Southeast Asia
 | CBS News - A Thai policeman directs traffic along a flooded street at the Lod Praow district in Bangkok, Thailand, Nov. 4, 2011. Thailand's record floods encroached deeper into the capital Friday, swamping a major intersection in the northern edge of the city ... |
 | Malaysia Star - PETALING JAYA: Parent groups heaved a sigh of relief that students in the PPSMI system will be allowed to continue learning Maths and Science in English until they complete their studies in Form 5. Parent Action Group for Education (PAGE) president ... |
 | BBC News - An American paediatrician has been sentenced by a Cambodian court to four years in prison for sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy. James D'Agostino, 56, was found guilty of purchasing child prostitution. |
 | Inquirer.net - HISTORIC YOUTUBE APPEARANCE. President Aquino welcomes Google executive Ross LaJeunesse during the YouTube Worldview Interview in Malacañang on Friday. |
 | Middle East North Africa Financial Network - Nov 05, 2011 (The Manila Times - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- IT'S all over but the crying for the camp of former President Gloria Arroyo over her request that she be allowed by Malacanang to seek medical treatment abroad, ... |
 | TIME - Ishak Md Nor, 40, (2nd L) and his two wives, Aishah Abdul Ghafar, 40, (C) and Afiratul Abidah Mohd Hanan 25, who are members of "The Obedient Wife Club", share a light moment with their children ... |
 | Malaysia Star - PETALING JAYA: Former Bar Council president Datuk S. Ambiga has refuted claims that she was among the organisers of the Seksualiti Merdeka festival, saying she had merely been invited to launch the event. |
 | Inquirer.net - The girlfriend of the slain Ramgen Bautista saw only two other persons in his bedroom when they were attacked on the night of October 28: His sister Maria Ramona “Mara” Bautista and the male assailant who was ... |
 | Inquirer.net - A recruitment expert on Friday backed Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario's call on the labor department to defer the ban on the deployment of Filipino workers to 41 countries with no adequate laws that protect migrant laborers. |
 | TODAYonline - SINGAPORE - The two former Singapore Land Authority (SLA) employees who masterminded one of the Republic's largest public sector frauds were punished by the law yesterday. |
 | Inquirer.net - “What kind of an animal is an ATS?” snapped journalist Jerry Tundag. Many came to know about “areas of temporary stay” only after the Oct. 18 firefight in Basilan. |
 | TODAYonline - SINGAPORE - If the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) had its way, animal abusers would be hit with heftier fines and jail terms, among other penalties. |
 | The Guardian - Baby Cin, one of the world's seven billionth babies in Louisville, USA. Photograph: Rick Wilking/Reuters The first to make her entrance was Danica May Camacho of the Philippines, who was welcomed into the world as its 7 billionth occupant. |
 | Philippine Star - MANILA, Philippines - Former presidential peace adviser Jesus Dureza insisted yesterday he was unaware of the P5-million allocation for the Moro Islamic Liberation Front... |
 | Bangkok Post - Officials build a sandbag dyke in Pak Kret district of Nonthaburi, where residents pulled together to fight the flood threat as early as two months ago. |
 | Voice of America (blog) - The World Food Program appealed Friday for food aid for Cambodian flood victims, saying that with the price of rice on the rise, the poorest households face the prospect of not having enough to eat. |
 | Tuoitrenews - Interpol is planning to set up a special task force to save tigers in response to a rise in poaching and smuggling of the critically endangered animal, David Higgins, head of its Environmental Crime Program, said at the Interpol General Assembly in ... |
World
 | Telegraph.co.uk - Syria has pledged to withdraw forces from its streets by Sunday under an Arab League-brokered "peace deal", despite opposition activists proclaiming that the regime's continued violence meant the accord was "already dead. |
 | Washington Post - RAMALLAH, West Bank - When Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas returned home to a hero's welcome after applying for United Nations membership for a Palestinian state, Hurriyah Ziada was not moved to join the celebration. |
 | AFP - WASHINGTON - YouTube and the Saudi Ministry of Culture and Information are teaming up to provide a live-stream of the annual hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. |
 | Reuters Africa - Nov 4 (Reuters) - A senior US military official said on Friday Iran had become the biggest threat to the United States and Israel's president said the military option to stop the Islamic republic from obtaining nuclear weapons was nearer. |
 | Boston.com - Public school students in Cambridge will get a day off Monday in what officials believe will be the first time in the state that a school district has scheduled a holiday to recognize an Islamic holy day. |
| CBS News - A Thai policeman directs traffic along a flooded street at the Lod Praow district in Bangkok, Thailand, Nov. 4, 2011. Thailand's record floods encroached deeper into the capital Friday, swamping a major intersection in the northern edge of the city ... |
 | Telegraph.co.uk - Elusive Taliban leader Mullah Omar called on his fighters to avoid killing civilians in a statement posted on Friday on the Afghanistan hardline Islamists' website, SITE Intelligence reported. |
 | IBNLive.com - Dharamsala: Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama on Friday asked the Chinese leadership to review 60 years of its Tibet policy, saying "using force is counterproductive and will not bring peace and stability". |
 | The Daily Star - OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israel's navy boarded two small protest boats trying to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip Friday and towed them to an Israeli port just north of the Palestinian territory, officials said. |
 | USA Today - The eyes of the world will be on Hawaii this month, when President Obama, 20 other heads of state and a supporting cast of up to 20000 gather in Honolulu for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation's Leaders Week. |
 | Los Angeles Times - Occupy Wall Street demonstrators in Lower Manhattan have finally landed something they've badly needed: portable toilets. For seven weeks, the occupiers of Zuccotti Park -- a block from Wall Street -- were mostly relying on fast-food restaurants and ... |
 | Reuters - Firefighters walk in front of the damaged offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris November 2, 2011. By Brian Love PARIS (Reuters) - A French satirical weekly whose office was fire bombed after it printed a cartoon of the Prophet ... |
 | Toronto Star - Can Greece keep the common currency? An increasing number of analysts bet that it can't, that it will eventually default on its debts and be forced to quit the eurozone - with unpredictable consequences for the rest of the world, writes Tom Walkom. |
 | Sydney Morning Herald - Nine asylum seekers who survived when their boat sank off the coast of Indonesia are believed to have escaped immigration detention. |
 | GMANews.TV - At least eight more Filipino seafarers are reportedly in the hands of pirates, who struck anew off Somalia and seized a Taiwanese-flagged long-line fishing boat Friday. |
 | BP News - RICHMOND, Va. (BP) -- As the global population reached an estimated 7 billion in October, crowds in the United States and other developed countries were "occupying" various city parks and squares to protest corporate greed and other perceived ... |
 | TVNZ - Passengers escaped on lifeboats when a fire broke out on a ferry carrying more than 1200 people from the Jordanian Red Sea port of Aqaba to Egypt, officials said. |
 | The Associated Press - BEIJING (AP) - Police in China have seized more than 65 million fake pills and arrested 114 suspects during a four-month investigation into counterfeit drugs. |
 | Inquirer.net - HANOI—Territorial tensions in the South China Sea could explode into “full-scale conflicts” unless quarrelling neighbors abide by international law, a Vietnamese diplomat warned on Friday. |
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