Southeast Asia
 | AsiaOne - By Rachel Chan Mrs Lina Chiam has opted to keep mum on who will be filling the shoes of the six Singapore People's Party (SPP) central executive-committee (CEC) members who quit the party last Saturday. |
 | AsiaOne - Myanmar President Thein Sein arrived in Singapore yesterday for a four-day state visit at the invitation of President Tony Tan Keng Yam. |
 | Inquirer.net - The impeachment trial is grinding too slowly because of legal technicalities that the defense keeps raising every inch of the way. |
 | China Daily - By Cui Haipei (China Daily) BEIJING - By allowing more US troops on its soil, the Philippines has sent the wrong signal, experts said, and the decision will cause more tension in the South China Sea. |
 | Malaysia Star - By FOONG PEK YEE and CHAN LI LEEN IPOH: Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has reminded Malaysians to think of unity when tossing the yee sang this Chinese New Year. |
 | GMA News - Three Chinese nationals were arrested while some P100 million worth of methamphetamine hydrochloride (shabu) was seized in a sting operation in San Juan City Sunday afternoon. |
 | Inquirer.net - By Christine O. Avendaño Llamas on Sunday said he had apologized to President Benigno Aquino III over last week's incident in which he was photographed by an editor buying pirated DVDs in a Quezon City mall. |
 | Xinhua - by Cundoko Aprilianto JAKARTA, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- As rainy season is reaching its peak from mid-January to mid-February, tornado threat becomes more real amid storm and thunder. |
 | Inquirer.net - BAGUIO CITY—Mayor Mauricio Domogan ordered the local environment office last week to stop using the decommissioned dump in Barangay (village) Irisan as a holding area for the city's trash because the Supreme Court had released a temporary environmental ... |
 | Malaya - 'Let's push the PPUR spirit. Let's make all our tourist spots in the mold of the PPUR.' FILIPINOS have all the reason to take pride in the fact that the Puerto Princesa Underground River (PPUR) in Palawan is now officially included in the New 7 Wonders ... |
 | Tempo - By CHARISSA M. LUCI Manila, Philippines - Whether to call or not to call for a special election in the fifth district of Ne- gros Occidental to replace the late Rep. Ignacio “Iggy” Arroyo is still being decided upon by the House of Representatives. |
 | Jakarta Post - A human rights organization has strongly suggested the Indonesian government drop charges against five Papuan activists who are presently being prosecuted for peacefully expressing their political views. |
 | Malaysia Star - KUALA LUMPUR: Taxi drivers here are up in arms again over the coupon system which they claim is unfair to them. They want the authorities to abolish the system, which is enforced at several shopping centres and transportation hubs, saying it burdens ... |
 | New Straits Times - By SARAH RAHIM, OLIVIA PETER AND NOR AIN MOHAMED RADHI CITY Folk came together over the weekend to celebrate the Federal Territories (FT) Day with lots of activities in a carnival-like atmosphere. |
 | New Straits Times - By AISYAH SULAIMAN CONCERNED with the number of students abusing the RM200 1Malaysia Book Vouchers (BB1M), the Higher Education Minister wants police to take action. |
 | The Malaysian Insider - Hasan said Muslims were susceptible to the alleged conversion bids due to their weak faith. - File pic KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 28 - Former Selangor Islamic affairs executive councillor Datuk Hasan Ali claimed today Christian ministers have resorted to ... |
World
 | Newsday - World Newsday > News > World Syrian troops strike rebels near capital Published: January 29, 2012 7:50 PM By ZEINA KARAM. The Associated Press In dozens of tanks and other armored vehicles, Syrian troops stormed rebellious areas near the capital ... |
 | Economic Times - PARIS: The French government is set to revise down its estimate for 2012 economic growth in an upcoming revision to its budget bill, a government source said on Sunday. |
 | New Zealand Herald - Relatives of Luis Garcia, a victim of a fire at the Christ is Love center for drug and alcohol addicts, look at his remains during his wake in Lima, Peru. |
 | The Express Tribune - By Tahir Khan ISLAMABAD: A shared feeling of 'betrayal' purportedly brought about the thaw in Pak-Afghan ties. Pakistani officials and Afghan diplomats say Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar's visit to Kabul was planned after both countries strongly ... |
 | Voice of America (blog) - Italian officials say it may take until the end of the year before the capsized cruise ship Costa Concordia can be removed. The officials said Sunday they cannot start to move the damaged vessel until all the fuel has been removed - a process that ... |
 | Philippine Star - HAVANA (Xinhua) -- Cuban leader Raul Castro on Sunday said the Cuban Communist Party (CCP) will continue as the only recognized political party in the country. |
 | Times LIVE - Every so often I pop open the champagne, plonk myself on the sofa and drink to this great, good and crime-ridden country of ours. I did that on Saturday. |
 | Newsday - World Newsday > News > World Tens of thousands cheer as Suu Kyi speaks Published: January 29, 2012 7:26 PM By AYE AYE WIN AND TODD PITMAN. |
 | Bend Bulletin - By New York Times News Service President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who left Yemen last week to seek medical treatment in the United States for injuries suffered when the presidential palace was bombed in June, arrived in the country Saturday night, ... |
 | ABS CBN News - MOSCOW - Critics of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin drove in their hundreds around central Moscow on Sunday in cars trailing white ribbons, a symbol of Russia's protest movement, staging a mobile demonstration to demand fair elections. |
 | The Sun - By STEVE HAWKES TREBLES all round at Labour HQ as the man they have vilified for days finally decides he can take no more. And let's hope the pro-business PM feels very, very sheepish. |
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| GMA News - Three Chinese nationals were arrested while some P100 million worth of methamphetamine hydrochloride (shabu) was seized in a sting operation in San Juan City Sunday afternoon. |
 | The Australian - FOUR Sun journalists and a police officer arrested over allegations of corruption have been bailed until April. Dominic Mohan, the Editor of The Sun, yesterday addressed a shocked newsroom after some of the newspaper's most senior journalists were ... |
 | China Daily - By Wang Linyan (China Daily) ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - China supports Africa's choice to develop independently and will scale up assistance and cooperation with African countries to help them build greater capacity toward this goal. |
 | China Daily - KHARTOUM - Sudan's ruling National Congress Party (NCP) on Sunday condemned the attack launched by Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) on a site of a Chinese company in South Kordofan, official SUNA news agency reported. |
 | Voice of America (blog) - Turnout was decidedly low as Egyptians voted Sunday for the upper house of parliament, with Islamist parties widely expected to build on their success from lower house elections in November, when voters turned out in record numbers. |
 | Reuters UK - (Reuters) - Japan's stricken nuclear power plant has leaked more than 600 litres of water, forcing it to briefly suspend cooling operations at a spent-fuel pond at the weekend, but none is thought to have escaped into the ocean, the plant's operator ... |
| Xinhua - by Cundoko Aprilianto JAKARTA, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- As rainy season is reaching its peak from mid-January to mid-February, tornado threat becomes more real amid storm and thunder. |
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