Southeast Asia
The Online Zamboanga Times - MANILA - Chief Justice Renato Corona's defense panel remains tight-lipped about its strategy when his impeachment trial resumes on Monday. |
The Malaysian Insider - By Jahabar Sadiq, KUALA LUMPUR, March 11 - Barisan Nasional (BN) is looking to dump its seat-sharing formula among component parties in order to regain its two-thirds parliamentary majority and some of the states lost in Election 2008, ... |
New Straits Times - By Ahmad A Talib | ahmadt51@gmail.com 0 comments Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak meeting civil servants in Putrajaya on Thursday. |
BBC News - An 18-year-old man has been jailed for seven years for breaking the jaw of a Malaysian student during the London riots. Ashraf Rossli, 20, had been in the UK for just a month when he was attacked in Barking on 8 August. |
The Online Zamboanga Times - MANILA - Security situation at the V. Luna Hospital remains normal despite the confinement there on Friday of former Maguindanao Gov. |
Bangkok Post - Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said yesterday the Japanese government had agreed to help fund an elevated road project which will be used as a flood prevention wall to protect at-risk industrial estates. |
Macau Daily Times - Maids in Singapore will soon get something that many people around the world take for granted: a day off. Starting next year, maids must receive one day off a week or additional compensation to work that day, Manpower Minister Tan Chuan-Jin told ... |
Jakarta Post - Under estimated: A woman sleeps in Badung traditional market in Bali on Thursday, the observance of International Women's Day. |
Boston.com - Five Acehnese men convicted of gambling have been caned in public in the devout Islamic Indonesian province of Aceh. They were flogged six times each Friday in front of hundreds of people at a field in East Aceh's district capital of Langsa. |
New Straits Times - BANGKOK: A second Russian has died after being caught in a fire at a major tourist hotel in Bangkok, which injured about 20 others in a popular visitor district, hospital staff and officials said Saturday. |
Pakistan Observer - Yala—Two soldiers were killed and 12 wounded in brazen insurgent attacks on military bases and checkpoints in Thailand's troubled Muslim south on Friday, police said, the latest outbreak of separatist unrest in the region bordering Malaysia. |
Malaysia Star - By TAN EE LOO PETALING JAYA: Rallies were held here and in Gombak by groups who are for and against the Teaching of Science and Mathematics in English (PPSMI) policy. |
gulfnews.com - By Gilbert P. Felongco, Correspondent Manila: A pair of bells taken away by American soldiers from a church at the height of the Philippine-American war over a hundred years ago was officially handed over to the country's National Museum on Friday. |
Straits Times - Women working out during a mass exercise at the Esplanade Park on Saturday as part of an event organised by the NTUC to mark International Women's Day. |
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. |
World
Times of India - DAMASCUS: Syrian president Bashar al-Assad promised international envoy Kofi Annan on Saturday that he would back any "honest" peace bid but warned dialogue would fail if " terrorist groups" remained. |
The Associated Press - MOSCOW (AP) - A protest rally against Vladimir Putin drew more than 20000 people on Saturday, far fewer than those in past months as the opposition movement appears to be losing momentum following Putin's presidential election victory. |
Salt Lake Tribune - By FARES AKRAM Gaza • Cross-border violence between Israel and militant groups in Gaza continued Saturday, as Israeli airstrikes that began Friday afternoon killed several more Palestinian militants and militant groups fired scores of rockets into ... |
Sydney Morning Herald - Public life in Japan will pause on Sunday as the nation marks a year since a huge earthquake and tsunami killed 19000 people and changed the lives of hundreds of thousands more. |
Voice of America (blog) - Five high-profile Taliban militants held at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have agreed to be transferred to the Gulf state of Qatar. |
The Independent - It has become an internet sensation. Celebrities have rushed to offer support. The White House has congratulated the people who made it. |
Times of India - DHARAMSHALA: Tibetans in exile on Saturday organized a grand ceremony to mark the Tibetan national upraising day anniversary at their main temple in McLeodganj. |
Salt Lake Tribune - Middle East » $75 million in aid could begin to flow this year, US defense officials say. By Lolita C. Baldor | The Associated Press Washington • The Pentagon plans to resume programs that would pay for military training and equipment in Yemen,... |
The Guardian - Ransom money was paid to the Islamic extremists holding British and Italian hostages in Nigeria before British special forces tried to rescue them from their compound, a news agency has claimed. |
Vancouver Sun - The UN atomic agency's dogged focus on Iran's Parchin military site in its probe into Iran's nuclear program is putting Tehran in a tight spot ahead of hugely important talks with world powers. |
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 ... |
Journal Online - We agree with Vice President Jejomar Binay's advice that only a “fair and impartial impeachment trial” of Chief Justice Renato Corona can do the country good. |
Jakarta Post - Under estimated: A woman sleeps in Badung traditional market in Bali on Thursday, the observance of International Women's Day. |
Yonhap News - SEOUL, March 10 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspected navy units guarding its western coastal regions, the North's media said Saturday, as the communist country continued to ratchet up hostile rhetoric against South Korea. |
Times LIVE - South African President Jacob Zuma could fly into a stormy political atmosphere when he visits Harare soon to put the Global Political Agreement (GPA) and preparations for free and fair elections back on track. |
USA TODAY - By Ben Mutzabaugh, USA TODAY While the city is not likely to be on the wish list for many leisure travelers, the Turkish flights are being hailed as a landmark development there. |
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