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 Adam Air flight KI-574 with 102 passengers flying from Java to Sulawesi disappears in stormy weather. Emergency crews search on both land and sea for the missing Boeing 737-400. (AP) Two more bomb blasts strike Bangkok just after midnight, injuring several people, including a foreign tourist whose legs are amputated in the blast. The explosions are near CentralWorld shopping mall, where just hours before thousands of people had gathered for a New Year's Eve countdown celebration and been told to disperse by authorities after seven bombs went off in various parts of the city earlier in the evening. (AP) (Nation) (Wikinews)
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- Adam Air Flight 574 remains missing. Earlier reports had stated the crash site had been found, even going as far to say that there were 12 survivors of the 96 passengers and six crew. The Boeing 737-400 disappeared in stormy weather the day before. (Bloomberg) (AP)
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 East Timor's former interior minister, Rogerio Lobato, has gone on trial on charges of arming civilians during unrest last year in which at least 37 people died. He is accused of supplying weapons to a rebel leader who says he was hired to act against opponents of the then prime minister Mari Alkatiri. (BBC)
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- A teenage boy becomes Indonesia's first bird flu fatality of 2007. The 14-year-old boy died four days after being admitted to hospital for treatment with flu-like symptoms. (BBC)
 The US has presents a draft resolution to the UN Security Council, calling on Myanmar to ease repression and free opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. (BBC) Bombs have exploded in two southern Philippine cities killing at least six people and injuring dozens more. The fatalities occurred as a bomb was detonated in General Santos city. Hours later, an explosion in Kidapawan city, 110km further north, wounded others. (BBC)- Thailand's post-coup leaders revoke the diplomatic passport of ousted PM Thaksin Shinawatra and tell local media not to report his comments. (BBC)
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 Delegates arrive in Cebu, the Philippines, for the 12th ASEAN Summit. (BBC)- Five prominent dissidents jailed last September are released from jail. Forty political detainees were also released last week, as part of a mass release to mark the 59th anniversary of Myanmar's independence from Britain. (BBC)
- A fisherman finds a piece of wreckage in the sea south of Pare-Pare. Officials confirm it is part of Adam Air Flight 574, the missing Boeing 737 jetliner that disappeared on January 1 with 102 people aboard. (AAP) (BBC) (CNN)
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- A landslide on the remote island of Sangihe in the north of Indonesia kills 16 people. Dozens of other are still missing, and more than 60 homes were either swept way or buried in mud. (BBC)
 Malaysia's south has been hit by a second wave of flooding, with two days of downpours forcing more than 20,000 people to flee their homes. Hundreds of people are already sheltering in flood evacuation centres in Johor in the aftermath of the first round of flooding which hit late last month, forcing 90,000 to evacuate their homes at the peak of the crisis. (Channel News Asia)
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- Two more cases of bird flu in Java bring the Indonesian death toll from the disease to 4 this year. (BBC)
- More than 100,000 people have been evacuated in the state of Johor due to floods caused by torrential rains. The floods came as many were returning home from shelters following the flooding in December that killed at least 17 people. More than 300 relief centres have been set up on higher ground to shelter the huge number of displaced people. (BBC)
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- Delegates at the 12th ASEAN Summit have pledged closer ties, agreeing to form a closer political unit and to bring in a free trade zone by 2015. They have signed a commitment to create Asean's first-ever charter, aimed at turning it into a European Union-style entity with binding rules and regulations. (BBC) Delegates have also called upon the Burmese government to speed up the process of national reconciliation and release of political prisoners. (BBC)
- A buddhist man has been beheaded and two others shot in Yala province, Southern Thailand. A handwritten note was found saying "We will kill all Thai Buddhists." Another man was shot dead in a separate attack. A police officer told the Reuters news agency that the note left by the body was signed by a group that called itself the Pattani Fighters, a reference to one of the region's troubled provinces. (BBC)
- A collision between two trains south of Bangkok leaves 3 dead and about 70 injured. A Bangkok-bound train took the wrong track and hit an oncoming service near the resort town of Hua Hin. (BBC)
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- At least five people are killed and another 100 injured when an overcrowded train travelling from Solo to Jakarta derails near the town of Purwokerto. (BBC)
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- A ban on keeping domestic poultry in Jakarta has been imposed in order to control the spread of bird flu. There are estimated to be hundreds of thousands of birds in the city. (BBC)
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 A girl who disappeared 19 years ago at the age of 8 has been found living wild in the jungle in northern Rattanakiri province. Police say the girl cannot speak any intelligible language. (BBC)
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- An earthquake measuring 7.3 has struck near Sulawesi. It centred in the Molucca Sea, some 160km (100 mi) south-east of the city of Manado. An official from the meteorology department in Jakarta said there were five aftershocks in the first hour. Indonesian officials put the strength of the quake at 6.5 but said there was no longer risk of a tsunami following initial warnings. (BBC)
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- Martial law has been lifted in more than half of Thailand, two months after the move was authorised. The move means Bangkok and 41 of Thailand's 76 provinces are no longer under the special restrictions imposed in the wake of September's coup. (BBC)
 Two former Vietnamese footballers have been given jail sentences for fixing an international match. Six other players - including a popular striker - were given suspended prison sentences. The eight were found guilty of taking bribes to ensure they beat underdogs Burma by no more than 1-0 at the South East Asian Games in December 2005. (BBC)
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