Southeast Asia
 | Bangkok Post - Despite the flood crisis, all the Thai people joined hands yesterday to celebrate His Majesty the King's 84th birthday, which also marked the completion of his auspicious 7th cycle. |
 | Sydney Morning Herald - An Australian man has been abducted in the southern Philippines, the military said, in what could be the latest in a long line of kidnappings for ransom by Muslim militants. |
 | TODAYonline - The recent news of the three young men who made irresponsible remarks online about Islam and Muslims has saddened Muslim Singaporeans, who responded commendably with restraint and were wise to let the police handle the cases. |
 | The Epoch Times - Nuon Chea, the former second in command under Cambodian dictator Pol Pot, defended the actions of the communist Khmer Rouge regime, which killed at least 1.7 million people in four years. |
 | gulfnews.com - Manila: The Philippines government expressed readiness to forge a peace settlement with a former Muslim separatist group, but demanded the arrest of Muslim fighters responsible for the killing of 30 government ... |
 | Philippine Headline News - MANILA, DECEMBER 5, 2011 (STAR) By Edu Punay (PHOTO - President Aquino is shown with (from left) Sandiganbayan Presiding Justice Francisco Villaluz Jr. |
 | Tempo - Manila, Philippines - Malacanang remains hopeful that the Chinese government will change its mind on the execution of a Filipino on December 8 for drug trafficking. |
 | Gulf Times - Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak said in a joint press conference with Qatar's Prime Minister HE Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor al-Thani yesterday that both countries will each put $1bn in a fund to look for investments. |
 | Journal Online - OPPOSITION lawmakers yesterday warned of a constitutional crisis following the continued bashing by President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III of Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona's alleged partiality in handling cases involving former President ... |
 | Fox News - | AP HANOI, Vietnam - More than 100000 Vietnamese have been killed or injured by land mines or other abandoned explosives since the Vietnam War ended nearly 40 years ago, and clearing all of the country will take decades more, officials said Monday. |
 | The Borneo Post - KUALA LUMPUR: The federal police Logistics Department is all geared up to face the 13th general election which is expected to be held in the near future. |
 | Journal Online - TWO weeks after he was abandoned by his captors, one of the three Koreans abducted last October died in a hospital last Friday in Cagayan de Oro City. |
 | Tempo Interaktif - TEMPO Interactive, Jayapura, Papua:Following a shooting incident which killed two members of the National Police Mobile Brigade (Brimob), the Papua police on Sunday are tracking down an armed group of civilians suspected to be the shooters. |
 | Journal Online - AS part of the security and protection measure, the Manila International Airport Authority yesterday barred all light aircraft, both commercial and private, from flying at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport due to thick fog covering the runway. |
 | Inquirer.net - PUERTO PRINCESA— Authorities found 20 dead sea turtles in a large net that was left submerged in the waters of Balabac on the southern tip of Palawan by a group of Chinese poachers caught by a Philippine naval patrol on Thursday. |
 | Channel News Asia - SINGAPORE : Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean has said more drug syndicates have been moving their clandestine labs closer to Singapore in recent years. |
 | TODAYonline - SINGAPORE - A man was killed after his car was hit by an SBS Transit double-decker bus at the junction of Bishan Street 14 and Bishan Road yesterday. |
 | Straits Times - A 38-year-old Singaporean man was charged in June this year for using his passport as a collateral for borrowing money to gamble in Vietnam. |
World
 | Wall Street Journal - Standard & Poor's Ratings Service said the outcome of Sunday's general elections in the Russian Federation provides the government with a stable parliamentary majority, but the loss of the United Russia party's constitutional majority will limit the ... |
 | IBNLive.com - AP Bonn: Afghanistan will need the financial support of other countries for at least another decade beyond the 2014 departure of foreign troops, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Monday at an international conference. |
 | The Guardian - The grand bargain struck by Germany and France to save the euro and restore confidence in the single currency was facing its first challenge within hours of being negotiated after the nations in the eurozone were warned that their crucial credit ... |
 | Agenzia Giornalistica Italia - (AGI) Rome- Pier Luigi Bersani said that the Mario Monti's emergency degree needs to be modified before parliamentary approval. |
 | Christian Science Monitor - The US military acknowledged that one of its unmanned aerial vehicles had gone missing over western Afghanistan last week. With no pilot in the cockpit, drones can be tricky to fly. |
 | Courier Mail - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was granted the right to have his appeal against extradition to Sweden. Picture: AFP Source: AFP WIKILEAKS chief Julian Assange said he was "thankful" after being granted the right to pursue his appeal against ... |
 | BusinessWeek - Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) -- The Arab League said it won't lift sanctions imposed on Syria, after President Bashar al-Assad's government demanded the removal of the league's punitive measures as a condition for admitting ... |
 | San Francisco Chronicle - Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Egyptian voters complete run-offs today for the first round of an election that has Islamist groups vying to control the first parliament since the toppling of Hosni Mubarak. |
 | Xinhua - CHENGDU, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- Two giant pandas left the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu for Scotland on Sunday, beginning what is hoped will be a 10-year expat life in Edinburgh Zoo. |
 | Times LIVE - Ivory Coast's former president Laurent Gbagbo appeared in the International Criminal Court yesterday to face charges of crimes against humanity, including murder and rape. |
 | Huffington Post - The area where the wooden barn was built and then demolished is now empty. Aside from that, McPherson Square looks more or less exactly as it did before Sunday's standoff. |
| Fox News - | AP HANOI, Vietnam - More than 100000 Vietnamese have been killed or injured by land mines or other abandoned explosives since the Vietnam War ended nearly 40 years ago, and clearing all of the country will take decades more, officials said Monday. |
 | Upfront News - BALI, INDONESIA (BNO NEWS) - A 14-year-old Australian boy who was previously arrested and convicted for drug possession on the Indonesian resort island of Bali was released on Sunday, local media reported on Monday. |
 | AFP - VATICAN CITY - The Vatican is sending an envoy to Myanmar this week for a religious celebration where he will meet opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, religious news agency I.Media reported on Monday. |
 | Financial Times (blog) - Croatia's centre-left Kukuriku coalition has won a convincing victory in elections held on Sunday, obtaining 80 out of 151 seats in parliament, according to unofficial estimates with the votes nearly counted. |
 | Manila Bulletin - MANILA, Philippines - On the 40th birthday of the United Arab Emirates, the Gulf's most prosperous, liberal and forward-looking state (home to between 45000 and 100000 Filipinos) looked back at its beginnings as a desert community ... |
 | AFP - HONG KONG - A Hong Kong television station has been fined HK$300000 ($39000) for erroneously reporting that former Chinese president Jiang Zemin had died, the Broadcasting Authority said Monday. |
 | Aurora Advocate - I have lived in Aurora for about 3 years and never once worried about decorating my house for Christmas. I am so upset that someone would have the nerve to walk all the way up to my home and steal the Baby Jesus out of my nativity scene. |
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