Southeast Asia
BBC News - A Vietnamese court has jailed eight members of the Hmong minority for up to two-and-a-half years each in connection with ethnic violence last May. |
Inquirer.net - By Cynthia D. Balana Prosecution spokespersons on Wednesday decried Chief Justice Renato Corona's use of government resources for his defense in the impeachment trial in the Senate. |
Manila Standard Today - by John Anthony Concepcion THE Department of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday said a Filipino woman working as a maid in Syria was killed when she and her employer's family were ambushed by “armed gangs” in Homs last Feb. 24. |
Inquirer.net - By Cathy C. Yamsuan For the third time, the Commission on Appointments (CA) deferred the confirmation of Domingo Lee as Philippine ambassador to China for his failure to answer questions about the Spratlys dispute. |
Live Trading News - While economic matters topped the agenda at the Singapore-Indonesia Leaders' Retreat, both sides were conscious of the fact that strong people-to-people ties were key to the healthy bilateral relationship. |
Scottish Daily Record - A BRITISH man and his Thai wife have been robbed and beaten to death at a resort in southern Thailand. The bodies of Michael Raymond, 68, and Suchada Bowkamdee, 52, were found in their bungalow at the Jack Beach Resort in Prachuap Khiri Khan province, ... |
Malaysia Star - PUTRAJAYA: The Appeals Court here Wednesday upheld a court's decision to allow Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to amend his statement of claim in his defamation suit against Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin Abu Bakar. |
Brisbane Times - The terrorist group holding Australian adventurer Warren Rodwell has executed an Indian man who had been held captive for more than nine months, Philippine authorities believe. |
Business Recorder (blog) - The Philippine Department of Justice has reviewed evidence in the 2011 murder of journalist Gerardo Ortega and recommended that murder charges be filed against ex-governor Joel Reyes in the local courts, news reports said. |
Inquirer.net - By Philip C. Tubeza The judge hearing the Maguindanao massacre case on Wednesday ordered the head of the Philippine General Hospital's pulmonology section to determine if former Maguindanao Governor Andal Ampatuan Sr. |
New Straits Times - KUANTAN: Residents here can find out realtime readings of the radiation level by checking the airborne monitoring system (AMS) placed at the district police station here. |
ABS CBN News - MANILA, Philippines - A Malacañang reporter who was shot and mauled in Pasig City has an arrest warrant for illegal drugs, police said Wednesday. |
San Jose Mercury News - By Janice De Jesus Before Connie English left the Bay Area to visit an elephant sanctuary in Thailand -- a country ravaged by relentless floods -- she was determined to use her art to create awareness about the plight of endangered elephants there. |
Bangkok Post - Thaksin Shinawatra's declaration that he wants to come back to Thailand from self-exile is another attempt to sound out the public about whether he is likely to get away returning as a free man. |
World
Canada.com - By Crispian Balmer, Reuters March 14, 2012 7:29 PM Syrian Christians sit in a park in Bab Touma, a Christian quarter of the Old City in Damascus June 9, 2010. |
msnbc.com - Most of the victims were 12-year-olds returning from a ski vacation in the Swiss Alps. NBC's Brian Williams reports. >>> other news tonight, overseas in switzerland, an absolute tragedy. |
Financial Times - A political leader who is stepping down after presiding over a decade-long economic boom might be excused a little self-congratulation. |
The Daily Star - By Mike Corder THE HAGUE: The International Criminal Court convicted a Congolese warlord Wednesday of using child soldiers, a verdict hailed as a legal landmark in the fight against impunity for the world's most serious crimes. |
Sydney Morning Herald - Australia's ambassador to NATO Brendan Nelson says international troops will not be accelerating a withdrawal from Afghanistan. |
Toronto Star - James Keller The Canadian Press VANCOUVER—As the massive field of lumber, refrigerators, fishing boats and other wreckage from last year's Japanese tsunami drifts across the Pacific Ocean, state and provincial governments along coastal North America ... |
Kansas City Star - By DAVID GOLDSTEIN AND DAVID LIGHTMAN WASHINGTON -- A few hours before Rick Santorum captured two Southern states this week to rejuvenate his presidential campaign yet again, Mitt Romney said his rival's race had reached a "desperate end. |
China Daily - WASHINGTON - The US soldier who was accused of killing 16 civilians in Afghanistan has been transferred out of the country, the Pentagon said Wednesday. |
Stuff.co.nz - PRINCE CHARMING: Harry says it's a struggle finding someone willing to get romantically involved with a royal. Britain's Prince Harry is looking for love, but admits the pressures of marrying into the royal family can be off-putting. |
The Guardian - He said the soldier has been flown to a "pre-trial confinement facility" in another country but did not provide further details. |
Financial Times - By Tobias Buck in Jerusalem The cash-starved Palestinian Authority could be losing much-needed revenues as a result of “tax leakage” on the Israeli side, say senior Palestinian officials and the World Bank. |
RTT News - (RTTNews) - The death toll in Tuesday's ferry mishap in southwest Bangladesh has crossed the 100 mark, local media reports citing officials said late Wednesday. |
ABS CBN News - LIRA, Uganda - Few faces evoke more hatred and fear in northern Uganda than Joseph Kony, one of Africa's most wanted men whose army of child soldiers preyed on this town for years and whose brutal legacy has been thrust back into the spotlight by a... |
Los Angeles Times - Several South Korean lawmakers scuffled with a North Korean diplomat leaving a United Nations meeting in Geneva on Tuesday, reportedly chanting slogans against China for sending North Korean defectors back to the isolated and repressive country. |
Times of India - DHARAMSHALA: In an exceptional move, the Tibetan parliament's budget session took off on a somber note on Wednesday, with members entering the house wearing black ribbons, displaying the slogan " Save Tibet". |
The Age - RAW VISION: A humanitarian crisis is erupting in the volatile border area between Sudan and South Sudan, warns actor and human rights activist George Clooney. |
Christian Science Monitor - Two recent surveys seem to conflict over how Americans would prefer to handle the threat of a nuclear Iran. By Howard LaFranchi, Staff writer / March 14, 2012 In this photo released by an official website of the Iranian supreme leader's office, ... |
The Guardian - When US Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said in January that a pregnancy created through rape was "a gift of human life", it was clear that contraception and abortion rights were back on the political agenda. |
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