In some cases, you may want to have your customer account navigation on the right rather than magento’s default left. To do that you will need to reference “right” (as well as setting the template to 2columns-right).

The orders link is located in sales.xml and newsletter link is located in newsletter.xml

I have omitted billing agreements and recurring profiles, but you can add the links into customer_account_navigation

The code below can be placed in your local.xml of your themes layout directory.

<customer_account>
	<reference name="root">
           <action method="setTemplate"><template>page/2columns-right.phtml</template></action>
       </reference>
       <reference name="right">
       	 <block type="customer/account_navigation" name="customer_account_navigation" before="-" template="customer/account/navigation.phtml">
               <action method="addLink" translate="label" module="customer"><name>account</name><path>customer/account/</path><label>Account Dashboard</label></action>
               <action method="addLink" translate="label" module="customer"><name>account_edit</name><path>customer/account/edit/</path><label>Account Information</label></action>
               <action method="addLink" translate="label" module="customer"><name>address_book</name><path>customer/address/</path><label>Address Book</label></action>
           </block>
           <remove name="cart_sidebar" />
           <remove name="catalog.compare.sidebar" />
           <remove name="tags_popular"/>
       </reference>
       <reference name="customer_account_navigation">
           <action method="addLink" translate="label" module="sales"><name>orders</name><path>sales/order/history/</path><label>My Orders</label></action>
           <action method="addLink" translate="label" module="newsletter"><name>newsletter</name><path>newsletter/manage/</path><label>Newsletter Subscriptions</label></action>
           <action method="addLink" translate="label" module="downloadable"><name>downloadable_products</name><path>downloadable/customer/products</path><label>My Downloadable Products</label></action>
       </reference>
</customer_account>