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Current events in Malaysia and Singapore
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 Detained National League for Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi holds her fifth round of talks with the Burmese junta's official liasion, Aung Kyi. She was also allowed to meet with NLD supporters. A party spokesman said Suu Kyi is frustrated by the lack of talks on political reform, quoting her as saying "Let's hope for the best and prepare for the worst." (Reuters) (CNN)- Nearly 800 children who had served as soldiers were returned to their parents between 2002 and 2007, according to a report by the New Light of Myanmar, citing statements by Major General Thura Myint Aung. On Tuesday, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for sanctions against countries or groups using child soldiers. (BBC)
  FBI director Robert Mueller visits Vietnam and Cambodia on a mission to expand legal cooperation. In Phnom Penh, he is to open a new FBI office. (Xinhua) (AFP via Google News)  A 6.6-magnitude earthquake shakes Maluku and triggers a tsunami alert, which is later lifted. The epicenter was on the sea bed about 160 miles northeast of Dili, East Timor. (AFP via CNA) (Xinhua)- H5N1 update:
- A 32-year-old man from Tangerang is the 101st fatal victim of avian influenza in Indonesia, and the third death recorded in as many days. (AFP via CNA)
- Indonesian health officials launch a three-year program to combat bird flu, with a US$20 million grant from the European Union. The plan will focus on preventing new cases, curbing the spread of the virus and more research. (AFP via CNA)
 Three people are killed and 27 injured in a bomb explosion at a fish processing plant in General Santos City, South Cotabato. (AP via Google News) (Reuters) People's Power Party leader Samak Sundaravej is endorsed as prime minister by King Bhumibol Adulyadej. A Cabinet list with posts divided among the six-party coalition government's parties is being readied for endorsement by the monarch.(AP via Taipei Times) (The Nation) (Bangkok Post) (TNA via MCOT)
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- Amnesty International says 96 activists were arrested in November in Burma, despite promises by the junta that it had eased its crackdown since last year's anti-government protests. (Reuters) (AP via CNN)
 Chinese foreign minister Yang Jiechi will visit Brunei, Cambodia and Australia on official visits from January 31 to February 5, the Foreign Ministry says. (Xinhua)- Thai Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont says a border agreement in the area of Prasat Preah Vihear must mutually benefit both Thailand and Cambodia. The 11th-century Angkorian temple is the subject of an ongoing border dispute as Cambodia seeks to have it declared a World Heritage Site. (TNA via MCOT)
- A rear tire bursts on the landing gear of a Thai Airways International flight from Bangkok as it lands at Phnom Penh International Airport. There are no injuries among the 160 passengers and crew. (AFP via ABC News)
- Monsoon storms have caused serious damage to homes and crops across East Timor, relief authorities say. (ABC News)
- Suharto health updates:
- Overturning a 2006 decision, the Supreme Court sentences former Garuda Indonesia pilot Pollycarpus Priyanto to 20 years in prison for the poisoning death of activist Munir Said Thalib. Priyanto had been convicted in 2005, but was later acquitted by the high court. (AP via Google News)
- Avian influenza updates:
- Norberto Manero, convicted in the killing of an Italian Catholic priest in 1985, is freed from prison. At the time, Manero claimed he'd eaten parts of the victim's brain, but he now denies that story.(Reuters)
 A total of 158 Singapore Airlines flights will be retimed in mid-February during the Singapore Airshow 2008 Exhibition. (CNA)- Four museums in California have been raided by United States authorities searching for artifacts from Ban Chiang, who were acting on a tip from an undercover investigation in which a smuggler boasted of a scheme to have antiquities shipped to him from Thailand. (BBC) (Guardian) (AP via Google News)
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