Southeast Asia
Malaysia Star - WHEN the US hosted this year's Apec (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) summit, Honolulu was the natural venue. Hawaii is the only US state in the Pacific, as distinct from merely being on the periphery. |
Scotland on Sunday - POLICE fingerprinted and photographed former Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in her hospital bed yesterday over electoral fraud charges her lawyer said had been brought with “indecent haste”. |
Bangkok Post - BALI : Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra will investigate setting up a network of weirs and dykes to provide water during droughts and generate clean electricity. |
Sydney Morning Herald - INDONESIA'S President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono quizzed Julia Gillard and Barack Obama over the new American ''base'' in northern Australia but was assured that it posed no threat to Indonesia's territorial integrity. |
Malaysia Star - JOHOR BARU: A study is being done on the feasibility of constructing an undersea tunnel to link Singapore and Malaysia. Iskandar Regional Development Authority chief executive officer Ismail Ibrahim said the tunnel was likely to be about 1km long, ... |
Vancouver Sun - Battlehardened former Khmer Rouge guerrilla Lim Sambath echoes the words that have become a mantra for the servants of the ultra-Maoist regime that tore Cambodia apart three decades ago. |
TODAYonline - Young People's Action Party (YP) chairman Teo Ser Luck and vice-chairman Zaqy Mohamad visited Huda Kindergarten yesterday, in what it described as a "reconciliatory move" over a racist Facebook posting by ex-member Jason Neo. |
Malaysia Star - GEORGE TOWN: Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon is not stepping down as Gerakan president because he is still needed to handle party affairs and ensure continuity. |
New Straits Times - Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin (left) filling Wariyam Jaikoromoh's plate with rice during a 1Malaysia luncheon at Kampung Sungai Labu in Labuan, Sabah, yesterday. |
Manila Bulletin - MANILA, Philippines - The United States promises stronger and wider economic and military cooperation with the Philippines. Time for improved US-PH alliance in the wake of new challenges ahead. |
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. |
MarketWatch (press release) - OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Nov 18, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- On November 20 of each year, Canadians celebrate National Child Day. The day commemorates Canada's ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child that spells out the ... |
Bangkok Post - The ongoing dispute between flood-hit residents and authorities over the Khlong Hok Wa flood barrier ended yesterday with residents agreeing to not breach the dyke and authorities promising to widen three sluice gates. |
Journal Online - A FEMALE Trader who was said to be abducted by suspected rogue members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) was released the other day in Zamboanga City. |
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. |
The Sun Daily - KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 18, 2011): The Commercial CID in Bukit Aman has begun investigation including looking at the possibility of any criminal breach of trust or cheating involved in the purchase of a luxury condominium worth RM9.8 million said to be ... |
New Straits Times - KLUANG: Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein said the group of 13 individuals who were detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA) by the authorities in Tawau, Sabah earlier this week were most dangerous to the security of this country and ... |
World
Malaysia Star - ZINTAN, Libya (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam has been captured in Libya's southern desert, scared and with only a handful of supporters, by fighters who vow to hold him in the mountain town of Zintan until... |
Malaysia Star - WHEN the US hosted this year's Apec (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) summit, Honolulu was the natural venue. Hawaii is the only US state in the Pacific, as distinct from merely being on the periphery. |
Jerusalem Post - By REUTERS BEIRUT - An Arab League deadline for Syria to end its repression of anti-government unrest passed with no sign of violence abating, and President Bashar Assad remained defiant in the face of growing international isolation. |
Bloomberg - Iran's determination to build nuclear weapons will result in nations such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey seeking nuclear arms, starting a “countdown” to terrorists getting nuclear ... |
Hindustan Times - From dictatorship to quasi democracy in less than a year, the pace of change in Myanmar has stunned even the most cynical observers of the country. |
Jerusalem Post - Protesters and riot police clashed in Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square on Saturday, wounding around 500 people, after police dispersed a sit-in by demonstrators demanding the military swiftly transfer power to a civilian ... |
Bangkok Post - BALI : Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra will investigate setting up a network of weirs and dykes to provide water during droughts and generate clean electricity. |
Ninemsn - By ninemsn staff and AAP Even as the Quakers Hill nursing home was still smouldering, the nurse charged with lighting the blaze that left five elderly people dead was telling Nine News he did what he could to save the residents. |
Fox News - | AP AP Nov. 19, 2011: Pope Benedict XVI waves to the Catholic faithful as he arrives at the basilica in Ouidah, Benin. OUIDAH, Benin - In a basilica built in the heartland of Africa's Voodoo religion, Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday unveiled a treatise ... |
Bloomberg - Antonis Samaras, leader of Greece's New Democracy Party, won't sign a document pledging his commitment to the Oct. 26 European Union agreement for the nation, the Athens News Agency reported. |
Daily Mail - Two European Union governments have now been toppled in coups - bloodless and genteel coups, but coups nonetheless. In Greece and in Italy, elected prime ministers have been overthrown by Eurocrats. |
The Guardian - This Tuesday's pre-dawn destruction of the Zuccotti Park encampment of Occupy Wall Street by New York City police in riot gear has been seen by some as a serious defeat for the movement. |
Taipei Times - Taiwanese diplomat Jacqueline Liu's lawyer Jim Wirken said after Friday's hearing that his client seemed uneasy about the hearing's outcome. |
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 Times (blog) - Jason Reed/ReutersSoldiers watched President Obama speak to American Marines and Australian troops in Darwin, Australia, this week. |
ABC Online - Media reports in South Korea say a North Korean spy has been arrested after arriving in Seoul, posing as a defector. South Korea's spy chief fears Pyongyang is using fake refugees to try to carry out assassinations. |
New Straits Times - Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak (second from right) with (from left) Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Cambodian Prime ... |
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