Father’s Day is just around the corner!
|
By , on May 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Eleven people were killed in the southern Philippines early on Saturday as troops clashed with a militant group blamed for the country’s deadliest terror attacks, the military said. The fighting left seven Filipino marines dead and nine others wounded on the island of Jolo, said Colonel Jose Cenabre, a local military commander. Four members of the Abu Sayyaf group were also killed in the firefight, Cenabre, the commander of a marine brigade in the area, said in a report. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading 11 dead as Philippine troops clash with militants
By , on May 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A telephone call on Friday has again delayed a decision in a murder trial in coastal China, which the nation’s highest court called flawed, and has exposed the worrying consequences of a hasty high-profile crime investigation. In the summer of 2008, Nian Bin, then 30, worked as a food stall owner in Woqian village in Pingtan county, an island in Fujian province. On August 1, he was arrested for the murder of two children, who had died after eating rice porridge containing rat poison only six days earlier. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Deadline for death sentence in Fujian murder case extended
By , on May 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A top North Korean envoy has delivered a letter from leader Kim Jong Un to Chinese President Xi Jinping and told him Pyongyang would take steps to rejoin stalled nuclear disarmament talks, in an apparent victory for Beijing’s efforts to coax its unruly ally into lowering tensions. North Korean Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae’s three-day visit was seen as a fence-mending mission after Pyongyang angered Beijing with recent snubs and moves to develop its nuclear program. Choe returned to North Korea late Friday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading North Korean envoy delivers letter to China’s president
By , on May 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chinese media reports suggest Hu Haifeng, the son of China’s ex-President Hu Jintao, might have been appointed deputy party secretary of Jiaxing, a prefectural-level city in Zhejiang province. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Has Hu Jintao’s son been appointed deputy party secretary of Jiaxing?
By , on May 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Seventeen Pakistani children burnt to death on Saturday when a gas cylinder on the bus taking them to school exploded, media said. Ten children were injured in the blaze on the outskirts of Gujirat 170km southeast of Islamabad, DawnNews said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Pakistan school bus explosion and blaze kill 17 children
By , on May 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The People’s Daily, the mouthpiece of China’s Communist Party, has baffled and shocked people in China by launching a “Dishonest Americans” Series, aiming to “provide a more objective picture of what the US and Americans are really like.” <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Outrage after People’s Daily’s ‘Dishonest Americans’ column goes viral
By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Annie Park shot a 1-under 71 to top the individual standings and help Southern California take its third NCAA women’s tournament title with a record-setting team performance Friday. Southern California finished at 19-under 1,133 — 15 strokes better than the previous tournament mark set by UCLA in 2004 — to beat second-place Duke by 21 strokes. Third-place Purdue was 21 over — 40 shots behind Southern California. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Park leads Southern California to national title
By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> TORONTO (AP) — Toronto mayor Rob Ford says he does not smoke crack cocaine. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Toronto mayor Rob Ford says he does not smoke crack cocaine
By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Britain scrambled fighter jets on Friday to intercept a commercial airliner carrying more than 300 people from Pakistan, diverting it to an isolated runway at an airport on the outskirts of London and arresting two passengers on suspicion of endangering the aircraft. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading British police arrest two men on diverted Pakistan flight
By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chile blocks Pascua-Lama mine, fines Barrick $16 million for serious environmental violations. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Chile blocks Pascua-Lama mine, fines Barrick $16 million for serious environmental violations.
By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> At times, it seemed US President Barack Obama was taking part in a debate rather than giving a speech. Deep into his address at the National Defence University, a heckler repeatedly interrupted from the back of the room, demanding an end to drone strikes and the closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention centre in Cuba. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Barack Obama’s drone speech interrupted by anti-war activist
By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Education Bureau has proposed to lend the Hang Seng School of Commerce HK$800 million to cover its expansion costs. The bureau will seek legislators’ approval for the interest-free loan, which will cover the development of campus facilities and student hostels for programmes offered by the school’s management college. The plan includes an eight-storey purpose-built academic and administrative building, a sports and amenities centre and three blocks of student hostels with up to 1,300 places. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Education Bureau proposes to lend Hang Seng School HK$800m
By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Proposals to vet future US drone strikes risk creating “kill courts”, according to human rights campaigners. They say President Barack Obama’s promise of new legal oversight does not go far enough to end what they regard as extrajudicial executions. The president has asked Congress to consider establishing a special court or oversight board to authorise lethal action outside war zones under a new counterterrorism doctrine he says will end the “boundless war on terror”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Rights groups fault new Obama plan for vetting drone strikes
By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Beijing’s rejection of international arbitration to resolve disputes over its claim to most of the South China Sea makes it look like a “bully” in the world community, a leading US expert on Chinese law said this week. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Beijing looks like a ‘bully’ by rejecting arbitration on South China Sea issue
By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A kindergarten that closed last summer is still advertising its services and claiming membership of the American Montessori Society – a claim the society says is false. Until recently, the Montessori School of Hong Kong also had a section on its website for admission applications and purported to be operating from a site on Caine Road, although in fact it was in Pok Fu Lam when it closed. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Kindergarten’s Montessori claim raises queries
By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and Britain’s wartime prime minister Winston Churchill enjoyed an alcohol-fuelled all-nighter in Moscow as the second world war was in full swing, previously secret files have revealed. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Stalin, Churchill broke the ice in heavy-drinking session
By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Sweden has long been a bastion of generous social welfare and an egalitarian political culture. So many people were shocked when scores of youths hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze during rioting in several largely immigrant areas near Stockholm this week. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Segregation cited as root of riots in immigrant areas of Stockholm
By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Britain is bracing not just for clashes with right-wing extremists but for possible copycat terror attacks after the brutal slaying of a young soldier on Wednesday. London’s Metropolitan Police said more than 1,000 officers will be sent to potential trouble spots with armed response units. Only a fraction of Britain’s police officers are armed. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Britain braced for copycat terror attacks after soldier’s killing
By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Premier Li Keqiang was to announce yesterday the conclusion of negotiations with Switzerland on a free-trade deal seen as a touchstone for China’s growing global ties. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading China seals free-trade pact with Switzerland
By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Explosions and gunfire rocked central Kabul on Friday as the Taliban launched a major attack close to an Afghan intelligence facility and the headquarters of a government force that protects foreign firms. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Policeman, four gunmen killed in Kabul Taliban attack
|
America, Inc. at it’s Finest
BLOCKBUSTER MOVIE TIX HERE!!!
Bren-Books.com, Modern first editions and collectible fiction<
|
11 dead as Philippine troops clash with militants
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Eleven people were killed in the southern Philippines early on Saturday as troops clashed with a militant group blamed for the country’s deadliest terror attacks, the military said. The fighting left seven Filipino marines dead and nine others wounded on the island of Jolo, said Colonel Jose Cenabre, a local military commander. Four members of the Abu Sayyaf group were also killed in the firefight, Cenabre, the commander of a marine brigade in the area, said in a report. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading 11 dead as Philippine troops clash with militants
Share this: