Southeast Asia
 | Bangkok Post - The idea of extending a stay to ousted ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra at the old ''Hilton'' _ the converted private police school in Bang Khen _ does not appear to sit well with the Pheu Thai Party's ranks. |
 | Bangkok Post - Six homemade bombs were found at three spots in eastern Bangkok early yesterday. Police have arrested a suspect who claims he laid them for political reasons. |
 | China Daily - The Mekong River, which originates from the Tanggula Mountain Range on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in China and runs 4880 kilometers southward through six countries, namely, China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Viet Nam, is an important ... |
 | gulfnews.com - By Gilbert P. Felongco, Correspondent Image Credit: AP Former president Gloria Arroyo is wheeled into a suite at the Veterans Memorial Medical Centre in Manila where she is confined pending a vote fraud trial. |
 | Channel News Asia - By Seet Sok Hwee | Posted: 16 December 2011 2302 hrs SINGAPORE : The deputy chairman of the Government Parliamentary Committee for Transport, Seng Han Thong, has said that SMRT needs to improve its technical operations as well as its public ... |
 | Bangkok Post - The Siam Samakkhi group has called on officials from the United Nations and the US government who made comments on the lese majeste laws to apologise for interfering in Thailand's internal affairs and for being disrespectful to the judicial system. |
 | Philippine Star - By Alexis Romero (The Philippine Star) Updated December 17, 2011 12:00 AM 0 MANILA, Philippines - Five soldiers were killed and two others were wounded yesterday in an attack staged by communist rebels on the first day of the unilateral truce declared ... |
 | ABS CBN News - MANILA, Philippines - Tropical storm “Sendong” continues its westward movement and was spotted 50 kilometers west-northwest of Malaybalay, Bukidnon as of 10 pm Friday, the state weather bureau PAGASA said. |
 | International Business Times - By Palash R. Ghosh: Subscribe to Palash's RSS feed The government of Indonesia said that will investigate allegations of the mass murder of farmers by local policemen in a land dispute in Lampung in the Mesuji district of Sumatra. |
 | Patch.com - By Rose Sartaguda December 16 is a highly anticipated day in our family, as well as in other Filipino homes. The Philippines actually starts getting into the Christmas spirit as early as the first day of September, but December 16 officially ushers in ... |
 | Philippine Star - MANILA, Philippines - The political noise created by the impeachment of Chief Justice Renato Corona is unlikely to turn off investors or stall economic growth this year and in 2012, Malacañang said yesterday. |
 | Malaysia Kini - Former PKR leader Lim Boo Chang's bid to rejoin Gerakan may hit a snag, if the response of the party's top leadership' to his intention to return is anything to go by. |
 | Jakarta Post - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono appointed in early October Lt. Gen. (ret.) Bambang Dharmono, former Aceh military commander and negotiator representing Indonesia for the Aceh Monitoring Mission (AMM), to lead the Presidential Unit for the ... |
 | Mongabay.com - Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) continues to mislead the public about its role in destroying rainforests and critical tiger habitat across the Indonesian island of Sumatra, alleges a new report from Eyes on the Forest, a coalition of Indonesian environmental ... |
 | DAWN.com - The Philippines-based IRRI said it had found that pesticides and the lack of ecological “diversity” in rice farms had reduced the predatory bugs and spiders that prey on planthoppers, a major rice pest in Asia. |
World
 | ABC News - Paul R. Almanza, the presiding officer at Friday's pretrial hearing for accused leaker Bradley Manning, won a Justice Department award last year for his work in developing and advocating the department's position on hate crimes legislation. |
 | New York Times - By RACHEL DONADIO ROME - With its elegant marble floors, ornately carved wooden ceiling and flattering lighting, the central meeting point of Italy's Lower House is arguably one of the most beautiful political arenas in the world. |
 | Financial Express - After almost nine years, more than $1tn and 4487 American and 179 British lives lost, the US is withdrawing from Iraq, leaving the country's economic spoils to nations that neither supported nor participated in the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam ... |
 | MiamiHerald.com - Xue Jiandi is the son of Xue Jinbo, an advocate in Wukan who died in police custody. By Tom Lasseter WUKAN, China - Lin Zulian and Yang Semao are wanted men. |
 | BusinessWeek - By Ye Xie Dec. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Chinese stocks trading in the US rose from a two-month low, led by gains in Huaneng Power International Inc. and China Eastern Airlines Ltd. |
 | Financial Times - By Andrey Kolesnikov Vladimir Putin, the man named by Forbes magazine as the second most influential person in the world, has attracted quite a stream of criticism lately. |
 | The Guardian - Venezuelan-born Ilich Ramírez Sánchez - alias Carlos the Jackal - has received a second life sentence by a French court, which found him guilty of organising terrorist attacks in France. |
 | Hindustan Times - A well-organised and mutually beneficial nexus among owners of illegal breweries, politicians and the local administration, along with a demand for affordable liquor make for a lethal concoction that can kill hundreds of drinkers in one go. |
 | CNN - By Tom Cohen, CNN President Obama says Congress should stay in session until both the spending bill and the payroll tax cut measure have passed. |
 | Los Angeles Times - REPORTING FROM BEIRUT -- Syrian security forces fired on anti-government protesters who took to the streets in large numbers after Friday prayers, opposition activists said, defying a nine-month crackdown against dissent. |
 | Bangkok Post - The idea of extending a stay to ousted ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra at the old ''Hilton'' _ the converted private police school in Bang Khen _ does not appear to sit well with the Pheu Thai Party's ranks. |
 | SunHerald.com - AP TEHRAN, Iran -- A senior military official says Iran will hunt down other US drones if American spy planes continue to violate Iranian airspace. |
 | Reuters - By Steve Gutterman MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's offer of a new UN Security Council resolution on the violence in Syria is a pragmatic step by a country increasingly isolated in its support for a widely discredited leader. |
 | TIME - By AP / MARK SCOLFORO and MARYCLAIRE DALE Friday, Dec. 16, 2011 This undated photo provided by the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General shows Gary Schultz. |
 | The Guardian - Nick Clegg has accused Eurosceptics of stoking xenophobia and chauvinism by indulging in "the politics of grievance", on the day that a diplomatic war of words between Britain and France intensified. |
 | China Daily - By Zhang Haizhou (chinadaily.com.cn) GENEVA - Russia finally joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Friday, after 18 years of effort. |
 | Fiji Times - A FIJIAN national living in Papua New Guinea has given a first-hand account of the situation in the country. In a personal correspondence with The Fiji Times, the Fiji national who wished to remain anonymous said there was a lot of confusion in the ... |
 | Voice of America (blog) - Russian authorities say they have seized radioactive material at a Moscow airport from the luggage of a passenger traveling to Iran. |
 | Times of India - CAIRO: Soldiers stormed an anti-military protest camp outside Egypt's Cabinet building Friday, beating women with sticks and hurling chunks of concrete and glass onto protesters from the roof of the parliament in a resurgence of turmoil only a day ... |
| Bangkok Post - The Siam Samakkhi group has called on officials from the United Nations and the US government who made comments on the lese majeste laws to apologise for interfering in Thailand's internal affairs and for being disrespectful to the judicial system. |
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