China’s Inner Mongolia ‘under heavy security’
Chinese authorities have tightened security across the province of Inner Mongolia after days of unrest, rights groups and residents say. Read More
Vietnam accuses China in seas dispute
Vietnam’s foreign ministry has accused China of increasing regional tensions in an escalating territorial dispute. A rare weekend news briefing followed a confrontation in the South China Sea between a Vietnamese oil and gas survey ship and Chinese patrol boats. Read More
Drought affects 35 million, no end in sight
BEIJING – The drought that has affected 35 million people and caused an economic loss of almost 15 billion yuan ($2.3 billion) in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River is a persistent “yellow alarm”, the National Meteorological Center said on Sunday. Read More
Half of New Testament forged, Bible scholar says
By John Blake, CNN (CNN) – A frail man sits in chains inside a dank, cold prison cell. He has escaped death before but now realizes that his execution is drawing near. “I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come,” […]
China: Can Education Curb a Mistress Epidemic?
This fall, young girls in China’s southern Guangdong province will be learning a new subject in school: how to avoid becoming a mistress. Although Chairman Mao kept a stable of women at his disposal, extramarital peccadilloes were frowned upon during China’s more fervent socialist years. But as economic reforms have […]
Rafah Crossing Opens; Egypt Refuses Israeli Interference
Gaza – PNN – Hundreds of Palestinian moved in and out of the Gaza Strip on Saturday as the Egyptian Authorities reopened the Rafah crossing with the Gaza Strip after four years of closure. As Palestinian residents expressed happiness and hope that the opening of Rafah border crossing with Egypt […]
Malta votes ‘Yes’ in divorce referendum
Malta has voted “Yes” in a non-binding referendum on legalising divorce, Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi has conceded, local media report. Almost three-quarters of the electorate voted on Saturday on whether divorce should be introduced in Malta. A majority Catholic country, Malta is the only EU country not to allow divorce. Figures […]
‘Saudi Sir Edmund Hillary’ calls Al-Houby role model for youth
By GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN | ARAB NEWS RIYADH: Farouk Saad Hamad Al-Zuman, the first Saudi who conquered Mount Everest in 2008, has congratulated Palestinian climber Suzanne Al-Houby for becoming the first Arab woman to scale the world’s highest mountain and for sending a message of peace to Israelis and Palestinians […]
Yemen leader accused of allowing Islamist takeover
By AHMED AL-HAJ | AP SANAA: Hundreds of Islamic militants cemented control over a town in southern Yemen, even seizing army tanks, military officials said, while breakaway army units encouraged other military forces to switch their loyalties and join the uprising. The growing number of defections in the military posed […]
Ministry: Pilgrims must be given consummate Umrah services
By MD HUMAIDAN | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: The Haj Ministry has asked the companies providing Umrah services to provide consummate services to the guests of God and asked them to submit their operational plans for the second part of the Umrah season falling in the months of June and July. […]
Move to the UN
Whoever waits for US and Israel to change their Palestine policy will wait a lifetime In deciding to seek full UN membership for a Palestinian state in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, with East Jerusalem as its capital, the Arab League is announcing that the current wave of […]
Jordan’s wastewater used in irrigation the best in the world – experts
By Hana Namrouqa AMMAN – Wastewater treatment systems applied in Jordan for the irrigation of crops are the safest in the world, an international expert in treated wastewater reuse said on Sunday. Jordan applies one of the safest wastewater treatment schemes, the expert said. He made the remarks following field […]
Jordan, Iraq to build Aqaba-Baghdad railway
AMMAN (Petra) – Jordan and Iraq on Sunday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to pave the way for implementing a railway connectivity project between the two countries. Transport Minister Mohannad Qudah and his Iraqi counterpart Hadi Al Amiri signed the agreement in the presence of Egypt’s Transport Minister Atef […]
‘Qadhafi was blamed for US cluster bombings’: Human Rights Investigations
The ongoing HRI (Human Rights Investigations) investigation of the cluster bombing of Misrata, Libya in April 2011 has found convincing evidence the bombing was committed by U.S. naval forces On the 15th of April 2011, during the day, sub-munitions of a MAT-120 cluster bomb were shown to Human Rights Watch […]
Begumpura “colony of wives” in Mississauga, Canada
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/998962–colony-of-wives-thrives-in-mississauga?bn=1 Ilmana Fasih was at a wedding in Mississauga when she suffered an emotional meltdown. She remembers loud, lively music, table upon table of mouth-watering food and people chatting, cracking jokes. “I just started crying,” Fasih says. “I was feeling terrible that my husband wasn’t there . . . “There […]
The arrest of Ratko Mladic, another staged political event
Ratko Mladic is the Dutch worst nightmare from the Yugoslavia wars. He humiliated the Dutch UN mission by killing thousands of Bosnians with the Dutch standing by without authorisation to engage. He was ‘captured’ this week and brought to the International Court of Justice, The Hague. (ed.) According to Western […]
Memorial Day: How America Screws Its Soldiers
Everyone claims to “Support Our Troops.” But as Andrew J. Bacevich explains, telling the military it can do whatever it wants works for everyone—except for the soldiers themselves. Riders on Boston subways and trolleys are accustomed to seeing placards that advertise research being conducted at the city’s many teaching hospitals. […]
What Islam Wants: An ‘Illuminating’ interview of a Jamaat-e-Islami Leader?
Let’s Hear From Pakistan Jamat-e-Islami Leader, Maulana Nabiullah Khan “Jamhooria Islamia”, a monthly Baluchi magazine published from Panj-gar, published an interview with Maulana Nawabzadaa Nabiullah Khan, a confidant of and adviser to the Amir of leading Pakistani Islamic party, Jamaat-e-Islami, Maulana Qazi Ahmed, which was conducted by Jalil Amir. The following constitutes are excerpts from that conversation which […]
Badminton’s New Dress Code Is Being Criticized as Sexist
In an attempt to revive flagging interest in women’s badminton as the 2012 London Olympics approach, officials governing the sport have decided that its female athletes need to appear more, how to put it, womanly. To create a more “attractive presentation,” the Badminton World Federation has decreed that women must […]
Iraq toys with polygamy as solution for war widows
Years of conflict in Iraq have left the country with more than one million war widows and a shortage of young unmarried men – pressures that may be bringing about the return of polygamy. Politicians have suggested financial incentives for men who marry widows. Hanan lost eight members of her […]