Sri Lanka asks aid agencies to scale down operations

Sri Lanka asked International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and other aid agencies to scale down their operation amid increasing pressure from international community to ease the restrictions on aid agencies....

Sri Lanka- Civilian explains what happened(translation available)

Plight of the civilians in the North, (and the Eastern Province before that) at the hands of LTTE has been no secret during the past few decades. Tamil leaders who spoke on behalf of these civilians were brutally...

Rok Builders Still Recruiting at Full Steam

Bristol builder Rok was also in the news today having pioneered a new supply chain charter with local sub-contractors which has proved so successful that it is likely to be adopted by other Rok offices across the country."Rok is recruiting 60-80 tradespeople every month says...

Racetrack – The Future Of Computer Memory Systems :: Symblogogy

"Almaden Research Center - Image Credit: The Almaden Research Center (IBM)  Racetrack – The Future Of Computer Memory SystemsA new way and concept of looking at retrievable, stored memory has just...

Kenyan Death Toll to Rise, Shoot To Kill Order Still Active

Continuing the extremely tense situation in Kenya this week, officials with the Red Cross fear that the number of people killed will rise if things don't change soon. The death toll is nearing 600 right now, with...

New York Times in Peril Again: Hiring Freeze and Lost Jobs

" The New York Times may be having more trouble with its publishing company. The company has frozen new hiring, and has also cut a “small amount” of newsroom jobs. No journalists have lost their jobs (yet),...

First officers from UN specialized police unit deploy for Chad to start key t...

"First officers from UN specialized police unit deploy for Chad to start key training role 21 November 2007 – The first officers from the United Nations Standing Police Capacity will depart for Chad today to start training recruits for a specialized Chadian police unit...

La guayabita: House Resolution supports Afro-Colombians

Will African in Latin America be recognised in the near future?  Hugo Chavez, on the very few Afro-Indio leaders in Latin American history says yes, and urged the Columbian government to address these...

Rape Gets a Lot More Painful

This seems to be a real product launch, and not a hoax. South Africa has a lethal combination of high instances of rape and high HIV infection rates, so one company decided to strike back. One rand is awfully...

Nepal's new source of unrest

"Nepal's new source of unrest By Charles Haviland BBC News, Kathmandu The government has asked Maoists to talk to the southern insurgents Nepal's 10-year civil war appears to be over, with Maoist rebels locking up their weapons and preparing to join the government. But with...

Artificial Sweetner Explodes Internally - Avoid It In 2007

Artificial Sweetner Explodes Internally - Avoid It In 2007 Shane Ellison M. Sc. NewsWithViews.com ...

Socialism in One Country

"By creating the world market, big industry has already brought all the peoples of the Earth, and especially the civilized peoples, into such close relation with one another that none is independent of what happens to the others. Further, it has co-ordinated the social...

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