Southeast Asia
 | gulfnews.com - By Gilbert P. Felongco, Correspondent Manila: The United States has no plans to establish permanent military bases in the Philippines, the presidential palace said in response to a report suggesting that an agreement to do so had been reached. |
 | Newser - By Dustin Lushing, Newser Staff (Newser) - A new gastronomic fad in Thailand is pushing the country's elephants a step closer to extinction. |
 | BusinessWorld Online Edition - SETTING UP a business will hopefully become easier after the Trade department on Friday finally launched a "one-stop" registration program for would-be entrepreneurs. |
 | Free Malaysia Today - Tun Dr Mahathir recently revisited the UUCA issue by styling in his innuendo-ridden language a Malay dilemmic justification behind the relevance of the UUCA. |
 | AFP - WASHINGTON - The US State Department said Friday it is trying to confirm with Beijing reports it has sentenced to death some of the 20 Uighurs who were deported from Cambodia in 2009. |
 | Straits Times - Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong being interviewed by CNN's Fareed Zakaria at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, in a session titled The Outlook For East Asia. |
 | Journal Online - LAWMAKERS yesterday extended their condolences to the loved ones of the late Negros Occidental Rep. Ignacio “Iggy” Arroyo who died in London the other day due to cardiac arrest and whose remains are expected to arrive next week. |
 | New Straits Times - KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said he would support all efforts to protect the security of the state of Israel. Although he stopped short of saying he would open diplomatic ties with the Jewish state, the opposition leader told The Wall Street ... |
 | New Straits Times - By Nik Imran Abdullah RELIGIOUS authorities will take action against the Obedient Wives' Club (OWC) only after securing solid evidence that it has deviated from Islam. |
 | Malaysia Star - A married IT executive is believed to have had sex with two top-ranking public officers being investigated under the Prevention of Corruption Act. |
 | Tempo Interaktif - TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta:Miranda S. Goeltom, a suspect in a bribery case during Bank Indonesia's senior deputy governor election, has refused to be arrested by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). |
 | Orissadiary.com - New Delhi: Since the beginning of the India-Thailand free trade agreement negotiation, the trade between the two countries has been increasing tremendously, said the visiting Thai Prime Minister Ms. |
 | Gulf Today - By Manolo B. Jara MANILA: Ten tourists were rescued while three crewmen remained missing when a boat capsized and sank off the country's resort island of Boracay in Aklan province in the Visayas, police reported on Friday. |
 | Sun.Star - MALACANANG has no idea whether Presidential Adviser on Political Affairs Ronald Llamas has filed a leave of absence after the uproar over his purchase of pirated video discs at a mall in Quezon City. |
World
 | Reuters Africa - By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Russia's UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said a European-Arab draft resolution on Syria circulated to the UN Security Council on Friday was unacceptable in parts, but Russia was ready to "engage" on ... |
 | The Independent - AP Cornwall's newest brewery opened last week. The Harbour Brewing Company, based in Bodmin, joins a cr... As Olympic fever sweeps the globe, it's important for travellers to retain a healthy degree of skept... The Stephen Lawrence case was described ... |
 | Reuters - By Fabio Couto | RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Two buildings collapsed in downtown Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, in the latest incident highlighting the failure of authorities to improve the city's infrastructure amid preparations to host soccer's World ... |
 | Pakistan Daily Times - MOSCOW: Russia on Friday disqualified the sole liberal challenger to Vladimir Putin in March 4 presidential elections, in a move slammed by his supporters as undermining the legitimacy of the polls. |
 | TheBlaze.com - UNITED NATIONS (The Blaze/AP) - When mailroom workers at the United Nations decided to search a white bag with a suspicious looking UN logo last week, they probably never expected to find 16 kilograms of cocaine (about 35 pounds) hidden in books inside ... |
 | Telegraph.co.uk - North Korea has warned that any of its citizens caught trying to defect to China or using mobile phones during the 100-day mourning period for Kim Jong-il will be branded as "war criminals" and punished accordingly. |
 | MarketWatch (press release) - KIEV, Ukraine, January 27, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Ukraine has moved up 15 places in the World Press Freedom Index published this week, reflecting an improved media landscape in the nation during what proved to be a year of critical world ... |
 | TVNZ - Republican presidential candidate former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (L) talks with Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney during a break in the Republican presidential candidates debate. |
 | BBC News - A group of soldiers who staged a failed mutiny in Papua New Guinea on Thursday are demanding a full pardon, Australian media reports say. |
 | Financial Times - David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy have not spoken since the stormy night in Brussels last month when the British prime minister blocked a new EU treaty to enforce eurozone fiscal discipline and the French president called him “an obstinate kid”. |
 | Moneycontrol.com - The US Defense Department outlined fiscal 2013 budget cuts that would slow warship building, scrap 10% of fighter-jet squadrons and cut nearly 100000 ground troops in the coming year. |
 | The Guardian - Libya's new government is still taking stock of extensive investments made in Africa by the former regime of Muammar Gaddafi before deciding on what it should do next. |
 | Forbes - It appears that Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (DR.I.) intends to introduce a “Buffett Rule” bill in the Senate, in line with President Obama's State of the Union call that anybody making over $1 million should be paying at least a 30 percent tax rate. |
 | GMA News - WASHINGTON - The United States on Friday welcomed the Philippines' offer to allow more US troops on its territory, saying it would boost US power in Asia, and assured it was not seeking to re-establish bases in the former colony. |
 | Los Angeles Times - Budapest, Hungary - Holocaust survivor Eva Szirtes looks for the names of her relatives on a memorial wall holding the engraved names of tens of thousands of Hungarian Holocaust victims at the Holocaust Memorial Center. |
 | ABC News (blog) - Days after the rescue of a US aid worker held hostage in Somalia, officials are now working on the release of an American writer taken captive by pirates and now under the threat of death. |
 | NEWS.com.au - SOME 10000 Egyptian protesters converged on Cairo's downtown Tahrir Square to mark the first anniversary of "Friday of Rage," a key day in the popular uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak. |
 | Fox News - Vice President Biden claimed Friday that Leon Panetta was the only member of the inner circle who definitively urged President Obama to green-light the raid on Usama bin Laden's compound, as Biden discussed new details about the behind-the-scenes ... |
 | BBC News - Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has said he will withdraw his troops from Somalia once African Union forces are there. "We expect the Amisom [African Union] troops to be able to fill in the gaps before we withdraw," he said in Addis Ababa. |
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