Japanese gov’t intervenes to stem yen’s rise against dollar
TOKYO — Japan intervened in the foreign currency market Thursday and its central bank eased monetary policy, landing a one-two punch to knock the yen from export-sapping highs. Read more
Perak Veterinary deputy found strangled to death
IPOH: State Veterinary Services Department deputy director Dr Rohani Kasim (pix) was found dead at her rented Permai Lake View apartment unit Thursday. It is learnt that Dr Rohani, 33, was found stangled in the house at 3am. Police have detained a man to assist in the investigations and are […]
Chinese majority again
GEORGE TOWN: The Chinese are back as the majority, overtaking the Malays as the largest community in Penang with them accounting for 42.9% of the state’s population last year, 2.2% more than the Malays. According to the latest report by the Department of Statistics, the number of Chinese in Penang […]
Bank officer’s kind gesture lands him in a jam
KUALA TERENGGANU: A kind gesture by a bank officer in giving way to an ambulance proved disastrous as his car was rammed by another vehicle. Mohd Haslin Ibrahim, 34, was sending his wife Salina Salleh, 31, to work at 11.30am when they stopped at the Gong Kapas traffic light here. […]
When in Rome … (actually, When in Dubai…)
By annabelkantaria, mytelegraph When visiting a foreign country, to what extent should you go to fit in with that country’s way of life? I pose the question as the Holy month of Ramadan begins across the Muslim world and, with it, comes a debate provoked by the Association of British […]
Dar Al-Hekma girls attend global leadership forum in Singapore
By ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Construction Products Holding Company (CPC) has sponsored the participation of three girl students from Dar Al-Hekma College in Jeddah in the five-day Global Leadership Conference 2011 held recently in Singapore. The conference was in preparation for the Earth Summit to be held in Rio de Janeiro, […]
Bahrain ‘fully supports’ Jordan GCC bid
AMMAN (Jordan Times) – His Majesty King Abdullah on Wednesday held talks with Bahrain’s King Hamad Ben Isa Al Khalifa, which focused on developing the Jordanian-Bahraini relations and the current regional conditions, according to a Royal Court statement. During the talks at Rawda Palace in Manama, both leaders stressed the […]
Prince Naif wins libel case against UK paper
By AGENCIES, ARAB NEWS LONDON: A UK court has ordered the newspaper The Independent on Wednesday to pay Second Deputy Premier and Minister of Interior of Saudi Arabia, Prince Naif, libel damages over an article which accused him of ordering police chiefs to shoot and kill unarmed demonstrators during this […]
Cue the curtain on Pakistani minorities
Source: Dawn On 28 May 2010, two Ahmadi “places of worship” were attacked simultaneously during Friday prayers in Lahore. As the siege went on for hours, news channels across the board were strewn with live footage from the scene of attack. For the first time in Pakistani history, Ahmadi community, […]
Kingdom of David: Four hour PBS documentary about Jewish history
Very interesting documentary. First episode: Kingdom of David: Rivers of Babylon: http://video.pbs.org/video/1354541084/ Watch all four parts in Youtube Wikipedia has a page about the Documentary: Kingdom of David was a part of the Empire Series of history documentaries for the [Public Broadcasting Service] (PBS) Public television stations produced by Oregon […]
India’s Frustration With Corruption Boils Over: Choudhury
Source: Bloomberg News It’s possible that, in the long view, 2011 will be seen as Indian democracy’s summer of discontent. It’s hard to escape the sense of simmering mass unrest bred by the cynicism and cupidity of the political class. In the capital, the UPA coalition government, led by the […]
Ten suspected thieves beaten to death in India
Source: BBC News Ten suspected thieves have been beaten to death by villagers in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, police said. They said the killings took place in Chikaballapur, 55km (34 miles) from the state capital, Bangalore, late on Tuesday. One man was injured. More than 70 people have […]
Africa drought: World ‘must do more’ – Andrew Mitchell
Too many countries have not woken up to the scale of east Africa’s drought, the International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell has said. He spoke as planes with UK-backed aid arrived in Somalia and convoys reached Kenyan and Ethiopian refugee camps. Britons have donated £42m – and the UK government £95m […]
Germany Investigating Facebook Tagging Feature
Courtesy: NY Times By KEVIN J. O’BRIEN Published: August 3, 2011 BERLIN — A German regulator said Wednesday that he had asked Facebook, the social networking leader, to disable its new photo-tagging feature, which he warned could violate European privacy laws. Read More It is becoming more evident that the […]
France, the world’s most depressed nation?
France 24: France was proclaimed “world champion of misery” by its own press this week after a report published in the US rated the French as most likely to suffer from clinical depression. The statistics are there, but is the reality? A World Health Organisation (WHO) report published in the […]
Vilnius mayor crushes car parked in cycle lane
The mayor of Lithuania’s capital, Vilnius, has been filmed using an armoured vehicle to crush a car parked illegally in a cycle lane. “That’s what will happen if you park your car illegally,” Mayor Arturas Zuokas, an avid cyclist, says in a clip posted on the Vilnius City website. The […]
Private sector added 114,000 jobs in July
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Private employers added more jobs than expected in July, though less than in June, but planned layoffs rose to a 16-month high, according to separate surveys on Wednesday. The data comes ahead of the U.S. government’s key jobs report on Friday, which is forecast to show […]
Two Churches Torched in Indonesia
Two homes used as churches were burned to the ground in Riau on Tuesday night, a report said. The incidents are the latest in a series of attacks on minority religious groups in Indonesia that have prompted international condemnation, including from the United States and European Union. The homes were […]
Netanyahu agrees to 1967 border for Palestinian state
Source: Israel Today Magazine Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to restart peace negotiations with the Palestinians using the pre-1967 borders as a baseline for a final status peace agreement, according to Israeli media. Officials in Netanyahu’s office told various newspapers that the proposal is actually a package deal that […]