Southeast Asia
Jakarta Globe - Prison inmates seen after a riot inside Kerobokan prison in Bali on Wednesday. (EPA Photo) Proper schools and universities with educated teachers and proper wages for workers and proper justice in the courts and decent politicians and officials would ... |
Inquirer.net - By Christian V. Esguerra, TJ Burgonio WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION Justice Secretary Leila de Lima: If the Supreme Court intended to get a comment from us on Nov. 18 and set oral arguments on Nov. 22, why issue a TRO on Nov. 15? |
Bangkok Post - Business leaders exhaled yesterday after the Constitutional Court endorsed two executive decrees, especially one regarding 350 billion baht in emergency loans. |
Jerusalem Post - By JPOST.COM STAFF 02/22/2012 23:18 Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast "expresses Iran's readiness" to identify culprits of Bangkok bombings, blames "US and Zionist officials" for accusing Iran. |
New Straits Times - The Election Commission yesterday agreed to endorse the move, which was part of the recommendations made by the Parliamentary Select Committee on Electoral Reforms, after a meeting with media representatives at the commission's headquarters here. |
New Straits Times - CONVICTED wildlife smuggler Anson Wong Keng Liang walked out a free man yesterday after serving 17 months and 15 days of his five-year jail sentence imposed by a High Court. |
AsiaOne - By Regina Lee and Lee Yen Mun PETALING JAYA - The Government has banned the sex education book Where Did I Come From? on grounds that it contains elements that could be detrimental to the society's morals and public interest. |
Cebu Daily News - By Nancy Carvajal MANILA, Philippines—Alicia “Aleli” Arroyo was not the legal wife of the late Negros Occidental Rep. Ignacio “Iggy'' Arroyo whose body is scheduled to arrive on Friday evening from London, following an agreement between three parties ... |
Inquirer.net - By Jerry E. Esplanada The government has lifted the ban on the deployment of Filipino “au pair” to Europe, Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario announced Wednesday. |
Journal Online - CLARK Freeport, Pampanga -- The Alyansa ng Manggagawang Magbubukid sa Asyenda Luisita (AMBALA) and Alyansang Magbubukid sa Gitnang Luzon (AMGL) assailed anew officials of the Cojuangco-controlled Hacienda Luisita Inc. (HLI) for sowing continuous terror ... |
New Straits Times - KOTA BARU: Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat should regard Parti Keadilan Rakyat as an enemy since its friendly stance taken by de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, on Israel. |
Inquirer.net - By Jocelyn R. Uy, Norman Bordadora POWER TO THE PEOPLE The towering monument at the corner of Temple Drive and Edsa in Quezon City is in the spotlight again as the Philippines celebrates the 26th anniversary of the Edsa People Power Revolution that ... |
Journal Online - “THE late former Ambassador and Leyte Gov. Benjamin 'Kokoy' T. Romualdez was once among the most powerful men in our country but he was neither abusive nor high-handed in treating people. |
Inquirer.net - The Philippine government's Public-Private Partnership (PPP) for School Infrastructure Project aims to build 9332 classrooms in its first phase covering Luzon. |
World
New York Times - The two journalists killed in the ravaged Syrian city of Homs approached a deadly world through different frames. But what drew them together - in life and in death on Wednesday - was their common drive to reach some of the world's most dangerous ... |
Malaysia Star - By TERENCE TOH KUALA LUMPUR: Many Christians around the country attended church services and started fasting as the Lent season began with Ash Wednesday. |
Financial Times (blog) - The train crash at Once station in the heart of Buenos Aires, with forty-nine dead and more than six-hundred injured, is the worst in Argentina in more than forty years. |
The Australian - THE Australian dollar fell today after Prime Minister Julia Gillard called a leadership ballot in an effort to end months of escalating tension within the Labor government over who will lead it into the 2013 election. |
Kansas City Star - By ALI SAFI AND NANCY A. YOUSSEF KABUL, Afghanistan -- At least nine people were killed and dozens wounded Wednesday in the second day of anti-American protests in Afghanistan after US personnel burned Qurans and other Islamic material at Bagram air ... |
Washington Post - “We are of the opinion that the Iranian regime is a rational actor,” said Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on CNN on Sunday. |
Jakarta Globe - Prison inmates seen after a riot inside Kerobokan prison in Bali on Wednesday. (EPA Photo) Proper schools and universities with educated teachers and proper wages for workers and proper justice in the courts and decent politicians and officials would ... |
Yahoo!7 News - Kim Dotcom is spending his first full day out of custody in more than a month after being granted bail. Dotcom, the multimillionaire founder of file-sharing website Megaupload who faces charges in the United States of racketeering, ... |
AFP - CARACAS - President Hugo Chavez's revelation that his cancer may have returned has plunged Venezuela into a period of deep uncertainty as it ramps up for what many expect to be the most closely contested presidential elections in years. |
New York Daily News - By Bill Hutchinson / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Dominique Strauss-Kahn leaves in car after a daylong-plus interrogation in Lille about a prostitution sex-orgy ring. |
Irish Times - A YEAR on and the earthquakes just keep on coming. Yesterday was the anniversary of one of the worst disasters in the history of New Zealand, a 6.3-magnitude earthquake that claimed the lives of 185 people in Christchurch. |
Firstpost - The diplomatic face-off between India and Italy over which country has jurisdiction to try the case relating to the killing of two Kerala fishermen by Italian navy personnel remains unresolved. |
BBC News - The threat from terrorism and piracy in Somalia are among the issues that will be discussed at a conference in London on the future of the country. |
Malaysia Star - By John Irish and Lin Noueihed PARIS/TUNIS (Reuters) - The main opposition Syrian National Council (SNC) will use an international meeting on the Syrian crisis to push for urgent measures to ferry humanitarian aid to stranded civilians, a move it hopes ... |
Salt Lake Tribune - By FRANCES D'EMILIO AP Rome • Divers searching the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship found eight bodies Wednesday on one of the passenger decks, including that of a missing 5-year-old Italian girl, authorities said. |
Zap2it.com (blog) - By David Eckstein Dr. Conrad Murray, who is currently serving four years for involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson, says the conviction should be overturned. |
TIME - By AP / RUKMINI CALLIMACHI Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012 (DAKAR, Senegal) - Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, who is officially in Senegal to observe this weekend's contentious election, met opposition candidates Wednesday in an effort to mediate ... |
Sky News Australia - New contender for height record Updated: 09:49, Thursday February 23, 2012 Living his whole life in the remote village of Dang District in Western Nepal, 72 year old Chandra Bahadur Dangi was unaware he might be in line for the title of World's... |
CNN International - Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- Hundreds of voters voted Tuesday in Sanaa's old town section to replace Yemen's longtime ruler, Ali Abdullah Saleh, in an election marred by sporadic violence. |
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