Southeast Asia
 | Times of India - BANKOK: An American who translated a banned biography of Thailand's king and posted the content online while living in Colorado was sentenced to two and a half years in a Thai prison on Thursday for defaming the country's royal family. |
 | Inquirer.net - By Karen Boncocan MANILA, Philippines - Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo went to the Veterans' Memorial Medical Center Friday to check on preparations for the transfer of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's to the ... |
 | Inquirer.net - In a previous editorial, we said the televised execution of a Chinese drug trafficker by the late president Ferdinand Marcos in the '70s supposedly scared off drug dealers and addicts. |
 | Malaysia Star - Win or lose, SUPP presidential hopefuls Datuk Seri Peter Chin and Datuk Seri Wong Soon Koh, must not turn their backs on the party. |
 | Straits Times - Ms Yingluck and Mr Lee both signalled the two countries' commitment to deepening ties. In a speech, Mr Lee noted that ties between Thailand and Singapore date back to 1871. |
 | AsiaOne - THE National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) has named Ms Diana Chia as its first female president in 50 years, after the election of a new central committee yesterday. |
 | Inquirer.net - Two Cebu-based prelates yesterday were mixed in their response toward calls to mediate between President Benigno Aquino III and Chief Justice Renato Corona if the two leaders request them to. |
 | Jakarta Post - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party will likely face major political turbulence next year if its rivals exploit the Bank Century bailout and recent graft allegations in the run up to the elections in 2014. |
 | Times of India - PANAJI: The feast of Our Lady of Immaculate Conception was celebrated at the Panaji parish church on Thursday with great fervour and devotion. |
 | Washington Post - Pope Benedict XVI lights up one of the world's largest electronic Christmas trees in Gubbio using an iPad at the Vatican. Buddhist nuns attend a hearing for former Khmer Rouge leaders at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), ... |
 | Malaysia Star - Members of the Malaysian Bar took to the streets recently to protest against the tabling of the Peaceful Assembly Bill. OVER a thousand people in black suits and white shirts walked up the road towards Parliament House, the very same people often ... |
 | Inquirer.net - This was what former Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Benjamin Abalos said when asked about the purported evidence the electoral body had against him that would prove he was involved in rigging the 2007 elections ... |
 | New Straits Times - By Noor Adzman Baharuddin Delegates supporting the minutes tabled at the Umno general assembly recently. The take-home message was 'Umno before self'. |
 | BusinessWorld Online Edition - SEVERAL MEASURES are being explored to cushion the impact of the global economic slowdown to the semi-conductor and electronics industry, President Benigno SC Aquino III said yesterday. |
 | ABS CBN News - MANILA, Philippines - A smuggled Harley Davidson big bike worth an estimated P1.5 million was ordered confiscated by Bureau of Customs (BOC) Commissioner Ruffy Biazon on Thursday after it was discovered to be misdeclared as personal effects in a Manila ... |
 | Sky News - A volcano eruption in eastern Indonesia has forced thousands of residents to flee the area to avoid choking smoke. Mount Gamalama on the island of Ternate has spewed smoke and ash for days, but increased activity has forced the hurried evacuation of ... |
 | Bernama - KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 8 (Bernama) -- Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP) today conferred Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov an Honorary Doctor of Philosophy in Petroleum Engineering and Technology. |
 | gulfnews.com - Manila: Moro and government peace negotiators moved closer to sealing a peace deal, with President Benigno Aquino himself suggesting that a possible breakthrough could be as close as a properly worded pact. |
World
 | Salt Lake Tribune - AP Moscow • Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, facing the possibility of nationwide protests against his rule, on Thursday accused US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of instigating demonstrators in the wake of the disputed ... |
 | Reuters - TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares and commodities fell on Friday, while the euro remained under pressure, on growing doubts that European leaders could forge a credible plan to solve the euro zone's debt crisis at a summit later in the day ... |
 | Wall Street Journal - A major Syrian oil pipeline was attacked, adding further stress to an economy buckling under sanctions and widespread fuel shortages, as talks continued to let Arab observers into the country to stem the violence that took 13 more lives ... |
 | BusinessWeek - Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Egypt's ruling military council came under renewed pressure to speed up the transition to civilian rule, after opposition groups said it hadn't relinquished enough authority in the wake of the uprising that ousted ... |
 | WQAD - American citizen Lerpong Wichaikhammat, aka Joe Gordon, gets a 30-month sentence for insulting Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej. |
 | Jerusalem Post - By REUTERS European leaders to call for additional measures against Iran at Brussels meeting, but unlikely to make an explicit call for oil embargo, despite urging of France, backed by Germany and Britain, diplomats say. |
 | Times of India - DUBAI/Islamabad: Speculation about Pakistan president Asif Ali Zardari's future continued to run rife on Thursday despite US assertion that "a silent military coup" against him was unlikely. |
 | Times LIVE - Fewer children are writing to Father Christmas these days if the number of letters ending up at the Post Office is anything to go by. |
 | AsiaOne - KOTA KINABALU, Malaysia - Conservationists are unsure over the next course of action to take against a bull that gored an Australian tourist at the Tabin Wildlife Reserve. |
 | China Daily - BEIJING - A top Chinese military official has asked his US counterpart to explain Washington's intention to expand its military presence in Australia during their annual defense talks, the US official said on ... |
 | Washington Post - GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Hamas health official says Israeli airstrike has killed 1 civilian in Gaza City. Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. |
 | Salt Lake Tribune - About 30 Occupy DC protesters disrupted a breakfast fundraiser for Sen. Orrin Hatch at a Washington restaurant Thursday morning. The demonstrators, one of them with a megaphone, marched into The Monocle on Capitol Hill and began chanting, “You're cuts ... |
 | MSU State News - I recently came across an article in The New York Times. I read that the Obama administration will be using foreign aid to as a tool to promote gay rights across the globe. |
 | The Moscow Times - By Alexandra Odynova Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov speaking at a press conference at NATO's headquarters in Brussels on Thursday. |
 | eWeek - A judge ruled in favor of Yahoo and awarded $610 million in damages in a lawsuit against spammers who promised victims lottery prizes in exchange for personal information. |
 | San Francisco Chronicle - Mark Duncan / AP Republicans in the US Senate on Thursday blocked the nomination of Richard Cordray as the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. |
 | New York Times - TAIPEI, Taiwan - A resident of mainland China was apparently so beguiled by this island's coming elections and the promise of democracy that he spent seven hours paddling through the sea in an effort to see them with his own eyes. |
 | NPR - Lawyer and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny, left, is taken to court in Moscow on Tuesday. Navalny was detained Monday along with 300 protesters who rallied against what they called vote rigging during Sunday's parliamentary ... |
 | Bloomberg - “This isn't about class warfare,” President Barack Obama said this week, in his speech at a high school in Osawatomie, Kansas. |
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