The National Geographic Society is collaborating with the World Wildlife Fund by launching the MegaFishes Project, an ambitious four-year effort to protect the Earth’s largest freshwater fish, while raising...
created by Pythiian1 | 36 wks ago | updated 35 wks ago 842 views | 72 recommendations | 15 comments
Have you ever seen such a long bunch of banana that can anytime be taller than an average man? It can grow as long as 1.8m (~ 6 feet)It is called "Pisang Seribu" in Malay, it literary means "Thousand Banana". As I've searched the web resources, understand that it is also...
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"By AIJAZ HUSSAIN, Associated Press SRINAGAR, India – One of the two Indian men arrested for illegally buying mobile phone cards used by the gunmen in the Mumbai attacks was a counterinsurgency police officer who may have been on an undercover mission, security officials...
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Vesak is the holiest day in Buddhism and a season of special holy significance to all Buddhists around the world. Vesak Full Moon is the holiest of all the full moon days. On this day are...
Burma Review: www.burmareview.com its latest post - "Revisiting Burma's Popular Foreign Policy Notions and its Reality" analyzes Foreign Policy perspectives of military regime.
Burma Review: www.burmareview.com in its latest post analyzes the politics and purpose of Japan's former ambassador to Burma - Mr. Yoichi Yamaguchi's allegation against people's Queen - Daw Aung San Suu Kyi as a western nations ploy and reality behind it.
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Burmese bloggers are now reporting that they are running into significant hurdles to getting the word out on the government’s crackdown.
“Burma is blacked out now!,” one blogger announced from Yangon, the country’s main city. More details from the...
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Reuters photo attributed to a stringer captures journalist shooting photo before his death.
Reuters cutline: Kenji Nagai of APF tries to take photographs as he lies injured after police and military officials...
created by TheBigRuski | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 455 views | 2 recommendations | 2 comments
If you are a tiny little dictatorship in a far corner in the world you can no longer hide. Human rights atrocities are no longer a dirty little secret an opressive regime can hide.
The world has become a smaller...
created by TheBigRuski | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 788 views | 7 recommendations | 4 comments
Keep on blogging in the free world! I know those poor people in Belarus were trying to do something similar a couple years ago, but the numbers, publicity and momentum were just not there. Things...
created by TheBigRuski | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 364 views | 14 recommendations | 7 comments
What, You may ask, do I need to know about the bathroom?More than you expect.I had a long flight to Bangkok, a taxi ride to the restaurant, and then to my friend's home. Once there, I went to the bathroom. When I...
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Jakarta (Digital Dementia News Services) – Scientists, physicians and health authorities attending a conference in Jakarta heard dire predictions of a new pandemic threat poised to emerge from the poultry...
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"For well over a decade, the military junta in Myanmar has been trying to bring the Karen ethnic minority under its thumb. This year, the offensive has intensified -- magnifying the ongoing refugee disaster in...