Southeast Asia
 | Malaysia Star - By M. MAGESWARI and QISHIN TARIQ KUALA LUMPUR: The CEO of a consultancy company pleaded not guilty to two cheating charges involving some RM1.7mil relating to the controversial National Feedlot Corporation (NFC) issue. |
 | Malaysia Star - KUALA LUMPUR: When the new school year starts next week, only 11% of Form One classes across the country will be taught Mathematics and Science in English. |
 | Philippine Headline News - Malacañang on Friday admitted that it lacks the numbers among senators that would ensure conviction of Corona on charges leveled against him by the House of Representatives, which earlier impeached him. |
 | Inquirer.net - By Manuel F. Almario Contributor President Aquino troops the line during the flag-raising rites on the 115th death anniversary of national hero Jose Rizal at Rizal Park in Manila on Friday. |
 | Inquirer.net - By TJ Burgonio and Norman Bordadora The World Bank on Friday announced the release of a $500-million loan to help the government's recovery and reconstruction efforts in Northern Mindanao after it was devastated by Tropical Storm “Sendong. |
 | Inquirer.net - By TJ Burgonio Witness Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada Jr. is heartened that the “masterminds” of the overpriced $329-million National Broadband Network (NBN) deal with China's ZTE Corp. |
 | Bernama - BANGKOK, Dec 30 (Bernama) -- The Thai government is planning to revive memoranda of understanding (MOU) with Cambodia, which were scrapped by the previous government, as Bangkok and Phnom Penh move forward to cooperate in energy and other sectors, ... |
 | TODAYonline - by Tan Weizhen SINGAPORE - Instead of operating as single entities and focusing only on individual excellence, schools should collaborate as they innovate and improve so that good practices can be shared. |
 | TODAYonline - SINGAPORE - The Lee Kuan Yew Fund for Bilingualism, set up by former Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew last month to supplement efforts by the Government in the teaching and learning of English and the Mother Tongue languages, has received more than S$58 ... |
 | Daily Mail - By Emma Reynolds These horrifying pictures show dozens of dogs stuffed into cages on their way to be slaughtered for food in the Philippines. |
 | ABS CBN News - MANILA, Philippines - Philippine police arrested a member of an Al-Qaeda-linked extremist group who was allegedly involved in the kidnapping and death of American citizens ten years ago, a police spokesman said Friday. |
 | UPI.com - RAMAN, Thailand, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Three separate attacks in southern Thailand Friday caused one death and three injuries, police say. |
 | Straits Times - By Kezia Toh In three hours last Friday, the rain that pelted down on Orchard Road was half of what December typically gets in the entire month. |
 | New Straits Times - SERIAN: There are 15 locations identified as landslide risk areas along the Pan-Borneo Highway with most of them in the lower region of Sarawak, namely Sri Aman and Sarikei. |
 | Tempo - Manila, Philippines - Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert F. del Rosario personally issued an appeal to the more than 4000 Filipinos still in Syria to heed government's call for mandatory repatriation back to the Philippines while there is still time as ... |
 | Philippine Star - Liv Espino Perez looks at her husband, actor Tyron Perez, whose remains lie in state at the Loyola Memorial Park in Parañaque City yesterday. |
 | Telegraph.co.uk - Experts have identified at least 35 Javan rhinos in Ujung Kulon park after the endangered animals were caught on film by cameras rigged up by local researchers. |
 | Journal Online - JUSTICE Secretary Leila de Lima yesterday denied claims by retired Army Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan -- tagged in the alleged enforced disappearance of University of the Philippines coeds Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeño in 2006 -- that he was being ... |
 | The Nation - More road casualties and accidents were reported in the first of the sevenday New Year period compared to the same period last year. |
World
 | Christian Science Monitor - Massacres have continued in Syria over the past few days, validating concerns that the Arab League observers wouldn't restrain a regime determined to use violence to hang on to power. |
 | Chicago Sun-Times - By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA December 30, 2011 3:22PM People carry the coffins of victims as thousands of mourners gathered in Gulyazi village at the border with Iraq, southeast Turkey, Friday, Dec. 30, 2011 for the funerals of 35 Kurdish civilians who were ... |
 | BBC News - Egypt has reassured the US that it will stop raids on the offices of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), the US state department says. |
 | TIME - This photograph from the funeral procession of Kim Jong Il, taken by the Korean Central News Agency and distributed by Reuters, Agence France-Presse and Reuters, was proven to be digitally altered. |
 | Times of India - MELBOURNE: Samoa, a tiny nation in the South Pacific and its neighbour Tokelau have already embraced the New Year, a day earlier than the rest of the world, to align closely with their major trading partners in Australasia. |
 | The Daily Star - By Rami G. Khouri What event this month is likely to reverberate across the Middle East most clearly next year? My prediction is that it will be the continued attempts by the leading Palestinian factions, Fatah and Hamas, to reconstitute a unified ... |
 | Boston.com - By David McFadden AP / December 30, 2011 KINGSTON, Jamaica—The emphatic drubbing of Jamaica's governing party in fiercely contested national elections even astonished the triumphant opposition side, the campaign manager for the winning faction said ... |
 | Vanguard - By Our Reporters Four people were killed in Maiduguri, Borno State, following a bomb blast near a mosque yesterday. The blast was said to have taken place as Muslims left a mosque after Friday prayers. |
 | Indian Express - Cyclone Thane, a tropical storm that was formed outside the Tamil Nadu coast a few days ago, finally crossed the state's coast on Friday morning, killing at least 33 persons - 26 in Tamil Nadu and seven in Puducherry - and leaving behind a trail of ... |
 | Huffington Post - Quietly, without ritual or public fanfare, the Western Black Rhino this year was officially declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. |
 | ABS CBN News - by Don Tagala, ABS-CBN North America News Bureau JERSEY CITY, NJ - Three Filipino brothers are now in the Hudson county jail for allegedly murdering their brother-in-law on Christmas Day. |
 | Eurasia Review - At least eight persons - seven Uighurs and a senior police officer of the Chinese-controlled Xinjiang province - were reported to have been killed on the night of December 28, 2011, in Hotan's Pishan county. |
 | Economic Times - The year 2011 has been a mixed one - a year of high inflation and low Sensex; low rupee and high fiscal deficit; low FDI and high interest rate; a strong Anna and a weak PM; a weak ruling party and a strong opposition; strong focus on corruption and a ... |
 | Taipei Times - More than 300000 Republic of China (ROC) nationals have applied for their first passports in person so far this year, with the new biometric passports contributing to Taiwan's inclusion as a candidate for the US' visa-waiver program, according to the ... |
 | Telegraph.co.uk - The Pope will on Sunday launch a renewed attack on the "moral relativism" that he has blamed for Britain's summer riots. |
 | Deutsche Welle - One of Sea Shepherd's vessels has been badly damaged by a wave in bad weather conditions off the coast of Antarctica. The conservationist group had been trying to interfere with the annual Japanese whale hunt. |
 | Greek Reporter - By Stella Tsolakidou on December 30, 2011 in Economy, News, Politics Prosecutors heading the judicial task force charged with fighting tax evasion, Grigoris Peponis and Spiros Mouzakitis have been called by the supervising economic prosecutor Nikolas ... |
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