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 | Business Recorder (blog) - Philippine police arrested ex-president Gloria Arroyo at her hospital bed on Friday on charges of conspiring with a feared warlord to rig an election, an offence that could lead to life in jail. |
 | USA Today (blog) - BALI, Indonesia - A decade ago, Rusdi Kirana sat on the grass at an air show in Britain, eating burgers with his wife. "I didn't know anybody," he says, "and nobody knew me. |
 | Independent Online - AP In this photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Ieng Thirith, foreground, former Minister of Social Affairs, smiles during a hearing of the former Khmer Rouge top leaders, in Phnom Penh, ... |
 | Inquirer.net - Amid the gauntlet that his mother, former President Macapagal-Arroyo was running in order to be able to leave town, Ang Galing Pinoy party-list Rep. Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo handily left for the United States on Thursday night. |
 | BusinessWorld Online Edition - SOUTHEAST ASIAN leaders pledged to work towards implementing a common platform on global issues by 2022, noting the need to raise the region's profile and role on the world stage. |
 | Straits Times - In the wake of a racist Facebook posting by a party member, the People's Action Party (PAP) has told its MPs and branch secretaries to regularly remind its younger members to be aware of their behaviour on social media. |
 | UPI.com - BANGKOK, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- Bangkok police said 300 officers were called to protect workers fixing a city flood barrier damaged during a confrontation between two communities. |
 | Bangkok Post - Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra had a much easier time at the Asean summit than her predecessor Abhisit Vejjajiva. Not a word was mentioned about the Thai-Cambodian border dispute. |
 | Malaysia Star - PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia and Unesco signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to review the education policy at all levels from preschool to higher education. |
 | Bernama - KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 18 (Bernama) -- Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has instructed schools to return any balances from the RM100 school assistance fund back to the government, if the money is not claimed by parents on behalf of students. |
 | Straits Times - The Prime Minister of India, Dr Manmohan Singh, will make an official visit to Singapore this weekend, during which he will meet Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and call on President Tony Tan Keng Yam. |
 | Straits Times - Cedar Girls' Secondary School will launch the six-year Integrated Programme for its Secondary 1 students from next year, in partnership with Victoria Junior College. |
 | Times LIVE - Parishioners of Thai Ha church hold a crucifix and anti-government banners while marching in front of St. Joseph cathedral . Around 300 people marched through the centre of Hanoi on Friday to protest the construction of a sewage plant on the grounds of ... |
 | msnbc.com - A new report on kids' online habits reveals a "growing phenomenon" of "cyberbaiting," in which kids taunt teachers to yelling or breakdowns and then record their reactions using cellphone camcorders. |
 | AsiaOne - SINGAPORE - Police have arrested a 20 year-old man who is believed to be involved in at least three cases of break-ins reported in Hougang Housing Estate. |
 | AsiaOne - Private education chain Modern Montessori International will open a new centre to cater for children from lower-income families in 2012. |
 | Channel News Asia - SINGAPORE : The Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) nabbed 111 drug offenders in a five-day islandwide operation which ended on Friday. |
 | PLoS Blogs (blog) - Sunday 20th November is this year's World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. The day is not only an opportunity to remember those who have been killed or injured in road crashes but also a day to remember others, ... |
 | Phuket Gazette - PHUKET: A team of about 50 police and municipal officers this morning arrived in force at Phuket's tourist-popular Karon Beach and removed a restaurant belonging to a local family who were forcibly removed from the same location nine weeks ago. |
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 | Indian Express - In Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's words, the business tonight was anything but official. At the end of the gala dinner that he hosted for 18 global leaders who huddled in Bali for the ASEAN and East Asia summits, the master of ... |
 | Sky News Australia - Video for this article is not available as your browser either does not support JavaScript and/or Flash Player 9+ or they are currently disabled in your browser settings. |
 | Economic Times - NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has defended India's pact with Vietnam in the South China Sea and said it was dictated by "pure commercial interests". |
 | Telegraph.co.uk - Hillary Clinton will next month become the highest level Western official to visit Burma in decades as Washington intensifies its effort to encourage "flickers of progress" from the military regime. |
 | Reuters - 1 of 2. Occupy Wall street demonstrators clash with New York City Police inside Zuccotti Park as protests moved through the streets of lower Manhattan near the New York Stock Exchange during what organizers called a ''Day of Action'' in New York, ... |
 | Sydney Morning Herald - A registered nurse has appeared in court charged with four counts of murder after a fatal fire at a nursing home in Sydney's west. |
 | Economic Times - ROME: Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti's Cabinet won a second confidence vote in parliament on Friday to secure its right to tackle the country's deepening financial crisis. |
 | Reuters - Greece's fractious political parties on Saturday to give written guarantees that they will back austerity measures under a bailout deal aimed at saving the country from financial ruin. |
 | BBC News - The UN's nuclear watchdog has passed a resolution expressing its "deep and increasing concern" over Iran's nuclear programme. |
 | Voice of America (blog) - Pope Benedict has urged Africans to shun what he called destructive market forces as the continent races toward modernization. The pontiff arrived in Benin's commercial capital of Cotonou on Friday, where he was warmly greeted by thousands of people. |
 | Christian Science Monitor - It was one of Egypt's biggest demonstrations since Mubarak was toppled, a show of force against military efforts to maintain control. |
| USA Today (blog) - BALI, Indonesia - A decade ago, Rusdi Kirana sat on the grass at an air show in Britain, eating burgers with his wife. "I didn't know anybody," he says, "and nobody knew me. |
 | CanadianBusiness.com (blog) - On the one hand, the Vatican's complaint seemed to have worked: Clothing company Benetton pulled its ad featuring Pope Benedict XVI passionately kissing top Egyptian imam Ahmed Mohamed el-Tayeb. |
 | New York Daily News (blog) - The bearded Idaho wacko accused of trying to kill President Obama with a long-range rifle round thinks he is the second coming of Jesus Christ. |
| Independent Online - AP In this photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Ieng Thirith, foreground, former Minister of Social Affairs, smiles during a hearing of the former Khmer Rouge top leaders, in Phnom Penh, ... |
 | BBC News - Demonstrators from Occupy London Stock Exchange have taken over an empty office block belonging to the Swiss bank UBS in Hackney, east London. |
 | Bangkok Post - Former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who is at the centre of an uproar against a government-proposed decree widely seen as being enacted primarily to pardon his jail term, said he had no knowledge of the move. |
 | IBNLive.com - PTI | 02:11 AM,Nov 19,2011 From Yoshita Singh United Nations, Nov 18 (PTI) The UN General Assembly today voted overwhelmingly to readmit Libya as member of the UN Human Rights Council, eight months after the Muammar Gaddafi-led North African country ... |
 | Boston.com - AP / November 18, 2011 KANSAS CITY, Mo.—A Taiwanese representative pleaded guilty Friday to a charge accusing her of violating a federal labor law by underpaying and overworking two women hired from the Philippines to work in ... |
 | Seattle Post Intelligencer - SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea is denying allegations that it has helped Iran to develop nuclear weapons. North Korea's official media said Friday that unspecified "dishonest forces" have spread rumors of a nuclear link between the two countries ... |
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