Colourful Philippine election season kicks off (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The Philippine election season kicked off on Tuesday with the world’s best boxer and the defiant wife of a dead dictator among the dizzying array of characters hoping to grab a share of power.
2,000 hit by Papua cholera outbreak: WHO (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Papua New Guinea’s cholera outbreak has spread to 2,000 people, a World Health Organization official said Monday as he warned that poor water sanitation was making the disease hard to contain.
Thai-Cambodian Border Tension Eases As Hun Sen Returns (Bernama)
SURIN, Feb 8 (Bernama) — Tension along the Thai-Cambodia border seemed to ease after Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen cancelled his schedule to visit Ta Muen Thom temple ruins here and returned to Phnom Penh on Monday, Thai News Agency (TNA) reported.
THAILAND MYANMAR Burmese junta profits at the expense of 1.3 million migrant workers in Thailand (Thailandnews.net)
The two governments agree to clarify the procedures for registration of Burmese people in Thailand. The Burmese junta has so far claimed the withdrawal of the documentation at home to monitor illegal …
ASIA LOCAL BONDS- Philippine, Indonesian ylds rise, Thai softens (Reuters via Yahoo! Singapore News)
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Indonesian Waitress Found Dead (Bernama)
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 9 (Bernama) — An Indonesian waitress was found dead in an apartment on the second floor of a four-storey shop house at Jalan Pinggiran 1/4, Pinggiran Putra, Seri Kembangan, late Monday night.
At her Thai border clinic, Cynthia Maung treats victims of war from her native Burma (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News)
After two decades, the ramshackle scrap-wood hut here that Cynthia Maung turned into a temporary clinic for destitute refugees is still in use.
Cambodia Calls Google Maps Misleading Over Thailand Border Dispute (Search Engine Land)
Cambodia blasts Google map of disputed Thai border from Reuters reports Cambodia is the latest country upset with Google over how they draw the border on Google Maps. Cambodia s prime minister, Hun Sen, wrote a letter saying Google was radically misleading, professionally irresponsible and devoid of truth and reality.
Cambodia blasts Google map of Thai border (CIOL)
PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA: Cambodia has hit out at Google over what it called a “radically misleading” map of the disputed Thai-Cambodia border, accusing the world’s biggest search engine of being “professionally irresponsible”.
02/08/2010 16:14 PHILIPPINES Manila: young Taiz community members pray in silence (AsiaNews.it)
by Santosh Digal Titled Trust on earth , the fifth pilgrimage organised by the Taiz community took place in Makaty City (Manila). More than 3,000 people from around the world participated in the event, which began on 3 February. Some Muslims were also present.
Philippine poll campaign begins (BBC News)
The campaign for presidential and senatorial candidates begins in the Philippines ahead of May’s elections.
Vietnam May Pick Sumitomo, Itochu for Bullet Train (Update1) (Bloomberg)
Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) — Vietnam, planning to build Southeast Asia s first bullet train, may choose a group of Sumitomo Corp. and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., or Itochu Corp. and Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. for the $56 billion project.
