Southeast Asia
 | Reuters UK - Philippine President Benigno Aquino speaks in a joint news statement at the Malacanang Palace in Manila November 21, 2011. By Manny Mogato MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Benigno Aquino has locked horns with what he calls an obstructionist ... |
 | New Zealand Herald - An office tower being built by Vietnam's state power company caught fire Thursday, engulfing part of downtown Hanoi in black smoke. |
 | Globe and Mail - The Doha round of global free trade talks is dead, but Canada and dozens of countries are forging ahead with a deal to open up government purchases, worth as much $100-billion a year. |
 | New Straits Times - By HARIZ MOHD THE Malacca Zoo is carrying out an investigation to ascertain how a male gibbon managed to escape from its “island” and roam into the public visitors' area on Tuesday. |
 | Free Malaysia Today - Even if incarcerated, Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim says it will not stop him from fighting for justice against Umno. KUALA LUMPUR: Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim has vowed to continue fighting for justice even if he is put behind bars. |
 | gulfnews.com - AP Bangkok: A political activist was sentenced to 15 years in prison yesterday for insulting Thailand's monarchy, a verdict likely to increase attention on the country's strict 'lese majeste' law. |
 | Inquirer.net - By Cathy C. Yamsuan, Christine O. Avendaño Senator Joker Arroyo lashed out at Malacañang for vetoing the debt cap provision that the Senate included in the 2012 budget, saying the country is on its way to joining distressed European economies burdened ... |
 | Malaysia Star - PUTRAJAYA: The Public Service Department (PSD) and Cuepacs differ over the Public Service New Remuneration Scheme (SBPA) affecting 1.4 million civil servants. |
 | GMA News - At least 15 areas in Visayas and Mindanao were placed under Storm Signal No. 2 early Friday as tropical storm "Sendong" (Washi) slowed down slightly and continued to threaten Northeastern Mindanao and Eastern Visayas. |
 | Inquirer.net - Only three out of 10 Filipinos believe this Christmas season will be more prosperous than last year but nearly nine in 10 are upbeat about the new year, according to a recent Pulse Asia survey. |
 | GMA News - The traditional Simbang Gabi or Dawn Masses started on a festive note early Friday, with Filipinos showing up at churches to start a nationwide, nine-day countdown to Christmas Day. |
 | Philippine Star - WASHINGTON - President Aquino will make an official visit to Washington in the spring of 2012 and press for a stronger maritime security alliance with the United States, Philippine Ambassador Jose Cuisia said. |
 | Journal Online - TWO persons were killed while two others were wounded in an explosion that greeted the 17th founding anniversary of Datu Odin Sinsuat, attended by Maguindanao Gov. |
 | Bangkok Post - Cabinet reshuffles are a normal phenomenon in Thai politics. Because the nature or the means to power is based on the number of seats in Parliament, which in turn is derived from factional and patronage politics, few cabinet seats in any government are ... |
 | Channel News Asia - SINGAPORE: Train services on the northbound North-South MRT Line - between Marina Bay and Bishan stations - resumed at 11.40pm on Thursday. |
 | AFP - JAKARTA - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has ordered an investigation into a beheading incident on Sumatra island after a disturbing video was shown in parliament, his spokesman said on Thursday. |
 | Inquirer.net - By DJ Yap The Philippine National Police (PNP) Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) on Wednesday arrested one more suspect in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre in which at least 57 persons were brutally murdered. |
World
 | Chicago Sun-Times - The Iraq war came to a formal end Thursday, with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta crediting US troops for “the remarkable progress” achieved there. |
 | CBS News - Russia holds its presidential election in March, and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is expected to win. If he serves another term, he will have run Russia for 18 years. |
 | Pretoria News (subscription) - By Bikas Das AP An Indian woman is comforted as she grieves after hearing that a relative died from toxic alcohol, outside the hospital in Diamond Harbour, near Calcutta. |
 | ABS CBN News - PARIS - A judge found former French president Jacques Chirac guilty on Thursday of misusing public funds, making him the country's first head of state to be convicted since Nazi collaborator Marshal Philippe Petain in 1945. |
 | Reuters - Italy's Prime Minister Mario Monti gestures during a news conference at Chigi Palace in Rome December 15, 2011. By Gavin Jones ROME (Reuters) - Italy's government faces a confidence vote in parliament on Friday, a move to speed up approval of a ... |
 | Wall Street Journal - By Nicholas Winning Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES LONDON (Dow Jones)--UK Prime Minister David Cameron will talk to more European leaders in coming days to support efforts to tackle the euro-zone crisis even though he vetoed a new European Union treaty last ... |
 | Voice of America - Thursday, 15 December 2011 China's Ambassador to Burma Meets Aung San Suu Kyi Stephanie Ho | Beijing A Chinese official has held a rare meeting with Burmese opposition leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. |
 | Vancouver Sun - By Lee Berthiaume, Postmedia News December 15, 2011 3:31 PM Urging Canadians to flee the volatility in Syria now before it's too late, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird on Thursday announced that Canada is launching a "voluntary evacuation" to help ... |
 | Sky News Australia - The political stalemate in Papua New Guinea continues for a fifth day with the police out in full force in the capital. Heavily armed police continue to guard state institutions, while random roadblocks have been set up throughout Port Moresby. |
 | Middle East North Africa Financial Network - SEOUL, Dec 15, 2011 (UPI via COMTEX) -- The US ambassador to South Korea said Thursday there is nothing his country could have done differently to make North Korea give up its nuclear program. |
 | New York Times (blog) - By J. DAVID GOODMAN Revolutionary Guards, via Agence France-Presse - Getty ImagesA photo released by the official Web site of Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Dec. 8 shows Brig. |
 | New York Times - Thomas L. Friedman (“Newt, Mitt, Bibi and Vladimir,” column, Dec. 14) is entitled to his opinion about the pro-Israel statements of Republican presidential candidates. |
 | The Japan Times - By ERIC JOHNSTON OSAKA - The political games being played in Washington and Tokyo regarding whether the US will fund the transfer of Okinawa-based US Marines to Guam are of no consequence, experts say, because the 2006 plan to relocate the Futenma ... |
 | Journal Online - SENATOR Loren Legarda welcomed the historic victory of Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago having been elected as a judge in the International Criminal Court during the 10th session of the Assembly of States Parties in New York. |
 | gulfnews.com - AP Cairo: Islamists and liberals made accusations of abuses during the second round of Egypt's first post-Hosni Mubarak parliamentary elections as voters cast ballots yesterday in mostly rural parts of the country. |
 | Globe and Mail (blog) - The Harper government joined 22 other countries Thursday at the World Trade Organization in signing what it called a “strongly worded pledge” to “fight all forms of protectionism in the strongest terms. |
 | BBC News - The biggest strategic risk facing the UK is economic not military, the head of the British armed forces has said. General Sir David Richards said the UK's main effort must be the economy, as "no country can defend itself if bankrupt". |
 | Tucson Citizen - by USA Today Feed on Dec. 15, 2011, under USA Today News The end-of-the-year holidays are approaching, and so is anxiety about holiday-timed terrorist attacks. |
 | Inquirer.net - TOKYO—Hawaiian-born former sumo wrestler Konishiki admitted Thursday to a physical confrontation with a neighbor in a dispute over dog poo. |
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