smh.com.au Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation will axe 55 journalism jobs across its Australian papers as the global media conglomerate looks to reduce the impact of a soft advertising market.

amny.com Ashleigh Wade, 22, fatally stabbed Angelikque Sutton, 22, then cut Sutton's baby out of her womb, claiming she was the mother, said New York police.


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ft.com The city of Brussels will endure a third day under a security lockdown on Monday, after the prime minister said that the risk of a Paris-style attack remained ''serious and imminent''.

bangkokpost.com A 25-year-old South Korean man was beaten to death, allegedly by mafia gang members from his country who have fled to Vietnam, and the body left at a resort in Chon Buri.

AP A landslide near a jade mine in northern Myanmar has killed about 100 people, most of them villagers digging for green stones in a mountain of displaced earth, a witness and a community leader said. Up to 200 remain missing.



opendemocracy.net The Queen Mary University report concludes ''the Rohingya have suffered the first four of the six stages of genocide''. This puts them at serious risk of stage five which is ''mass annihilation''.

nytimes.com Letter; Sadly, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy has been unsupportive of Rohingya rights. With the elections now in the books, investors in Myanmar must be remain careful not to prop up corrupt, military-run industries or to become complicit in exploitation.

stripes.com Visiting a refugee center in the Malaysian capital, President Obama lamented the plight of the Rohingya, the ethnic Muslim group that has faced violence in Myanmar, a country the Obama administration has helped guide out of decades of military rule.



bangkokpost.com Provincial Police Region 8 has ordered increased security in all tourist provinces, particularly at the upcoming full moon party on Koh Phangan in Surat Thani, following the Paris attacks. Police will also increase patrols in tourist provinces along the Andaman Sea as the tourist season draws nearer.

independent.co.uk A state of emergency has been declared in Crimea after pylons carrying electricity from Ukraine were blown up cutting off power to almost two million people.

bangkokpost.com Actor Tridsadee ''Por'' Sahawong, who is being treated for dengue haemorrhagic fever, has had his infected foot amputated above the ankle.

nationmultimedia.com To improve the quality of English-language teachers, the Education Ministry is selecting 500 Thai teachers to undergo a six-week intensive training program, after which their teaching would be studied and assessed in the first semester of the 2016 academic year.

theguardian.com Britain's three leading cinema chains have refused to show an advert by the Church of England that features the Lord's Prayer, citing fears that it could offend people. The 60-second advert was due to be shown before Star Wars: the Force Awakens, which is released on 18 December.

chinapost.com.tw Foreign investors in Thailand affected by state officials seeking bribes now have more channels to seek recourse after the Public Sector Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC) set up a center to accept complaints. PACC chief Prayong Preeyajit told The Nation that the center has opened with a 24-hour hotline (09 2668 0777) and Line ID (FD.PACC).

mumbrella.asia A promo video for Thai tourism targeted at the well-heeled Hong Kong market has prompted a mixed response in the mainstream press and social media and started a debate about responsible tourism. The video portrays Thailand as a hedonistic playground for rich people who ride elephants while smoking cigars, buy street food from a limousine and practice their golf swing off the back of a yacht.

nationmultimedia.com The men are dressed in James Bond tuxedos and their companions wear chic cocktail dresses. ''It's not the length of life,'' says the voiceover, ''but the depth of life.'' Or, as cynics would prefer, it's not the length of your stay, but the depth of your pockets.

opp.today Thailand property demand is rising - with investors from the US leading overseas sales - and there is a marked shift to online real estate searches. Leading real estate website DDproperty.com, part of the respected PropertyGuru stable, says it has enjoyed a 29 percent year-on-year rise in property searches in the nine months to September 2015.

nationmultimedia.com More than 400 cable and satellite TV channels have been scrapped this year mainly due to the fast-changing media landscape with the addition of dozens of new digital TV channels and the poor economic conditions.



reuters China said that the US was making political provocations with its patrols in the disputed South China Sea, as tensions around the strategic waterways mount. China will continue to construct military facilities on artificial islands it is building, Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin told a news conference in Kuala Lumpur.



afp Harry Kane scored his seventh and eighth goals in five matches as Tottenham Hotspur dispatched West Ham United 4-1 to close on the Premier League's top four.

afp Novak Djokovic finished the best season of his life in fitting style as the world number one defeated Roger Federer 6-3, 6-4 to win the ATP Tour Finals title for a record fourth successive year.

Phuket Update Phuket FC remain in 15th place in Division One after drawing 1-1 with table-toppers Police United in Bangkok. Phuket host 16th-placed Pichit FC on Wednesday, The 15th to 20th placed teams will be relegated.

afp Australian veteran Peter Senior, 56, upstaged his younger rivals to win a third Australian Masters 20 years after donning his last gold jacket at Huntingdale in Melbourne.



November 25 Loy Kratong festival

November 29 Challenge Laguna Phuket 2015

November 29 Phuket King's Cup Regatta

December 5 HM The King's Birthday

December 26 Tsunami memorial ceremonies



January 7-10 Phuket International Boat Show