Southeast Asia
 | Inquirer.net - SWEET AND SOUR The landmark decision of the Supreme Court ordering the distribution of the land is sweet victory to Hacienda Luisita workers. |
 | Herald Sun - A friend to all: An elephant painted in pink carrying the portrait of King Bhumibol Adulyadej parades through Bangkok for the king's birthday in 2007. |
 | Sun.Star (blog) - MANILA - Lawyers of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will ask the Supreme Court Friday not to compel doctors to reveal her medical condition in next week's debate on a controversial travel restraint circular. |
 | Malaysia Star - KUALA LUMPUR: Students aged 21 and above will be allowed to be members of political parties under planned amendments to Section 15 of the Universities and University Colleges Act 1971. |
 | Wall Street Journal - The scope of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak's vaunted political overhaul is disappointing opposition and legal activists in the badly fragmented nation, who argue that new laws drafted to protect political protests might actually ... |
 | Straits Times - Opposition politician Goh Meng Seng is quitting the National Solidarity Party (NSP) by letting his annual party membership lapse when it expires on Dec 31. |
 | Malaysia Star - SHAH ALAM: The Selangor Sultan, Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah, is saddened by the statement of the Universiti Islam Antarabangsa law faculty's Professor Abdul Aziz Bari that the accounts of the Selangor Islamic Religious Council (Mais) and state Tithes ... |
 | Moneycontrol.com - By Ploy Ten Kate AYUTTHAYA, Thailand (Reuters) - Knee-deep in foul-smelling water, workers are piling office equipment, documents and food onto fibre boats that ferry them from one building on Hana Microelectronics' 12-acre company site to another with ... |
 | AsiaOne - AS SHE lay on the bloody toilet floor bleeding profusely and in great pain from her horrific stab wounds, she had only one thought - that she was going to die. |
 | Globes - In an interview with "Globes," President Shimon Peres said that Israel must be more forgiving towards its troubled tycoons. |
 | Bangkok Post - Talk about being insensitive to the plight of others. While many suburbs around Bangkok continue as they have been for months _ suffering inundation by putrid floodwaters so that the inner city stays dry, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration staged ... |
 | allvoices - An obscure Malian ritual that emphasizes the value of a sense of humour was today placed on the United Nations List of Intangible Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding. |
 | Straits Times - Yasmin Ziqin Mohamed Yousoof with her mother Carrie Tan, father Mohamed Yousoof Abdul Majeed and younger brother Ishal. -- ST PHOTO: NURIA LING By Amelia Tan & Stacey Chia Rulang Primary pupil Yasmin Ziqin Mohamed Yousoof made history for her school on ... |
 | Gulf Times - Indonesia's political elite gathered at a palace in the mountains of Java yesterday to watch the youngest son of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono marry the daughter of his most ambitious minister. |
 | Inquirer.net - Four people were killed and eight others were wounded in a grenade attack in a town in this province, police said on Thursday. Senior Supt. |
 | Straits Times - The flasher of Bukit Batok, all of 15 years old, will serve two years of probation for outraging and insulting the modesty of nine girls aged nine to 18. |
World
 | RT - Syria, Damascus: Syrians wave their national flag and hold up a huge banner of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as they rally in central in Damascus on November 20, 2011. |
 | Voice of America (blog) - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh ordered a probe into deadly violence in the capital, Sana'a, Thursday, a day after he agreed to an Arab League plan that calls for him to relinquish power. |
 | Stuff.co.nz - A father and his three young children planning to spend the Thanksgiving weekend together have died after a small plane they were in slammed into the Superstition Mountains in the United States. |
 | BBC News - Egypt's military rulers have appointed ex-prime minister Kamal Ganzouri to form a new government, state media say. The previous military-appointed civilian cabinet resigned earlier this week in the wake of violent protests in Cairo and other cities. |
 | The Hindu - India's “jitters” and fears of encirclement by Chinese influence in South Asia reflected an “inferiority complex” and “loud jealousy” over China's rise, State-run Xinhua news agency said in a commentary on Thursday. |
 | Reuters India - Himachal Pradesh offers financial rewards to members of the public who catch trouble-making monkeys. Slideshow Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev meets with preschool, cultural institution for children and library personnel at the childhood and youth ... |
 | Times LIVE - Michael Jackson's doctor could be forced to pay the late pop star's children R846-million. UK tabloid The Sun reported yesterday that lawyers representing the king of pop's estate are going to ask Judge Michael Pastor to order the killer doctor to pay ... |
 | Voice of America - November 24, 2011 Burmese Press Mention 'Retired' Former Leader Than Shwe William Ide As Burma moves to polish an image long-stained by repressive military rule, the man who led that government, former military General Than Shwe, has slipped into the ... |
 | Fiji Times - MEASURES for the eradication of violence against women will not be adequate unless gender equality is addressed on other fronts, especially with regard to women's leadership. |
 | AFP - SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea threatened Thursday to turn South Korea's presidential palace into a "sea of fire" in response to any provocation, a day after Seoul's military held a big exercise near the border. |
| Herald Sun - A friend to all: An elephant painted in pink carrying the portrait of King Bhumibol Adulyadej parades through Bangkok for the king's birthday in 2007. |
 | USA Today - PRAGUE, Okla. (AP) - The US Geological Survey has recorded a small earthquake in central Oklahoma. Officials said a 3.7 magnitude quake was reported about 3:11 pm Thursday. |
 | Vancouver Sun - The International Monetary Fund welcomed a written pledge from a Greek party leader backing a bailout deal and the prime minister was quoted as saying other lenders were satisfied as ... |
| Inquirer.net - Four people were killed and eight others were wounded in a grenade attack in a town in this province, police said on Thursday. Senior Supt. |
 | Reuters UK - Saif al-Islam is seen after his capture, in the custody of revolutionary fighters in Obari, Libya, in this November 19, 2011 picture. |
 | msnbc.com (blog) - Hasan Jamali / AP A Bahraini woman walks down a narrow street in the western Shiite village of Malkiya, Bahrain, on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011, painted and repainted with anti-government graffiti and hung with religious banners for the Islamic month of ... |
 | Xinhua - GAZA, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- The Islamic Hamas movement and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party on Thursday agreed on more steps to complete their reconciliation. |
 | New Zealand Herald - The helicopter crashed this morning while setting up for the installation of a christmas tree. Photo / TVNZ The Civil Aviation Authority says a pilot was lucky to walk away from a helicopter crash on ... |
 | TheBlaze.com - Visitors walk in the Davidson Center near the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, in Jerusalem's Old City, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011. |
 | Reuters Canada - TRIPOLI (Reuters) - One of the most senior figures in Libya's outgoing government has denounced its leaders as an unelected elite, supported by "money, arms and PR," and warned that 90 percent of Libya is politically voiceless. |
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