Southeast Asia – Indonesian police detain protesters in Papua (EARTHtimes.org)

Indonesian police detain protesters in Papua (EARTHtimes.org)
Jayapura, Indonesia – Indonesian police detained several protesters flying outlawed independence flags on Tuesday during peaceful rallies against Jakarta’s rule in the country’s eastern-most province of Papua, witnesses and police officials said. At …

Manila trash becomes hot London fashion item (AFP via Yahoo! News)
At a warehouse near Manila’s infamous Smokey Mountain dump, slum-dwellers working for a British-led charity are turning rubbish into fashion items that are proving a hit in top-end London shops.

Singapore Air Keeps Champagne Budget to Win First-Class Fliers (Bloomberg)
Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) — Singapore Airlines Ltd. cut Chief Executive Officer Chew Choon Seng s salary by 20 percent and parked planes in response to a global travel slump.

Cambodia-Vietnam joint commission meeting to be held later this week (People’s Daily)
Cambodia and Vietnam are set to hold a joint commission meeting later this week in Cambodia’s southwestern province of Sihanouk. In a statement released on Monday, the Cambodian Foreign Ministry said the 11th Meeting of the Cambodia-Vietnam Joint Commission for Economic, Cultural, Scientific and Technological Cooperation will be held in Preah Sihanouk Province from Dec. 3-4, 2009. It said that …

Indonesia must free Papuan protesters: rights group (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Rights activists rallied Tuesday outside the Indonesian embassy here demanding the immediate release of two Papuan activists on the fifth anniversary of their arrest for raising a separatist flag.

POC predicts close fight with Vietnam, Thailand (The Daily Tribune)
The 25th Southeast Asian Games in Laos is going to be a three-cornered battle among Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines.

25th SEA Games football Vietnam to take on Thailand in opening match (Nh n D n)
U-23 Vietnam train at Laos national stadium. Photo: The Labourer Nhan Dan Online- U-23 Vietnam will play against arch-rivals Thailand in the opening match at Laos national stadium tomorrow, seven days before the 25th SEA Games opening ceremony on December 9.

15000 Indonesian Troops Dropped Into West Papua (Scoop.co.nz)
Large rallies are expected today to celebrate West Papua s historic independence pronouncement on 1 December 1961, even as the Indonesian government drops in fifteen thousand extra soldiers.

THAI Wins Award at Thailand ICT Awards EXPO 2009 (Thaipr.net)
Thai Airways International Public Company Limited won the Thailand ICT Awards EXPO 2009 under the category of tourism and hospitality from the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology for

Cavico Vietnam Named One of the Top 500 Vietnamese Enterprises by VietnamNet (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
HANOI, Vietnam—-Cavico Corp. , a leading infrastructure development company based in Vietnam, today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Cavico Vietnam, was ranked 167 of the Top 500 Vietnamese Largest Private Enterprises, also known as VNR500.

Myanmar (Burma): Greater funding needed to meet most critical needs (AlertNet)
Merlin – UK Eighteen months after Cyclone Nargis devastated communities in the Irrawaddy Delta, there are critical needs that still haven t been addressed. International donors pledged $88 million at an ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) conference in Ba…

Cambodian-Thai border not to be closed: Thai deputy PM (People’s Daily)
Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban Tuesday has reassured that the Thai government will not close the Thai-Cambodian border. The Thai deputy prime minister’s statement was made amid the ongoing diplomatic tension between Thailand and Cambodia. The border will not be closed since it is concerned with the well-being of the people along the Thai-Cambodian border, Thai News Agency …

Cambodia and Thai Defense Ministers hold meeting on military and diplomatic matters (Defence Professionals)
(released on 12/01/2009) Cambodia and Thai defense ministers held an extraordinary meeting of Thai-Cambodian general border committee (GBC) to discuss military between the two countries on Friday…

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