Southeast Asia
Toronto Star - Prime Minister Stephen Harper is in earthquake- and tsunami-battered Japan this weekend, pressing the flesh with Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and singing the praises of a prospective Canada-Japan economic partnership agreement. |
New Straits Times - KUALA LUMPUR: Scenic trails guaranteed to give even the most hardcore of bikers the adrenaline-pumping excitement they crave are now being promoted by the Tourism Ministry under its 5-Mountain Motorcycle Tour. |
The Malaysian Insider - By Ida Lim Najib speaking to media after the Umno supreme council meeting at the PWTC in Kuala Lumpur March 23 2012. - Pictures by Choo Choy May KUALA LUMPUR, March 24 - Datuk Seri Najib Razak said last night the refugee swap deal with Australia would ... |
Philippine Star - MANILA, Philippines (Xinhua) - President Benigno Aquino III will attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit on April 3-4 in Cambodia, a senior government official said yesterday. |
The Online Zamboanga Times - MANILA - The five-day state visit of Kuwait's Amir, His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah to the Philippines is expected to intensify economic relations and boost investments in the Philippines. |
Reuters - Balinese hit each other with fire during a ritual ahead of Nyepi day in Ubud Gianyar, Bali March 22, 2012. Nyepi is a day of silence to celebrate the Balinese new year, reserved for self-reflection, where people are not allowed to use lights, ... |
New York Times - China has detained 21 Vietnamese fishermen in the South China Sea, according to reports on Thursday that cited Vietnamese officials. |
Xinhua - BEIJING, March 23 (Xinhuanet) -- Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is in Beijing for a two-day state visit. Susilo arrived Thursday afternoon, with aims to bring the two countries even closer. |
China Daily - JAKARTA - Chief of Indonesian Intelligence Agency Marciano Norman said on Thursday that the bomb in Paris earlier Wednesday was not targeted Indonesia's embassy office based on the picture on a closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera. |
I Love Chile News - Thursday, March 22 is the 46th annual International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Few… MIAMI, USA - This is not the way it was supposed to end. |
Voice of America - Thursday, 22 March 2012 Surprise Resignation of Judge Adds to Tribunal Woes Kong Sothanarith, VOA Khmer | Phnom Penh “It's deeply troubling that he has documented so many obstacles to his work. |
The Associated Press - By SOPHENG CHEANG, AP - 20 minutes ago PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Myanmar's president confirmed Wednesday that his country will allow some foreign election observers, including from the United States and Europe, to monitor next month's polls,... |
GMA News - The Department of Foreign Affiars (DFA) said Philippine officials are working for the safe release of three Filipino sailors who were abducted by Yemeni tribesmen on Tuesday to demand for the release of a jailed colleague. |
Free Malaysia Today - Party assemblyman M Manoharan lauds the decision to allow the veteran to spearhead DAP's general election campaign. GEORGE TOWN: Kota Alam Shah assemblyman M Manoharan hailed DAP's decision to let Karpal Singh take charge of the party's next general ... |
World
China Daily - By Agencies in Paris (China Daily) France's president proposed a sweeping new law on Thursday that would jail those who visit extremist websites - one of several tough new measures floated in the wake of a murderous shooting spree. |
Reuters - By David Lewis and Tiemoko Diallo BAMAKO, March 23 (Reuters) - Soldiers looted petrol stations and hijacked cars in Mali's capital Bamako on Friday, 48 hours after a military coup, and the African Union said it had assurances that President Amadou ... |
The Independent - Asma al-Assad, Syria's elegant British-born First Lady, was hit with European Union sanctions yesterday as the international community attempted to put a stranglehold on the regime's inner circle. |
China Daily - WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama nominated Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to head the World Bank on Friday. Obama said Kim has the development experience needed to lead the organization when he announced the selection at the White House ... |
The Chosun Ilbo - The Japanese parliament has approved a resolution condemning North Korea's planned missile launch, and the country is also preparing contingencies should the missile veer off course and pose a threat to Japan. |
San Jose Mercury News - By Lolita C. Baldor and Deb Riechmann AP WASHINGTON -- Charges filed Friday against Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales reflect the horror of the crime: 17 counts of premeditated murder, more than half of them children, during a shooting rampage in southern... |
ABS CBN News - Pope Benedict XVI called Friday for a fight against the "evil" of drug gangs in violence-plagued Mexico and "new models" in communist Cuba, on his first trip to Spanish-speaking Latin America. |
U.S. News & World Report - YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Election authorities in Myanmar have postponed voting in three of 48 constituencies in the April 1 by-election because of what the military-backed government says are security concerns. |
Globe and Mail - In a deliberate display likely to enrage North Korea's reclusive and repressive regime, US President Barack Obama will tour in the Demilitarized Zone - the planet's last Cold War flashpoint - Sunday before a nuclear-security summit in Seoul. |
Chicago Tribune - By Mary Slosson LOS ANGELES, March 23 (Reuters) - The public meltdown of the man behind the viral Kony 2012 video has thrown his campaign into turmoil even as the film succeeded in turning the world's attention to capturing an elusive and brutal ... |
Irish Times - ISRAEL HAS decided not to co-operate with a United Nations fact-finding mission mandated to investigate how Israeli settlements may be infringing on Palestinian rights. |
MyFox Los Angeles - RICK CALLAHAN, AP INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - An Indiana judge ordered lead singer Jennifer Nettles of the country duo Sugarland on Friday to give a deposition next month in lawsuits filed over August's deadly Indiana State Fair stage collapse - testimony that... |
TODAYonline - by Amir Hussain SINGAPORE - Countries must explore regional and global collaboration to prevent "mass atrocity crimes", the same way they work together to tackle natural disasters, says United Nations (UN) secretary-general Ban Ki Moon. |
New York Times - China has detained 21 Vietnamese fishermen in the South China Sea, according to reports on Thursday that cited Vietnamese officials. |
Kansas City Star - AP Forest fires burn across the slopes of Mount Kenya, the second-highest peak in Africa at 5199 meters (17057 feet), in Kenya Tuesday, March 20, 2012. |
Haitilibre.com - Yesterday at the weekly press briefing of the UN Mission for Stabilization in Haiti (Minustah), the Major General Eduardo Luiz Pereira Ramos, outgoing Force Commander, declared about the upsurge in insecurity in the country in recent weeks, ... |
The Online Zamboanga Times - by Vic Larato “As volunteers, you are the backbone of the Red Cross movement. Without you, without your heroism and without your unceasing love and passion for other people, Red Cross cannot carry out, let alone succeed in its mission. |
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