China's CNPC is now building mega refineries in Niger and Chad.

China News just announced that it is building some rather large refineries in Niger and Chad for its Oil exploitation there who's rights it acquired earlier this year. This can only mean more trouble for the...

Niger, Freedom of the Press, only an illusion!

By, Uwe Paschen.Well, as I opened the news channel this morning I fund out that Niger's Higher court had given another independent Journalist a suspended sentence this time and not the usual prison terms of 3...

The Bureaucratic nightmare!

By, Uwe Paschen.Ever since the Roman Empire and of Course the Chinese one as well we seem to have been unable to live with out Bureaucrats of all sorts and in all domains.Now, Bureaucracy does have its advantages...

African Baobab Fruits a novelty in Europe.

By, Uwe Paschen.The Baobab Tree and fruits are famous in West Africa and known to be highly nutritious as well. Usually though they are feed to life stock, mainly because they are rather hard and do not taste...

The Sarah Palin Speech at the RNC.

By, Uwe Paschen.Now, I am certainly not a friend of the Republicain lately, especially after a decade of deceit, Wars, and Manipulations by the Bush Administration.However, All animosities aside, I followed...

Japan's Prime Minister Fukuda has resigned. (Updates are Chronologic.)

By Uwe Paschen.TOKYO, Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda is resigning from office,  Press conference of today September the First 2008 at 21:30 Japanese local time.A Political Earth Quake that will go around the...

Freedom/Liberty, The Abused Ideal!

Freedom/Liberty,  The abused Ideal. By, Uwe Paschen.  How often have we heard those words and used them our self? They can be traced back to the antiquity and yet many do not know their origine even less...

Tribute to a Hero! Kazuya Ito, NGO Aid Worker in Afghanistan. (Up

By, Uwe Paschen. Kazuya Ito, a 31 year old Japanese Agricultural Aid worker with an NGO in Afghanistan was kidnapped earlier and as I reported initially he was supposed to be released Yesterday after locales...

Death due to miscommunication. (Floods in Japan.)

By, Uwe Paschen.In the past two weeks we have known much rain here in Japan's Tokyo, Saitama, Tochigi, and Chiba Prefecture. At times the rain fall went as high as 113 mm/H and this through out the Western...

19:26 Hours/NEWS UPDATE: Japanese Hostage in Afghanistan has been Killed! (B...

19:26 Hours, 27/08/08 Latest NHK NEWS UPDATE VIA UWE PASCHEN.Dead body found in AfghanistanIn Afghanistan, police searching for a kidnapped Japanese aid worker say they have found the body of a man with bullet...

The changing World Order! (News-Opinion)

By, Uwe Paschen.Today on the Eight of August 2008, we are witnessing one of the greatest if not the greatest opening ceremony of the Olympic games in Beijing, with plenty of symbols in Kanji and Pictograph for...

The Ever-Growing Deserts of the World! Is the earth about to die?

By, Uwe Paschen.   An Old saying states, “that forests came before human beings, deserts followed them.” Desertification is becoming a major problem as more and more of the world's land surface is...

The next OIL Crisis has started! (Oil Prise will go up again!) Ne

By Uwe Paschen. Now that Oil prises are slowly going down, after some massive spending in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for a wile the speculator calmed down as news  came of a more stable Iraq and maybe...