Asahi News [Tokyo]
 EDITORIAL: The summit process
 EDITORIAL: Reversing deregulation

China Daily [Beijing]
 'Kung Fu Panda' punches away at controls on creativity

China Post [Taipei]
 Living a simple and thrifty life
 Doing away with Taiwan's underperforming universities

Daily Yomiuri [Tokyo]
 Don't forget authors of digitalized works

Jakarta Post
 [Editorial] Editorial: Schoolbooks on the Web
 [Editorial] Editorial: DPR and VOC
 [Editorial] Forum: Editorial - Surveys on sharia
 [Editorial] Editorial: Bigger power crisis looms
 [Editorial] Editorial: Bolstering Japan-RI ties
 [Editorial] Editorial: Religious persecution
 [Editorial] Editorial: Visit Indonesia Year?
 [Editorial] Editorial: Visit Indonesia Year?
 [Editorial] Editorial: Religious persecution
 [Editorial] Editorial: Bottom-up budgeting

Japan Times [Tokyo]
 [Editorial] Yet another food scandal
 [Editorial] Bleak economic outlook
 [Opinion] Exorcising Musharraf's ghost
 [Opinion] Obama can't escape America's realpolitik

Korea Times [Seoul]
 [Editorial] Creating More Jobs
 [Editorial] UN Chief at Home
 [Editorial] Deliberate Discourtesy?

Manila Bulletin
 Operating Room Nurses Association of the Philippines 34th Annual Convention and Scientific Meeting at the historic landmark Manila Hotel
 The Philippines and Vietnam: A brotherhood forged in hardship Fidel V. Ramos
 Poverty and disaster management Edgardo J. Angara
 Bocaue Pagoda Festival
 Winning by losing Fr. Bel R. San Luis, SVD
 Focus and persistence By RENE ESPINA
 The price for quality higher education By FR. JOEL TABORA, S.J., President, Ateneo de Naga University; President, Bicol Association of Catholic Schools; Trustee, Catholic Educational Association of the Philippines
 The praise of the Father
 Dietary choices in Biblical times Nelly Favis Villafuerte
 A shoulder to cry about By DR. JOSE S. PUJALTE JR.

Manila Times
 [Editorial] The Virgin Laboratory Theater Festival
 [Opinion] Strategic energy planning
 [Opinion] CSR hogwash
 [Opinion] Making a martyr of Anwar Ibrahim
 [Opinion] Brave new world
 [Opinion] Coping with the hard times
 [Opinion] A terrible man-made tragedy

Nation [Bangkok]
 Nothing Today

New Straits Times [Kuala Lumpur]
 SHERIDAN MAHAVERA: People's minds ruled by perception in sodomy case
 EDITORIAL: The high price of ambition
 JOHAN JAAFFAR: The secret of living to be a robust centenarian
 REHMAN RASHID: RIP the statutory declaration

Nihon Keizai [Tokyo]
 [Editorial] Beef Protests Hurting S Korea Intl Standing

People's Daily [Beijing]
 Opinion
 Video: NGO plays a big role in China quake relief
 From digging for gold to taking it out of one's own pocket
 Think of "never thought of"
 What has the Japanese Navy Ship brought?
 South Mercosur Summit slams EU, U.S. while spurring internal unity
 Exploring a road of peace and development
 An Important Step Forward on the DPRK Nuclear Issue
 In anticipation of new progress in Six-party Talks
 Important step towards mutual political trust
 China-US Strategic Economic Dialogue eye-catching
 China remains strongly appealing to foreign capital
 China, U.S. take shared responsibilities on energy, environmental issues
 China's macro-economy tends to be stable from overheating
 Why China sees notable foreign trade surplus drop this year
 Global inflation: Something not to be overlooked
 International cooperation to cope with high oil prices
 Objective analysis, positive response
 Speculative capital catalyzes oil-price bubble
 China's accession into WTO has been a great success
 Video: NGO plays a big role in China quake relief
 Video: Cooperation makes good trade
 Discussion: Cooperation makes good trade: Commerce official about China-EU trade
 Readers Pick: Similar poses by babies and cats
 Video: Developing volunteerism in China: challenges and prospects
 Give good service to "the king without a crown"
 Scientists, politicians must join forces on sustainable growth: Nobel laureate
 Chinese-made jet airliner rolls out
 Is 'Laowai' a negative term?
 Roadmap with milestone significance

Philippine Daily Inquirer [Manila]
 [Opinion]: Moments : Humility is the key / Fr. Jerry Orbos
 [Editorial]: Food for the future
 [Opinion]: At Large : Buster and Kim Sam-soon / Rina Jimenez-David
 [Opinion]: ‘Bayan Ko’
 [Opinion]: A world without Filipinos
 [Editorial]: Nobodies
 [Opinion]: Murder-suicides in paradise
 [Opinion]: Questions raised on Ilocos Sur’s adopted son
 [Opinion]: Most corrupt
 [Opinion]: Who’s afraid of a food crisis?

Shanghai Daily News [Shanghai]
 Nothing Today

Standard [Hong Kong]
 Nothing Today

Sydney Morning Herald
 Tried and tested, that's the ticket
 For as long as it takes

The Age
 Paul Daley Kevin Rudd and his technocrats risk becoming the vanguard of vanilla. Read more
 Comment & Analysis
 A global warning
 Is New Kevin-ism forfeiting passion for the power?
 Protecting kids from TV swearing is not Canberra's job
 Time to call purveyors of false cancer hope to account
 Shop less, live more
 Juliette Hughes

The Australian [Canberra]
 Wind of climate change
 Acronyms won't help PM
 A bitter political pill
 Valuable starting point

The Star [Kuala Lumpur]
 High-powered drama before us
 Gay city parades as America celebrates with Pride
 Poverty looms in Isle of Riches
 East, west mix in the bund
 Real-life Bangkok romances aren’t typical Western cliches
 Welcome relief for motorists
 Harder to repay their debts now
 MPs need to behave themselves
 SMS your views
 Friends can’t believe Saiful’s involved in case
 Maya Karin to marry English beau next month
 High-powered drama before us
 Bala could face perjury charge
 Lawyer: Second SD was probably made under duress
 Dr M: Court ruling doesn’t mean Anwar didn’t do it
 Najib denies involvement in PI's retraction
 PI Bala missing, says nephew (updated)
 Austerity drive hits hotels
 Balasubramaniam retracts entire content of his first statutory declaration
 High-powered drama before us
 Bala could face perjury charge
 Lawyer: Second SD was probably made under duress
 More Malaysians refused entry to Britain
 Maya Karin to marry English beau next month
 Balasubramaniam retracts entire content of his first statutory declaration
 Steak in all its natural goodness
 PI Bala missing, says nephew (updated)
 Najib denies involvement in PI's retraction
 Dr M: Court ruling doesn’t mean Anwar didn’t do it

XinhuaNet [Beijing]
 Flights of affinity
 The chartered planes fly over not only a strip of water, but also over the twists and turns in the development of relations across the Straits.
 Africa urges G8 leaders not to backtrack on promises to Africa
 Ahead of the annual meeting of G8 countries set to be open in Japan next week, Africa is calling on the leaders of the industrilized nations to do more to address the global rise in commodity prices and not to backtrack on their promises to Africa.
 Mediterranean entrepreneurs upbeat over proposed union
 Only days to its official launch, the proposed Union for the Mediterranean (UPM) is already raising hopes among entrepreneurs who see it as medium to promote growth, both in the north and south, but Europeans remain reluctant to invest in the Mediterranean basin.
 Feature: Internet fuels emergence of new type of publicity
 Some maize seedlings turning into popcorn as a result of waves from a mobile phones, the fake video, which has already been viewed by over 15 million Internet users, is the latest clear example of a new type of advertisement, a disguised one.