspaper - 
By Kolade Adeyemi 7 minutes ago THE President was in Kano - scene of Friday's multiple explosions in which more than 150 residents died - yesterday.

GOP race turns to new terrain in Florida

Seattle Post Intelligencer - 
STEVE PEOPLES, AP Republican presidential candidate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, right, is joined by wife Ann, following his speech during the South Carolina Primary night rally Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012, in Columbia, SC Photo: David Goldman ...

Yemen ex-president on way to U.S.

New York Daily News - 
By Helen Kennedy / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS FILE - In this April 15, 2011 file photo, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh waves to his supporters, not pictured, during a rally in Sanaa,Yemen after returned from medical treatment in Saudi Arabia.

AP Exclusive: US talks to Afghan insurgent group

San Francisco Chronicle - 
By KATHY GANNON, AP BK Bangash / AP In this Feb. 13, 1996 file photo shows Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Afghan rebel leader and chief of the insurgent group Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin, speaking at a news conference in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Croats say 'yes' to EU membership

Sky News Australia - 
Croats say 'yes' to EU membership Updated: 10:59, Monday January 23, 2012 Croat voters have given the green light to their country joining the European Union.

Thousands protest in Libya

Times LIVE - 
People try to reach the second floor where Mustafa Abdel Jalil, chairman of the Libyan National Transitional Council, is located in the Council's headquarters in Benghazi January 21, 2012.

Egypt's Islamist-led parliament to hold first session

Reuters Africa - 
By Marwa Awad CAIRO, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Egypt's parliament sits for the first time on Monday since Hosni Mubarak was deposed after a historic election that put Islamists, repressed under the former president, in the driving seat.

EU readies ban on Iran oil imports, central bank sanctions

Reuters UK - 
By Justyna Pawlak | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union governments are expected to agree Monday new economic sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program, including plans to phase in an oil embargo.

Egypt's Hosni Mubarak is still president, court has no legal jurisdiction ...

National Post - 
By Dina Zayed Hosni Mubarak is still the president of Egypt and the court trying him has no legal jurisdiction to do so, his defense lawyer said on Sunday, trying to undermine the prosecution's case against the leader deposed in a popular revolt last ...

Myanmar sanction talks set to intensify

Pakistan Daily Times - 
YANGON: US Senator John McCain has said that the Obama administration should not rush to lift sanctions against Myanmar until it sees the results of a parliamentary by-election planned for early April.

New year firework frenzy to send Beijing pollution readings rocketing

The Guardian - 
The Beijing government has started informing the public about a hazardous form of air pollution as the population gears up for a new year firework frenzy that will see the skies filled with chemicals and particulates on Sunday night.

"Ultra" in name only: the failures of Intel's Ultrabook rules

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Ars Technica - 
By Casey Johnston | Published January 22, 2012 4:00 PM Ultrabooks were the fashionable product to launch at CES this year. But the new Ultrabooks, meant to be PC competitors to the MacBook Air, seemed suspiciously fat.

All systems go in India

Bangkok Post - 
Concrete progress on long-awaited FTA expected to be highlight of PM Yingluck's visit to New Delhi this week. India's "Look East" policy will be on full display with the visit of Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra this week, as both sides look to ...

Revenge of Web heads

Chicago Tribune - 
Fear the Wiki-power! A historic online protest by Wikipedia and other websites against proposed anti-piracy legislation has startled Web surfers, stunned Hollywood and stopped Congress in its tracks.

Yudhoyono slams NGOs over Papua

Jakarta Post - 
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono reprimanded on Friday nongovernmental organizations that have regularly criticized how the Indonesian Military (TNI) handles security in Papua, saying that they have implied that the law should not be enforced in the ...

Congregation for the Clergy: The Call to Conversion is for Every Christian

Catholic Online - 
By Congregation for the Clergy The time has come and the kingdom of God is close at hand. Repent, and believe the Good News Unlike Jonah, the four fishermen called to become apostles in the Gospel respond quickly to the call of Jesus.

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