Southeast Asia
 | Bangkok Post - The Appeals Court has freed red shirt leader Arisman Pongruangrong after he provided 6 million baht in cash to back his bail release. |
 | Bangkok Post - This has indeed been a historical year for women's role in politics. The unthinkable became reality when 44-year-old Yingluck Shinawatra sailed through the general election to become the country's first female prime minister, and the youngest in modern ... |
 | Inquirer.net - By Norman Bordadora President Benigno Aquino III said he will look for signs of remorse in former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo should he have to decide whether or not to pardon her if she is convicted of the charges against her. |
 | The Press Association - A young woman who was caught drink-driving on Boxing Day had passed her driving test just two days before on Christmas Eve, police said. |
 | Malaysia Star - By REGINA LEE and TERENCE TOH KUALA LUMPUR: DAP chairman Karpal Singh has left it to the party's disciplinary committee to decide on action to be taken over the recent war of words between him and Penang Deputy Chief Minister II Dr P. Ramasamy. |
 | TODAYonline - In strong rebuttal, it claimed Yahoo! published content with goal of increasing page views and not public interest SINGAPORE - Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) has shot down some of the claims made by Yahoo! |
 | Malaysia Star - GEORGE TOWN: A restaurant helper has been jailed 18 years and ordered to be given 10 strokes of the rotan by the High Court for having nearly 2kg of cannabis. |
 | Inquirer.net - By Christine Avendaño, Marlon Ramos President Benigno Aquino III assured the nation that the next Chief Justice will be the “best” for the country and will be “no lapdog. |
 | Gulf Today - By Manolo B.Jara MANILA: The government has offered a bounty of more than $10000 for any information that could lead to the capture of a retired Philippine military general known as “the butcher” who continued to elude arrest following the filing in ... |
 | Otago Daily Times - A 30-year-old man who was found dead in his hotel room in Thailand is understood to have been a Brazilian who held a New Zealand driver's licence. |
 | Straits Times - Dr Khor explaining the Primary Care Partnership Scheme to housewife Rohana Abdul (left), 46, during a visit to her constituents' homes in Bukit Batok on Wednesday. |
 | GMA News - Four persons died in separate drowning incidents in the provinces of Cebu and Leyte, where floodwaters swelled rivers after several days of heavy rains, which a low pressure area dumped across the Visayas and northern parts of Mindanao. |
 | Bernama - BACHOK, Dec 28 (Bernama) -- Pas spiritual leader Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat regards the issue involving former Selangor Pas commissioner Datuk Dr Hasan Ali and former party deputy president Nasharudin Mat Isa who had been vocal in criticising the ... |
 | Malaysia Star - By ZUHRIN AZAM AHMAD and LOSHANA K. SHAGAR SEPANG: After uncovering five cases of drug smuggling this month alone, the KL International Airport Customs has declared all air routes into Malaysia to be at high risk of being used for trafficking. |
 | Philippine Star - By Helen Flores (The Philippine Star) Updated December 29, 2011 12:00 AM 0 MANILA, Philippines - Despite gloomy global economic forecasts and a string of natural calamities that hit the country this year, nine out of 10 Filipinos still face the New ... |
 | Australia Network News - At least three people have died in Indonesia after the eruption of one of the country's most active volcanoes, officials have said. |
 | ABS CBN News - by Primy Cane, ABS-CBN News Northern Mindanao CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines - While some survivors of tropical storm “Sendong” in Cagayan de Oro are busy trying to build makeshift homes, others are taking a crash course on using the internet. |
 | Bangkok Post - The House of Representatives is expected to vote today on whether to uphold legal immunity for Democrat MP, Khanchit Thapsuwan, who is a suspect in the murder of a political rival from the Pheu Thai Party. |
World
 | Reuters India - By Mariam Karouny and Erika Solomon REUTERS - Arab monitors head to three more Syrian cities on Thursday to check if government forces are complying with a peace plan after a delegation to Homs, center of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, ... |
 | BBC News - The official mourning period for the late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is due to end after an elaborate funeral was staged in the capital, Pyongyang. |
 | Jerusalem Post - By YAAKOV KATZ The IDF assesses that Hamas is not interested in a major conflict; its main concern is the stability of its rule in Gaza. |
 | Straits Times - MOSCOW (AFP) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Wednesday insisted he favoured dialogue with the Russian protest movement but said it was currently impossible because it neither had a leader nor a programme. |
 | Times of India - BHOPAL: Activists of India Against Corruption (IAC) who were on a three-day fast in support of Anna Hazare have decided go ahead with the fast till Thursday but called off the Jail Bharo campaign. |
 | Christian Science Monitor - As recent events in Israel and Egypt show, religious norms that treat women differently or as inferior can irritate those who want fair, secular rule. |
 | New York Daily News - AP An exotic animal salesman tried to board a flight with almost 250 undeclared poisonous snakes and endangered reptiles in his baggage. |
 | ABC Online - PETER CAVE: Egyptians are losing patience with the slow pace of trial of the ousted president Hosni Mubarak. He's accused of murder for his role in the deaths of hundreds of protesters during the uprising last February. |
 | Bernama - KABUL, Dec 28 (Bernama) -- Afghan forces, backed by the NATO- led Coalition troops, have killed two armed insurgents and captured 28 suspects in a series of military operations around the country over the past 24 hours, the Afghan Interior Ministry ... |
 | BBC News - The Duke of Edinburgh has left hospital four nights after having a coronary stent fitted. The prince, who smiled and waved to reporters as he left, has now returned to the Royal Family's Sandringham estate in Norfolk. |
 | Bloomberg - Argentine Vice President Amado Boudou, who for years antagonized investors in South America's second-biggest economy, may now become their guarantor of political and economic stability in a nation reeling from its leader's surprise diagnosis with ... |
 | BBC News - Nigerian Christians will have "no other option" but to defend themselves if attacks by Islamist militants continue, a coalition of churches has said. |
 | New Zealand Herald - By Gwynne Dyer Iraqi security forces inspect a crater caused by a car bomb attack in the neighbourhood of Karrada in Baghdad last Thursday. |
 | New Zealand Herald - Ethiopia has been widely condemned for jailing two Swedish journalists for 11 years for supporting terrorism after they were arrested while travelling with a rebel group in the restive east of the country. |
| Australia Network News - At least three people have died in Indonesia after the eruption of one of the country's most active volcanoes, officials have said. |
 | Economic Times - ATHENS: Greece's interim coalition government pledged Wednesday to create 150000 new jobs in the first quarter of 2012 and boost welfare programs, seeking to alleviate the effects of an acute financial crisis that has sent unemployment soaring amid a ... |
 | Ynetnews - For many years now, many Knesset members (mostly leftists for some reason) have been trying to hold the heated discussion on the Armenian holocaust and Israel's recognition of it. |
 | Stuff.co.nz - Japanese whaling fleet vessel Yushin Maru No 3 sprays water cannons at Sea Shepherd vessel Gojira during their clash earlier this year. |
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