Southeast Asia
Malaysia Kini - YOURSAY 'Wouldn't it be fair that Round 2 be held in Penang and equal opportunity be given to both parties?' Jbsuara: A verdict coming from a BN party member has no credibility. |
The Sun Daily - KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 19, 2012): Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak has urged intellectuals, Islamic scholars and virtual writers to work together with the government and safeguard the dignity of Islam. |
Philippine Star - MANILA, Philippines - Militant group Bayan today urged the public to be vigilant on the developments in the impeachment trial against Chief Justice Renato Corona. |
Bangkok Post - Prosecutors say they will send a request to the Foreign Ministry to extradite an Iranian bombing suspect from Malaysia within a week. |
gulfnews.com - By Gilbert P. Felongco, Correspondent Manila: Countries such as the Philippines which are more prone to disasters, should have bolder risk management strategies, a United Nations agency said. |
AsiaOne - By Sophie Hong NATIONAL bowler Remy Ong allegedly ran over a pregnant dog with his black Porsche Boxster yesterday afternoon. The dog died at the scene and the alleged hit-and-run accident dislodged the car's licence plate. |
Jakarta Post - One villager died and at least eight went missing on Sunday as a bamboo bridge collapsed, plunging them into the swift currents of Cihideung River in Ciampea, Bogor, West Java. |
New Straits Times - By NURADILLA NOORAZAM Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein says Alis was created in accordance with suggestions made by the Parliamentary Select Committee on electoral reforms. |
Radio Australia News - Reports from Thailand say dozens of people have been taken to hospital after pool cleaning chemicals exploded into a cloud of gas at a Phuket resort. |
Malaysia Star - By LEE XIAN KUALA LUMPUR: Yet another woman is now realising the folly of sending her nude pictures to her then boyfriend. He is threatening to share them with the rest of the world. |
Malaysia Star - KUALA LUMPUR: Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra starts her official visit to Malaysia today, after putting it off due to the massive floods in her country last October. |
Cebu Daily News - By Jason A. Baguia CEBU CITY—The Vatican announced over the weekend the canonization of 17th century Visayan martyr Pedro Calungsod on October 21, making him the country's second Catholic saint. |
Malaysia Star - By M. KUMAR SUBANG JAYA: It took just five minutes for two robbers to relieve a moneychanger of some RM100,000 just as he was about to open for business. |
Malaysia Star - JOHOR BARU: Career counsellors in schools should keep themselves abreast with the employment market in the country to offer relevant advice to students, Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri Dr S. Subramaniam said here. |
ABS CBN News - MANILA, Philippines - The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) began its full implementation of the motorcycle scheme along EDSA, Monday. |
World
New York Times - WASHINGTON - Should Israel decide to launch a strike on Iran, its pilots would have to fly more than 1000 miles across unfriendly airspace, refuel in the air en route, fight off Iran's air defenses, attack multiple underground sites simultaneously... |
Reuters - | BEIJING (Reuters) - Western countries are stirring up a civil war in Syria with their wholehearted support for the opposition, a top Chinese newspaper said Monday, slamming calls for the country's leader to hand over power as an incitement to further ... |
The Press Association - Germany's government and the two major opposition parties are to jointly nominate former East German human rights activist Joachim Gauck to be the country's next president. |
Bloomberg - South Korea began live-fire naval drills in disputed waters as a North Korean threat of “merciless punishment” prompted the evacuation of thousands of island residents nearby. |
Reuters - By Sharon Waxman at TheWrap A deal to change China's 20-year-old quota on US films and low distribution fees came at the last moments of a visit by Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping and US Vice President Joe Biden on Friday. |
AsiaOne - Revellers from the Renascer de Jacarepagua samba school parade on the first night of the annual Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro's Sambadrome, February 19, 2012. |
Pakistan Observer - Baghdad—A suicide bomber killed 15 people and wounded more than 20 others as he blew himself up in front of a police academy in Baghdad on Sunday, Iraqi security officials said. |
Moneylife Personal Finance site and magazine - “Thanks to the government's attitude towards the whole episode, there appears to be a huge cover-up underway when by right the two captains of Enrica Lexie along with the six armed mercenaries and the watch-keeping officer, who happened to be an Indian ... |
New York Daily News - By Joanna Molloy / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Cardinal Timothy Dolan (c.) listens to Pope Benedict say Sunday mass inside Saint Peter's basilica with the 20 other new cardinals in attendance. |
TIME (blog) - By Krista Mahr | February 19, 2012 | + Japan's Emperor Akihito declares the opening of an ordinary session of the parliament in Tokyo Jan. 24, 2012 Japan's 78-year-old Emperor Akihito underwent successful heart bypass surgery yesterday at the ... |
Go Jamaica - MIAMI, CMC - The United States Coast Guard's drug interdiction operations in the Caribbean Sea this winter have so far yielded two tons of marijuana near Jamaica and four tons of cocaine in a single seizure off Honduras, the coast guard said on ... |
South China Morning Post (subscription) - Tsang Yok-sing (left) and lawmaker Peter Cheung Kwok-che officiate at the "Building for the Future" 35th anniversary celebration event organised by the Fu Hong Society at Ocean Park yesterday. |
Philippine Star - QUITO (Xinhua) -- At least 26 people were killed and 15 others injured on Sunday in Ecuador's northern province of Imbabura in a traffic accident, local police said. |
Radio New Zealand International - A strategic review of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community is not expected to result in an overhaul of the 65-year-old organisation. |
The Borneo Post - CHIANG MAI: Haze persisted over Thailand's two northern provinces of Chiang Mai and Lampang for the second consecutive day on Saturday, prompting local authorities to consider using artificial rain to abate dust particles, Thai News Agency (TNA) ... |
China Daily - PARIS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy Sunday afternoon called for French people joining him in building a strong France at his first major political meeting in the southern French city of Marseille. |
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