Southeast Asia
Straits Times - By Andrea Ong Workers' Party MP Yaw Shin Leong resigned from the party's top decision-making executive council on Tuesday, after being embroiled for weeks in allegations of an extramarital affair. |
Telecompaper (subscription) - After blocking access to almost 1 million pornographic websites, the Indonesian ICT minister has set his sights on anonymous Twitter accounts. |
Straits Times - Singapore's crime rate plunged by 7 per cent in 2011 to the lowest it has been for twenty years. -- ST PHOTO: WANG HUI FEN By Elizabeth Soh & Jalelah Abu Baker The crime rate here fell 7 per cent last year from the previous year to post a 20-year ... |
GMA News - Senator-judge Vicente Sotto III read a letter from Santiago, who appealed against the Senate resolution to subpoena bank managers and documents regarding the supposed accounts of Chief Justice Renato Corona. |
Seattle Post Intelligencer - A vehicle loaded with a body, a victim of the devastating earthquake, manueovers through a damaged road, part of a national highway in the village of Tuway, Guihulngan town, Negros Oriental, in central Philippines on Tuesday, a day after a 6.8 ... |
Malaysia Star - By SIRA HABIBU PETALING JAYA: PAS Youth should not see the worst in Valentine's Day as it is merely a day to express love for spouses, parents and friends. |
Gulf Today - By Manolo B.Jara MANILA: Philippine President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino is to turn 52 years old on Wednesday, saying it will be work as usual but remained silent on a topic that appears to interest many Filipinos - his “revived love life. |
Malaya - DURING the recent anniversary celebrations of the Bureau of Customs, everybody was mouthing the same shibboleth about how it is succeeding in meeting the challenge of being the second biggest source of revenues for the government. |
AFP - JAKARTA - Conservation group WWF said it spotted 18 critically endangered Irrawaddy dolphins in Indonesian waters off Borneo island Tuesday and called for greater protection of the species' habitat. |
Channel News Asia - By Hetty Musfirah | Posted: 07 February 2012 1849 hrs SINGAPORE: Family members shared many rare insights into the personal life of the late Dr Toh Chin Chye when they delivered eulogies at his funeral service on Tuesday. |
The Borneo Post - KUALA LUMPUR: Parti Keadilan Insan Tanah Air (KITA) will not be dissolved if it can free itself from being infested by undesirable elements and infiltrators. |
Philippine Star - On the run since a warrant for his arrest was issued, retired Army Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan said, “I am not a fugitive.” The statement, released through his lawyer, also challenged the validity of the preliminary investigation that led to his ... |
Student Operated Press - By SOP newswire3 Ban Ki-moon today urged eight key countries that have not ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) to do so and thus accelerate its entry into force, following the addition of its newest member, Indonesia. |
euronews - A Hindu devotee with a pierced tongue takes part in a procession during the Thaipusam festival in the southern Indian city of Kochi. |
Wall Street Journal - By SAM HOLMES SINGAPORE—Singapore's gambling watchdog has fined the city-state's two licensed casino operators a total 385000 Singapore dollars (US$308000) for breaches relating to the admission of unauthorized locals and minors into the two gambling ... |
The Sun Daily - KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 7, 2012): Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak today announced an RM2 million allocation from the government for an Indian Cultural Centre to be built in Batu Caves. |
Malaya - BY VICTOR REYES DEFENSE Secretary Voltaire Gazmin inspected a number of military hardware and equipment, including aircraft and ships, during an official trip to Italy last week for possible acquisition under the Armed Forces modernization program. |
Thailand Business News - By Zhang Fang - Tue, Feb 7th, 2012 The Thai Government expects a strong GDP growth of 5 percent in 2012, with more export diversification into the Middle East, India, and ASEAN. |
World
Los Angeles Times - REPORTING FROM ALEPPO, SYRIA, AND BEIRUT -- As the United States and allied nations continued to criticize Russia and China for vetoing a United Nations resolution on Syria, hundreds of residents of the city of Aleppo came out in cold, windy and rainy ... |
Reuters India - By Bryson Hull | MALE (Reuters) - President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, widely credited with bringing democracy to the Indian Ocean archipelago, resigned on Tuesday after weeks of opposition protests erupted into a police mutiny, and handed power ... |
Houston Chronicle - LISA LEFF, AP Robin Tyler, who with her partner Diane Olson, not shown, became the first same-sex couple to wed in Los Angeles County in 2008, uses an iPhone to read the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals' decision on the validity of gay marriage, ... |
New York Times - NAIROBI, Kenya - Sudanese rebels released more than two dozen Chinese construction workers who had been abducted late last month, Sudanese and Red Cross officials announced Tuesday. |
Pakistan Daily Times - By Imran Chaudhry LAHORE: Another three bodies have been recovered as rescuers continued their search for survivors on Tuesday from the rubble of a factory that collapsed on Multan Road in the Hanjarwal police precincts on Monday. |
Washington Post (blog) - VATICAN CITY - Bishops and religious leaders on Tuesday (Feb. 7) held an unprecedented service of repentance in Rome, seeking atonement for lapses in church management that led to the abuse of thousands of children by predatory priests. |
Wall Street Journal - Providing Israel with advanced bunker-busting munitions and refueling tankers to extend the range of its jets would help convince the Iranians to pursue a diplomatic solution. |
Herald Sun - AUNG San Suu Kyi has been met by thousands of cheering supporters in Burma's Irrawaddy delta on her second campaign trip ahead of by-elections that could sweep her into parliament. |
TIME (blog) - By Bruce Crumley | February 7, 2012 | + France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (R) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel give a news conference following a Franco-German intergovernmental meeting at Elysee Palace on Feb. 6, 2012 in Paris, France. |
Macleans.ca - by Richard Warnica on Tuesday, February 7, 2012 6:04pm - 0 Comments Six Quebec MPs, including all four members of the Bloc Québécois, have rejected the Queen's Jubilee Medals, which were handed out to all 308 federal MPs. |
NPR (blog) - by Eyder Peralta Republican presidential candidate, former US Sen. Rick Santorum autographs a sign after speaking at a campaign rally in Blaine, Minnesota. |
Huffington Post - On Monday, responding to a barrage of criticism from conservative pundits and some football fans, Chrysler chief executive Sergio Marchionne denied there had been any political message in the company's Super Bowl aired during Sunday's night's halftime ... |
NEWS.com.au - From: AP CHINA has vowed to crack down on unrest in Tibetan areas, accusing overseas activist groups and the Dalai Lama of fomenting the recent violence. |
Weekly Times Now - ST GEORGE evacuees may have to wait until next week to return home amid warnings floodwaters will surround the town for days. About 2500 people were evacuated from the inland Queensland town at the weekend, and have been warned to settle in for a long ... |
Haaretz - In a Pavlovian response to the reconciliation agreement signed by the rival Palestinian factions, under which Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will also serve as temporary prime minister, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented Abbas ... |
Malaya - BY VICTOR REYES DEFENSE Secretary Voltaire Gazmin inspected a number of military hardware and equipment, including aircraft and ships, during an official trip to Italy last week for possible acquisition under the Armed Forces modernization program. |
U.S. News & World Report (blog) - An ongoing dispute between Washington and longtime ally Cairo could lead the Obama administration to cut off $1.3 billion in annual military aid to Egypt. |
Bloomberg - Enlarge image US president Barack Obama US president Barack Obama Chris Kleponis/Bloomberg Barack Obama, US president. President Barack Obama plans to curtail a plan costing as much as $21.1 billion to expand the US military's presence in Guam and ... |
Nigerian Tribune - MULTIPLE explosions rocked Kaduna on Tuesday, causing serious pandemonium. The first occurred when a suicide bomber tried to force his way into the premises of the 1 Mechanised Division headquarters of the Nigerian Army, Kawo, Kaduna, ... |
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