China announces world's first live panda through frozen-sperm
Region: China
The first live birth of panda through artificial insemination was announced on Friday at Wolong Giant Panda Research Center, China's Sichuan province. This is the third baby for the panda mother You You and the ... more
Views: 1470Freedom Isn't Free - We Still Aren't Free of Sarah Palin
Region: United States7 4 09 Freedom Isn’t Free – We Still Aren’t Free of Sarah Palin By Mary Lyon Happy Independence Day, on the eve of which we’ve been reminded that we are FAR from declaring our national indepe... more
Views: 1246United Nation calls for Asia trade push
Region: IndonesiaThe UN Economic and Social Commissions for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) , which is monitoring the spending of fiscal stimulus packages in the region, is calling for intra-regional trade to be expanded. Goverments and multi... more
Views: 1078The first anniversary of the 8.0 magnitude Sichuan earthquake
Region: Hong KongToday, 12 May, marks the first anniversary of the 8.0 magnitude Sichuan earthquake. A year has passed but many wounds are still open and many lives remain shattered. Tens of thousands of victims still live in temporary she... more
Views: 2934Sufi Muahammad’s son is killed in the attack in Lower Dir
Region: Pakistan
Lower Dir, Pakistan: In an attack, the TNSM chief Maulana Sufi Muhammad’s son, Kifayat ullah was killed, according to media reports. The security forces pounded the different areas of Swat and Buner today an... more
Views: 1159Learn from the scars and use your baton
Region: IndiaThe 15th general election of India for electing members of parliament for the lower house ‘The Lok Sabha’, is going on. The country is phased out for polling on different dates in a span of nearly a month start... more
Views: 2026Woman Accused Boss of Sexual Harassment
Region: United Kingdom (Great Britain)A 51-year old pretty middle-aged lady who works as an equity broker for a European company accused his boss of pestering her with sex. Rosemarie Corscadden of Hertfordshire, England, said that her boss has offered her ... more
Views: 893Slumdog Millionaire : two ways of looking
Region: IndiaA question that will never be quite settled is related to the extent of realism in cinema: should cinema expose harsh truth or should it portray a carefully sanitized picture of society. This question has again come to the... more
Views: 1419Dalit Student Moves SC Against Racial Discrimination by IIT Kharagpur
Region: IndiaAfter Delhi IIT, it is the turn of Kharagpur IIT, which is facing a racial discrimination charge against a Dalit student, as per a writ filed by the 23 year-old student in the Supreme Court (SC) on 17th Feb’09 accusi... more
Views: 2481California Judge Rules Expulsion by Private Schools Based on Sexual Orientation is Legal
Region: CaliforniaIn October 2005, two female students at California Lutherian High School were expelled after the school's principal, Gregory Bork, concluded that they were gay. A month earlier, another student at the school told Bork tha... more
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