Close to 300 people have died, while more than three million others have been affected after tropical storm "Ondoy" (Ketsana) wrought havoc in metropolitan Manila and some provinces in Calabarzon and Central Luzon regions.Forty-two people were reported missing, while the...
"Associated Press, Sunday July 5, 2009, Lakhimpur " " Though many parts of the country eagerly await monsoon, the rain has caused havoc in the northeastern state of Assam. According to a local...
The BJP today asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to treat the alarming flood situation in Bihar as a national calamity and take up with Nepal the issue of a major breach in Kosi river in the Himalayan country...
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One of the advantages of living in the EU is that we can import products from anywhere within the union without having to pay additional taxes at the point of import. A few years ago I imported records and CD from the island of Jersey on a regular basis. One morning the...
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THE CHINESE INTERNET CRASH OF 2007Calamity or Capitalism?
By Tom Carter
In late December of last year, a 7.1 earthquake off the coast of Taiwan severely damaged Asia’s undersea fiber-optic cables, disrupting...
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