Southeast Asia
 | New Straits Times - EMBATTLED former Pas Selangor commissioner Datuk Dr Hasan Ali should just keep quiet and not drag the party into further controversies as its leaders are aware of what he has been doing. |
 | Herald Sun - Aerial view of Aceh province On January 19, 2005 following Boxing Day tsunami. Picture: AFP Source: AFP AN eight-year-old girl who was swept away in the Indian Ocean tsunami has been found alive - almost seven years since the giant wave hit her ... |
 | Malaysia Star - By RAHIMY RAHIM PETALING JAYA: The civil servants' union body Cuepacs and Public Service Department will meet today to discuss the controversial new remuneration system and decide if the implementation of the scheme should be postponed. |
 | Straits Times - By Elena Chong Another cheating case involving a civil servant has been uncovered, this time involving a clerical officer from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). |
 | Bangkok Post - China and Thailand yesterday signed two historic deals plus four other agreements, including an US$11 billion currency swap agreement and a high-speed train project. |
 | gulfnews.com - With the death toll in the Philippines floods crossing the 1000 mark and the spectre of epidemics of disease reaching critical proportions, it is time people spared a thought for the survivors, especially those who have been rendered homeless. |
 | Sky News Australia - Video for this article is not available as your browser either does not support JavaScript and/or Flash Player 9+ or they are currently disabled in your browser settings. |
 | Inquirer.net - The government on Thursday offered to fly 5000 Filipinos out of Syria home for free as it again urged them to leave immediately to escape escalating violence, the foreign department said. |
 | Inquirer.net - By Marlon Ramos The wife of impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona on Thursday skipped the start of preliminary investigation of the graft case filed against her by a former employee of the John Hay Management Corp. |
 | Straits Times - The body of the dead man being carried out of a men's toilet at VivoCity shopping mall yesterday evening. A gunshot was heard earlier in the mall. |
 | Tempo - By MARVYN N. BENANING Manila, Philippines - The mothers of abducted University of the Philippines (UP) students Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeno want retired Major General Jovito S. Palparan to produce their daughters now. |
 | Malaysia Kini - YOURSAY 'Eventually, it will not be the corrupt who will be charged, but those who supplied the cows or related items.' Rubystar_4037: The National Feedlot Corporation (NFC) is now a hot potato - its investigation being passed from the MACC (Malaysian ... |
 | Philippine Star - Newly appointed ARMM OIC Gov. Mujiv Hataman (right) receives the region's official banner from Haron Al-Rashid Lucman, the region's outgoing local government secretary, in simple rites in Cotabato City yesterday. |
 | MMA Nation - By Shaun Al-Shatti - Writer Weeks after a nationwide manhunt began, former TUF 8 cast member Junie Browning has turned himself into Thai police. |
 | BusinessWorld Online Edition - THE CAMP of Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (2nd district) has again asked the Pasay Regional Trial Court to reconsider its denial of the former president's request to use a laptop and cellphone while under detention, her counsel said yesterday, ... |
 | Sin Chew Jit Poh - KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 22 (Bernama) -- Deputy Higher Education Minister Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah will defend the rights of students although they had urged him to step down through a memorandum sent to him, yesterday. |
 | gulfnews.com - By Gilbert P. Felongco, Correspondent Residents fill up containers with tap water for home use. Cagayan de Oro city may have to wait a month for normal water supply to resume. |
World
 | Globe and Mail - As Kim Jong-un consolidates his power in North Korea by presiding over the extended national mourning for his father, attention turns to his closest living relatives. |
 | Irish Times - A US military investigation into the deaths of 24 Pakistani soldiers in repeated air strikes by American warplanes on two border outposts last month has found that both sides were to blame after a chain of misunderstandings led to a “tragic result”. |
 | Irish Times - FOURTEEN WELL co-ordinated bomb attacks have hit Baghdad, killing at least 72 people and wounding nearly 200. The strikes, which coincided with a government crisis, were mounted yesterday in 11 locations using car bombs, roadside blasts, ... |
 | Irish Times - PARIS - France took the first step yesterday to criminalising the denial of genocide, including the 1915 mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks, prompting Ankara to recall its ambassador for consultations. |
 | New York Times (blog) - By ROBERT MACKEY A video report compiled by Egypt's Mosireen film collective documents the beating and killing of protesters by Egyptian soldiers in the past week. |
 | Irish Times - PRESIDENT DMITRY Medvedev has warned foreign powers and “provocateurs and extremists” not to meddle in Russia's affairs ahead of another major anti-government rally. |
 | Montreal Gazette - By Dominic Evans, Reuters December 22, 2011 7:22 PM Demonstrators protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus Monday. |
 | CNN - By Jeanne Sahadi @CNNMoney December 22, 2011: 7:14 PM ET House Speaker John Boehner said he will push for final approval of a two-month payroll tax cut extension before Christmas. |
 | Irish Times - ITALY'S SENATE passed a vote of confidence in the government of Italian prime minister Mario Monti yesterday that put the final seal on an emergency austerity budget rushed through to restore market confidence in the euro zone's third biggest economy. |
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 | Irish Times - BEIJING - Police fired tear gas to break up demonstrations yesterday against a proposed power plant in a southern China town, where protests have escalated into clashes with police this week and officials tried to calm tempers by suspending the project ... |
 | The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - By Jennifer Brown/The Star-Ledger A poster of late Czech president Vaclav Havel seen among lit candles in front of the statue of St. Venceslas on the Venceslav Square in downtown Prague on 22 December 2011. |
 | AFP - TEHRAN - Iran will launch 10 days of naval drills from Saturday around the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial oil shipping route, media said, after a rumour earlier this month that it planned to close the waterway. |
 | gulfnews.com - Madrid: Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy named a former Lehman Brothers Holdings banker and a budget professor as his finance chiefs, tasking them with overhauling an economy that risks being engulfed by the debt crisis. |
 | Houston Chronicle - A wave of bombings ripped across Baghdad on Thursday morning, December 22, 2011, killing and wounding hundreds of people, Iraqi officials said, in the worst violence Iraq has seen for months. |
 | India Education Diary - Chennai: Hippocampus Children's Library conducted a fun filled activity on Neelankarai beach today. The event 'Be a turtle buddy' was aimed at creating awareness on conserving Olive Ridley sea turtles in association with Environmentalist Foundation of ... |
 | Irish Times - KIEV - Former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko and her lawyers will boycott appeal court hearings looking into her conviction on charges of abuse of office, they said yesterday, calling the trial a farce. |
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