Southeast Asia
Jakarta Post - Jakarta: The Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, upholding a lower court's 15-year sentence on the firebrand cleric for running a terrorist training camp in Aceh. |
Philippine Headline News - MANILA, FEBRUARY 28, 2012 (MANILA TIMES) Written by : Ritchie A. Horario, Correspondent (PHOTO - Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago takes the podium during Day 24 of the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona on Monday. |
Malaysia Star - By ZUHRIN AZAM AHMAD PUTRAJAYA: The Government will initiate a move to regulate political financing and require that all forms of funding be channelled directly to the official party account. |
Jakarta Post - Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Rikwanto has dismissed allegations made by Law and Human Rights Minister Amir Sjamsuddin that the police overreacted in arresting Rochadi Iman Santoso, the immigration office chief at Soekarno-Hatta International ... |
Inquirer.net - WHEN the remains of the late Negros Occidental Rep. Ignacio Arroyo finally arrive in the country, it will be his wife, Aleli and no one else will receive the burial flag at his funeral a week from now. |
Gulf Times - Thai police said yesterday they were holding a third Iranian for questioning in connection with an alleged plot to kill Israeli diplomats in Bangkok. |
Bangkok Post - Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has told his red shirt supporters he will reward their core leader Jatuporn Prompan for his allegiance. |
Philippine Star - By Aurea Calica (The Philippine Star) Updated February 28, 2012 12:00 AM 0 MANILA, Philippines - President Aquino expects the master plan on the country's water sector to be completed by the first week of April, at the same time renewing government's ... |
Inquirer.net - By Norman Bordadora WE REMEMBER YELLOW. Confetti rains on the Edsa parade at the People Power Monument to mark the 26th anniversary of the uprising that ousted dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. |
AsiaOne - By Naizi Husin and A. Ruban KUANTAN, Malaysia - Dr Badrulamin Bahron, who has been accused of committing khalwat with a married woman, is sticking to his version of events he was merely helping a woman and her child settle into a hotel room. |
Sun.Star - THE Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Monday that the Filipina who reportedly suffered from renal failure died while she was on her way home to the Philippines. |
Straits Times - PHNOM PENH (AFP) - Cambodia said on Monday it was banning the spit-roasting of cows outside restaurants and other public places in response to an appeal from Buddhist monks. |
Bangkok Post - PHUKET : Police seized two baby elephants aged about one year from two operators in Phuket yesterday, allegedly for illegal possession. |
The Citizen Daily - Kuantan. Thousands rallied Sunday in Malaysia against an Australian miner's rare earths plant in the biggest protest yet over fears it will produce radioactive waste harmful to them and the environment. |
World
China Daily - By Zhang Zhouxiang (China Daily) On Sunday Syria held a referendum on a new constitution that proposes a multi-party parliamentary election within three months and a presidential limit of two seven-year terms. |
Irish Times - GERMANY HAS given its backing to a second Greek bailout after Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that blocking it carried “incalculable and irresponsible” risks. |
Salt Lake Tribune - By JIM HEINTZ AP Moscow • In the face of increasingly harsh criticism from the West, Russia is holding firm in its opposition to international intervention in Syria, warning the US and other nations against any temptation to resort to actions like the ... |
GMA News - CHARDON - A student opened fire with a handgun in the cafeteria of a high school near Cleveland on Monday, killing one boy and injuring four other students before he was chased from the building by a teacher and caught, police said. |
Newsday - Opinion Newsday > Opinion Editorial More reason to leave Afghanistan now Published: February 27, 2012 7:02 PM Afghanistan has become a fiercely inhospitable place for US troops in recent days. |
Atlanta Journal Constitution - By JASON STRAZIUSO AP NAIROBI, Kenya - An Italian cruise liner carrying more than 1000 people was adrift without power in the pirate-infested Indian Ocean on Monday after a fire erupted in its generator room. |
China Daily - CANBERRA, Australia - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard may have survived a challenge from within her own party, but the dissent that forced Monday's vote isn't going away. |
msnbc.com - South Korean military vehicles on patrol during South Korea-US joint military exercises called Key Resolve and Foal Eagle on Gyeonggi-do, South Korea on Monday. |
Wall Street Journal - By CAROL E. LEE And JAY SOLOMON WASHINGTON—Complaints from Israel about the US's public engagement with Iran have pushed the White House to consider more forcefully outlining potential military actions, and the "red lines" Iran must not cross, ... |
Hindustan Times - Three persons were killed a five others injured in a powerful bomb explosion in Kathmandu barely 200 metres from Singha Durbar, the official seat of Nepal government, on Monday. |
TIME - By AP / BEN HUBBARD Monday, Feb. 27, 2012 (BEIRUT) - A Syrian activist group reported Monday that 144 people have been killed across the country, scores of them in the embattled opposition stronghold of Homs by security forces as they tried to flee. |
GMA News - LONDON - Singer Charlotte Church and her parents settled her phone-hacking damages action against the publishers of the now defunct News of the World for 600000 pounds ($951400) at the High Court on Monday. |
Irish Times - THE WEEKEND announcement by Colombia's biggest guerrilla organisation that it will stop kidnapping civilians for ransom brings to an end one of the most traumatic episodes in the country's decades-long civil war. |
Irish Times - EU FOREIGN ministers stepped up sanctions against Syria and warned of more to come as they implored president Bashar al-Assad to stop killing his own people. |
Times of India - KOCHI: Even as the legal battle over compensation between dependants of the two fishermen shot dead by Italian marines and the ship owners is going on, the owner of the ill-fated fishing boat, St Anthony, also moved the high court on Monday, ... |
Daily Monitor - By TAMBA JEAN-MATTHEW III (email the author) Mr Wade says his old age is an asset to Senegalese government and that he is the father of the nation, a thing he claims the Europeans do not understand. |
PakistanToday.com.pk - Middle to senior-level officials of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and the Pakistani military knew the arrangements for Osama bin Laden and his Abbottabad safe house, claimed a leaked Stratfor email, the Hindustan Times reported on Monday. |
Gulf Times - Thai police said yesterday they were holding a third Iranian for questioning in connection with an alleged plot to kill Israeli diplomats in Bangkok. |
Manila Bulletin - By DR. BETH DAY ROMULO IF all goes according to present plans, China Vice President Mr. Xi Jinping is expected to become president of China next year. |
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