Southeast Asia
 | Manila Bulletin - By JENNY F. MANONGDO MANILA, Philippines - The World Health Organization (WHO) urged recently the international community to respond to the call of the United Nations (UN) to raise $28.6 million for the emergency relief of families adversely affected ... |
 | Malaysia Star - By YUEN MEIKENG KUALA LUMPUR: The PAS leadership split has taken a new twist with Datuk Dr Hasan Ali accusing party secretary-general Datuk Mustafa Ali of meeting Umno leaders. |
 | Malaysia Star - By HAN KAR KAY GEORGE TOWN: The spat between DAP chairman Karpal Singh and Dr P. Ramasamy has reignited with the veteran leader demanding that the Penang Deputy Chief Minister II resign from his post for making allegations against party leaders. |
 | BBC News - An Indonesian girl swept away in the 2004 tsunami has been reunited with her parents seven years on, the family say. Meri Yulanda, also known as Wati, turned up at a cafe in Meulaboh, Aceh, earlier this week, looking for her parents. |
 | Inquirer.net - President Benigno Aquino III ends the first 18 months of his administration marked by the most turbulent transition from one regime to another since the 1986 Edsa People Power Revolution. |
 | AsiaOne - Law and Foreign Affairs Minister K Shanmugam has come out in defense of Member of Parliament Seng Han Thong, saying that he 'is not a racist. |
 | BusinessWorld Online Edition - A retired American Marine living in the Philippines was killed during a home invasion on Christmas Eve, police said yesterday. James Thomas Kakara, 61, was bludgeoned to death Saturday while he was alone at his home in Tagaytay City, ... |
 | Xinhua - BANGKOK, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping's just-concluded official visits to Vietnam and Thailand proved to be a major diplomatic move meant to strengthen China's relations with countries in the neighboring region, ... |
 | Manila Bulletin - By ELLSON A. QUISMORIO MANILA, Philippines - Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) may soon be redeployed to Nigeria after the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) recommended the lifting of the deployment ban to that country effective January 1. |
 | Malaysia Kini - YOURSAY 'The one-year sentence is too light. He should be sentenced to at least 10 years and all his assets confiscated by the state. |
 | The Malaysian Insider - By Shazwan Mustafa Kamal KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 25 - The National Feedlot Corporation (NFC) scandal has proven to be a hit among rural voters, according to PKR leaders who plan to use the issue as campaign fodder for the general elections. |
 | Sydney Morning Herald - Some tourists "think that what happens in Australia happens here" ... tourists pass a bar in Soi Bangla, a bar district in Patong on the Thai island of Phuket. |
 | Xinhua - BANGKOK, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) -- High waves hit hundreds of houses, shops and restaurants in Thailand's southern provinces on Sunday, forcing at least 1000 people to flee their homes and leaving several dozen tourists stranded on an island. |
 | Bernama - KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 24 (Bernama) -- Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has called on Malaysians to spend this Christmas to understand fellow Malaysians better, and appreciate them for the diversity and strength they have contributed to the country ... |
 | UPI.com - EAST JAVA, Indonesia, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Indonesian police said they have detained eight people, including four soldiers, in the sinking of a boat in which as many as 200 people may have died. |
World
 | Reuters Canada - By Kiyoshi Takenaka BEIJING (Reuters) - Japan and China agreed to start formal talks early next year on a free trade pact that would also include South Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said on Sunday after talks that showed the deepening ... |
 | Hamilton Spectator - BENIN CITY, NIGERIA A series of apparently co-ordinated bombings struck three churches during Christmas services across Nigeria Sunday, killing more than a dozen people and solidifying a recent escalation in violence by a radical Muslim sect. |
 | National Post (blog) - Pope Benedict XVI delivers the Urbi et Orbi (to the city and the world) Christmas Day message from the central balcony of Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican December 25, 2011. |
 | Pakistan Daily Times - KHARTOUM: Sudan's army killed a key rebel leader from the Darfur region Sunday, state media reported, three days after anti-government forces said they had begun advancing on the capital. |
 | Pakistan Daily Times - LONDON: Queen Elizabeth's 90-year-old husband spent Christmas Day in a hospital bed after successful surgery to clear a blocked heart artery, missing the royal family's celebrations at its rural Sandringham estate in eastern England. |
 | CNN (blog) - On the eve of the planned arrival of Arab League observers, 10 people died and scores were injured in volatile Syria on Sunday, according to the opposition movement. |
 | TODAYonline - MOSCOW - Tens of thousands of Russians jammed a Moscow avenue on Saturday to demand free elections and an end to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's 12-year rule, in the largest show of public outrage since the protests 20 years ago that brought down the ... |
 | Pakistan Daily Times - By Asad Farooq KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan, on Sunday, pledged to make Pakistan an Islamic welfare state if his party... Sardar Assef Ahmad Ali joins PTI KARACHI: Former foreign minister Sardar Assef Ahmad has announced his ... |
 | NSBNEWS.net - By PETER MALLORY NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Like a lot of children, Christmas was a magical fun time for me. I “bought into” all of the fun things that the grownups did to make me believe in Santa Claus. |
 | TODAYonline - DENVER - Santa Claus set records on Christmas Eve as he raced across the globe on his traditional holiday mission. Santa tracking volunteers at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado said on Saturday they fielded about 102000 telephone queries beginning ... |
 | ABC News - By OLIVIA KATRANDJIAN Leftist Turkish students stage a protest outside the French Embassy in Ankara, Turkey on Dec. 24, 2011. (Burhan Ozbilici/AP Photo) Ties between France and Turkey are unraveling after the French National Assembly passed a bill ... |
 | Sydney Morning Herald - ANTI-WHALING activist group Sea Shepherd says it has intercepted a Japanese whaling fleet using a military-style drone. A Sea Shepherd Conservation Society spokesman reported they caught up with the fleet at 37 degrees south, 1600 kilometres from ... |
 | Huffington Post - By SLOBODAN LEKIC 12/25/11 09:29 AM ET AP KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber blew himself up Sunday just after a funeral in northern Afghanistan, killing 19 people, including a member of the national parliament, the Interior Ministry said. |
 | The Australian - AT least 38 Haitian migrants died after a boat in which they were trying to flee their country began taking in water and got stranded at sea, the Cuban government said. |
| BBC News - An Indonesian girl swept away in the 2004 tsunami has been reunited with her parents seven years on, the family say. Meri Yulanda, also known as Wati, turned up at a cafe in Meulaboh, Aceh, earlier this week, looking for her parents. |
 | Press TV - An Iranian lawmaker says the country's ongoing naval drill in the Strait of Hormuz is meant to “ensure global energy security,” which is intertwined with Iran's energy security, Press TV reports. |
 | Jewish Telegraphic Agency - (JTA) -- Cuba said it will release nearly 3000 prisoners on humanitarian grounds, but did not include Jewish-American Alan Gross on the list. |
 | Party for Socialism and Liberation - By Sunil Freeman The Pakistani city of Lahore saw one of its largest demonstrations ever Dec. 18 as tens of thousands of people protested against the US-led NATO airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers on Nov. 26. |
 | San Francisco Chronicle - Carolyn Kaster / AP A crowd gathers to greet President Obama after he arrives at Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu on Friday. For President Obama, simply going on vacation these days seems to demand the theatrics of a Houdini-like escape from the ... |
 | Sydney Morning Herald - 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. |
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