Southeast Asia
Inquirer.net - By Christine O. Avendaño To give some relief to transport groups reeling from high oil prices, President Benigno Aquino III on Wednesday announced a number of measures that include continuing with subsidies and fuel discounts for jeepney and tricycle ... |
Inquirer.net - By Cathy Yamsuan An exasperated Senator Manuel “Lito” Lapid unexpectedly took the floor for the first time in the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona yesterday with just one question. |
AFP - MANILA - Two European birdwatchers were abducted Wednesday in the remote southern Philippines where Islamic militants frequently kidnap foreigners to extort ransoms, authorities said. |
TODAYonline - SINGAPORE - As his party continues to grapple with the fallout from an internal rift, veteran opposition politician Chiam See Tong has defended himself against accusations that he is not interested in leadership renewal and succession, ... |
Philippine Headline News - MANILA, FEBRUARY 2, 2012 (MALAYA) The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said yesterday that it has upgraded the crisis alert level in Iraq from level 2 to level 3 following the higher than expected instances of terrorism and sectarian violence in the ... |
Bangkok Post - Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra can still fill seats when she speaks, despite reports that she is losing her touch with audiences. |
TODAYonline - by Teo Xuanwei SINGAPORE - The number of inmates who snare jobs before their release has risen for the second successive year, as efforts to reintegrate former convicts into society appear to be paying off. |
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has instructed a state bank to bail out a bankrupt travel company that has left thousands of Russian tourists stranded abroad. |
Herald Sun - A COURT has sentenced 10 Islamic militants to up to eight years in prison for acquiring materials to be used in terrorist activities in Indonesia. |
Khaleej Times - ANKARA - Turkish coast guards rescued three crew members from a Cambodian-registered cargo ship that sank in a Black Sea storm, and were searching for eight others still missing Wednesday, officials said. |
Gulf Today - By Manolo B.Jara MANILA: A New York-based human rights group said it received information from local Philippine officials that certain military elements have been “coddling” a retired general, known as the “butcher,” wanted by the court for the ... |
New Straits Times - KUALA LUMPUR: The Perkasa's Chinese New Year (CNY) "white packet" blunder was blown out of proportion by certain quarters who were out to discredit the Malay right wing group, said its president, Datuk Ibrahim Ali. |
Discovery News - A female turtle lays around 100 eggs per nesting, and hatchlings emerge after 7-12 weeks. Credit: AG Saño More than a million green turtle eggs were laid last year on one of the Turtle Islands in the Philippines, breaking at least three records since ... |
Deccan Herald - TOUGH LOVE : What does it take to instill the right values in your child? Get it right, with a mix of education, reward and punishment, advises Mary Chelladurai. |
Bernama - SHAH ALAM, Feb 1 (Bernama) -- A chemistry expert told the High Court here today that there were no DNA profiles of four accused in the murder trial of cosmetics millionaire Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya and three others on the exhibits seized during the ... |
World
NPR (blog) - by Mark Memmott The US and NATO are aiming to end their combat operations in Afghanistan in 2013, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told reporters today as he flew to Brussels for NATO meetings. |
CNN International - Cairo (CNN) -- At least 73 people were killed when fans rushed the field and rioted after a soccer game in Egypt Wednesday, a health ministry spokesman said. |
Atlanta Journal Constitution - By ANITA SNOW AP UNITED NATIONS - Ambassadors to the UN Security Council gathered behind closed doors Wednesday in hopes of hammering out language they can all accept in a resolution on Syria. |
Boston Globe - By Matt Viser EAGAN, Minn. - Mitt Romney, fresh from a resounding victory in Florida, came to a warehouse here outside Minneapolis and, before he launched into his speech, had glitter poured atop his head by a protester. |
IBNLive.com - London: Four radical Islamists admitted in court on Wednesday plotting to bomb the London Stock Exchange as part of a campaign of al Qaeda-inspired attacks across the British capital in the run-up to Christmas 2010. |
News24 - Moscow - Russian strongman Vladimir Putin on Wednesday acknowledged he could fail to score an outright victory in March presidential polls but warned any second round risked sparking political instability. |
CNN - By Ashley Fantz, CNN (CNN) -- Since the summer of 2010, Julian Assange has become a pop culture fixture, a self-appointed champion of free speech, the suspect in a Swedish sex crimes investigation and a man who says he's keeping afloat a financially ... |
Washington Post - HONG KONG - When China evacuated some 30000 of its citizens from Libya early last year, official media fell into patriotic rapture. |
Independent Online - By Fulvio Paolocci AP Seagulls fly in front of the grounded cruise ship Costa Concordia off the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy. A film of oil is spreading from the stricken vessel amid rough seas. |
Washington Post (blog) - UN inspectors have agreed to return to Tehran later this month for a second round of talks on Iran's nuclear program, while acknowledging that meetings this week achieved no significant breakthroughs, diplomats said Wednesday. |
South Asian News Agency - PARACHINAR, KALAI, (SANA): Army fighter jets bombed the hideouts of two militant commanders along the Afghan border Wednesday, killing up to 31 insurgents, government and security officials said. |
San Francisco Chronicle (blog) - Michelle Obama went on the The Tonight Show last night for the first time since becoming First Lady and let it slip that the president sings to her all the time. |
New York Times - SEOUL, South Korea - When Kim Jong-un made his debut as the North Korean heir apparent in September 2010, he looked so much like his grandfather, the closest thing North Koreans had to a god, that South Korean intelligence officials noted that many ... |
Oman Daily Observer - MUSCAT - The Sultanate, represented by the Ministry of Environment and Climate Affairs, will mark today the World Wetlands Day whose 2012 theme is "Wetlands and Tourism: A great experience". |
Philippine Headline News - [PHOTO - Yang Jiechi Minister of Foreign Affairs said: China's diplomacy faces new opportunities and challenges and the task we shoulder is more than ever daunting. |
Financial Times - By Heba Saleh in Cairo Egypt's newly-elected Islamists say they want to introduce an index of companies that comply with sharia law as part of a wider move towards an Islamic economy. |
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. |
Voice of America (blog) - Senegal police clashed with rock-throwing students in the capital, Dakar, on Wednesday following the death of a student during riots a day earlier. |
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