Southeast Asia
 | Sky News Australia - An Australian woman has been gored to death by a pygmy elephant while trekking in a Malaysian wildlife reserve. The woman, who has been identified as Sydney-based veterinarian Jenna O'Grady Donley by Malaysian newspaper The Star, was trekking with a ... |
 | ABC Online (blog) - It is 50 years this month since West Papua declared independence from Indonesia yet the relationship between the two remains seriously troubled. |
 | Wall Street Journal - AP NEWARK, NJ - Federal lawmakers introduced legislation Wednesday aimed at helping a group of Indonesian immigrants who are facing deportation despite a conditional agreement with US immigration authorities that has allowed them to live and work ... |
 | Australia Network News - A senior leader of Thailand's "Red Shirt' protest movement has handed himself over to authorities after almost 20 months on the run. |
 | Inquirer.net - Knowing how swiftly Mupas issued an arrest warrant against former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo last November for an electoral sabotage case, former Chairman Benjamin Abalos of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) went to the Pasay ... |
 | Gulf Today - MANILA: A seventh plunder complaint has been filed against embattled former Philippine president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who is under hospital arrest for the non-bailable offense of electoral sabotage. |
 | New Straits Times - Experienced and high-performing civil servants will be given priority for promotions to top positions in the government, despite a new policy that offers such opportunities to outsiders. |
 | Minda News - By Carolyn O. Arguillas | Thursday| December 8, 2011 | Filed under: Top Stories KUALA LUMPUR (MindaNews/07 December) - The Philippine government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front peace panels will return here next month after meeting with their ... |
 | Tempo - Manila, Philippines - Not even a “prisoner swap“ or the exchange of two sentenced persons between countries would be able to save the Filipino drug mule who will be executed today in China, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said yesterday. |
 | The Nation - Passion runs high in the Akong lese-majeste case, with Pavin Chachavalpongun concluding, "Monarchists are the ones who breed anti-monarchists". |
 | Asianjournal.com - “MY TASK as Chief Executive is clearly spelled out to uphold and defend the constitution; implement its laws; do justice to every man; and consecrate myself to the service of the people. |
 | Straits Times - Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra will make a trip to Singapore on Thursday to boost mutual cooperation. -- PHOTO: REUTERS THAILAND (THE NATION/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra will make a trip to Singapore on Thursday to boost ... |
 | BusinessWorld Online Edition - INCUMBENT AND former members of the Senate, three congressmen and a Cabinet official topped a recent survey on preferences for senator if elections were held last month. |
 | Wall Street Journal (blog) - An international anti-corruption group is calling on Malaysian authorities to thoroughly investigate alleged bribes paid in that country by French industrial giant Alstom SA, according to Agence France-Presse. |
 | New Straits Times - KUCHING: Historic. That best describes the Sarawak United Peoples' Party's triennial delegates' conference from today to Sunday, which will see for the first time an election to choose a president in its 52-year history. |
 | Inquirer.net - The Department of Social Welfare and Development has delisted over 170000 households from the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program as part of its reforms, Social Welfare Secretary Corazon Soliman said Wednesday. |
World
 | msnbc.com - Rob Wallace / AP In this undated image provided by ABC, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad poses with ABC News Anchor Barbara Walters for an interview airing Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011, on ABC. |
 | Montreal Gazette - In this file picture taken on September 9, 2008, Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari stands in front of a portrait of his slain wife Benazir Bhutto and waves as he arrives for a joint press ... |
 | MiamiHerald.com - CAIRO -- Egypt's military will retain broad executive powers, help shape the framing of a new constitution and keep its vast financial holdings hidden even after an elected Parliament is seated, one of the ruling ... |
 | Irish Times - LONDON LETTER: THE CONSERVATIVE Party has rarely been more united in its general attitude to the European Union. Yet still the subject provokes divisions between a prime minister with limited room for manoeuvre and backbenchers who want to pull away. |
 | Voice of America (blog) - A day after a suicide bomber targeting Shi'ite Muslims killed 55 people in the Afghan capital, Kabul, Afghan President Hamid Karzai vowed to confront neighboring Pakistan about the unprecedented attack. |
 | China Daily - Last week, China's Defense Ministry described the move of the United States and Australia to upgrade their military ties as "Cold War" thinking, which many newspapers in the US and Australia chose to highlight. |
 | Reuters - HONOLULU (Reuters) - Some 120 aging survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor were among 5000 people who marked its 70th anniversary on Wednesday with a quiet, often emotional ceremony at water's edge. |
 | CNN (blog) - Promoting special rights for gays in foreign countries is not in America's interests and not worth a dime of taxpayers' money. |
 | Times of India - MOSCOW: Vladimir Putin has a choice between either embracing reform or tightening state control to preserve his dominance after losing support in Russia's elections and facing protests, analysts say. |
 | Jerusalem Post - Former president to be under suicide watch in jail, will share a cell with ex-government minister Benizri (Shas). A silver jeep with blacked-out windows pulled up outside of the Ma'asiyahu Prison in Ramle on Wednesday. |
 | Reuters Africa - YANGON Dec 7 (Reuters) - Just hours after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton left Myanmar last week, property prices began to soar. |
 | New York Times - KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo - With a contentious election still unresolved more than a week after the voting, an uneasy quiet held here on Wednesday, punctuated by occasional blasts of tear gas, hurled rocks, gunshots and ... |
 | South Asian News Agency - ATHENS, (SANA): Protesters clashed with police outside Greece's parliament on Tuesday as lawmakers were to approve a tough 2012 budget to seal unpopular austerity measures demanded by EU partners in return for fresh aid. |
 | New York Times (blog) - Luke Sharrett/The New York TimesA portrait of President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt behind President Barack Obama in the East Room of the White House. |
 | TVNZ - Lady Gaga has visited the White House to discuss her plans for an anti-bullying campaign. The 25-year-old pop superstar - who has supported measures to put an end to bullying in American high schools following the suicide of gay teenager Jamey ... |
 | The Daily Star - The ongoing transformations across the Arab world have already ushered in several unprecedented developments - the birth of the empowered Arab citizen, of open political contestation, and of a nascent process of national ... |
 | NPR (blog) - Just hours after the United States launched a "virtual embassy" for Iranian citizens, the Iranian government moved to block access to it. |
 | Christian Science Monitor - Mexico's success in preventing Saadi Qaddafi from escaping to a Mexican resort with his family stands in stark contrast to the impunity with which many international criminals are able to operate in Mexico. |
 | US Department of State (press release) - SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE GLYN DAVIES: You all set? Good. Well, thanks very much for coming out here today to greet me on this my first visit to Seoul in my new capacity as Special Representative for North Korea policy. |
 | The Daily Star - PRAGUE: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived in Prague for a two-day visit Wednesday amid mounting tensions between Moscow and NATO over the alliance's planned missile defense shield. |
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