Southeast Asia
 | gulfnews.com - Image Credit: AP Commission on Elections lawyer Maria Juana Valeza (second left) shakes the hand of Gloria Arroyo's doctor, Juliet Gopez-Cervantez, before the start of a Manila court hearing on Friday. |
 | Straits Times - Smoking areas in non-airconditioned eating places such as hawker centres and coffee shops may have to go if a proposal to widen the smoking ban gets the green light. |
 | Straits Times - Special Operations Task Force troops boarding a ship called 'Avatar' from a Super Puma helicopter and a rigid hull inflatable boat as part of Exercise Northstar VIII's counter-terrorism drills yesterday. |
 | BusinessWeek - By Bloomberg News Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Vietnam plans to continue building roads and schools to assert sovereignty on islands also claimed by China while moving to stifle any protests that display false patriotism, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said. |
 | Tempo - Manila, Philippines - A lone gunman shot and wounded a hard-hitting commentator of a local radio station in Cagayan de Oro City on Thursday night, with a police official saying the motive is likely work-related. |
 | Straits Times - Aware executive director Corinna Lim at the launch of its Sexual Assault Befrienders Service yesterday. She applauded the decision to repeal section 157(d) of the Evidence Act, saying such pre-Victorian notions of how women should behave 'have no place ... |
 | Journal Online - THE decision of the Supreme Court to distribute the 4915-hectare Hacienda Luisita to about 6300 beneficiaries will give “renewed strength” to the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) which is set to end in June 2014. |
 | New Internationalist (blog) - Benny Wenda and fellow West Papuans sing their national anthem at a conference in Oxford. West Papuan independence leader Benny Wenda has been named on an Interpol wanted list in a move viewed by many as politically motivated. |
 | Tehran Times - TEHRAN -- Two Iranian elements have been registered on UNESCO's List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding. |
 | Malay Mail - This is the practice of loading a bullet in one chamber of a revolver, spinning the cylinder and pulling the trigger while pointing the gun at one's head. |
 | Inquirer.net - ILIGAN CITY—One of three South Koreans kidnapped while checking mining prospects in Lanao del Norte has been released on Thursday, authorities said yesterday. |
 | TODAYonline - SINGAPORE - The police have arrested two loan shark suspects based on a lead that came from a photo that was posted on the police's Facebook page in July 2009. |
 | Jakarta Post - Calls for the Indonesian government to settle the long-standing conflict in Papua through dialogue with representatives of local people are no longer relevant. |
 | Voice of America - November 24, 2011 Amnesty Calls for Halt to Cambodian Forced Evictions Robert Carmichael | Phnom Penh Amnesty International called on the Cambodian government Thursday to halt a wave of forced evictions affecting tens of thousands of people, ... |
 | Jakarta Globe - Edhie Baskoro Yudhoyono, the president's youngest son, and Siti Ruby Aliya Rajasa, daughter of Coordinating Minister for Economy Hatta Rajasa, were married during a massive ceremony at the Cipanas Palace on Thursday. |
 | Manila Bulletin - MANILA, Philippines - New Year is an event universally celebrated by people all over the world. The celebrations signify a fresh beginning, new desires, and new things. |
World
 | Reuters Africa - BEIRUT, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Arab officials will prepare plans for sanctions against Syria on Saturday over its failure to let Arab League monitors oversee an initiative aimed at ending a violent crackdown on protests against President ... |
 | Voice of America (blog) - Tens of thousand of Egyptians gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday where they pressed their demand for an end to military rule despite the ruling military's appointment of a new prime minister. |
 | Pakistan Daily Times - ISLAMABAD: The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women observed on Friday around the world including Pakistan with the aim to raise public awareness of violence against women at all levels of society. |
 | Reuters Africa - RABAT Nov 25 (Reuters) - The Justice and Development Party (PJD) said it had won the largest number of seats in Morocco's parliamentary election on Friday. |
 | The Guardian - The will to act on climate change is out of political energy, running on empty. The problem is (relatively) distant, complex and intractable. |
 | Voice of America - November 25, 2011 Yemen Instability Stokes Terror Concerns Henry Ridgwell | London Thousands of people took to the streets in cities across Yemen Friday, calling for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to be put on trial. |
 | Seattle Post Intelligencer - A soldier and police officer stand guard as a van that was discovered carrying bodies inside is taken away in Guadalajara, Mexico, Thursday Nov. 24, 2011. |
 | 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. |
 | NIKKEI.com - TOKYO (Nikkei)--More coordinated efforts should be made to promote the safety of Japanese food to break the export slump stemming from the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, the Agriculture Ministry urged in its report compiled ... |
 | abc7.com - There is little hope for any survivors after a light plane crashed east of Phoenix Wednesday night. (KABC Photo) PHOENIX (KABC) -- Crews searched for the victims of a plane crash that killed six people in southeastern Arizona on Friday. |
 | Ahram Online - Following new clashes in Tahrir Square in Cairo, stock market indices went into free fall. The CASE30 index, the main tracker of Egyptian stocks, declined to its lowest level in 32 months on Monday and Tuesday. |
 | News24 - The Hague - The trial of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam could be held in Libya under the auspices of the International Criminal Court, its chief prosecutor said Friday. |
 | NTDTV - On Wednesday, the Chinese regime said it would go ahead with carrying out Pacific naval exercises—amid concerns over its increasing military power and naval aggression in the South China Sea. |
 | eTaiwan News - AP A South Korean official is heading to North Korea to help monitor the distribution of aid, the first time in three years that Seoul is joining a humanitarian mission to Pyongyang. |
| Straits Times - Smoking areas in non-airconditioned eating places such as hawker centres and coffee shops may have to go if a proposal to widen the smoking ban gets the green light. |
 | Maximum PC - The crackdown continues on piracy and counterfeit-related domains today with the news that as many as 130 domain names have been seized by US authorities. |
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