Southeast Asia
gulfnews.com - By Gilbert P. Felongco, Correspondent Manila: President Benigno Aquino's decision to raise the level of security cooperation with the US, is not directed to any particular external threat, the Presidential Spokesman Edwin Lacierda said yesterday. |
Straits Times - Mr Lawrence Wong (right) with Professor Cheong Hee Kiat, president of SIM University, at Thursday's townhall meeting. -- PHOTO: DESMOND LUI FOR THE STRAITS TIMES By Amelia Tan As the Government expands the university sector to provide more university ... |
Business Times (subscription) - By S JAYASANKARAN IN THE clearest sign that a general election is looming, Prime Minister Najib Razak has begun what seems to be a vigorous campaign to retain his ruling Barisan Nasional's grip on power, reaching out to as many constituencies as ... |
Inquirer.net (blog) - By Norman Bordadora The Philippines and Kuwait will sign several agreements during Kuwaiti Amir Sheikh Sabah Al Jaber's five-day state visit that starts Friday afternoon. |
Philippine Star - MANILA, Philippines (Xinhua) - The government said today it remains committed to drafting a final peace agreement despite the difficulties it's encountering in the ongoing peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). |
Pakistan Daily Times - KUALA LUMPUR: UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Thursday urged Malaysia to observe international human rights standards when formulating new laws to replace a tough security act that is marked for abolition. |
Inquirer.net - By Inquirer Research, Kate Pedroso, Marlon Ramos The majority of Filipinos not only disapprove of the performance of Chief Justice Renato Corona but also distrust him, results of the latest survey by Pulse Asia Inc. show. |
Voice of America - March 22, 2012 Cambodian Opposition Leader Blasts Tribunal Interference VOA News Cambodia's opposition leader in exile is criticizing the country's government, accusing it of blatantly interfering with attempts to prosecute crimes committed by the ... |
Jakarta Post - Garuda Indonesia's Airbus A330 carrying President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, First Lady Any Yudhoyono, and a number of Cabinet members, touch downed at Beijing's International airport at 6:25 pm local time on Thursday. |
Deseret News - By Niniek Karmini AP Ali Imron, sentenced life imprisonment for the 2002 Bali bombings, arrives for a trial of Umar Patek, an Indonesian militant charged in the terrorist attacks, at West Jakarta District Court in Jakarta Thursday, March 22, 2012. |
Bangkok Post - Six years after the 2006 coup d'etat that plunged Thailand into a deep political abyss and economic stagnation, is the country ready to get out of its rut and start afresh? |
World
Kansas City Star - By BRADLEY KLAPPER AP A soldier carries goods away from a compound housing various government ministries a day after a military coup, in Bamako, Mali, Thursday March 22, 2012. |
Haaretz - Toulouse gunman Mohamed Merah's background, alongside his boasts that although he worked alone he belonged to Al-Qaida, characterize the murder of three children and a rabbi at the Ozar Hatorah school as an unmistakable terrorist act. |
Arab News - In claiming that the Syrian uprising is a covert attempt by other Arab countries to overthrow the Allawite Assad regime and establish a Sunni state, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is being both provocative and inflammatory. |
USA TODAY - By Aamer Madhani, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Though North Korea's nuclear program isn't on the official agenda of next week's Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, President Obama's concerns about the hermetic regime will loom large in conversations on the... |
msnbc.com - Until now, it was unthinkable that the people of Myanmar could turn out in the thousands to support opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. |
USA TODAY - By Cathy Lynn Grossman, USA TODAY When Pope John Paul II visited Cuba in 1998, he called for the island nation "to open to the world and for the world to open to Cuba. |
Canada.com - By Kyle Kipp, For Postmedia News March 22, 2012 6:49 PM OTTAWA - An Ottawa-based advocacy group specializing in international development and foreign policy is urging Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and the federal government to put forward a nominee for ... |
Inquirer.net - By TJ Burgonio Chief Justice Renato Corona can't have a free ride on the job done by the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ), and should himself secure the statements of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALN) of government officials ... |
Inquirer.net - By Philip C. Tubeza The government has lifted the ban on the deployment of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to Nigeria, Libya and South Sudan. |
Xinhua - KUALA LUMPUR, March 22 (Xinhua) -- United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said Thursday that he had been engaging major countries in Asia to influence the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) into abandoning its plans to launch a ... |
AsiaOne - Police and undertakers taking away the body of Filipina Roselyn Reyes Pascua who died in a pool of blood, brutally stabbed in her rented room in Peony Mansion, on the evening of 14 March 2010. |
Daily Mail - By Tim Shipman and James Coney The full extent of George Osborne's stealth tax raid on pensioners was laid bare yesterday. Around 700000 people turning 65 next year will be hit the hardest - losing £323 annually with the end of age-related income ... |
AFP - HANOI - China said Thursday the detention of two Vietnamese fishing boats and 21 crew near the disputed Paracel Islands was lawful, after Hanoi demanded their "immediate and unconditional" release. |
The Associated Press - A political tip sheet for the rest of us outside the Washington Beltway, for Thursday, March 22, 2012: WHAT HAPPENED SKIMMING DELEGATES: Rick Santorum is falling so far behind Mitt Romney in the race for convention delegates - he's down by 300 - that ... |
Malaya - PRESIDENT Aquino on Wednesday met German business leaders led by honorary consuls who compose part of the "2012 Team Philippines-Germany" and commended them for their initiatives and sacrifices to hurdle difficulties and misimpressions on the ... |
Deseret News - By Niniek Karmini AP Ali Imron, sentenced life imprisonment for the 2002 Bali bombings, arrives for a trial of Umar Patek, an Indonesian militant charged in the terrorist attacks, at West Jakarta District Court in Jakarta Thursday, March 22, 2012. |
Wall Street Journal - By JOSH CHIN and BRIAN SPEGELE BEIJING—China's social-media services, which had allowed wide discussion of controversial politician Bo Xilai since his ouster last week, are now cracking down on searches for his name, as his downfall seems to have put ... |
Business Recorder (blog) - A bomb blast outside Indonesia's embassy in Paris on Wednesday caused serious damage to surrounding buildings but no injuries, police said, as investigators sought a motive for the attack. |
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