SRI LANKA REFUGEES – PRODUCT OF THE SIX DECADES OF SRI LANKAN GENOCIDE The arrival of freighter MV Sun Sea with some 500 asylum seekers off the Canadian coast revived a furious debate over whether it is people smuggling activity with security implications for the host country or a deeper problem caused by […]
SRI LANKA REFUGEES – PRODUCT OF THE SIX DECADES OF SRI LANKAN GENOCIDE
SRI LANKA REFUGEES – PRODUCT OF THE SIX DECADES OF SRI LANKAN GENOCIDE The arrival of freighter MV Sun Sea with some 500 asylum seekers off the Canadian coast revived a furious debate over whether it is people smuggling activity with security implications for the host country or a deeper problem caused by […]
China Suffers Worst Drought in 5 decades
In China, 8 major winter wheat growing provinces suffer a once-in-half-a-century drought; provinces like Shan Dong and He Bei have not received any rainfall since autumn. Despite growing optimism brought by the forecast of rain soon, the area affected by the drought has increased to over 20 million hectares. Office of State […]
Water-Powered Car Invention Ignored For Decades by RP Government
Before Honda could unveil its water-powered car last June 2008, the same idea or know-how was already developed by a Filipino inventor in the 80’s. It was Mr. Daniel Dingle who was probably the first man to make an antidote programmed to reduce the world’s “addiction to oil” the popular Bush quotation referring to America’s […]
Iranians Count Cost of War, Two Decades On
Disabled veterans say they get little recognition or reward for their role in the Iran-Iraq conflict. By Fariba Pajooh in Tehran Twenty-two years ago, Keyvan lost both legs below the knee in an Iraqi mortar attack near the southern Iranian city of Abadan. Under-age when he signed up to fight in the Iran-Iraq war, he […]
A Christmas Card From Anne Frank Discovered 7 Decades Later
On Wednesday, April 23, 2008, a new valuable piece of history was discovered in a Dutch antique shop known as De Regenboog, located in the town and municipality called Naarden. Naarden is located in the Gooi region in the Netherlands’ province of North Holland. Naarden is a fortified town with walls and a moat, in […]