Southeast Asia
Malaysia Kini - YOURSAY 'If this cancelled scheme is any indication, I shudder about the other decisions affecting the country as a whole.' Ksn: What PM Najib Razak did is right, provided that politics was not part of the decision. |
The Independent - An 18-year-old was jailed for seven years yesterday after being convicted of attacking a Malaysian accountancy student and other offences during the London riots. |
Edmonton Journal - A memorial service will be held in Edmonton this weekend for four temporary foreign workers killed Sunday in a head-on collision near Innisfail. |
Jakarta Post - Under estimated: A woman sleeps in Badung traditional market in Bali on Thursday, the observance of International Women's Day. |
eTurboNews - On the 8th of March 2012, at approximately 10pm local time, a fire broke out at the Grand Park Avenue Bangkok Hotel on Sukhumvit Soi 22. |
Davao Today - QUEST FOR JUSTICE. Thousands of movers and supporters of the Justice for Fr. Pops Movement hold a caravan for justice and against the government's counter-insurgency Oplan Bayanihan in Kidapawan City, North Cotabato last year. |
Malaysia Star - By M. MAGESWARI and NURBAITI HAMDAN KUALA LUMPUR: Former Transport Minister Tun Dr Ling Liong Sik has been ordered to enter his defence over three charges of cheating the Government in relation to the controversial Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) project. |
Vancouver Sun - BOTUM SAKOR, Cambodia - It was once the unspoiled jungle home for tigers, elephants, bears and gibbons. But today Botum Sakor National Park in southwest Cambodia is fast disappearing to accommodate a much less endangered species: the Chinese gambler. |
World
Reuters India - By Dominic Evans | BEIRUT (Reuters) - UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan meets President Bashar al-Assad on Saturday to press for a political solution to Syria's year-long uprising and bloody crackdown in which thousands of people have been killed. |
London Free Press - By ANDREW SCHIESTEL, Special to QMI Agency By the end of this year, we'll find out. On March 5, the US non-profit Invisible Children posted a video on YouTube with the goal of encouraging the arrest and conviction of Joseph Kony, a Ugandan guerilla ... |
Chicago Tribune - * Italian President calls British action "inexplicable" * Monti calls security meeting, demands clarity * Nigerian raid, India's arrest of marines challenge for Monti (Adds denial from Boko Haram spokesman) By Steve Scherer ROME, March 9 (Reuters) - A ... |
Jakarta Post - Palestinians gather around the wreckage of a car targeted in an airstrike in Gaza City, on Friday. An Israeli airstrike killed top Palestinian militant commander Zuhair al-Qaissi and a second militant in Gaza on Friday in the highest profile attack... |
Wall Street Journal - By Gabriele Parussini WARSAW (Dow Jones)--French presidential candidate Francois Hollande vowed Friday to change the balance of power within the European Union if he is elected, as he attempted to boost his international standing and play down the cool ... |
Reuters Blogs (blog) - By Ian Bremmer Could it be that the international sanctions against Iran are hurting the Obama administration more than Iran itself? |
CNN International - By Mike Ayers, Special to CNN Julianne Moore, who plays Sarah Palin in "Game Change," and director Jay Roach attend a screening of the movie Wednesday. |
CNN International - By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) -- Al Qaeda announced the death of a regional commander in Yemen, whom the group described as one of "its sheikhs of jihad and support," according to an online terror monitoring group. |
Irish Times - TENS OF thousands of demonstrators are due to gather on Moscow's Novy Arbat, a long avenue of Soviet-era high-rise buildings in central Moscow, at 1pm local time (9am Irish time) today in the first rally to be held since Vladimir Putin's election as ... |
The Associated Press - ELLISVILLE, Miss. (AP) - Spurning calls for him to get out, Newt Gingrich insisted Friday that he'll stay in the race for the Republican presidential nomination even if he loses two Southern primaries next week. |
New York Times (blog) - By ANDREW C. REVKIN The good news that (happily) violated that norm and rippled in headlines this week came in a World Bank report showing a broad reduction in deep poverty and concluding that the great global recession did not increase poverty in the ... |
Jakarta Post - Under estimated: A woman sleeps in Badung traditional market in Bali on Thursday, the observance of International Women's Day. |
Globe and Mail - China is a powerful country with every kind of modern weaponry - except one to counter the Tibetans who have been setting themselves on fire in alarming numbers, in protest against Chinese repression. |
The Irrawaddy News Magazine - By HPYO WAI THA / THE IRRAWADY Friday, March 9, 2012 A boy wearing the colours of the National League for Democracy on his head, waves during the visit of Burma pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi at Sagaing. |
Pakistan Daily Times - SEOUL: China has repatriated all 31 North Korean refugees it arrested last month despite international pressure against the move, activists said Friday, warning they could face severe punishment. |
The Japan Times - By TADATERU KONOE From an early age, tiny Japanese children are taught to put cushions on their heads and burrow under their school desks in the event of an earthquake. |
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