Southeast Asia
 | Reuters - (Updates number of crew, number saved) ANKARA Jan 31 (Reuters) - A dry cargo ship sank off the Black Sea coast of Turkey on Tuesday and eight members of the 11-strong Polish crew were missing, Turkish media said. |
 | ABS CBN News - MANILA, Philippines - House prosecutors will ask the impeachment court to subpoena an alleged secret US dollar account of Chief Justice Renato Corona in Philippine Savings Bank (PSBank), a member of the Metrobank Group. |
 | Written by  in 504 Google+ circles New Yorker (blog) - Twitter, it is said, has become evil. The company announced at the end of last week that it would censor tweets on a country-by-country basis. |
 | The Borneo Post - GEORGE TOWN: The Election Commission (EC) is to drop 42025 doubtful names from the electoral rolls after verifying only 26 active voters during a two-month display of 42051 names which ended yesterday, EC chairman Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof said ... |
 | Bernama - PUTRAJAYA, Jan 31 (Bernama) -- Chief Secretary to the Government Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan has agreed to the request by Cuepacs to have another three of its senior leaders co-opted into the special task force to review the Public Service New ... |
 | Inquirer.net - By Carla P. Gomez BACOLOD CITY—Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. said he did not see a real need to hold a special election for the congressional seat vacated by the death of Negros Occidental Representative Ignacio Arroyo. |
 | TODAYonline - by Ng Jing Yng SINGAPORE - Road accidents resulting in injury and death fell to a five-year low last year, but motorcyclists remained a cause for concern. |
 | Bernama - KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 31 (Bernama) -- Tourism Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ng Yen Yen said Malaysian women were lucky as they did not face discrimination and abuse such as what had happened to an Afghan woman whose nose and ears were sliced off after fleeing ... |
 | Inquirer.net - By Jerome Aning Cesar Mancao's days as a government witness in the Dacer-Corbito double murder case are numbered. Justice Secretary Leila de Lima on Tuesday said custody over the former police officer has been transferred from the justice department's ... |
 | Bernama - KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 31 (Bernama) -- The Malaysia-Australia Free Trade Agreement (MAFTA) will be signed this May after the conclusion of the talks on the agreement, slated in March, said Minister of International Trade and Industry Datuk Seri Mustapa ... |
 | Algemeiner - Anwar Ibrahim (left) meeting with former US Secretary of Defense William Cohen (right) in 1998. Photo: wiki commons. Last week The Algemeiner reported on Anwar Ibrahim's statement to the Wall Street Journal that Israel's security must be protected. |
 | New Straits Times - By Fahirul N. Ramli | 0 comments KUALA LUMPUR: Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) exco member R.Sivarasa and its women wing chief Zuraida Kamaruddin today lodged a report at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) headquarters in Jalan Cochrane here. |
 | Inquirer.net - By Christine O. Avendaño, Jeannette I. Andrade THE BARGAIN HUNTER President Aquino confers with his controversial political adviser, Ronald Llamas, in Malacañang. |
 | Inquirer.net - By DJ Yap MANILA, Philippines—Three Russian Navy ships arrived in Philippine waters on Tuesday morning, including an anti-submarine destroyer named “Admiral Panteleyev,” for a three-day visit aimed at enhancing ties between the two countries, ... |
 | Arab News - By MOHAMMED RASOOLDEEN | ARAB NEWS RIYADH: The 7th session of the Parliamentary Union of Islamic Countries (PUIC) that concluded in Indonesia on Tuesday commended the action taken by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah for empowering... |
World
 | The Press Association - Foreign Secretary William Hague has called on the United Nations to support moves led by the Arab League to bring a peaceful resolution to unrest in Syria. |
 | Los Angeles Times - By Michael A. Memoli It's been 10 days since the South Carolina primary, and 28 since the first nominating contest of the presidential cycle, the Iowa caucuses. |
 | The Chosun Ilbo - Italian divers have ended the underwater search for 15 people still missing from the Costa Concordia shipwreck off the Tuscan coast. |
 | CNN (blog) - By Adam Levine The White House awkwardly tried to explain away the fact that the president publicly talked about US drone strikes in Pakistan, a covert program that officials never publicly acknowledged previously, during an online chat. |
 | Jewish Telegraphic Agency (blog) - By Daniel Treiman · January 31, 2012 The former lead commander for US Central Command underscored the importance of Israel's perception of Iran as an existential threat during a US Senate hearing on Tuesday. |
 | Voice of America (blog) - Burmese President Thein Sein says his government is committed to moving the country towards a healthy democracy after decades of military rule. |
 | Pakistan Daily Times - ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has said that Pakistan fully supports Afghan-led reconciliation process. She was speaking to a three-member German parliamentary delegation of the ruling Christian Democratic Party (CDU), comprising of ... |
| Written by in 504 Google+ circles New Yorker (blog) - Twitter, it is said, has become evil. The company announced at the end of last week that it would censor tweets on a country-by-country basis. |
 | Korea Times - North Korea's new leadership must improve ties with South Korea if it wants to have better relations with the outside world, a senior American diplomat said Tuesday, offering the prospect of renewed engagement with Pyongyang after the death of Kim ... |
 | The Guardian - The stripping of Fred Goodwin's knighthood was clearly carefully timed. It proves that David Cameron has inflicted much more damage on himself over Europe than he could have imagined possible a month ago. |
 | China Daily - NANNING -- A cadmium pollution belt that has wreaked havoc in a South China river for two weeks will not result in the cutting of water supplies to a downstream city, a local environmental protection official said Tuesday. |
 | Times of India - NEW DELHI: The 2008 Mumbai terror attack convict and Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that he was denied fair trial as he was not provided legal assistance during the initial stages as mandated under the Indian ... |
 | Christian Science Monitor - Sudan's National Intelligence and Security Services arrested at least nine peaceful student protesters in Khartoum last week, and the government has yet to acknowledge the arrests, reports guest blogger Tracy Fehr. |
 | Chicago Tribune - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal judge denied a petition on Tuesday that would have allowed anti-Wall Street protesters to keep camping - at least temporarily - in two parks in the nation's capital where they have lived for months. |
 | St.Petersburg Times.ru - By Anatoly Medetsky MOSCOW - First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, who led the Russian delegation at a global economic forum in Davos, condemned his country's political system, but said any changes should be moderate. |
 | Telegraph.co.uk - Britain should welcome with "open arms" French banks that want to move business from Paris to London to escape France's new financial transaction tax, according to the Mayor of London and Britain's top bank lobbyist. |
 | Oman Daily Observer - By Tito Belo - EAST Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta yesterday said he will seek another term in March polls, as the young nation votes for the first time since an assassination bid that almost killed him. |
 | Hindustan Times - A three-hour walk around small walkways in the Bhandup wetlands off the Eastern Express Highway on Sunday morning left Nidhi Trivedi, 19, fascinated with the marine eco-system. |
 | Inquirer.net - The mercurial senator raised the issue Tuesday amid criticisms of how she had been scolding members of the prosecution for their purported blunders during the proceedings. |
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