Southeast Asia
 | SFGate.com (blog) - Twitter's new method of censoring tweets within specific countries has riled some free speech advocates, but government officials in China and Thailand are reacting positively. |
 | gulfnews.com - By Barbara Mae Dacanay, Bureau Chief Manila: A lawyer allegedly representing the presidential palace asked a former justice of the Supreme Court to stop representing Chief Justice Renato Corona, who is being impeached at the Senate, a local paper said. |
 | TODAYonline - by Dylan Loh SINGAPORE - The Republic is set to play a bigger role in assisting Myanmar's progress, now that a bilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the Singapore-Myanmar Technical Cooperation Programme has been signed. |
 | Wall Street Journal (blog) - By Shibani Mahtani Malaysia's opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim talks to his supporters after the verdict of his sodomy trial was announced. |
 | Inquirer.net - By Jerry E. Esplanada Del Rosario flew to China in mid-2011 amid rising tension over the two countries' conflicting claims in the potentially resource-rich Spratly group of islands in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea). |
 | Bangkok Post - Private tourism operators will meet to brainstorm a draft long-term strategy by the end of next month after Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra committed herself to paying serious attention to developing the sector. |
 | China Daily - KUALA LUMPUR - An ethnic political party in Malaysia came under fire on Monday after it distributed white envelops instead of red packets at a Chinese New Year open house. |
 | BBC News - Five Papuan activists are on trial for raising an outlawed flag and declaring independence in eastern Indonesia. The activists were part of a peaceful pro-independence rally in Papua province on 19 October 2011. |
 | TODAYonline - by Esther Ng SINGAPORE - Over the next five years, national water agency PUB will spend at least S$750 million on expanding canal capacity and other drainage projects. |
 | Inquirer.net - Complications arising from the absence of a divorce law in the Philippines (we are the lone holdout in the world) have shown themselves in two instances involving prominent personalities. |
 | New Straits Times - KUALA LUMPUR: An altercation broke out during the proceeding of Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's appeal over his"qazaf" (criminal defamation) application in the Syariah Appeal Court today when his lawyers walked out of the court room. |
 | The Daily Titan - By Anders Howmann Thousands packed the fields of Garden Grove Park to celebrate the 31st annual Tet Festival this weekend. Guests were treated to live performances, carnival games and Vietnamese food in celebration of the Lunar New Year and the Year of ... |
 | The Online Zamboanga Times - MANILA - The redeployment of repatriated overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to Yemen will now be allowed after the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) lowered on Monday the alert level in Yemen from alert level 4 (mandatory repatriation) in Sana'a and ... |
 | Sydney Morning Herald - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono shake hands after a joint press conference at the presidential palace in Jakarta on November 2, 2010. |
 | TODAYonline - by Alvina Soh SINGAPORE - In what is believed to be Singapore's first case of consensual incest, a 25-year-old woman was yesterday placed on probation for one year for having sex with her father. |
 | Bangkok Post - The military is backing rangers who shot dead four Muslims and injured four after angry locals claimed innocent people had been targetted. |
World
 | Firstpost - Amman: Street battles raged at the gates of the Syrian capital on Monday as President Bashar al-Assad's troops sought to consolidate their grip on suburbs that rebel fighters had seized only a few miles from the centre of government power. |
 | Toronto Sun - US Republican presidential candidate and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich holds a photo given to him from the audience during a rally in Tampa, Florida January 30, 2012. |
 | Financial Times - By Hugh Carnegy in Paris The financial transaction tax announced by President Nicolas Sarkozy and due to be introduced in France in August falls well short of the scope of a Europe-wide levy proposed by the European Commission and vigorously backed by ... |
 | CBS News - (AP) The leaders of 25 of the 27 European Union states on Monday agreed on a new treaty - known as the fiscal compact - designed to stop overspending in the 17 countries that use the euro as their currency. |
 | The Guardian - The recent killing of four French troops at the hands of a rogue Afghan soldier resumed public debate over the lack of trust between Afghans and their international allies. |
 | BusinessWeek - By Scott Rose Jan. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Russian economic growth probably slowed last year as the euro region's debt crisis weighed on industrial production and capital flowed out of the world's biggest energy exporter even as oil prices jumped. |
 | Voice of America - January 30, 2012 Senegalese President's Decision to Run for Re-election Provokes Protests VOA News Opposition groups in the west African nation of Senegal are calling for a nationwide protest Tuesday against President Abdoulaye Wade's controversial bid ... |
 | Financial Times - By Jonathan Guthrie There comes a point in a traditional fox hunt when the fox, hearing hounds baying and hooves thundering close behind, must know he is bested. |
 | National Post - By Jeff Franks HAVANA - President Raul Castro defended Cuba's one-party political system as a bulwark against US imperialism and said it would remain as it is in a speech on Sunday to a Communist Party conference. |
 | Honolulu Civil Beat - Lima, Peru - Civil defense officials reported nearly 100 injuries after a strong earthquake shook coastal Peru early Monday. The magnitude 6.3 quake hit about 15 kilometers (9 miles) southeast of Ica, at a depth of 39.2 kilometers (24.4 miles), ... |
 | The Guardian (blog) - Saturday's Occupy Oakland, planned as a day of building, became a day of battling, when police responded with force to protesters' attempts to take over a vacant city-owned building, an act organisers admitted was "completely illegal. |
 | Salt Lake Tribune - By FOSTER KLUG AP SEOUL, South Korea • North Korea's young new leader gets rock star treatment when he visits his troops - just as his father did. |
 | Sky News Australia - Workers resume Costa Concordia search Updated: 09:53, Tuesday January 31, 2012 A search has resumed on the capsized Costa Concordia, which remains stuck on rocks off the coast of Italy. |
 | Montreal Gazette - It was, as the shy prosecutor Gerard Laarhuis said outside the lovely old Frontenac County courthouse, "a good day for Canadian justice. |
 | Business Times (subscription) - IN the last 10 months since its new civilian government came to power, Myanmar has impressed the world with its remarkable efforts to re-engage the international community after five decades under military rule. |
 | Firstpost - Addis Ababa: The African Union failed to elect a new head on Monday, highlighting the weakness of a group criticised for slow decision-making during political turmoil on the continent last year. |
 | TODAYonline - by Dylan Loh SINGAPORE - The Republic is set to play a bigger role in assisting Myanmar's progress, now that a bilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the Singapore-Myanmar Technical Cooperation Programme has been signed. |
 | Inquirer.net - CITY OF MALOLOS—A lawyer representing retired Major General Jovito Palparan Jr. on Monday told a Malolos City regional trial court (RTC) the two University of the Philippines (UP) students, whose abduction and disappearance in 2006 were allegedly ... |
 | Sky News Australia - Heavy Serbia snow fall kills three Updated: 05:34, Tuesday January 31, 2012 At least three people are dead and two more are missing, following heavy snow falls in Serbia. |
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