Southeast Asia
 | Oman Daily Observer - BANGKOK - A Bangkok hospital has opened a kidney disease centre to service thousands of Thais whose medical treatment has been disrupted or threatened by floods, news reports said yesterday. |
 | Philippine Star - HONOLULU - Energy Secretary Jose Rene Almendras confirmed here yesterday that a new natural gas find off Palawan would indeed dwarf the Malampaya oil fields. |
 | Sydney Morning Herald - MALAYSIA'S gross domestic product growth this year will be closer to 5 per cent than 6 per cent amid a ''less than benign'' global economy, says Prime Minister Najib Razak. |
 | Channel News Asia - SINGAPORE: Kindness "blossomed" across Singapore on Sunday as activities to mark World Kindness Day kicked off along Orchard Road. |
 | GMANews.TV - Malacañang on Sunday dismissed as “noise" the claim by former President Gloria Arroyo's camp that the Dominican Republic's denial of Arroyo's reported asylum bid there has brought shame to the Philippines. |
 | Xtra.ca (blog) - Two states in the country are making moves to change their Islamic laws to punish Muslims who engage in homosexuality. Homosexuality is already illegal in Malaysia and punishable by law by caning and up to 20 years in prison. |
 | BusinessWorld Online Edition - ZAMBOANGA CITY -- A kidnap victim was released at the weekend after four months of captivity, said the military without confirming whether ransom has been paid for his freedom. |
 | GMANews.TV - Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo on Sunday gave credit to local government officials for contributing to the successful bid of the Puerto Princesa Underground River to be included on the list of the New Seven Wonders of Nature. |
 | TODAYonline - Thailand's ailing King Bhumibol Adulyadej recently suffered a health problem that led him to temporarily lose consciousness. Princess Chulabhorn said doctors told her the abdominal bleeding could have been caused by concern over the flooding in ... |
 | Malaysia Kini - YOURSAY 'For a Chinese party to call for the disenfranchisement of Chinese Malaysians working overseas is strange indeed.' David Dass: External voting is highly relevant to the many people who are travelling or working around the globe. |
 | Straits Times - (From left) Minister of State for National Development Tan Chuan-Jin - holding Eddie from the Cat Welfare Society - watching vet Tan Choon Yi and vet technician Gui Mei Han at work at the AVA's Responsible Pet Ownership roadshow. |
 | 3News NZ - Police want the conviction of a man trying to sell underage sex tours to serve as a warning. A 47-year-old Auckland man was found guilty at the High Court in Auckland yesterday after being caught trying to sell a child sex tour to an undercover police ... |
 | AsiaOne - PETALING JAYA, Malaysia - Police have detained an unemployed man believed to be an accomplice of the three Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officers who allegedly robbed a moneychanger at KL International Airport in September. |
 | Inquirer.net - MANILA, Philippines—The Bureau of Immigration (BI) on Friday warned foreigners against resorting to fake marriages and using them as a ploy to acquire a residence visa in the Philippines. |
World
 | Wall Street Journal - ISTANBUL—Turkey's delayed promise to levy sanctions against Syria is back on the agenda, with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan likely to announce them on a visit to refugee camps along the border "soon," according to a senior ... |
 | TODAYonline - ROME - Italy's President yesterday raced to nominate an interim Prime Minister to replace Mr Silvio Berlusconi, who resigned to the humiliating jeers of thousands of protesters after the Parliament approved austerity measures sought by the European ... |
 | TODAYonline - HONOLULU - United States President Barack Obama sought to ratchet up pressure on China over its currency and trade policies, warning Chinese President Hu Jintao on Saturday that Americans were growing "impatient and frustrated" over economic relations. |
 | TVNZ - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the full extent of Iran's nuclear programme was not reflected in a recent UN report, which said that Tehran appeared to have worked on designing an atomic bomb. |
| Oman Daily Observer - BANGKOK - A Bangkok hospital has opened a kidney disease centre to service thousands of Thais whose medical treatment has been disrupted or threatened by floods, news reports said yesterday. |
 | TODAYonline - HONOLULU - With the global economy drifting into choppy waters, Asia-Pacific is closer to getting an extra "safety raft" - as Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong put it - after leaders from nine economies, including the United States, ... |
 | Los Angeles Times - Brazilian forces backed by armored vehicles and helicopters swept into Rio de Janeiro's largest slum on Sunday, part of an effort to drive out heavily armed drug gangs and improve security in the seaside city. |
 | Sydney Morning Herald - AP Rival militias have clashed on the outskirts of the Libyan capital for a fourth day in the deadliest and most sustained violence since the capture and killing of Muammar Gaddafi last month. |
 | AFP - JERUSALEM - Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak on Sunday hailed the deadly munitions blast at a base of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards and hoped for more such incidents. |
 | AFP - ARBIL, Iraq - Turkish warplanes bombed the Qandil border area in Iraqi Kurdistan on Sunday for about an hour, a spokesman for the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) separatist group said. |
 | Reuters Africa - MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The co-pilot of the helicopter that crashed outside Mexico City on Friday, killing Interior Minister Francisco Blake and all seven others on board, had told his brother the craft was faulty, a newspaper report said on Sunday. |
 | Kathimerini - The formation of a new, temporary unity government under former European Central Bank Vice President Lucas Papademos is a step in the right direction despite the poor track record of coalition governments in Greece. |
 | Wall Street Journal - Last week's International Atomic Energy Agency report on Iranian nuclear activities has understandably ruffled feathers in American and European foreign-policy circles. |
 | The Guardian - With tears in his eyes, Wilson Ramos, a catcher for the Washington Nationals professional baseball team in the US, embraced his rescuers and said he had wondered whether he would survive a kidnapping ordeal that ended when Venezuelan commandos swept ... |
 | Reuters India - Rescue workers search for survivors at a collapsed hotel building in Van, eastern Turkey, November 10, 2011. ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Last week's earthquake in southeast Turkey killed 40 people, bringing the death toll in two tremors over the last three ... |
 | Asian Correspondent - By AP News Nov 14, 2011 3:33AM UTC YANGON, Burma (AP) - A government-appointed human rights body on Sunday urged Burma's president to release political prisoners or transfer them to prisons close to their families, signaling such action may be imminent ... |
 | Taipei Times - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) yesterday said it had communicated with a “high-level US official” about the detention of a Taiwanese diplomat in Missouri and has demanded her release. |
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