Southeast Asia
Wall Street Journal (blog) - By Celine Fernandez A day after Malaysia deported a 23-year old Saudi Arabian journalist to face charges of insulting the Prophet Muhammad on Twitter, his Malaysia-based lawyers are hoping to keep the case alive in Malaysia's courts, even though it's ... |
Financial Times - JAKARTA - An Islamic militant captured in the same Pakistan town where US forces killed Osama bin Laden went on trial in Indonesia on Monday, accused of making bombs that exploded at Bali nightclubs packed with Australian tourists in 2002, ... |
Northern Iowan - By Anthony Mitchell ayomitch@uni.edu I'm a little late to the party, you see. While everyone and their mother-in-law were going nuts about SOPA, PIPA and ACTA, I really didn't say much on the matter. |
Los Angeles Times - Marines from Camp Pendleton are in Thailand for Cobra Gold, a training exercise with military personnel from Thailand and five other countries in the region. |
International Islamic News Agency - By IINA MAGUINDANAO (Philippines), 20 Rabi al-Awwal/13 Feb (IINA)-Hundreds of descendants of the legendary Moro warrior Sultan Kudarat urged the government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to craft final and lasting truce in Mindanao as they ... |
Bangkok Post - Thailand has asked Cambodia to avoid making the border problem between the two countries a political issue amid signs the two nations look set to move forward with border demarcation. |
Bernama - PUTRAJAYA, Feb 13 (Bernama) -- French Defence Minister Gerard Longuet called on Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak at his office here Monday. |
Inquirer.net - By Marlon Ramos Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile on Monday warned the prosecution that it was committing a “fatal error” for its apparent failure to gather evidence against Chief Justice Renato Corona. |
The Borneo Post - In saying that the party's views had been misconstrued by some quarters, he said their response had given the impression that PAS was out to stop followers of other religions from celebrating the day. |
Tempo - Manila, Philippines - Filipinos' satisfaction with the performance of the Aquino administration in the last quarter of 2011 remained “very good,” the Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey released yesterday said. |
Bangkok Post - World Bank experts have urged the government to embark on a two-pronged investment drive for flood prevention infrastructure. ''Policymakers need to strike a balance between structural and non-structural measures,'' Pamela Cox, the World Bank East Asia ... |
Channel News Asia - By S Ramesh | Posted: 13 February 2012 1844 hrs SINGAPORE: Singapore's Minister for Transport Lui Tuck Yew has called for greater air transport liberalisation. |
TODAYonline - SINGAPORE - The Council for Estate Agencies (CEA) will explore shortening the time frame for dispute resolution, said Minister for National Development Khaw Boon Wan yesterday. |
National Geographic - Where did Valentine's Day come from? (Think naked Romans, paganism, and whips.) What does it cost? And why do we fall for it, year after year? |
Bangkok Post - A group of activists is calling for Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to be probed for her no-show at a House session last week, as she attended a meeting at the Four Seasons Hotel instead. |
World
Indian Express - In daylight attacks against Israeli mission personnel in India and Georgia, a bomber destroyed an embassy vehicle in the heart of New Delhi this afternoon, leaving at least four persons injured, among them an embassy official. |
Huffington Post - BASSEM MROUE 02/13/12 05:17 PM ET AP BEIRUT - Syrian rebels repelled a push Monday by government tanks into a central town held by forces fighting President Bashar Assad's regime in an 11-month conflict that looks increasingly like a civil war. |
Vancouver Sun - WASHINGTON - It has become a United States ritual more predictable than the date of the next presidential election. Barack Obama proposes a budget - and Republicans in Congress declare it dead on arrival. |
Pakistan Daily Times - By Hasnaat Malik ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Monday charged Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani with contempt of court for “willfully defying, disregarding and disobeying” court's order of writing a letter to Swiss authorities to reopen graft ... |
Washington Post (blog) - By William Wan Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping waves to Thai students during a visit to Bangkok in December. (Pairoj - AFP/Getty Images) Details of the high-profile visit of China's vice president have been so zealously guarded that even the time of ... |
Wall Street Journal (blog) - By Celine Fernandez A day after Malaysia deported a 23-year old Saudi Arabian journalist to face charges of insulting the Prophet Muhammad on Twitter, his Malaysia-based lawyers are hoping to keep the case alive in Malaysia's courts, even though it's ... |
New York Times (blog) - By MICHAEL D. SHEAR Two new national polls provide fresh evidence of Rick Santorum's surge among Republican voters and one of them suggests that Mitt Romney's efforts to court conservatives has hurt him with the independent voters who will be critical ... |
Financial Times - JAKARTA - An Islamic militant captured in the same Pakistan town where US forces killed Osama bin Laden went on trial in Indonesia on Monday, accused of making bombs that exploded at Bali nightclubs packed with Australian tourists in 2002, ... |
Bangkok Post - World Bank experts have urged the government to embark on a two-pronged investment drive for flood prevention infrastructure. ''Policymakers need to strike a balance between structural and non-structural measures,'' Pamela Cox, the World Bank East Asia ... |
Indian Express - Almost a week after President Mohamed Nasheed was ousted from power, new facts are emerging about the circumstances around the change with the displaced Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) claiming that shots were fired and sources pointing out that India ... |
Boston Herald - By B Henry Chu / Los Angeles Times (MCT) LONDON - Britain's bestselling tabloid launched a blistering attack on the police Monday for arresting five of its journalists over the weekend in an investigation into media corruption and unethical practices ... |
Kansas City Star - AP CAIRO -- The Committee to Protect Journalists has called on Egyptian authorities to release a detained Australian journalist, his translator and an American student who was traveling with them. |
Toronto Sun - By Jessica Murphy ,Parliamentary Bureau The West needs to keep tightening the screws on Tehran with sanctions and diplomatic pressure, says Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird. |
Bangkok Post - The long-awaited film The Lady, a biopic of Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD) who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, has now been shown in Thailand. |
Indian Express - AMSTERDAM: A major disruption at Amsterdam's busy Schiphol Airport ended Monday after military police arrested a man who had locked himself in a toilet, claiming to have a bomb, officials said. |
Business Mirror - In preparation for the adoption of the new curriculum under the K to 12 program, the Department of Education is conducting the Test of English Proficiency for Teachers (TEPT) and Process Skills Test (PST) in Science and Math to all Grades 1 and 2 ... |
Christian Science Monitor - ACTA, a controversial international anti-piracy agreement that has riled up Europe, brought out huge crowds in Germany and split top government officials. |
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