Southeast Asia
TVNZ - The head of the government disaster monitoring council in the Philippines has announced that the death toll from a severe storm that hit the southern Philippines has risen to 927 as bodies have begun to surface in the sea. |
Sydney Morning Herald - Doing so would help dissuade asylum seekers from making the dangerous boat journey to Australia, opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison said. |
Malaysia Star - By LIM WEY WEN PUTRAJAYA: All voters, except postal voters, will be required to have their fingers marked with indelible ink when voting in the next general election. |
Philippine Headline News - Emperor Nero fiddled while Rome burned, but that is not what Malacañang's denial is all about. The presidential spokesmen are denying that President Aquino partied with starlets while the country was mourning hundreds who were killed by Typhoon Sendong ... |
Inquirer.net - By Jun Malig, Tonette Orejas CLARK FREEPORT—Retired Major General Jovito Palparan Jr. was barred from boarding a plane bound for Singapore on Monday by immigration personnel who said he was on the bureau's watch list. |
Bangkok Post - The Criminal Court for the second time yesterday denied bail to red shirt leader Arisman Pongruangrong, held on charges of terrorism and incitement to violence in connection with last year's Bangkok protests. |
Advocate.com - By Michelle Garcia A Malaysian man who was initially thought to be missing was found after marrying his partner in Ireland, leaving his family with hopes that he will return home, despite strict antigay sentiment and policy. |
ABS CBN News - MANILA, Philippines - Filipinos and Malaysians have already raised an initial amount of RM3,142.00 ($1000) for the Philippine National Red Cross to help victims of Tropical Storm “Sendong. |
LA Weekly (blog) - By Dennis Romero Mon., Dec. 19 2011 at 11:28 AM AP Demonstrators were gathering outside the Indonesian Consulate in LA today to decry authorities treatment of punk rockers in the island nation last week. |
The Sun Daily - GEORGE TOWN (Dec 19, 2011): Only the National Land Council has the authority to decide if leasehold titles can be converted to freehold for low-cost unit owners, say Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng. |
Calcutta Telegraph - The struggle to introduce labour standards in paid domestic work was inaugurated by the International Labour Organisation in 1965. |
Inquirer.net - Conrado de Quiros' Dec. 5 column, titled “Resign,” is his strongest criticism yet against the Supreme Court, often called disparagingly the “Arroyo Court. |
World
Economic Times - North Korea's late leader was a strange mix of unsual likes and dislikes. Airlifted lobster, double rainbows, fear of fl ying , Godzillas and some others... Here's 12 of them 1. According to his offi cial biographers, his birth in 1941 in Baekdu ... |
Toronto Star - PRAGUE—Long before Czechoslovakia's Communist regime collapsed in 1989, Václav Havel was one of the most remarkable figures in Czech history - already a successful playwright when he became the unofficial leader of the opposition movement. |
The Daily Star - On the one hand, Syria's foreign minister, Walid al-Moallem, announced his government had finally accepted the Arab League protocol for sending observers to monitor what is taking place in the country. |
The Daily Star - CAIRO: Egyptian security forces fought opponents of army rule in Cairo for a fourth day Monday and the United States, worried by the violence, urged the generals to respect human rights. |
Stuff.co.nz - KILLER RIG: A 2010 file photo of the "Kolskaya" oil drilling rig in the Kola Bay near Russia's northern seaport of Murmansk. |
Financial Times - By Dan Morse of the Washington Post Iraq's Shia-dominated government issued an arrest warrant for its Sunni vice-president on Monday, plunging the country into its deepest political crisis in years only one day after US troops departed. |
Bloomberg - Seven months after the competing Palestinian factions signed a reconciliation pact, some Arab commentators say they may finally enact it. |
Sydney Morning Herald - Doing so would help dissuade asylum seekers from making the dangerous boat journey to Australia, opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison said. |
Addis Fortune - Geneva, home to a large contingent of United Nations agencies and a multitude of international organisations, such as the World Trade Organisation (WTO), was freezing cold last week. |
RTT News - (RTTNews) - Incoming Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Monday unveiled plans for overhauling the country's stricken economy by implementing rapid economic reforms aimed at reducing the budget deficit and creating jobs. |
Ninemsn - Investigators say they found contact information for Julian Assange on a computer hard drive belonging to US soldier Bradley Manning, who is accused of spilling secrets to Assange's WikiLeaks organisation. |
ABS CBN News (blog) - By Inday Espina Varona It started with a Twitter message that fanned a social media debate about the merits of partying while 20000 families scrambled to find missing kin, food, water and shelter. |
Xinhua - BEIJING, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- The Communist Party of China (CPC) wants to give new energy to exchanges with the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) and promote political trust and mutually beneficial cooperation, a senior CPC official said here Monday. |
Deutsche Welle - Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych faced fierce criticism at a summit with the EU. Democratic shortcomings could mean a pending association agreement will not be signed for years to come. |
Reuters India - The North Korean leader was revered at home by a propaganda machine that turned him into a demi-god and vilified in the West as a tyrant. |
Daily Mail - By John R Bradley Stripped above the waist - save for her bright blue bra - the protester lies in a street just off Cairo's Tahrir Square, seconds before a soldier stamps on her naked torso. |
AFP - WASHINGTON - Massive earthquakes are no more likely today than they were a century ago, despite an apparent rise of the devastating temblors in recent years, US researchers said on Monday. |
The Nation - The opposition Democrat Party yesterday accused former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's legal adviser of trying to distort facts related to the ex-PM's passport controversy. |
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