The Chinese New Year Parade 2009 in San Francisco today

The 2009 Chinese New Year Parade takes place in San Francisco today and the parade will feature over 100 floats and and 201 foot dragon. This is the parade that is known as the oldest and largest Chinese New Year's parade outside of Asia and is starts at 5:15pm and lasts till...

New Year is When One Begins to Know the Truth

Manila, Philippines – Award-winning evangelist says New Year is when one begins to know the truth.New Year’s Eve in the Philippines is the eve when no one is safe outside the house. During this evening, Filipinos detonate their Sinturon ni Hudas (Judas’ Belt), Super...

Annual midnight madness!

Three more days before a year ends and a new one begins. For most Filipinos, the coming year brings hope for a better life, a fresh start armed with the lessons learned from the previous years. But for a few unfortunate ones, they will face the coming year burden by...

Sachin breaks Lara’s record, crosses 12000 Test runs

"Sachin Tendulkar became the highest scorer in Test cricket after surpassing West Indian legend Brian Lara in the ongoing second Test in Mohali on Friday. India vs Australia 2nd Test - Live Score The Master Blaster needed just 15 runs today to overtake Lara’s Test match...

Lantern festival lights up Taipei

North and South Taiwan celebrates the full moon with an annual lantern festival and this year was bigger than ever.  Colourful lanterns in all sorts of shapes and sizes light up the night sky, the most...

"Lustful" ostrich traumatized by fireworks

Three teenagers who set off holiday fireworks in eastern Germany could be fined by...an ostrich farmer. Yes, an ostrich farmer, whose prize male, Gustav, was allegedly rendered temporarily unable to perform by the...

Aussies welcome 2007 with fireworks show

"SYDNEY, Australia - Fireworks showered over Sydney's iconic Harbor Bridge as a million onlookers cheered the New Year. Crowds scaled Japan's Mount Fuji for a view of the first 2007 dawn, but the Thai capital...

A Taste of the Phuket Vegetarian Festival

Here are a few more stories to get you up to speed... This is a unique festival to say the least, and all veggie friendly, I like it!Pointed Vegetarians...Vegetraian Festival in Phuket...Loose Lips Dangle...

I went to Jerusalem and all I got was horseshit

"Palestinians in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood have been in a cheerful mood lately as the results of the secondary school examinations have come in and they are celebrating with parties and firecrackers that sound a lot like gun fire. We were invited to one family’s house...

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