Business
 | BusinessWorld Online Edition - SOUTHEAST ASIAN bourses have delayed the implementation of an inter-regional trading link, with the Philippines -- originally set to be one of the pioneers -- unsure of when its participation would start. |
 | Toronto Star - The new leader of the European Central Bank said Friday he would not bail out the region's weaker nations, a position quickly endorsed by his counterpart at Germany's central bank. |
 | eTaiwan News - AP The price of oil ended the week lower than it began, despite a surge of trading that temporarily pushed crude above $100 at midweek for the first time since July. |
 | Financial Times - More than 30 years ago Henry Kissinger, then US Secretary of State, allegedly complained that he could not believe in Europe until it had a single telephone number to call. |
 | Montreal Gazette (blog) - For entertainment, you can catch a Broadway show, go to a hockey game or pop in a DVD. But if you want big-time entertainment, with fireworks and all the trimmings, go to a press conference with Akbar Al Baker. |
 | New York Times - PARIS - Hungary is heading back to the International Monetary Fund for help, the government said Friday, a year after it slammed the door on the fund, as the crisis that has engulfed the euro zone spreads east. |
 | BusinessWorld Online Edition - TELCOS IN Southeast Asia, including Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT), will likely see their margins narrow next year as many undertake spending plans to keep up with competition, Fitch Ratings said on Friday. |
 | Expatica Spain - Spain's struggling Caja Mediterraneo (CAM), under state control since in July, posted Friday a nine-month loss of 1.73 billion euros ($2.33 billion). |
 | Boston.com - AP / November 18, 2011 NICOSIA, Cyprus—Cyprus will almost certainly need a bailout from its eurozone partners if tougher spending cuts and tax hikes aren't taken right now, the country's finance minister said on Friday. |
 | Pakistan Observer - Karachi—Despite the current rate of inflation and banks discount rate are neck to neck at 12 percent, the wide spread expectations of the stakeholders is a further cut of 50-100 bps in the interest rate when the State Bank of Pakistan reviews the ... |
 | Bloomberg - Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Thomas Brown, chief executive officer of Second Curve Capital LLC and a Bloomberg contributing editor, talks about the outlook for the US banking industry. |
 | The Guardian - The Japanese government has banned rice shipments from an area of Fukushima prefecture after tests revealed they contained levels of radioactive caesium that exceed safe limits. |
Health
 | The Ranger - According to the National Restaurant Association, the fast food industry reached its peak in 2006 with about $126 billion, but it has been decreasing since. |
 | Coastweek - KINSHASA (Xinhua) -- At least 23 people have died from cholera which broke out in Equateur province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), according to local sources. |
 | San Jose Mercury News - To the despair of some critically ill patients, Avastin -- a blockbuster drug from South San Francisco-based Genentech that once was hailed as a promising new treatment for breast cancer -- lost its federal approval for that purpose ... |
 | WNCT - CHOCOWINITY, NC - Is there enough tomato sauce on your child's pizza to consider it a serving of vegetables? (more) In this Nine on Your Side Reality Check we wanted to learn more about why congress felt pizza could be considered a vegetable. |
 | BBC News - A quarter of people wrongly believe antibiotics work on most coughs and colds, a Health Protection Agency survey has found. However antibiotics cannot treat viruses, which cause most respiratory tract infections. |
 | CNN (blog) - We were family bed people too - two kids, 26 months apart in a king sized box springs & mattress on the floor. I think it made all of us more rested and healthier. |
 | Oncology Update - There is little evidence that pre-operative MRI improves outcomes for breast cancer patients, according to a new systematic review that also evaluates tool's place in screening. |
 | BioScholar News - Many employees feel the pressure to work even when they are sick, a practice known as presenteeism, as they fear losing their job, but this is not always a productive option, a new study has found. |
 | CBC.ca - Health Minister Madeleine Dubé says about 250 children in the province will be eligible for the program.Health Minister Madeleine Dubé says about 250 children in the province will be eligible for the program. |
 | Straits Times - Manulife Financial employees (foreground, from left) Lin Zhi Siang, Foo Yok Leung. Albert Kee, Patrick Lee and Francis Lee and their colleagues are taking part in the 'Movember' event, which is being held in Singapore for the first time. |
 | Scienceline - From the mistaken fear that it causes mental retardation to the debate over whether it encourages sexual promiscuity, the vaccine against the human papillomavirus (HPV) has recently received quite a bad ... |
 | Medscape - November 18, 2011 - Childhood obesity does not appear to be a predictor of metabolic disorders in adulthood, nutrition researchers at the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, reported in an article published online November 1 in the International ... |
 | Catholic Culture - A few days ago, Pope Benedict addressed a conference on "Adult Stem Cells: Science and the Future of Man and Culture". His message is summed up in the title: Saving One Life Cannot Justify Destroying Another. |
 | NPR - Citing "capital scarcity" the Geron Corporation said it will abandon its research into using human embryonic stem cells to treat spinal cord injuries. |
 | Bostinnovation - Born and raised in NYC Jess followed his wife up to Boston in 2008. He now works as a graphic designer at Millennium Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge and is developing an all time great piece of facial hair. |
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