Will the giant clock of Makkah replace Greenwich? |
- Will the giant clock of Makkah replace Greenwich?
- Bomb kills eight Iraqi soldiers, wounds four
- The showy Flower Horns
- The high cost of high-income economy
- S.Korea to toughen punishment for animal abusers
- Dog marathon returns
- Study: Beatings, bullying rife in Philippine schools
- Philippines to hand out excess rice to children
- YBAM helping Buddhist students societies to get started
- Aussie punter puts 180,000 dollars on PM election win
- Beatings, bullying rife in Philippine schools: study
- Pakistani militants urge rejection of Western aid
- Teng, Liu can bring witnesses for disciplinary hearing
- Does it matter what religion we belong to?
- Strong 6.0 magnitude quake shakes Vanuatu
- Downpours bring more worries for China landslide town
- Storm delays BP relief well by 2-3 days
- Downpours bring more worries for China landslide town
- Obama’s health care hard sell
- Philippines to hand out excess rice to children
| Will the giant clock of Makkah replace Greenwich? Posted: 11 Aug 2010 12:40 AM PDT JEDDAH, Aug 11: The giant clock of Makkah is all set to tick home a new time standard, as some scholars believe that it will be an ideal alternative to the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
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| Bomb kills eight Iraqi soldiers, wounds four Posted: 11 Aug 2010 12:27 AM PDT BAGHDAD, Aug 11 — A bomb explosion killed eight Iraqi soldiers in the northern Diyala province and wounded four others today, police said. The bomb exploded when soldiers raided a house in the town of Sadiya, northeast of Diyala's capital Baquba, police said. No further details were immediately available. — Reuters
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| Posted: 11 Aug 2010 12:34 AM PDT Their bodies are as gorgeous as flowers; they have bulgy foreheads and charming ink spots on their bodies, and they more than qualify as the darlings of the aquarium!
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| The high cost of high-income economy Posted: 11 Aug 2010 12:27 AM PDT To transform the country into a high-income economy, we should not just sit down and wait. The government should legislate and implement a minimum wage system within a year. Meanwhile, employers must improve management and employees must improve productivity.
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| S.Korea to toughen punishment for animal abusers Posted: 11 Aug 2010 12:20 AM PDT SEOUL, Wednesday 11 August 2010 (AFP) - South Korea will toughen punishment for animal abusers after a series of pet cruelty cases provoked public outrage, the government said Wednesday.
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| Posted: 11 Aug 2010 12:19 AM PDT SERDANG: The Dog Marathon returned again! The annual event started 13 years ago has received great response from dog lovers especially in 2008 when it attracted 611 dogs to participated and created a Malaysian record.
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| Study: Beatings, bullying rife in Philippine schools Posted: 10 Aug 2010 03:35 PM PDT  MANILA: Beatings and sexual harassment are rife in state-run schools in the Philippines, with many pupils also routinely bullied, according to a government-led study published this week. Schools tolerate teachers spanking, beating, pinching, slapping, cursing and shouting at children to impose discipline, and there are no standard mechanisms for addressing complaints, the Council for the Welfare of Children said. "Children experience violence both from their peers in school and from school personnel," the council, an agency of the social welfare ministry, said in a summary of its findings. "The degree or gravity as well as the incidence of abuse increases as the child graduates from one level to another." The survey, a random sampling this year of schools in the country's three largest cities and six rural provinces, found four in 10 children suffered some kind of violence in class in their first three years in school. Children begin going to schools in the Philippines at age seven. The violence worsened to 70% of students between fourth grade and high school, with verbal abuse, including being shouted at, cursed, ridiculed, teased or humiliated, the most common incident suffered. While male children were more likely to suffer physical violence, verbal sexual harassment was experienced equally by both sexes. Violence was more common in urban areas than rural ones. "Adults condone corporal punishment as long as it does not 'leave a mark' (for example bruises, wounds) on children," it added. Michael Diamond, country director of children's rights watchdog Plan International Inc that helped fund the study, said the violence may be contributing to the high student dropout rate in Philippine schools. "Children who suffer violence... oftentimes lose their interest and totally refuse to go to school," Diamond said in a statement. The government estimates up to two million children drop out of Philippine schools every year. Twenty-three million started the new school year in June. Education ministry spokesmen said they were aware of the study but that the junior minister assigned to look into the issue, Undersecretary Alberto Muyot, was not available to make a comment today. - AFP
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| Philippines to hand out excess rice to children Posted: 10 Aug 2010 03:32 PM PDT
The give-away will free up space in 480 government warehouses where President Benigno Aquino has said unsold rice is rotting, National Food Authority (NFA) spokesman Rex Estoperez said. "All our warehouses are full and we cannot sell rice to the market," Estoperez said. "We will be using overstocked rice for the feeding programme. That is one strategy to de-clog the warehouses." He said about one million sacks of rice weighing 50kg each (50,000 tonnes) would be used in the mass feeding programme. The rice would be made into porridge for students at about 48,000 daycare centres operated by the social welfare department, Estoperez said. No specific timetable was given for the programme, although Estoperez said it would be carried out "as soon as possible". Estoperez said more surplus rice was available and the NFA would also give that away if the social welfare department requested. "This would depend on the requirements of the DSWD (social welfare department)," he said. The Philippines is the world's biggest importer of rice but Aquino, who took office on June 30, has accused the administration of his predecessor, Gloria Arroyo, of importing more than was needed. Aquino last month ordered a review of government rice import policies and appointed a new administrator for the NFA, stressing that some of the overstocked rice were rotting. NFA chief Lito Banayo said import orders by the Arroyo administration had been extremely excessive, and hinted that corrupt officials may have been responsible. "I don't want to judge my predecessors. Whether culpability lies in incompetence or something worse, which is... corruption, the figures speak for themselves," he said. He subsequently said the country was "swimming in rice". Banayo said 2.4 million tonnes of the grain bought by Arroyo's government last year were due for delivery in September, but there was no more space to store them. - AFP
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| YBAM helping Buddhist students societies to get started Posted: 11 Aug 2010 12:03 AM PDT The Negeri Sembilan state liaison committee of the Young Buddhist Association of Malaysia (YBAM) is helping three Buddhist students societies to get started, following the cabinet decision to allow school heads to approve the formation of non-Muslim clubs and societies.
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| Aussie punter puts 180,000 dollars on PM election win Posted: 10 Aug 2010 11:53 PM PDT SYDNEY, Wednesday 11 August 2010 (AFP) - A confident punter Wednesday slapped a whopping 200,000-dollar (182,000 US) bet on Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard to win August 21 elections, topping a sudden rash of wagers for the ruling party.
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| Beatings, bullying rife in Philippine schools: study Posted: 10 Aug 2010 11:50 PM PDT MANILA, Wednesday 11 August 2010 (AFP) - Beatings and sexual harassment are rife in state-run schools in the Philippines, with many pupils also routinely bullied, according to a government-led study published this week.
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| Pakistani militants urge rejection of Western aid Posted: 10 Aug 2010 11:52 PM PDT ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani Taliban militants have urged the government to reject Western aid for victims of devastating floods, saying it would only be siphoned off by corrupt officials.
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| Teng, Liu can bring witnesses for disciplinary hearing Posted: 10 Aug 2010 11:10 PM PDT Selangor DAP stalwarts Ronnie Liu and Teng Chang Khim, who have been summoned to face the party's disciplinary committee Thursday, are allowed to bring their own witnesses, committee chairman Tan Kok Wai said today.
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| Does it matter what religion we belong to? Posted: 10 Aug 2010 11:08 PM PDT Religious terms, mosques, churches and temples are not symbols of power or a matter of one-upmanship. They are our fellow man's way of worship and nothing else. Any act which infringes on the freedom of religion is not a lawful exercise of power but an exercise of tyranny and bigotry.
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| Strong 6.0 magnitude quake shakes Vanuatu Posted: 10 Aug 2010 11:05 PM PDT SYDNEY, Wednesday 11 August 2010 (AFP) - A strong 6.0 magnitude quake has shaken the Pacific island of Vanuatu, US monitors said Wednesday, a day after a bigger tremor triggered a small tsunami and sent thousands fleeing for the hills.
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| Downpours bring more worries for China landslide town Posted: 10 Aug 2010 11:23 PM PDT ZHOUQU, China (Reuters) - Heavy downpours may bring fresh misery on Wednesday to a Chinese town devastated by a landslide, swelling an unstable lake trapped behind a barrier of mud and debris and hindering the search for bodies.
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| Storm delays BP relief well by 2-3 days Posted: 10 Aug 2010 11:23 PM PDT HOUSTON (Reuters) - An approaching storm in the Gulf of Mexico will delay by two to three days BP Plc's work on a relief well, the final step in permanently killing the source of the world's worst offshore oil spill, the top U.S. spill official said on Tuesday.
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| Downpours bring more worries for China landslide town Posted: 10 Aug 2010 10:53 PM PDT BEIJING, Aug 11 — Heavy downpours may bring fresh misery today to a Chinese town devastated by a landslide, swelling an unstable lake trapped behind a barrier of mud and debris and hindering the search for bodies. There is little hope of finding more survivors in the remains of the valley town of Zhouqu, where 702 people are confirmed to have died ...
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| Posted: 10 Aug 2010 10:14 PM PDT WASHINGTON, Aug 11 — Despite the administration's focus on persuading seniors that the health care law is a good deal for them, there are increasing signs that they are not being swayed. They know little about the early benefits the law has offered but remember last year's heated town halls, replete with death panels and rationing. And ...
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| Philippines to hand out excess rice to children Posted: 10 Aug 2010 10:10 PM PDT MANILA, Wednesday 11 August 2010 (AFP) - The Philippines, the world's leading importer or rice, said on Wednesday it would hand out 50,000 tonnes of the surplus grain to children.
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