Southeast Asia
Blog Watch Citizen Media (blog) - by Wilfred Avila A quarter past two in the afternoon, the Senator-Judges filed into the Senate Hall to being the 26th day of the longest impeachment trial ever. |
GMA News - Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo left the Veterans Memorial Medical Center early Thursday to visit the wake of her brother-in-law, former Negros Occidental Rep. Ignacio "Iggy" Arroyo Jr. |
The Online Zamboanga Times - MANILA - The Energy Department on Wednesday said 38 local and foreign firms expressed interest to participate in the 15 oil and gas blocks offered for development, a ranking government official said. |
Voice of America - Wednesday, 29 February 2012 Two Thais Pledged not Guilty in Border Trespassing Heng Reaksmey, VOA Khmer | Phnom Penh "I think that if the appeal court has a will to have good relation with neighboring country, they should release my clients. |
Malaysia Star - By RUBEN SARIO KOTA KINABALU: Former Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Yong Teck Lee has been ordered by the High Court here to pay RM1mil in damages in a defamation suit brought by Tan Sri Harris Salleh, another former Chief Minister. |
ABS CBN News - By Jennifer A. Ng, BusinessMirror MANILA, Philippines - Washington hopes the Philippines and the United States could resolve their differences over a government regulation on frozen meats without having to go to the World Trade Organization (WTO). |
Bangkok Post - Business sentiment of Japanese firms operating in Thailand is expected to rebound in the second half of this year as production capacity returns even though some plan to relocate outside the country after last year's devastating floods. |
The Atlantic - By Joshua Kurlantzick As the military and civilian government clash, this Southeast Asian country could easily blow up again, and soon. |
The Online Zamboanga Times - by Perfecto T. Raymundo Jr. MANILA - Raoul Angelo D. Atadero of Ateneo de Manila University topped the 2011 Bar Examinations with a rating of 85.5363 percent, the Supreme Court announced Wednesday. |
gulfnews.com - Communist Party of the Philippines denies its founding chair Jose Ma. Sison is in the country By Gilbert P. Felongco, Correspondent Manila: The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) denied reports that its founding chair Jose Ma. |
Bangkok Post - A core leader of the Nitirat group and law lecturer at Thammasat University Worajet Pakeerat was assaulted yesterday at the university's Tha Phra Chan campus by two men. |
Voice of America - Wednesday, 29 February 2012 A Tourist Bus Crash Killed Two and Wounded 44 Kong Sothanarith, VOA Khmer | Phnom Penh "They finished their visit in Cambodia and were on their way to Thailand. |
Journal Online - AN improvised explosive device (IED) left by unidentified suspect was found the other night at the LBC cargo area of Kalibo International Airport in Aklan. |
Jakarta Post - Following an attack earlier Wednesday on graft suspect Sistoyo, his lawyer, Firman Wijaya, announced that he would request that his client's trail be moved to Jakarta, citing poor security at the West Java Corruption Court as the reason. |
Wyndham Weekly - JAKARTA. An appeal by extremist Islamic spiritual leader Abu Bakar Bashir against his nine-year jail sentence has backfired spectacularly, with a judge yesterday increasing it to 15 years. |
Malaysia Kini - YOURSAY 'Till today, they are still clearing the mess that they created in Bukit Merah 26 years ago. Let not Lynas repeat this mistake in Kuantan. |
World
Mirror.co.uk - THE wife of the British photographer injured in Syria yesterday spoke of his struggle at knowing 13 people died to save him. Kate Conroy said it was a burden on father-of-three Paul, 47, that activists had given their lives to smuggle him to safety to... |
The Independent - In 1972, President Richard Nixon signed his “war on drugs” into law. Drugs were “public enemy number... The major paradox about rare diseases is that collectively rare diseases are not rare. |
Jerusalem Post - By HILARY LEILA KRIEGER, JPOST CORRESPONDENT 03/01/2012 02:01 By REUTERS/Mark Blinch WASHINGTON - Mitt Romney won both the Michigan and Arizona Republican presidential primaries on Tuesday night, giving him the lion's share of delegates thus far for ... |
Brisbane Times - The crippled cruise liner Costa Allegra is towed toward the Seychelles by a French tuna boat. More than half the passengers on board a stricken Italian cruise ship being towed through the Indian Ocean have decided they want to stay in the Seychelles ... |
Arab News - The Syrian uprising began nearly one year ago, when in March, thousands of pro-reform demonstrators took to the streets in Daraa to denounce the Assad regime. |
Firstpost - Moscow: Vladimir Putin said his enemies were planning dirty tricks including ballot stuffing and even murder to tarnish Russia's presidential election that the former KGB spy is almost certain to win. |
CTV.ca - A day is added at the end of February every four years in the Gregorian calendar. February 29 is a special day for the estimated 4 million people worldwide who are celebrating a leap day birthday. |
CNN International - By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) -- Chinese authorities have made dozens of arrests following a deadly clash between Han Chinese and ethnic Uighurs in the country's remote northwest, a US-based Uighur leader said Wednesday. |
The Independent - Michael McCarthy, the Independent's Environment Editor, is one of Britain's leading writers on the environment and the natural world. |
Irish Times - ANALYSIS: THE TAOISEACH's announcement of a referendum on the ratification of the European Stability Treaty - which will be signed in Brussels tomorrow - caused surprise both in Leinster House and among Ireland's partner EU states. |
USA TODAY - By Aamer Madhani, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - President Obama's relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been complicated by misunderstandings, diplomatic miscues and occasional differences of opinion. |
Straits Times - WASHINGTON (AFP) - Partial remains from some victims of the Sept 11 attacks on the Pentagon ended up at a landfill but not those who died on a hijacked airliner that went down in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, the US Air Force chief of staff said on ... |
Radio Australia - UNICEF warns in its report, "The State of the World's Children 2012: Children in an Urban World that Urbanization." leaves hundreds of millions of children in cities and towns excluded from vital services. |
Kansas City Star - AP CHARDON, Ohio -- A judge has released seven pages of juvenile court records on a school shooting suspect in Ohio, including an assault case in late 2009 at age 15. |
The Associated Press - CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - It's hard to imagine an election in Venezuela without Hugo Chavez, the larger-than-life personality who gazes down from billboards and murals and fills the airwaves for hours at a stretch with his unique mixture of fiery ... |
Daily Mail - By Kerry Mcqueeney An innocent man with the same name as one of al Qaeda's most senior commanders was arrested at Cairo International Airport after he was mistaken for Bin Laden's former security chief. |
Globe and Mail - CAIRO— AP Egypt lifted a travel ban Wednesday on seven Americans facing trial on charges they worked for pro-democracy groups that fomented unrest with illegal foreign funding. |
The Independent - AP In 1972, President Richard Nixon signed his “war on drugs” into law. Drugs were “public enemy number... The major paradox about rare diseases is that collectively rare diseases are not rare. |
BBC News - Pirates have attacked a cargo ship off Nigeria, kidnapping two crew members and injuring another, an international maritime watchdog has said. |
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