Father’s Day is just around the corner!
|
By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Malaysian court on Thursday charged a student activist with sedition and three others, including two opposition politicians, were arrested on the same charge in what critics decried as a crackdown on dissent. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Malaysian student activist charged with sedition
By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Despite earning a civil servant’s salary for three decades, Taib Mahmud, the powerful chief minister of Malaysia’s Sarawak state, is reputed by critics to be one of Asia’s richest men. Taib, 77, and his family are accused of massive corruption and running Malaysia’s largest state like a family business, controlling its biggest companies with stakes in hundreds of corporations in Malaysia and abroad. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Outrage grows over scandal-tainted Malaysian leader
By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Amy Wu is no Hollywood celebrity but she and Angelina Jolie share a few things in common: they are both 37 years old, have been affected by breast cancer and are now sharing their personal stories with the world. Wu, an American-born writer and journalism lecturer based in Hong Kong, was diagnosed with early stages of breast cancer earlier this month. “High-grade DCIS,” Wu’s doctor told her on May 8, referring to ductal carcinoma in-situ, a fast-growing cancerous lump. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Angelina Jolie, breast cancer and me: a blogger’s hope
By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Rescuers have recovered all 28 bodies from a collapsed underground room inside the giant US-owned gold and copper mine in Indonesia’s province of Papua. Thirty-eight workers were undergoing safety training inside the Big Gossan facility when the roof collapsed May 14. Ten injured miners were rescued. A statement from the mine operator PT Freeport Indonesia said its Emergency Response Team recovered and identified the last victim early Wednesday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading All 28 bodies recovered from Indonesian mine room
By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Police evacuated Paris’ Notre Dame cathedral yesterday after a well-known far-right former activist committed suicide by shooting himself through his mouth in front of its main altar, a police source said. Dominique Venner, 78, a historian known in France for his political essays, was carrying a letter but did not say anything before he shot himself dead in the mid-afternoon, the source said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Far-right activist Dominique Venner, commits suicide in Notre Dame
By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> CANNES, France (AP) — Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival: KEANU REEVES STEPS BEHIND THE LENS The transition from actor to director was not an easy one for Keanu Reeves. Reeves, who showed clips from his upcoming film “Man of Tai Chi” to a select crowd on Monday, said it took him a while to get into the director’s mindset. “The first day of that was not too much fun,” he laughed during an interview. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival
By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BANGKOK (AP) — World stock markets were mixed Tuesday as investors waited for the U.S. Federal Reserve to telegraph what it plans to do next with its economic stimulus program. The Fed is conducting its third round of massive bond purchases known as quantitative easing to help drive down interest rates and spur lending. But recently improving data on the U.S. economy has led to speculation that it might consider scaling back the program or winding it down earlier than expected. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading World stocks mixed ahead of Fed statements
By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> South Korean soldiers were guilty of abusing women in wartime, a Japanese mayor said in comments reported on Tuesday, days after he provoked a storm by labelling second world war sex slaves a military necessity. In a remark that provoked a sharp response from Seoul, further stoking tensions, Osaka mayor Toru Hashimoto said the South Korean military used women for sex during the Vietnam war. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Osaka mayor says South Korean troops guilty of sex abuse
By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BANGKOK (AP) — Asian stock markets fell Tuesday as investors waited for the U.S. Federal Reserve to telegraph what it plans to do next with its economic stimulus program. The Fed is conducting its third round of massive bond purchases known as quantitative easing to help drive down interest rates and spur lending. But recently improving data on the U.S. economy has led to speculation that the Fed might consider scaling back the program or winding it down earlier than expected. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Asia stocks fall ahead of Fed statements
By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Ray Manzarek, a founding member and keyboardist of 1960s rock group The Doors, died on Monday at a medical clinic in Germany at age 74 following a battle with cancer, the group’s manager Tom Vitorino said. Manzarek, who lived in Northern California’s Napa Valley wine country for the past decade, had been seeking treatment in Germany for bile duct cancer, Vitorino said. He died in Rosenheim, Germany, surrounded by his wife and brothers. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Keyboardist Ray Manzarek of The Doors dies at age 74
By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Academics and the Japanese government have dismissed the complaint by South Korea’s defence ministry about US Forces Korea referring to the body of water between the Korean peninsula and Japan as the “Sea of Japan”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading South Korea’s complaint about US use of term ‘Sea of Japan’ is dismissed
By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Retired cricket great Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf party won a poll re-run in an upmarket constituency of Karachi, unofficial results showed. The vote came a day after gunmen killed a party leader, setting the stage for protests and counter-protests. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Imran Khan’s party wins Karachi seat in new vote due to poll irregularities
By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The march – to protest Beijing’s refusal to vindicate the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen movement – will be joined with another one arranged by the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, which ends at the government headquarters in Admiralty. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Scholarism to bypass police nod in protest over June 4 crackdown
By , on May 18th, 2013 
Pakistani politician Zahra Shahid Hussain, a senior member of Imran Khan’s Movement for Justice party, has been shot dead in the city of Karachi.
Continue reading Pakistani politician is shot dead
By , on May 18th, 2013 
Singer Bonnie Tyler is set to make her Eurovision debut on Saturday when she performs UK entry Believe In Me at the annual contest in Malmo, Sweden.
Continue reading Sweden hosts Eurovision extravaganza
By , on May 18th, 2013 
Thousands of protesters, led by trade unionists, rally in the Italian capital Rome against the policies of the new coalition government.
Continue reading Thousands rally to oppose Italy cuts
By , on May 18th, 2013 
A 25-year-old Saudi woman makes history by reaching the summit of the world’s highest mountain.
Continue reading Saudi woman reaches Everest summit
By , on May 18th, 2013 
No 10 denies that “anyone in Downing Street” made comments reported in several newspapers describing Tory activists as “mad, swivel-eyed loons”.
Continue reading No 10 issues ‘loon slur’ denial
By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A “squeezed generation” of middle-aged Europeans are convinced they are going to be poorer in retirement than their parents, according to a global survey that found the Chinese the most confident about their future and the French, Germans and Spanish the most pessimistic. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Chinese ‘more confident about retirement than Europeans’
By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> France became the 14th country to legalise same-sex marriage on Saturday after President Francois Hollande signed it into law following months of bitter political debate. Hollande acted a day after the Constitutional Council threw out a legal challenge by the right-wing opposition, which had been the last obstacle to passing the bill into law. The legislation also legalises gay adoption. French Justice Minister Christiane Taubira, who steered the legislation through parliament, has said the first gay marriages could be celebrated as early as June. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading France legalises same-sex marriage
|
America, Inc. at it’s Finest
BLOCKBUSTER MOVIE TIX HERE!!!
Bren-Books.com, Modern first editions and collectible fiction<
|
Malaysian student activist charged with sedition
<!– google_ad_section_start –> A Malaysian court on Thursday charged a student activist with sedition and three others, including two opposition politicians, were arrested on the same charge in what critics decried as a crackdown on dissent. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Malaysian student activist charged with sedition
Share this: