Monday, March 5, 2012

05 MAR 2012, MON: SEA & World

Southeast Asia


PM: NGOs our strategic partners

New Straits Times - 
By AZURA ABAS Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak gets an enthusiastic response from a crowd eager to shake his hand outside the Stadium Putra Bukit Jalil where he launched the 1Malaysia People's Welfare Programme (Kar1sma) yesterday.

Arrogance of rush to prejudgment

Inquirer.net - 
The prosecution is in a hurry to rest its case against Chief Justice Renato Corona as swiftly as it pushed the impeachment complaint to the Senate after collecting 188 signatures of congressmen in a record time of three hours in a single day.

More than 15000 still waiting for kidneys

Malaysia Star - 
By MARTIN CARVALHO KUALA LUMPUR: Almost every one of the over 15000 Malaysians awaiting organ donor transplants suffers from kidney failure.

2 killed in plane crash in Camiguin

Minda News - 
By Froilan Gallardo | Monday| March 5, 2012 | Filed under: Top Stories CAGAYAN DE ORO (MindaNews/04 March) - A chartered light plane carrying a vacationing Norwegian family crashed as it was about to land at the airport in Mambajao town in Camiguin, ...

Sardines biting again off Mindanao

Inquirer.net - 
By Kristine L. Alave Commercial fishing boats have again been allowed to harvest sardines in the waters of southwestern Mindanao after the government lifted a three-month closed season on sardine fishing on Friday.

Jolo bomb explosion kills 2, injures 8

Minda News - 
By Mindanews | Monday| March 5, 2012 | Filed under: Top Stories ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanews/04 March) - An improvised bomb explosion rocked the business center of Jolo, Sulu on Saturday night, killing two persons and injured eight others.

Oil spill disrupts water supply

Malaysia Star - 
By STEPHEN THEN and CINDY LAI MIRI: A massive oil spill forced a major water treatment plant near here to shut down yesterday, interrupting the supply of 125 million litres of water daily to a population of 300000 people in the city.

Pasay blaze kills 3 kids

Tempo - 
Manila, Philippines - Three children died and eleven others were injured in a fire allegedly sparked by an unattended lighted candle shortly before midnight of Saturday in Pasay City.

Other stories

BusinessWorld Online Edition - 
SENATE AND HOUSE panels have jointly approved bills converting the municipality of Mabalacat into a component city of Pampanga. A bicameral conference committee has reconciled the upper and lower chambers' versions of the bill, paving the way for ...

Los Baños cop chief sacked over UPLB student's killing

GMA News - 
The head of the Los Baños police in Laguna was sacked from his post following the robbery-slay of a University of the Philippines Los Baños student last weekend.

Resolution on the use of uranium, plutonium to be tackled at summit

BusinessWorld Online Edition - 
THE GOVERNMENT will be pushing for an international resolution that would tighten security measures and prevent nuclear resources such as uranium and plutonium from being used for terrorist activities, a high-ranking Executive official said late last ...

Tributes pour in at Isagani Yambot's wake

Inquirer.net - 
By Christine O. Avendaño PRESIDENTIAL PRAYER President Aquino prays before the coffin of Inquirer publisher Isagani M. Yambot Sr.

Musa: Brunei Sultan's visit enhances bilateral ties

The Borneo Post - 
SANDAKAN: Follow-up discussion between Sabah senior officials and their counterparts from Brunei Darussalam will be made following the official visit by the Sultan of Brunei, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah.

Tobacco giant mulls farm investments

BusinessWorld Online Edition - 
GLOBAL CIGARETTE giant British American Tobacco Plc. (BAT) plans to invest in plantations in the Philippines as soon as excise tax reforms on cigarettes push through, an official said on Friday.

Fire-ravaged city building declared a no-go zone

Bangkok Post - 
Wattana district office has banned people entering fire-ravaged Fico Place building on Asok Road. Sajja Khontrong, chief of Wattana district, said an order was released Sunday informing the owner that the use of the building is prohibited until ...

More immigration officers deployed in Palawan

Sun.Star - 
THE Bureau of Immigration (BI) deployed recently additional personnel to the Puerto Princesa International Airport (PPIA) in preparation for the influx of tourists to the Puerto Princesa Underground River (PPUR), one of the new Seven Wonders of Nature.

QC official defies Bistek memo!

Journal Online - 
QUEZON City treasurer Edgar Villanueva has allegedly defied memorandum circulars issued by Quezon City Mayor Herbert Bautista pertaining to the authority to evaluate and formulate business tax assessments in the city.

Binay tells PH officials to resolve OFW's death

ABS CBN News - 
MANILA, Philippines - Vice President Jejomar Binay called on Philippine authorities in Hong Kong to coordinate with local police in order to determine the cause of death of an overseas Filipino worker (OFW).

'Let independent panel monitor Lynas'

New Straits Times - 
KUALA LUMPUR: The government has been urged to hire independent monitoring bodies to publish the radiation readings of residue to be disposed by Lynas Corporation.

Ng: There's money in homestays

Malaysia Star - 
RAUB: Village youths should take the opportunity to make money by organising tourism activities such as the homestay programme, said Tourism Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ng Yen Yen.

World


China's defence spending to rise 11.2 percent this year

allvoices - 
By StephenManual The world is rapidly becoming a dangerous place to live in. Every country is increasing its defence budget and buying new war technologies from developed countries.

Rae meets Netanyahu

Canada.com (blog) - 
This just out from interim Liberal leader Bob Rae, who apparently met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today before the latter flew to Washington for a pivotal meeting on Iran.

206 killed in Republic of Congo arms depot blasts

Jakarta Post - 
This video image taken across the Congo river in Kinshasa, Congo on Sunday shows a blast that rocked Brazzaville the capital of the Republic of Congo.

Sixteen passengers die in head-on train collision

Times LIVE - 
SIXTEEN people were killed when two passenger trains collided head-on in southern Poland late on Saturday in the country's worst train crash in more than 20 years.

Some aid reaches Syria's Homs, refugees flee to border

IBNLive.com - 
Beirut: The Red Cross delivered emergency aid to areas around the battered Baba Amro district of the Syrian city of Homs on Sunday, but was blocked for a third day from entering the former rebel bastion amid reports of bloody reprisals by state forces.

Sheldon Alberts: Rush Limbaugh's 'slut' comment causes radio turbulence in ...

National Post - 
WASHINGTON - Al Franken had it exactly right in his 1999 bestseller: Rush Limbaugh is a Big, Fat Idiot. I'm sorry. That was insulting.

States Assess Twisters' Wrath

Wall Street Journal - 
By JACK NICAS and MIKE ESTERL MARYSVILLE, Ind.—In this small town in southeast Indiana, the tornado's devastation was so severe that residents weren't asking how to rebuild—but whether to try at all.

Suu Kyi tells Myanmar rally she is back to health

AsiaOne - 
SAGAING, Myanmar - Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi insisted she was back to health on Sunday as she pressed on with her election campaign despite falling ill during a huge rally a day earlier.

In GOP circles, some wonder whether the party needs to lose big to eventually win

Washington Post - 
In “Batman Begins” - the 2005 movie about the origins of the caped crusader - there is a group of villains who believe the city of Gotham is beyond saving and that the only way to fix it is to first destroy it.

One Jesus for liberals, another for conservatives

The Guardian - 
Love thy neighbour, so long as he is not an illegal immigrant. Blessed are the poor, so long as they are deserving. And, though it may be harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven than to pass through the eye of a needle, multimillionaires ...

Wukan Vote Offers New Path for China

Wall Street Journal - 
By BRIAN SPEGELE BEIJING—One of the leaders of a village rebellion last year in southern China was elected as village head over the weekend in a democratic vote, the final stage in a remarkable turnaround that illustrates a potential new approach to ...

Rights group report self-immolation

Gulf Times - 
A mother of four died after setting herself on fire in a Tibetan-inhabited region of southwest China yesterday, a rights group said, in the latest self-immolation to hit the country.

Binay tells PH officials to resolve OFW's death

ABS CBN News - 
MANILA, Philippines - Vice President Jejomar Binay called on Philippine authorities in Hong Kong to coordinate with local police in order to determine the cause of death of an overseas Filipino worker (OFW).

Debt-relief and the Irish referendum

Financial Times - 
In the recent history of European treaty making, Ireland has emerged as something of a roadblock in the path to deeper integration.

Japan's post-tsunami test: making a rebuilding boom last

ABS CBN News - 
YAMADA, Japan - Shigeo Osugi walks around concrete foundations where his coastal town restaurant "Migoto" stood before a towering tsunami washed it away last year.

Man swept to his death in Australian floods

Stuff.co.nz - 
A man is dead after being swept from a vehicle on a flooded causeway in New South Wales. Thousands of people have been evacuated in New South Wales and Victoria as devastating floods move through the Australian states.

Canada slaps Assad, China defends regime

CANOE - 
By Daniel Proussalidis, QMI Agency OTTAWA - There's more gear in Canada's toolkit of options to force Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to give up power, says Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird.

More Filipinos now wish to flee Syria at government expense

Inquirer.net - 
By Jerry E. Esplanada AP PHOTO Many overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in strife-torn Syria are finally availing themselves of the government's free repatriation program, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA).

Mendoza: Kindergarten Law signed

Sun.Star - 
By Lorenzo E. Mendoza Director's Cut: (This portion features the thoughts of DepED 11 Regional Director Susana Teresa B. Estigoy, CESO IV to all stakeholders and recipients of the efforts to improve the basic education) I do not consider my job as ...

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