Southeast Asia
 | Manila Bulletin - By ATTY. ROMEO V. PEFIANCO (Editor's note: The sea of logs in northern Mindanao after 'Sendong' represents greed of humans, as noted by the author. |
 | Jakarta Globe - Mary, second right, poses for a photograph with her family at their new home in Meulaboh on Friday after their reunion. AP Photo Banda Aceh. |
 | China Daily - BANGKOK - Visiting Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping addressed a middle school in Bangkok Friday to reaffirm China's support for Thailand's post-flood rebuilding and recovery efforts. |
 | Malaysia Kini - YOURSAY 'The one-year sentence is too light. He should be sentence to at least 10 years and all his assets confiscated by the state. |
 | GMA News - Overseas Filipino workers in Ethiopia expect their ranks to grow rapidly in the next five to 10 years due to the construction boom there, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said. |
 | Malaysia Kini - YOURSAY 'What kind of raid was it when reporters were there waiting for the MACC officials to conduct the raid?' Swipenter: They have already found a willing 'scape cow' for the National Feedlot Corporation (NFC) scandal and this raid is likely just ... |
 | Bernama - KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 23 (Bernama) -- The rift between former Perak PAS commissioner Datuk Dr Hasan Mohamed Ali and several senior PAS leaders appears to be worsening over several issues including Hasan's allegation that PAS has deviated from its original ... |
 | AFP - SIDOARJO, Indonesia - A 10-year-old Iranian girl was reunited with her father on Friday, after the two were separated when their Australia-bound migrants' boat capsized in Indonesian waters. |
 | Philippine Star - COTABATO CITY, Philippines - Newly-installed Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao officer-in-charge Mujiv Hataman suspended all releases of payments for different transactions entered into by the preceding administration pending evaluation of the ... |
 | JURIST - JURIST Columnist Edsel Tupaz of Tupaz & Associates analyzes the Articles of Impeachment against Philippine Chief Justice Renato Corona, laying out the path the House of Representatives prosecution panel should follow in order to obtain a conviction and ... |
 | TruthDive - Phnom Penh (Cambodia), Dec 22 (ANI): Cambodia and Thailand have reached a deal to withdraw their troops from a disputed border area near the ancient temple of Preah Vihear. |
 | Malaysia Star - By RAHIMY RAHIM PUTRAJAYA: The contentious issue over the New Remuneration Scheme in the Public Service (SBPA) has been resolved after the Public Service Department agreed to extend the deadline to return the option forms to Jan 15. |
 | The Malaysian Insider - By Lisa J. Ariffin Saifuddin was asked to quit the government and Umno for failing to come down harshly on a student protester. - File pic KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 23 - Solidariti Mahasiswa Malaysia (SMM) today came to the defence of Deputy Higher Education ... |
 | Straits Times - Ms Carol Balhetchet, director of youth services for the Singapore Children's Society, told The Straits Times she has seen an increase in the number of cases of teachers having sex with their students. |
| Inquirer.net - By TJ Burgonio The End Impunity Alliance, a network of rights abuse victims and rights defenders, is taking the hunt for Jovito Palparan Jr. |
 | ISRIA (registration) - The Vietnamese Ambassador to France Duong Chi Dung on Dec. 22 presented his credentials to French President Nicolas Sarkozy. At the presentation ceremony, the French President expressed his delight at recent fine developments of the Viet Nam-France ... |
 | Straits Times - Family members of the Certis Cisco officer turned up at the Singapore General Hospital mortuary yesterday to arrange for his body to be taken back home to Penang. |
World
 | Brisbane Times - People gather around the entrance of a damaged building after a car bomb blew up at security sites in Damascus yesterday. Photo: Reuters Suicide bombers hit two security service bases in Damascus yesterday, killing more than 40 people, wounding more ... |
 | Bloomberg - North Korean state media began calling Kim Jong Un “Supreme Commander,” a title held by his late father. “We vow with bleeding tears to call Kim Jong Un our supreme commander, our leader,” the Rodong Shinmun, the newspaper of the North's Workers' Party ... |
 | Mirror.co.uk - by Dan Bourke, Daily Mirror 24/12/2011 WORLD leaders past and present, including David Cameron, John Major, Nicolas Sarkozy and Bill and Hillary Clinton joined Czechs to pay their last respects to former president Vaclav Havel at his funeral yesterday. |
 | Los Angeles Times - Readers object to The Times' stance opposing a proposed law in France to criminalize denial of the Armenian genocide. Should people have the right to deny historical fact? |
 | Washington Post - CAIRO - The plan was hatched among activists trying to counter the narrative disseminated by state television and Egypt's ruling generals that paints anti-military demonstrators here as thugs and dupes. |
 | Wall Street Journal (India) - By Almar Latour Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (Dow Jones)--The center of New Zealand's second-largest city of Christchurch was filled with shoppers on Christmas Eve, following strong earthquakes a day earlier and a succession of ... |
 | DAWN.com - IT would be a gross exaggeration to say that this day will make a turning point in Russia`s quest for democratic governance. But Dec 24 is certain to rank as an important milestone on that route. |
 | New York Times - BAQUBA, Iraq - The governor has fled this uneasy city. Half the members of the provincial council are camped out in northern Iraq, afraid to return to their offices. |
 | Khaleej Times - LONDON - Queen Elizabeth II will use her Christmas Day message, recorded before her husband Prince Philip was rushed to hospital and underwent heart surgery, to praise the institution of family. |
 | DAWN.com - Gen Abbas gave no indication of when Pakistan might lift its embargo on Nato supplies to troops in Afghanistan. - File Photo RAWALPINDI: The Pakistan Army on Friday rejected key findings from a US investigation into American air strikes last month that ... |
 | Chicago Tribune - Look, I believe in Santa Claus, but it's easy to understand Wall Street's wariness. Santa's trademark holiday magic may not be enough to wow investors, even as Claus & Co. |
 | CBC.ca - Cuba's supreme governing body on Friday pardoned nearly 3000 prisoners, including some convicted of political crimes. The Council of State agreed to release 2900 prisoners, among them inmates who are more than 60 years old or are ailing, ... |
| Jakarta Globe - Mary, second right, poses for a photograph with her family at their new home in Meulaboh on Friday after their reunion. AP Photo Banda Aceh. |
 | BBC News - Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has officially registered her National League for Democracy (NLD) party and visited parliament. |
 | GMA News - DOSQUEBRADAS - At least 11 people were killed and more than 80 others were injured Friday when an explosion ripped through a pipeline in western Colombia triggering a deadly inferno, relief agencies said. |
 | NPR - by AP BEIJING (AP) - Riot police in a southern Chinese coastal town fired tear gas Friday at protesters, including elderly men and women, on the fourth day of unrest over a planned power plant expansion, according to protesters' accounts and TV footage ... |
| China Daily - BANGKOK - Visiting Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping addressed a middle school in Bangkok Friday to reaffirm China's support for Thailand's post-flood rebuilding and recovery efforts. |
 | Zee News - Washington: A heartening political victory in his pocket, US President Barack Obama Saturday flew to Hawaii to join his family on the annual vacation, soon after putting his seal on the bill that extends by two months the pay roll tax break on millions ... |
 | CNN - By Ben Rooney @CNNMoneyMarkets December 23, 2011: 11:26 AM ET Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti looks on during a session at the Senate in Rome as lawmakers discussed a new austerity package. |
 | Sun.Star - By Rebelander S. Basilan RETIRED Cebu Archbishop Ricardo Cardinal Vidal will serve as the overall chairman for the archdiocese's activities in preparation for Blessed Pedro Calungsod's canonization, Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma announced yesterday. |
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