Southeast Asia
 | gulfnews.com - Manila: A majority of the House of Representatives has signed an impeachment complaint against Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona, an ally of former president Gloria Arroyo, now arch-rival of President ... |
 | Inquirer.net - Critics of the Catholic Church had a field day on Monday after one of the links on a religious website redirected readers to a pornographic site for transvestites. |
 | TODAYonline - The Thai Cabinet approved 20 billion baht (S$834 million) to help the country recover from its worst flooding in almost 70 years, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said yesterday. |
 | Los Angeles Times - After a decade of fighting desert wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Marines from Camp Pendleton are learning how to fight in a wholly different terrain: the jungles of Cambodia. |
 | Sydney Morning Herald - KUALA LUMPUR. Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's defence lawyers have urged Malaysia's High Court to acquit him on sodomy charges, claiming the man who accused him is a liar. |
 | Malaysia Star - KUCHING: It appears that the four SUPP bumiputra elected representatives plan to stick by Datuk Seri Wong Soon Koh. One of them, Dr Johnical Rayong Ngipa, who is Engkilili assemblyman, said that Wong's team was “still together” despite being ... |
 | Bernama - KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 12 (Bernama) -- The ongoing "warlord-godfather" spat between DAP chairman Karpal Singh and the party's deputy secretary-general Dr P. Ramasamy will be discussed at DAP's Central Executive Committee (CEC) meeting Tuesday. |
 | The Virginian-Pilot - AP By Jim Gomez A kidnapped American teenage boy from Virginia escaped from suspected al-Qaida-linked militants and wandered without shoes for two days in a southern Philippine jungle before villagers found him, ending his five-month captivity, ... |
 | Straits Times - Three men and one woman, accused by the American government of smuggling radio parts found in Iraqi bombs, denied any wrongdoing in a district court here on Monday, saying that they had believed it was an ordinary business transaction. |
 | Bernama - KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 12 (Bernama) -- Istana Negara was shrouded in gloom and sadness when almost 500 personnel shook hands and bade farewell to Their Majesties Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin and Tuanku Nur Zahirah today. |
 | CRIENGLISH.com - No clash has occurred on Mekong River during a four-country joint patrol operation, a Thai marine police officer said on Monday, denying an earlier report by the Thai media. |
 | Timaru Herald - The names of two women tourists who died last Friday near Franz Josef Glacier while trying to cross the Waiho River have been released. |
 | Jakarta Globe - The news about the young man who set himself on fire in front of the Presidential Palace last week shocked many of us who feel that there is something deeply wrong in this country. |
 | Inquirer.net - By Dona Z. Pazzibugan CHANGE OF COMMAND President Aquino (left) and newly installed Armed Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Jessie Dellosa salute the flag during Monday's turnover rites at Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City. |
 | Jakarta Post - Graft suspect Nunun Nurbaeti was transferred to Kramat Jati Police Hospital from MMC Hospital on Monday evening to receive further medical treatment. |
World
 | TVNZ - Britain should stay at the heart of Europe, industry executives said today, with some of them warning that Prime Minister David Cameron's decision to opt out of a common European Union fiscal policy may make life more difficult. |
 | CNN - (CNN) -- Mikhail Prokhorov, who has said he will challenge Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in next year's presidential election, has the reputation as a financial sage. |
 | CNN (blog) - (CNN) - On Monday at the White House, President Barack Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki were upbeat in discussing the future of Iraq. |
 | CNN - Police in Panama City pass next to a street vendor's stand decorated with pictures and articles of Manuel Noriega on Friday.. Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega arrived Sunday evening in his home country, nearly 22 years after US forces forcibly ... |
 | Christian Science Monitor - The killing of a Korean coast guard commando by a Chinese commercial fishing captain is just the latest in a series of clashes, and reinforces popular Korean belief that China is a threat. |
 | TODAYonline - LONDON - Unidentified gunmen attacked North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) oil tankers stranded in south-west Pakistan on Sunday, for the second time in four days. |
 | Reuters Africa - AMMAN Dec 12 (Reuters) - An explosion ripped through a gas pipeline near the town of Rastan in the central Syrian province of Homs and fire was seen rising from the site, a witness said on Monday, the second reported blast at an energy pipeline in Homs ... |
 | Wall Street Journal - KINSHASA, Congo—President Joseph Kabila on Monday defended this month's election that secured him a second five-year term, as sub-Saharan Africa's largest country braced for a clash between the government and opposition leaders who say ... |
 | ChristianityToday.com (blog) - The border between North and South Korea has a new source of light this holiday season: three Christmas trees. The steel trees -- adorned with lights and topped with crosses -- stand on South Korea's Aegibong Peak, less than two miles ... |
 | News24 - Nicolas Sarkozy was born an outsider. A child of immigrants who grew up outside the circles of the... Now R485.95 Paris - Former French prime minister Dominique de Villepin, who gained international renown as France's spokesman against the war in Iraq, ... |
 | Indian Express - Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today paid her respects to the victims of the AMRI hospital fire at a memorial set up by Kolkata Police and the West Bengal government. |
 | The Province (blog) - In November 1947, shortly after the United Nations voted for partition of the Holy Land into separate Arab and Jewish states, Chaim Weizmann was cited by the New York Times as saying that “the most important work now was to build Palestine. |
 | CNN - A grab taken from the Iranian state-run Press TV on December 8, 2011 shows what Iranian officials claim is the US RQ-170 Sentinel high-altitude reconnaissance drone. |
 | AppAdvice - For Christians, the significance of the Season is far deeper than gifts, trees and Santa. It is about celebrating the birth of Jesus. |
 | Sydney Morning Herald - KABUL: The Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, has blamed foreigners for the corruption of Afghan officials and demanded that the US extradite the former chief of the Afghan Central Bank in connection with the collapse of Kabul Bank, the country's largest ... |
 | Independent Online - Libyans protest against the National Transitional Council and its head Mustafa Abdel Jalil, calling for them to be more transparent, in the city centre of Benghazi. |
 | Irish Examiner - Taoiseach Enda Kenny has invited the leaders of the opposition to government buildings tomorrow for a special briefing on the outcome of the European Summit in Brussels last Friday. |
 | News24 - Cairo - Islamists are dominating Egypt's elections and some of them have a new message for tourists: welcome, but no booze, bikinis or mixed bathing at beaches, please. |
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