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1. Singapore: The Ministerial Salary Review Committee recommends the largest pay cut since ministers' salaries were pegged to the private sector in 1994. The new formula is based on the median salary of top 1,000 Singaporean earners, with a 40% discount. In a letter to the Committee, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong says that the government intends to adopt the recommendations of the Committee. Sound bites of Gerard Ee (Chairman, Ministerial Salary Review Committee), Stephen Lee (Member, Ministerial Salary Review Committee), Eugene Tan (Asst Prof, School of Law, Singapore Management University) and Edwin Tong (MP, Moulmein-Kallang GRC). (00:01:40)        

2. Singapore: With the scrapping of the pension scheme under the ministerial salary review, political office holders appointed on or after 21 May 2011 will not receive any pension. The pension scheme will be replaced with the CPF scheme. Sound bites of Zaqy Mohamad (MP, Chua Chu Kang GRC) and Hri Kumar Nair (MP, Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC). (00:14:56)    

3. Singapore: Reacting to the recommendations by the Ministerial Salary Review Committee, members of the ruling and opposition parties indicate that the recommended salary structure will still be sufficient to attract talent into politics. Sound bites of Gan Kim Yong (Health Minister), Baey Yam Keng (MP, Tampines GRC), Dr James Gomez (Head, Policy Studies, Singapore Democratic Party), Hazel Poa (Secretary-General, National Solidarity Party) and David Ong (MP, Jurong GRC) (00:16:59)      

4. Singapore: The State Coroner has ruled that the death of property management firm boss Franklin Heng after liposuction, was caused by asphyxia from airway obstruction. (00:20:46)    

5. Singapore: Singtel 3G mobile connection remains unstable this morning. Singtel says that hardware fault that caused disruptions the night before had since been fixed, while current problems are due to a software issue. (00:21:27)

6. Business News: Temasek Holdings is appointing former UBS Chief Financial Officer John Cryan as its European president. This is a newly created role suggesting that Temasek is looking at distressed assets in Europe. (00:24:53)  
     
7. Business News: Hurt by declining new orders, Singapore's manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) in December 2011 was 49.5. This is the sixth month in a row that the PMI has come in below 50. The corresponding index for the electronics sector came in at 49.7. (00:25:11)    

8. US: Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney won the Iowa caucuses, beating former senator Rick Santorum by eight votes, to secure the nomination as Republican Party presidential candidate. (00:25:51)    

9. China: Shanghai authorities have issued new regulations to prevent gutter oil from being passed off as cooking oil. (00:26:20)

10. Vietnam: A Vietnamese man with a 90-kg tumour on his leg will be undergoing an operation to remove the tumour the following day. (00:26:42)

11. Indonesia: Indonesians dumped more than 1,200 pairs of slippers at collection points across the country as a show of support for a 15-year-old boy who was beaten up by the police for stealing a police officer's sandals. (00:27:05)