Govt rejects claims, as Qantas quits FJ board May 30, 2012 | Filed under: Business | Posted by: newsroom By ELLEN STOLZ The Fijian Government last night said it is disappointed by Australian airline Qantas removing its directors from the Air Pacific board. The Government strongly rejected claims that Air Pacific could be nationalised. And […]
Life term for murderer May 31, 2012 | Filed under: Fiji News | Posted by: newsroom By JYOTI PRATIBHA The High Court in Labasa yesterday has sentenced Lepani Temo to life in prison for murder. Temo, who denied murdering his cousin and lover Susanna Niubalavu in Taveuni last November, was convicted of murder by Justice […]
Phone scam based here May 30, 2012 | Filed under: Fiji News | Posted by: newsroom By FONUA TALEI The Fiji Police Force played an active role in the crackdown of a transnational telephone scam ring in six Asian countries and Fiji last week. A total of 482 suspects have been arrested in an operation […]
By: Sultan Al-Qassemi First published on Gulfnews.com on 20th of May 2012 The post-Arab Spring political scene has exposed the frailty of the ‘marriage of convenience’ between free-thinkers and conservatives. […]
AFP | May 30,2012 | JORDAN TIMES TEL AVIV — If Israel and the Palestinians cannot reach a full peace accord, Israel should pursue an interim agreement or unspecified unilateral […]
Sabria S. Jawhar ARABNEWS Wednesday 30 May 2012 An incident recently at a Riyadh mall and posted on YouTube revealed a startling altercation between a young Saudi woman and the […]
Wednesday 30 May 2012 ARABNEWS MOSCOW: Russia criticized Western nations yesterday for expelling Syrian envoys, calling the move “counterproductive,” and warned them not to seek new UN Security Council action […]
Source: Homesteading/survivalism Pretty cool recycle idea for the homestead?? Outdoor hanging bed or lounge/play area … made out of an old TRAMPOLINE.
Business Insider Given the weighty U.S. sanctions imposed upon Iran for its nuclear program, this is a story we never expected to write. A group of leading American nuclear scientists in New Jersey are joining forces with an Iranian team. The New Jersey-based research firmLawrenceville Plasma Physics (LLP) have announced they’ve […]
Business Insider Barton Biggs, the storied hedge fund manager who runs Traxis Partners, recently had an interesting encounter recently over lunch with a Saudi businessman who explained to him the […]
President Barack Obama is under growing pressure to apologise to Poland after the country’s prime minister publicly rebuked him for making reference to “Polish death camps” in the Second World […]
Source: BBC More French people live in London than in Bordeaux, Nantes or Strasbourg and it is now thought to be France’s sixth biggest city in terms of population. What […]
Moscow : The full capacity launch of Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant, the first in the country, may be rescheduled to June from May, a Russian official said. “An approval […]
Forget concentration camps — they’re so 20th century! The latest craze in Vienna is for “integration camps”, which help prepare Austrian citizens for the future by requiring them to adapt […]
Source: BBC The successful sequencing of the tomato genome will lead to tastier varieties within five years say scientists. They believe that the elusive flavour of home grown tomatoes will by then be widely available in supermarkets. Writing in the journal Nature, the researchers say the genetic information could reduce […]
Source: Daily Press APPLE VALLEY • He was born into the middle of a war, with his mother hoping he’d stay in her womb as long as possible so things […]
Source: Pakistan Christian Post Lahore: May 29, 2012. (PCP) Bus Tour helping to bridge growing gaps among different religion’s youth in Pakistan by pointing out the commonalities of all faiths and by fostering interfaith understanding and cooperation, this program created an environment where religious factors are set aside and relationships […]
For years many Indian-Pakistani couples in the UAE have been unable to travel to each other’s countries because of strict visa rules. But a landmark agreement is about to change […]
930 more families across the country are being granted UAE nationality By Bassma Al Jandaly, Senior Reporter GULF NEWS Dubai: In a continuing campaign, 930 more families across the country […]
Source: BBC Liberia’s ex-President Charles Taylor has been sentenced to 50 years in jail by a UN-backed war crimes court. Last month Taylor was found guilty of aiding and abetting […]