Southeast Asia
New Straits Times - By LING POH LEAN MCA supporters cheering president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek during his debate with Lim Guan Eng yesterday. Pic by Aizuddin Saad THERE are no winners in the historic debate between the top two leaders of MCA and DAP but it is a good ... |
Times of India - Iran is India's biggest diplomatic challenge today. The Chabahar Port in Iran along with a very strategic railway link offers India direct access to Afghanistan and the energy-rich Central Asia. |
ABS CBN News - By Aurea Calica, The Philippine Star MANILA, Philippines - Malacañang brushed off yesterday Chief Justice Renato Corona's call for President Aquino to release the Chief Executive's psychiatric or psychological records. |
AlterNet - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Saturday entered a weekend of talks of the Group of 20 major economies in Mexico where her aides said she would push for freer but fairer trade. |
Times of India - BANGKOK, At least 37 people were injured in an explosion caused by a mixture of chemicals used for cleaning a swimming pool at a hotel in Thailand, local media reported. |
New Straits Times - KUALA LUMPUR: DAP election publicity chief Hew Kuan Yau yesterday apologised to reporters for referring to them as “prostitutes”. |
Bangkok Post - Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra will pay an official visit to Malaysia on Monday, ending a round of courtesy calls to introduce herself to leaders of the other nine members of Asean, reports said on Saturday. |
The Malaysian Insider - By Clara Chooi KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 18 - Lim Kit Siang flayed Datuk Seri Najib Razak today for failing to announce a royal commission of inquiry (RCI) on illegal immigrants in Sabah during his trip there. |
Gulf Today - By Manolo B. Jara MANILA: The Aquino administration has agreed to the proposal for autonomy of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) through a parliamentary form of government similar to that of Malaysia, according to the front's chief negotiator. |
TODAYonline - by Teo Xuanwei SINGAPORE - The National Solidarity Party (NSP) has suggested that the maximum number of foreigners let in annually for the next decade should not exceed 50000. |
TODAYonline - More police operations aimed at keeping the streets here crime free can be expected in the months ahead, said a police spokesperson, as 113 people were arrested for suspected involvement in unlawful activities during an overnight operation which ended ... |
Jakarta Post - This April 12, 2006, file photo shows members of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) rioting in front of the offices of Playboy Indonesia in Jakarta. |
TODAYonline - SINGAPORE - The Sultan of Johor, Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar visited the Singapore Air Show today morning, at the invitation of Singapore Defence Minister Dr Ng Eng Hen, said Malaysian National News Agency, Bernama. |
The Borneo Post - GEORGE TOWN: Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin today repeated his call for the quality of national education system to be improved to produce quality human capital capable of steering Malaysia towards becoming a fully-developed nation. |
Bernama - By Ahmad Fuad Yahya JAKARTA, Feb 18 (Bernama) -- Indonesia's Constitutional Court on Friday made an important ruling which gives an illegitimate child the biological and civil rights to the father and the father's family. |
Gulf Today - By Manolo B. Jara MANILA: A senior member of the Philippine Senate urged the government to create a Cabinet-level department for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to adequately address their needs and concerns especially during natural disasters and ... |
Malaysia Kini - YOURSAY 'I can't decide which is worse - Curtin's ignorance or its greed. But when education is reduced to a business, principles go flying out of the window. |
World
Firstpost - Vatican City: Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday brought 22 Catholic churchmen into the elite club of cardinals who will elect his successor, cementing the Italian majority in a future conclave but also giving New York's garrulous archbishop a position of ... |
Montreal Gazette - AMMAN/BEIRUT, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Syrian security forces have fired on a huge protest against President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, opposition activists said, shortly after a Chinese envoy appealed for a halt to 11 months of violence. |
New York Times - TOKYO - Emperor Akihito of Japan was in stable condition after undergoing open-heart surgery and could leave the hospital within two weeks, doctors said Saturday. |
Firstpost - Washington: Within the last week, authorities say, Amine El Khalifi's plan was proceeding: An al-Qaida associate handed him an automatic weapon to kill security officers inside the US Capitol. |
RTE.ie - The second day of the visit of the Chinese Vice President will focus on agriculture and tourism involving an inspection of a dairy farm and a dinner in Dublin Castle. |
Straits Times - RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) - The Rio Carnival came alive on Saturday with more than two million revellers in outlandish costumes staging a mammoth, samba-driven street festival in the city center. |
Times of India - Iran is India's biggest diplomatic challenge today. The Chabahar Port in Iran along with a very strategic railway link offers India direct access to Afghanistan and the energy-rich Central Asia. |
Times of India - WASHINGTON: In escalating war of words, US defence secretary Leon Panetta has warned Iran that "all options" are on the table if Tehran blocks the Straits of Hormuz or if it goes nuclear. |
The Independent - John Lichfield has been The Independent's man in Paris since 1997, covering French news. Before that, he was the paper's Foreign Editor and he has also worked in Brussels and Washington. |
Sky News Australia - German govt in talks on new president Updated: 03:40, Sunday February 19, 2012 German Chancellor Angela Merkel is meeting leaders from the coalition government to choose a successor to president Christian Wulff, who resigned over corruption allegations ... |
Reuters Africa - MOSCOW (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in cities across Russia in support of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Saturday in a show of force two weeks before a March 4 presidential election that is expected to return him to the ... |
BBC News - Relatives of the victims of Tuesday's prison fire in Comayagua, Honduras have been mourning the dead. Funerals have been held across the country for those whose bodies were released by forensic investigators. |
The News International - PARACHINAR: The death toll from the Fridayís suicide attack and firing incident in Parachinar city, headquarters of Kurram Agency, reached 41 on Saturday, official sources said. |
The News International - ISLAMABAD: Leaders of various political parties called on Afghan President Hamid Karzai who was on a visit to Pakistan to attend a trilateral summit on regional issues between Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran. |
TODAYonline - HONG KONG - Hong Kong government officials have begun a probe into the illegal basement installed in Mr Henry Tang's luxury home, in a widening scandal that threatens to derail his chances of becoming the territory's leader. |
Washington Post - Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping on Wednesday urged greater cooperation with the United States on trade and security issues, what he called a “new type of relationship between major countries. |
China Daily - By Zhang Yuwei and Tan Yingzi (China Daily) MAXWELL / DES MOINES, Iowa - Maybe he just feels comfortable in the driver's seat, but Vice-President Xi Jinping surprised his hosts on Thursday when he suddenly climbed into the cab of a tractor on an Iowa ... |
New York Times - HONG'AI, China - Despite the absence of road signs or Web sites, a dozen or so people each day manage to find their way to this sleepy hamlet that sits in the fold of a dusky mountain in northwestern Qinghai Province. |
CNN International - By David Ariosto, CNN Gov. Chris Christie on Friday vetoed a bill that would allow same-sex couples to wed. He said he wants the issue to be decided by a statewide referendum. |
Reuters - | TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's government will give each family more than $1500 and pay unemployed former rebels who fought in the war that ousted Muammar Gaddafi last year, the prime minister said, in an attempt to win over those who want faster ... |
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