Southeast Asia
 | Inquirer.net - MANILA, Philippines - Former Philippine president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will make another attempt to leave the country on Wednesday, her aides said, a day after the government defied a court order and blocked her first effort. |
 | The Independent - AP Beijing says it will not discuss territorial disputes with five other nations in the South China Sea during this week's East Asia Summit in Bali. |
 | Atlanta Journal Constitution - AP MANILA, Philippines - Officials say the United States is helping the Philippines reinforce its weak navy as its longtime Asian ally wrangles with China in increasingly tense territorial disputes. |
 | The Sun Daily - SHAH ALAM (Nov 15, 2011): The head of the Hospital Kuala Lumpur (HKL) radiology department admitted at the Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya murder trial today that the findings in her report based on evidence are not 100% accurate. |
 | BBC News - Abandoned dogs rescued after the floods in Thailand are now under threat from a killer disease, according to volunteers working near Bangkok. |
 | Straits Times - If built, the canal would divert water from the Stamford Canal, possibly into the Singapore River. The Orchard Road Business Association has also previously suggested building a water retention tank in the green space beneath Ngee Ann ... |
 | New Straits Times - Former American Peace Corps volunteer Ed Chip Euhara-Tilton (centre), accompanied by his wife Lorna, sharing his experiences with Malaysian Ambassador to the United States Datuk Seri Jamaluddin Jarjis at the dinner hosted by Prime ... |
 | BusinessWorld Online Edition - A P1.16-BILLION rehabilitation and upgrade plan for Metro Manila's main airport terminal -- recently reported as one of the worst in the world -- has been approved by President Benigno SC Aquino III, a Cabinet official yesterday said. |
 | Minda News - KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/15 November) - A man was killed while 21 others were injured in a grenade explosion inside an amusement park in Carmen town in North Cotabato, ... |
 | Inquirer.net - The Senate on Tuesday began marathon plenary deliberations on the proposed P1.8-trillion budget for 2012, aiming at getting the measure passed and ready for President Benigno Aquino III's signature by the end of the year. |
 | New Straits Times - "The most sensible option in promoting continued and sustained growth for Penang would be for the car adapting to the city as in the case of Singapore rather than the city adapting to the car as in the case of Bangkok. |
 | New Straits Times - Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has called for a paradigm shift in the country's public sector delivery service. In his latest 1Malaysia blog entry titled "Relics of the Cold War" yesterday, Najib described the level of service ... |
 | Bernama - KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 15 (Bernama) -- Canada's most senior official, the Governor General, participated in a meeting chaired by the Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of Malaysia on Tuesday that took aim at improving bilateral relations in science, ... |
World
 | Straits Times - DAMASCUS (AFP) - Syria freed more than 1000 prisoners on Tuesday in an apparent last-ditch bid to placate Arab leaders as Turkey and the United Nations warned President Bashar al-Assad to stop killing his own people. |
 | BusinessWeek - By the Editors Nov. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Let's get the complicated part out of the way: This subject (Occupy Wall Street) for this editorial section (Bloomberg View, part of Bloomberg LP, majority-owned by Michael R. Bloomberg, mayor of New York) has ... |
 | Jerusalem Post - Head of France's Gaza consular branch and members of his family injured in IAF airstrike. Jerusalem on Tuesday rebuffed sharp French criticism of an early-Monday IAF raid on a Hamas police compound near Gaza City that lightly injured a ... |
 | Jakarta Post - All ASEAN member states believe that democracy in Myanmar has improved and thus it deserves to chair ASEAN in 2014, according to the Indonesian foreign minister. |
| BBC News - Abandoned dogs rescued after the floods in Thailand are now under threat from a killer disease, according to volunteers working near Bangkok. |
 | Irish Times - MUCH TO the relief of both Italy's EU partners and of international observers, former EU commissioner Mario Monti last night confirmed that he is in a position to form a new Italian government to replace that of media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi who ... |
 | Sydney Morning Herald - US President Barack Obama will touch down in Canberra on Wednesday afternoon, ahead of a 28-hour visit focused on economic and defence ties with Australia. |
 | New York Times - “High Emotion and Intrigue in Iran Blast” (news article, Nov. 15) cites a blog in which an unidentified Israeli official said the explosion at a missile site belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in Iran was the joint work of the Israeli ... |
 | Reuters Africa - ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's new government should comfortably survive a vote of confidence Wednesday but Prime Minister Lucas Papademos faces a daunting task repairing the shattered public finances, and cracks are already appearing in ... |
 | Reuters Africa - KABUL (Reuters) - About 2000 Afghan community and political leaders will gather on Wednesday in Kabul under tight security for four days of deliberations on the country's most pressing issues, including ties with main ally the ... |
 | NPR - South Korean President Lee Myung-bak (shown here as a young accountant, working for Hyundai's office in Thailand in the early 1960s) overcame a poverty-stricken childhood to become a student activist, successful business executive and, ... |
 | ABC Online - Five monks have locked themselves inside a building at a religious compound in Burma in a rare protest against the hardline government. |
 | Business Recorder (blog) - A suspected US drone fired missiles at a house in Miran Shah early Tuesday morning, killing seven alleged militants, Pakistani intelligence officials said. |
 | The Sun - MICHAEL Jackson's ex chef has warned that killer doc Conrad Murray could be MURDERED by an obsessed fan. Douglas Jones, 53, said: "He's a target. |
 | Minda News - KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/15 November) - A man was killed while 21 others were injured in a grenade explosion inside an amusement park in Carmen town in North Cotabato, ... |
 | TODAYonline - The latest quake hit Van province but there was no immediate report of damage or injuries, state-run Anatolia news agency said. Its epicentre was in the village of Mollakasim. |
 | Irish Times - THE LOW growl of the Antonov aircraft used by the Sudanese air force is a sound Nada Rajeb will never forget. It was 10 o'clock on a Saturday morning in September when the bomber aircraft circled over her village in Sudan's troubled Blue Nile state ... |
 | The National - Why did Mr Bahadur choose Somalia? He writes that the country had commanded a “soft spot” in his heart ever since he studied political science in university. |
 | Xinhua - DHAKA, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Monday expressed his hope that governments at COP-17 in Durban will find a compromise on the Kyoto Protocol to make a broader comprehensive climate agreement possible in the future. |
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