Southeast Asia
TODAYonline - Floodwaters flowed close to the Chatuchak Weekend Market in Bangkok yesterday as officials warned that residents who destroy flood barriers may be prosecuted. |
Inquirer.net - By Philip C. Tubeza A ranking Catholic prelate on Saturday urged the government to implement the deployment ban on 41 countries found to be lacking in protection for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). |
gulfnews.com - Manila: Philippine President Benigno Aquino on Friday bared his administration's approach to create more job opportunities at home so that Filipinos will not have to leave for jobs abroad. |
Malaysia Star - THE Government's decision to maintain the teaching of Science and Mathematics in English for pupils who started with it is a welcome response to the anxieties of schoolchildren and their parents. |
GMANews.TV - Local police and Coast Guard officials on Saturday launched an operation to rescue the crew of a vessel believed to have sunk off Ilocos Norte in northern Philippines. |
GMANews.TV - A controversial manual by the head of an Islamic sect that teaches wives obedient and submissive sex faces a ban from the Malaysian government, with those in possession paying a hefty price for it. |
Inquirer.net - Senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. on Saturday said he believed his half-sister Ramona “Mara” Bautista might have joined her husband in Turkey in an attempt to evade investigators looking into the ... |
Journal Online - TWO Catholic bishops who were former critics of former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo want her to be permitted to seek medical treatment abroad. |
TODAYonline - A Malaysian citizen who hacked into the United States Federal Reserve and private banks was given the maximum sentence of 10 years in prison by a US district judge on Friday. |
Malaysia Star - PUTRAJAYA: Organisers of the Seksualiti Merdeka festival will seek a meeting with the country's top cop in a bid to bridge an understanding about the movement's objectives. |
Straits Times - A bloodied cat was found lying at the void deck of an HDB block in Tampines in October last year. SPCA wants tougher penalties for animal cruelty offenders. |
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. |
Zamboanga Today Online - Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin has vowed to capture Dan Laksaw Asnawi, the fugitive commander of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in Basilan, even as he assured the public that no bloodshed would occur. |
TODAYonline - The body of a Chinese man was found in Bedok Reservoir yesterday morning, shortly before an inter-religious blessing ceremony that had been organised following the series of deaths there. |
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. |
Fijivillage - Enforcement authorities will clamp down on offences committed on the highways and major roads in the Eastern division from this month till January next year. |
World
Times of India - MUMBAI: Muslims in the city are gearing up for Eidul Adha or Bakri Eid, the festival of sacrifice on November 7. Though for many the festival will be muted due to high inflation, especially high prices of the goats which most Muslims sacrifice on ... |
BusinessWeek - Nov. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Syrian forces killed 27 people today across the country, Al Jazeera reported, citing activists, as the Arab League Secretary General Nabil el-Arabi warned of a “catastrophic” situation if Syrian ... |
CBS News - Greece's Prime Minister George Papandreou exits Presidential house after meeting with Greek President Karolos Papoulias, in Athens on Nov. 5, 2011. |
BBC News - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has travelled to the camp where Farc rebel leader Alfonso Cano was killed. Cano was shot dead on Friday during a battle with security forces in the western province of Cauca. |
The Nation Newspaper - A PALL of grief enveloped Damaturu, the Yobe State capital yesterday, as residents began to bury their beloved ones killed in Friday's bomb and gun attack on the town by suspected members of the Boko Haram sect. |
Sydney Morning Herald - A motorway crash involving 34 vehicles in which seven people died is the UK's worst traffic accident for 20 years, according to a motorists' organisation. |
Arab News - MINA: Minister of Health Abdullah Al-Rabeeah has ordered to include 11 Filipinos injured in a traffic accident on their way to Arafat among a group of sick pilgrims who will be assisted by the Health Ministry in ... |
Straits Times - GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - A member of the militant group Islamic Jihad was killed and three other Palestinians were wounded in Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip on Saturday, Palestinian medics and witnesses said. |
Jerusalem Post - By JERUSALEM POST STAFF AND REUTERS Report says Tehran built large steel container for carrying out tests of nuclear devices, carried out computer modeling of a bombs. |
TODAYonline - Floodwaters flowed close to the Chatuchak Weekend Market in Bangkok yesterday as officials warned that residents who destroy flood barriers may be prosecuted. |
BBC News - At least six people were killed when the Italian port city of Genoa was hit by flash floods during torrential rainfall. Five of the victims, including two children, died when the lobby of an apartment block in which they had sought shelter flooded. |
Jerusalem Post - As member of int'l organization, PA will take Israel to court for "destroying Arab, Islamic culture in J'lem" say PA officials. |
BusinessWeek - Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah named the governor of Riyadh province as the nation's defense minister, after the death of the crown prince last month triggered a change in leadership. |
New York Times - SEOUL, South Korea - Twenty-one North Koreans, including women and children, were found adrift in a boat off the west coast of South Korea last Sunday and asked for asylum, the South Korean military said Saturday. |
Business Recorder (blog) - Major General Peter Fuller, a top US commander in Afghanistan, was relieved of his duties on Friday after making comments critical of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, a senior US defence official said. |
Honolulu Civil Beat - The spirit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation is collaboration - and it's landed at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, too. An exhibition of more than 50 prized landscape paintings from China's Palace Museum in Beijing ... |
Reuters - KATHMANDU (Reuters) - About 2000 foreign hikers have been trapped in bad weather on the slopes of a mountain near Mount Everest in a remote corner of Nepal for the past four days, officials said on Friday. |
100gf | Politics and Computers - Ireland has closed its Vatican embassy, sending relations between the Irish government and the Holy See to a new low. The move means that Ireland is now the only major Catholic country to not have an embassy at the Vatican, underlining the extent to ... |
Toronto Star - Goomaral Chukhalkhuu, a Carleton University business graduate from Mongolia, was heralded at a news conference as the 10000th permanent resident accepted under the Canadian Experience Class. |
Montreal Gazette - October 31: A woman walks past a UN sign announcing symbolically that the world population hit 7 billion on October 31, 2011, in front of the United Nations headquarters in New York. |
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