Southeast Asia
 | Voice of America (blog) - US President Barack Obama is in Bali, Indonesia where he will join leaders of east Asian nations and Russia for two days of discussions on security, economy and other common issues. |
 | Christian Post - One of the former leaders of Cambodia's vicious Khmer Rouge regime has been ruled unfit to stand trial. The UN-backed court ruled on Thursday that the 74-year-old Ieng Thirith, Cambodia's former minister of ... |
 | gulfnews.com - Filipino expatriates in Dubai are divided as to whether or not former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo should be allowed to seek medical help abroad. |
 | TODAYonline - SINGAPORE - Taunt, capture, post. Cyber-baiting, the latest trend in online bullying, has students targeting their teachers. And three in 10 teachers in Singapore have personally experienced cyber-baiting or know a colleague who ... |
 | Bangkok Post - A large group of academics has joined the growing chorus opposed to the Pheu Thai-led government's proposed royal decree to pardon jailed convicts on the King's birthday. |
 | New Straits Times - Gerakan president Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon talking to the media after chairing a meeting on the transformation and rejuvenation of the party at Menara PGRM in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. |
 | Straits Times - Under the new alliance, Changi General Hospital (left), St Andrew's Community Hospital, The Salvation Army's Peacehaven Nursing Home and SingHealth polyclinics will offer a coordinated range of health care for residents in the east. |
 | ABS CBN News - COTABATO CITY, Philippines - More than 60 Muslim Filipinos who performed their hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, returned to Cotabato City on Thursday afternoon. |
 | eTaiwan News - AP Malaysian rights activists say police have arrested at least 11 men accused of links to militant groups. Human rights group Suaram says the suspects detained this week include businessmen and two schoolteachers in Malaysia's eastern Sabah state on ... |
 | TODAYonline - Mr Masagos Zulkifli has said: "What is clear is that we must ensure that our society remains strong and healthy, with families playing a key role in transmitting good values to our young. |
 | The Sun Daily - IT IS indeed heartening to read that the Penang state government has decided to recognise Kg Tanjung Tokong as a heritage village although it was earmarked for demolition. |
 | Free Speech Radio News - Today thousands of people filled the West Papua city of Jayapura to condemn recent killings and arrests by Indonesian police and to call for a referendum on Independence from Indonesia. |
 | The Sun Daily - SHAH ALAM (Nov 17, 2011): Selangor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim today said the state will most likely not participate in the upcoming general elections if it is called before June next year. |
 | Inquirer.net - The Bureau of Customs (BOC) on Thursday advised the public to be careful about buying food seasonings after customs personnel recently intercepted a shipment of fake packets of the goods. |
 | Straits Times - The Marina Bay Waterfront Promenade is lined with pine trees decorated with Christmas ornaments by various organisations which have adopted them and pledged to help the less fortunate. |
 | Dredging Today - The Bangkok governor says canals in the western part of the city must be dredged to increase drainage capacity. Meanwhile, he has placed eight communities in Bang Kapi District on the flood watch list. |
 | Malaysia Star - PETALING JAYA: MCA has urged for voters check with the Election Commission (EC) to ensure that there are no fraudulent voters. The party's legal bureau chairman Tay Puay Chuan said that the EC published the list of 42051 suspected ... |
 | Bangkok Post - Six people have been injured by an explosive device thrown into a large crowd who were trying a fix a breach in a sandbag flood barrier in Bangkok's Sai Mai district last night. |
 | Xinhua - HANOI, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam will host and chair the 14th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Science and Technology (AMMST-14) and the 62nd Meeting of ASEAN Committee on Science and Technology ( COST-62) in southern Ho Chi Minh City from Nov. |
World
| Voice of America (blog) - US President Barack Obama is in Bali, Indonesia where he will join leaders of east Asian nations and Russia for two days of discussions on security, economy and other common issues. |
 | eTaiwan News - By COLLEEN BARRY and FRANCES D'EMILIO AP Italy's new technocratic government has won a crucial confidence vote in the Senate to pursue widespread reforms and austerity aimed at staving off the sovereign debt crisis and saving the euro currency. |
 | Wall Street Journal (blog) - The Vatican is promising legal action to stop the distribution of a photo of Pope Benedict kissing an imam on the mouth. The photo is fake, by the way, and is part of a shock-factor advertising campaign by Italian fashion company ... |
 | The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - By Star-Ledger Staff Google MapsA map view of Foley Square in lower Manhattan, where thousands of Occupy Wall Street protesters are gathering. |
 | BBC News - Germany, France and the UK have tabled a UN resolution calling for an end to human rights violations in Syria. The resolution, which also calls for the implementation of an Arab League plan to end the violence, was also backed by four Arab countries. |
 | Bloomberg - Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos will unveil the final budget for 2012 today as his interim government races against a three-month deadline to secure international loans and ... |
 | eTaiwan News - AP President Barack Obama's sudden moves to contest rising Chinese power are setting this capital on edge, even if in public the response has been muted. |
 | Bangkok Post - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offered flood victims words of encouragement yesterday during a visit to the Rajamangala National Stadium Flood Victims Relief Centre. |
 | eTaiwan News - AP The UN atomic agency's new resolution on Iran criticizes Tehran's nuclear defiance but, in a concession to Russia and China, does not set an ultimatum for allowing a probe of its alleged secret work on atomic weapons. |
 | NEWS.com.au - FEDERAL Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says the nursing home fire in Sydney is the kind of event that fills people with horror. Several people have died and about 20 residents have been badly burnt after a deadly blaze ripped through the nursing home at ... |
 | Shanghai Daily (subscription) - PARIS, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the newly appointed Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti have agreed to take full responsibility to strengthen the eurozone, according to a statement ... |
 | Boston.com - AP / November 17, 2011 The defendants were part of one of the first immigrant smuggling rings dismantled on the US-Mexico border that exclusively uses cell phones, employing none of the foot guides commonly employed to lead groups ... |
 | Voice of America (blog) - Afghan officials say insurgents fired rockets toward a gathering of thousands of politicians, tribal elders and community leaders meeting in Kabul to discuss reconciliation with the Taliban and their country's partnership with the United States. |
 | E! Online - A day after a judge dismissed his stalking case and released him from jail, Thomas Brodnicki has been locked up on an 5150 psychiatric hold out of concern he may try to harm Gomez. |
 | Kuwait Times - By B Izzak, Staff Writer KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah yesterday ordered the National Guard and the Interior Ministry forces to take all "necessary measures" to establish law and order in the country and end chaos ... |
 | Amarillo.com - I don't know whether the verdict convicting Dr. Conrad Murray of involuntary manslaugher in the death of Michael Jackson was right or wrong. |
 | AFP - CHICAGO - A Taiwanese official currently detained in Missouri on charges of mistreating her housekeeper is expected to plead guilty, court documents showed Thursday. |
 | Credit Writedowns - Last week we learned of German plans to change the European Constitution for greater fiscal integration by 2013. The goal was to give countries like Germany and the Netherlands where government deficits have been low, a say in the internal national ... |
| ABS CBN News - COTABATO CITY, Philippines - More than 60 Muslim Filipinos who performed their hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, returned to Cotabato City on Thursday afternoon. |
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