Southeast Asia
 | New Straits Times - By KUALA LUMPUR | 0 comments Deputy Umno president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin leading party members in a loyalty pledge at the end of his winding up speech on the last day of Umno General Assembly 2011 at Putra World Trade Centre in Kuala Lumpur ... |
 | ABC Online - Refugee advocates say the handling of asylum seeker policy at Labor's national conference had nothing to do with human rights and everything to do with domestic politicking. |
 | Inquirer.net - MANILA, Philippines—The Catholic Church will offer Masses on Sunday for a convicted Filipino drug trafficker facing execution in China. |
 | Inquirer.net - MANILA, Philippines—A lawyer of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Saturday said her camp would be checking out the food being served to the Pampanga congresswoman at the St. Luke's Medical Center as the alleged ... |
 | Bangkok Post - Pol Gen Priewpan Damapong was appointed national police chief. He's Thaksin Shinawatra's former brother-in-law. Police thought to have close ties with the previous Democrat regime are being moved out of key positions on the national force and those ... |
 | Straits Times - Minister of National Development Khaw Boon Wan (in patterned shirt) getting a tour of the Trees of the World event at the Botanic Gardens yesterday. |
 | eTaiwan News - Indonesian security forces opened fire at a separatist flag-raising ceremony in Indonesia's restive Papua region Thursday, according to the AFP news agency. |
 | Himalayan Times - KATHMANDU: Former Foreign Minister KP Sharma Oli today said Nepal's relation with the Kingdom of Thailand was among the closest relations that Nepal had with South East Asian countries. |
 | Jakarta Post - Commenting on the new Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) leadership, House deputy speaker Priyo Budi Santoso said that the selection was proof of the House's independence. |
 | Brahmand Defence and Aerospace News - SINGAPORE (PTI): Singapore got its fist submarine, which was commissioned here in a ceremony on Friday, after two years of sea trial in Sweden. |
 | Malaysia Star - IT'S a tale of Madu Tiga in the Opposition camp, claimed Puteri Umno chief Datuk Rosnah Abdul Rashid Shirlin. Rosnah, in an apparent reference to Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, chided him for making different promises to his “three wives” ... |
 | Inquirer.net - CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY—Two military officers and two of their alleged civilian accomplices tagged in a recent kidnapping case were arrested following a clash with police early Friday. |
 | Straits Times - Five teens appeared in court on Saturday to face charges of rioting armed with a deadly weapon. Liong Hong Ting, 18; Lim Ming Yi, 17; Terrence Chue Wee Teck, 17; and Isaac Ang Shi Ming, 16, were taken to court in a police van. |
 | Bangkok Post - Thailand can meet its future energy needs without any additional hydropower imports or further investment in coal or nuclear energy, a new study shows. |
 | Inquirer.net - A commotion ensued inside the Banco de Oro branch in Cotabato City on Saturday morning after two lawyers representing the Ampatuan family tried to withdraw money from the bank accounts of their clients, but they were rebuffed ... |
World
 | Atlanta Journal Constitution - AP MOSCOW - Russia's long dominant party appeared likely to lose its edge as voters across the sprawling country cast ballots for Parliament on Sunday, many of them frustrated over corruption and the gap between ordinary Russians and the ... |
 | Times LIVE - A crowd gathers in front of the election office to await the outcome of the parliamentary election, in Cairo November 29, 2011. ISRAELI defence minister Ehud Barak said yesterday the "Islamisation in Arab countries (was) very worrying" as early results ... |
 | The Independent - Further to my report back from the Thatcherites for Labour rally* that I attended on Wednesday, I sh... Worth smuggling some of Philip Collins's commentary from behind the Times's pay wall. |
 | Mirror.co.uk - SYRIA'S top officials have been banned from travelling and had assets frozen under tough new sanctions imposed yesterday. The Arab League action was agreed in Qatar in response to President Assad's bloody ... |
 | The Guardian - Burma has approved a new law permitting peaceful protest for the first time at the end of a high-profile visit by the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, the first by such a senior US government official in five decades. |
 | CNN International - Herman Cain announces that he is suspending his campaign as as his wife, Gloria Cain, looks on. Editor's note: SE Cupp is author of "Losing Our Religion: The Liberal Media's Attack on Christianity" and co-author of "Why ... |
 | The Guardian - The arrival of two pandas at Edinburgh zoo should be used as a chance to engage China over human rights issues, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie has said. |
 | Pakistan Daily Times - The Pakistani nationalist chauvinists are screaming about the breach of sovereignty, which has never been more than a facade to befool the masses. |
 | Voice of America (blog) - NATO has said three of its service members died in a bomb blast in eastern Afghanistan Saturday. The nationalities of the victims were not immediately released. |
 | eTaiwan News - By NICOLE WINFIELD AP Premier Mario Monti briefed political leaders Saturday on his package of austerity and economic growth measures ahead of a critical week of Italian and European decision-making to confront the continent's debt crisis. |
 | The Economist (blog) - THE use of public office for private gain benefits a powerful few while imposing costs on large swathes of society. Transparency International's annual Corruption Perceptions Index, published on December 1st, measures the perceived levels of ... |
 | Times of India - As geopolitical rivals, India and China face each other over a highly disputed border. The inviolability of virtually the entire 4057 km border - one of the longest in the world - has been called into question by China's increasing cross-frontier ... |
 | Council on Foreign Relations (blog) - Secretary of Defense Panetta addressed the Saban Forum, the annual meeting of Israeli and American journalists, officials, and former officials, on Friday evening. |
 | Inquirer.net - The two great feasts of the Catholic Church are preceded by a period of preparation. Christmas, which celebrates the humanity of Christ, is ushered in by the Advent season, and Easter, which celebrates the divinity of Christ, has the Lenten season as ... |
 | San Jose Mercury News - AP LOS ANGELES—Occupy LA protesters are back on the streets of Los Angeles, three days after being ousted from their encampment at City Hall. |
 | Inquirer.net - LITTLE-KNOWN. Filipino genius Epifanio delos Santos and the famous thoroughfare (circa 1987) named after him. If it were not for the unbending determination of Filipino intellectuals in 1958, Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (or Edsa) ... |
 | PhilBoxing.com - By Jerome S. Galunan Jr. His statement came after seeing great potentials from the roster of protagonists, who competed during the weekend's 2011 Mayor Andrew L. Montelibano Boxing Tournament held at the town's plaza. |
 | Economic Times - MADRID: Spain is experiencing difficult times but will pull through, future prime minister Mariano Rajoy said on Saturday in his first public comments since winning elections two weeks ago. |
 | DAWN.com - BEIJING: According to a state media report, an increasing number of women from Southeast Asia are being smuggled into China and sold into marriage or forced to work as prostitutes. |
 | Radio New Zealand - Rain is helping firefighters dealing with the smouldering remains of the Far North scrub fire that destroyed three houses and led indirectly to the death of two men in a helicopter crash. |
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