Did you think that pirates had died off with the age of sail? Think again. Just off the coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden, pirates have hijacker a tanker and its 41 crew members. The tanker is owned by MISC Berhard...
Could incense really cause cancer? Perhaps if you spent most of your life huddled around burning incense sticks and inhaling every bit of particulate that drifted up into your smoke-filled nostrils and lungs, you...
"The fast-changing modern world is raising the living standards of billions in the South – China alone has lifted 400 million people out of poverty since the 1980s - but it is also risking the loss of many rich...
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This article is the profile a man who claimed he was raped. But what really is the truth?" The common denominator to Puto and the INC is that they have the same enemy – Eliseo Fernando Soriano – the walking bible who readily says a mouthful about religions he...
Reuters reported yesterday that Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong upped the stakes of the defamation suit with the Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER) by seeking to find a higher defamatory meaning to the words published in its interview with Dr Chee Soon Juan.
Vancouver is the 8th most 'liveable' city in the world, according to international rankings put out by London-based Monocle magazine. Montreal was the only other Canadian city to make the cut, coming in at 16....
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Gary Glitter is today believed to be in hiding in Cornwall as his lawyer prepares to fight sex register restrictions on Glitter, real name Paul Gadd. Mr. Gadd is believed to have asked for police protection...
West Indies middle order batsman Xavier Marshall breaks the 12 years old most number of sixes record held by Sanath Jayasurya. Xavier hits 12 sixes in a match which is highest in one-day international. 22 year old Marshall Playing his 17th ODI, he scored 157 off just...
It seems that the slow motion train-wreck occuring in the US economy is far from over. A former IMF chief economist, Kenneth Rogoff is validating the possibility of the failure of a major US bank in the near...
"TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- Japan will start an aggressive push to market abroad its mobile technology, especially the nation's popular "wallet phone," a government official said Tuesday. ...
"Student Hub is an Organization For the Students all over the World. It allow you to interact, whether publicly (like Facebook) or internally (like Microsoft Sharepoint) with each other In the HUB. Student Hub is Initiated By a Small Group of Students Studying in...
A garden gnome from Gloucestershire, England spent seven months travelling the world to South Africa, Swaziland, Mozambique, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Hong Kong and Laos....
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" The people of Myanmar are marking exactly 20 years since a military crackdown on a student-led democracy uprising left an estimated 3,000 dead. But after last year's large-scale rallies that were also brutally...
American Airports may be handling large number of passengers everyday and may be one of busiest airport but they haven't got any ranking in the best airport survey. Hong Kong's swanky airport has been adjudged as the...
This is the biggest "anti peaceful protest" trial in Singapore's history. The PAP government grants its own party permission to hold a similar rally but not to opposition parties. Singapore lawyers chicken out by being reluctant to represent the 18 Singaporeans.Read more at...