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New Maldives leader moves to curb 'anarchy'
AFP, Published on 09/02/2012
» The new president of the Maldives Mohamed Waheed, who is accused by his predecessor of taking part in a coup, struggled Thursday to contain "anarchy" in the holiday paradise as protests and violence spread.
Bikers in Bangkok don't bother with rules
News, Published on 08/02/2012
» The safety issue regarding motorcycles is complicated by one serious problem. I refer to the flagrant abuse of traffic laws and good sense.
Tigers 'attack tourist bus in China'
AFP, Published on 07/02/2012
» A group of tourists visiting a wildlife park in eastern China had a narrow escape after Bengal tigers attacked their bus, puncturing its tyres and destroying the windscreen, state media said Tuesday.
Philippine rescuers search for quake survivors
AFP, Published on 07/02/2012
» Rescuers in the Philippines dug through rubble with their bare hands on Tuesday in a frantic search for survivors, a day after a powerful earthquake killed dozens of people.
Brazil police strike leader vows resistance
AFP, Published on 07/02/2012
» Police strikers occupying the state legislature in the Brazilian city of Salvador vowed to resist if troops try to flush them out amid a tense standoff between the security forces.
Philippine rescuers search for quake survivors
AFP, Published on 06/02/2012
» Rescuers in the Philippines dug through rubble with shovels and their bare hands Tuesday after a powerful earthquake triggered landslides, collapsed homes and killed dozens of people.
Alternative ways
Guru, Pornchai Sereemongkonpol, Published on 03/02/2012
» Although we're all budding non-materialistic Buddhists, we need money and can always use more of it. And while most of us try to get a degree and become a white-collar salary slave, some people have made serious baht in more imaginative ways. Besides drug trafficking (which we strongly advise against), here are six unconventional ways people have generated their dough.
Philippines kills top Islamic militants
AFP, Published on 02/02/2012
» The Philippines said it killed three of Southeast Asia's top Islamic militants in a US-backed airstrike on Thursday, including a Malaysian bombmaker with a $5-million bounty on his head.
Kathmandu orders mass eviction of 'river squatters'
AFP, Published on 02/02/2012
» Bimala Bardewa stands by her fragile cement block home on the riverbank, directing her children as they prepare for school and ignoring the stench rising from the fetid water below.
In the eyes of a 'TigerGeneral'
B Magazine, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 29/01/2012
» On the cover it's a memoir, the foreword says the book is indebted to its main subject and the copyright page claims it's a work of fiction. The Tiger General is certainly too accurate in its historical, cultural and espionage details for the characters to be entirely invented, and with a complete absorption in time and place difficult to pull off with such precision in fiction.