Southeast Asia
Inquirer.net - By Norman Bordadora MANILA, Philippines—The government is considering reducing the fees on the country's toll roads and even allowing their use for free during off-peak hours, President Benigno Aquino III said in a forum with business leaders on Friday ... |
AsiaOne - By P. Aruna PETALING JAYA - Indonesian officials appeared to have decided on their own on the "one maid, one task" ruling at the meeting of the joint task force in Jakarta on Thursday. |
Malaysia Kini - YOURSAY 'If these makciks, who are mothers and grandmothers, can say 'yes' to stealing, then what values are they teaching their young? |
GMA News - Malacañang said over the weekend it remains hopeful Domingo Lee, its controversial appointee as ambassador to China, will hurdle the Commission on Appointments soonest to finally fill up the year-old vacancy in the post. |
GMA News - More than 24 hours after it started, the fire that hit the Grand Central mall in Caloocan City was finally placed under control past 11 pm Arson investigators initially estimated the damage to property at P500 million. |
Inquirer.net - The defense began with a brazenly political witness, and then proceeded to show that Chief Justice Corona actually earned enough money to support his spending. |
Straits Times - Airport cleaner Chandra Mogan was walking towards the McDonald's outlet at the Budget Terminal when he was hit by a wildly careening taxi said to have been hijacked by a Chinese national. |
The Malaysian Insider - By Yow Hong Chieh KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 - The parliamentary select committee on the Lynas issue will not decide on the fate of the controversial rare earth plant, Datuk Seri Najib Razak said today. |
AsiaOne - Public prosecutors and police are set to visit Malaysia to discuss the extradition of an Iranian national suspected of being involved in the Bangkok explosions last month, deputy police chief Pansiri Praphawat said yesterday. |
Bangkok Post - A taxi driver has returned gold necklaces worth about 13 million baht left in his taxi by their owner on Wednesday. Ekkarat Kanokwannakorn, left, receives a box of gold necklaces from taxi driver Saksri Ketseekaeo at the Sor Wor Por 91 police radio ... |
Straits Times - From two students earnestly assessing the quality of the Kallang River water, to kids (above) squealing in excitement as they attempt to net a fish or two, Singaporeans soaked up the sun at Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park yesterday morning. |
New Straits Times - By ZAHARAH OTHMAN 0 comments A file picture of the video clip of Malaysian student Asyraf Haziq Rossli being mugged that went viral. |
The Borneo Post - TAPAH: Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak tyesterday announced an additional allocation of RM30 million for Orang Asli communities throuhout the country for this year. |
Wall Street Journal - By BRIAN SPEGELE BEIJING—Vietnam is protesting plans by a Chinese oil company to take bids on developing energy deposits in the contested South China Sea, in a fresh sign that territorial disputes in the region may rise as Beijing, Hanoi and other ... |
Jakarta Globe - A container filled with scrap metals mixed with asphalt, white liquid, and sand. (Photo courtesy of Fidelis E Sastriastanti). Facepalm, again your take on indonesia is wrong , again and again....Global companies led by Vale and Newmont Mining plan to ... |
Manila Standard Today - THE Palace is out to cripple the political opposition in the 2013 elections by taking control of their priority development assistance funds, minority lawmakers charged Friday. |
Press TV - Residents receive medical treatment outside a shopping mall after a 5.9-magnitude earthquake hit Surigao City, Surigao del Norte province on the southern island of Mindanao on March 16, 2012. |
US Navy SEALs Blog & Information (blog) - Filipino mariners who had been stranded in the aftermath of an explosion, which left the tanker they were serving on disabled, were rescued by the United States Navy in the Persian Gulf. |
World
RT - Armed Syrian men, members of the rebel Free Syrian Army, gather in a mountainous area of the restive Idlib province in northwestern Syria on March 13, 2012. |
TODAYonline - DILI - East Timor's first-round presidential election ended peacefully late yesterday, with a provisional result due today. The election is seen as a critical test of whether Asia's youngest and poorest country can maintain stability and build ... |
WPTZ The Champlain Valley - Parade-goers jammed the streets of Savannah, Georgia today. The great weather brought out hundreds of thousands of St. Patrick's Day revelers. |
San Francisco Chronicle - Actor George Clooney was arrested at a protest outside the Sudanese Embassy in Washington on Friday. The protesters accuse Sudan's president, Omar el-Bashir, of provoking a humanitarian crisis and blocking food aid for half a million people in Sudan's ... |
Newsday - Nation Newsday > News > Nation Cuba offers paid time off for workers to see pope Published: March 17, 2012 9:06 PM By The Associated Press HAVANA - (AP) -- Cuba's communist government is making it easier for citizens to see Pope Benedict XVI during his ... |
Vancouver Sun - SAN DIEGO - The co-founder of Invisible Children, a San Diego-based nonprofit that produced the viral “Kony 2012” video, was detained in San Diego on Thursday night, police said. |
Los Angeles Times - Americans view the killing of 16 villagers as an aberration and a betrayal of US values. For Afghans, the incident is similar to many others, accidental or otherwise, that cause civilian deaths. |
Times of India - NEW DELHI: Breaking her silence on the police's attempt to link her family with the Iranian blast suspects, arrested journalist SMA Kazmi's wife, Jahan, on Saturday claimed the large foreign remittances into their bank accounts were made by their ... |
Gulf Daily News - TRIPOLI: Mauritania has arrested Muammar Gadaffi's ex-spy chief, Abdullah Al Senussi, after he arrived on an overnight flight, officials said, triggering a three-way tussle for his extradition. |
Sky News - The Belgian and Dutch royal families will attend the funerals of those killed in the Swiss bus crash this week. Twenty-two children and six adults died when their vehicle smashed into a wall in an alpine tunnel on their way home from a school ski trip. |
Channel News Asia - SEOUL: North Korea said Saturday it would invite foreign experts and journalists to observe a satellite launch which the United States and other countries see as a disguised missile test. |
New York Times - WASHINGTON - The American staff sergeant suspected of killing 16 Afghan villagers had been drinking alcohol - a violation of military rules in combat zones - and suffering from the stress related to his fourth combat tour and tensions with his wife ... |
Reuters - By Hamid Shalizi and Jack Kimball | KABUL (Reuters) - A NATO helicopter crashed into a house on the outskirts of the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Friday, killing 12 Turkish soldiers on board and four Afghan civilians on the ground, Turkey's military and a ... |
International News Network - MOSCOW: Russia will not provide NATO with any facility as a military base during international force withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Foreign Ministry has said. |
Shanghai Daily (subscription) - TAIPEI, March 17 (Xinhua) -- A ceremony was held Saturday here to award folk writers from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan who recorded the most true pictures of "the other side" and deepened cross-Strait communication with their pens. |
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