Southeast Asia
TODAYonline - By 2030, only 6 will begin working for every 10 going into retirement by Teo Xuanwei SINGAPORE - The next decade will see the Singaporean workforce start shrinking, while more go into retirement, such that come 2030, there will be only six citizens ... |
Washington Post - DIVVYING UP: India and China discussed ways to cooperate as they vie for dominance in the region's oceans. SHIPS IN THE NIGHT: China presses territorial claims to much of the South China Sea while India has been exploring for oil in Vietnamese waters, ... |
Malaysia Star - By REGINA LEE KUALA LUMPUR: The rise of the social media dominated discussions in the Asean + 3 Ministers Responsible for Information (AMRI) conference. |
Bangkok Post - Twin brothers have confessed to assaulting Nitirat group core leader Worajet Pakeerat at Thammasat University on Wednesday, police say. |
Inquirer.net - By Nancy C. Carvajal, Tina G. Santos, TJ Burgonio STRICTLY PRIVATE Former President Gloria Arroyo, out of detention on an eight-hour furlough, attends the wake of her brother-in-law Rep. Ignacio “Iggy” Arroyo at the Arroyo ancestral residence in La ... |
GMA News - In a new report released Thursday, the World Bank urged the Philippines and other lower middle income countries in East Asia to practice 'smarter' spending in higher education and get stakeholders to “coordinate as a system” to raise the productivity ... |
Daily Mail - By Lee Moran It was all smiles between Airmiles Andy and the Prime Minister of Thailand when the jet-setting Prince arrived in the Far East for a five-day tour. |
Philadelphia Inquirer - By Brett Zongker AP PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS / AP At a White House dinner to honor those who served in Iraq, President Obama leads a toast. |
Sydney Morning Herald - Behind bars ... Norwegian Stein Havard Dokset. Photo: AP Police in Thailand say they have arrested a Norwegian businessman who admitted killing his Thai girlfriend and keeping her rotting body hidden in his luxurious villa for two-and-a-half years. |
Malaysia Star - KUALA LUMPUR: Motorists have expressed happiness over the move to reduce toll charges at the Cheras-Kajang Highway. Wong Yew Wah, 40, was delighted the Government had taken the bold step of reducing toll ahead of the concession's expiry, saying “this ... |
Inquirer.net - The beleaguered former National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) director Magtanggol Gatdula has produced two witnesses to support his claim about alleged threats to his life. |
Bangkok Post - A spate of arson and bomb attacks rocked the restive South yesterday, injuring at least a dozen people and causing millions of baht of damage to businesses. |
Tempo - Manila, Philippines - Janelle Manahan and her three lawyers are now facing perjury charges filed by Hiro Furuyama before the Parañaque Prosecutor's Office Thursday immediately after the pretrial of Ramon Joseph Bautista and five other accused at the ... |
The Sun Daily - GEORGE TOWN (March 1, 2012): Penang's press fraternity today handed a memorandum to the state's chief police officer, urging for greater protection and action against those who attacked journalists during the anti-Lynas rally at Speakers' Square here ... |
Inquirer.net - ZAMBOANGA CITY—A toxic gas leak at an ice plant here sickened more than 100 villagers, including children, sending them to different hospitals and prompting authorities to call for an investigation. |
Bernama - KUALA LUMPUR, March 1 (Bernama) -- The revelation to the public, letters from former prime minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad to three prime ministers of Israel, yesterday, must have been disappointing to the opposition. |
TODAYonline - by Amir Hussain SINGAPORE - All 10000 Housing and Development Board (HDB) blocks and multi-storey car parks will be fitted with police cameras by 2016, as part of efforts to upgrade the frontline policing model, said Second Minister for Home Affairs S ... |
The Australian - GOVERNMENT reaction to news of a collapse in Indonesian enrolments has avoided any reference to the special status of the language. |
Gold Star Daily World News - SUPREME Court Associate Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno formally declined the invitation of the Lower House's prosecution panel for her to appear before the Senate impeachment court and testify in the trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona. |
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Reuters Africa - By Mariam Karouny BEIRUT, March 2 (Reuters) - Defeated Syrian rebels abandoned their shattered stronghold in Homs, giving way to a 26-day army assault on a city that had become a symbol of the year-long revolt against President Bashar al-Assad. |
Montreal Gazette - William Hague, Britain's Foreign Secretary, has ordered the evacuation of all British diplomats from Syria and closed the UK embassy in Damascus because of mounting security threats. |
Pakistan Daily Times - SEOUL: China on Thursday welcomed North Korea's agreement to freeze nuclear activities in return for massive US food aid, a deal that raised cautious hopes of eased tensions under Pyongyang's new young leader. |
Sydney Morning Herald - More than 1000 people on board a stricken Italian cruise liner arrived safely in the Seychelles Thursday where the captain told how passengers were ready to abandon ship as his crew fought a fire that left the vessel adrift and powerless. |
Daily Mail - By Daily Mail Reporter Two American soldiers were shot dead today by two Afghans including a man believed to be a soldier. The attack was likely to raise further questions about the future of Afghanistan's struggling security forces. |
Huffington Post - NEW YORK -- On one fateful night in 1994, Andrew Breitbart decided he was finally going to figure out why a couple friends and the guys at Wired couldn't stop talking about this thing called the Internet. |
San Francisco Chronicle - (For more on the election, go to ELECT.) March 1 (Bloomberg) -- Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney pressed his case for spurring energy and economic gains in delegate-rich states that vote in next week's Super Tuesday contests as rival Rick ... |
Irish Examiner - European leaders have concluded the first night of a two-day summit focusing on jobs and growth in Europe. Greece was also on the agenda with leaders welcoming the implementation of the legal reforms agreed as part of its second bailout. |
Wall Street Journal - François Hollande, France's Socialist Party candidate for President, made a campaign stop this week in London, hoping to win over the 300000 or so of his fellow citizens who now make their home on the other side of the Chunnel. |
Reuters UK - By Conor Humphries | MAYNOOTH, Ireland (Reuters) - An Irish referendum on the European Union's new fiscal compact is likely to fail unless Brussels offers the country a financial sweetener, one of the leading forces behind Ireland's 2008 rejection of ... |
Canada.com - By Matthew Fisher, Postmedia News March 1, 2012 MOSCOW - The depth of Vladimir Putin's political problems were clarified for me in an unexpected way this week. |
London Free Press - By Jessica Murphy, Parliamentary Bureau Prime Minister Stephen Harper (L) meets with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the 66th United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York on September 21, 2011. |
The Independent - Everybody knows Rupert Murdoch loves his newspapers. He launched The Sun on Sunday last weekend to replace the News of the World and couldn't contain his excitement, constantly tweeting news about advertising and circulation performance. |
Cebu Daily News - By Kristine L. Alave Noting a huge disparity between the declared assets and government salary of Chief Justice Renato Corona, a party-list group has called for the confiscation of his “unexplained” wealth estimated to be worth P78 million. |
Reuters India - By Chris Buckley | BEIJING (Reuters) - China is likely to unveil its military spending for 2012 on the weekend, flagging the direction that Beijing will take after President Barack Obama launched a new "pivot" to reinforce US influence across Asia. |
Inquirer.net - By Christian V. Esguerra, TJ Burgonio EARFUL An irate Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago covers her ears during a tumultuous moment in the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona on Wednesday after private prosecutor Vitaliano Aguirre III was ... |
Korea Times - By Lee Tae-hoon President Lee Myung-bak renewed his appeal to Japan to resolve long-running grievances over its wartime sexual enslavement of Korean women, describing it as an urgent humanitarian matter Thursday. |
Financial Times - By Stanley Pignal and Joshua Chaffin in Brussels Almost 13 years after a transatlantic alliance dropped bombs on Belgrade in response to “ethnic cleansing” in Kosovo, European Union leaders granted Serbia official candidate status to join the club. |
The Daily Star - ISTANBUL: A remote-controlled bomb injured 15 police officers and one civilian Thursday as the blast hit a police minibus passing close to the Istanbul headquarters of Turkey's ruling AK Party, police said. |
Moneycontrol.com - By Parisa Hafezi REUTERS - Iran's ruling political and religious hardliners will face off in a parliamentary election on Friday, echoing a deepening rift in a conservative establishment grappling with economic sanctions over the country's disputed ... |
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