Anger over jailing of Straits Times reporter (New Straits Times)
HONG KONG: Fellow journalists expressed anger at the five-year prison sentence handed to reporter Ching Cheong by a Beijing court yesterday, and predicted it would have a "chilling effect" on media coverage of China.
Source: www.nst.com.my

Energy firms offer higher royalty to fix lease (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
About a dozen offshore oil and gas producers have offered higher royalties on deepwater production to ease Congressional anger about a lease-writing mistake that has lost the government about $1.5 billion in revenues, the head of the U.S. Minerals Management Service said on Tuesday.
Source: news.yahoo.com