Thailand’s Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej and his cabinet survived a bitter no-confidence vote called by fellow members of parliament. The opposition called for a no confidence vote over allegations of economic mismanagement, and Samaks’s alleged disregard for Thai sovereignty. The final vote saw 280 votes against the motion, and 162 cast as no-confidence. Sharply...
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A Casa-212 aircraft owned by the Indonesian air force disappeared while on a flight from the capital Jakarta to Bogor in West Java Friday morning. The plane was carrying 12 Indonesian military personnel and 6 civilians including a British, Singaporean and Indian national. The plane was tasked to test a new digital camera designed...
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A CNN producer reported that the North Korean authorities did indeed destroy the cooling tower of the Yongbyong nuclear facility and admitted on global television that they did extract plutonium in the said facility to build nuclear weapons. Five television networks from countries party to the six-nation talks that constructively engaged North Korea to...
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After 33 years of managing software giant Microsoft, founder Bill Gates has retired from day-to-day management. Gates will retain the title of Chairman but without executive functions and will only report for work once a week. The man who took a gut feel of seeing personal computers in every household three decades and each...
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Setting aside their bitter rivalry for the Democratic nomination for President, New York senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Illinois senator Barak Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate went up on stage together to with a theme of “unity”. The joint meeting was a presentation to party supporters in a small town called Unity in...
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A year since taking up residence at No. 10 Downing street, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Labour Party is already in trouble after losing a local election, finishing fifth after previously win-less political parties and popularity rating at an all time low. Health Minister Ben Bradshaw described the party’s lost to the...
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The National Snow and Ice Data Center based in Boulder, Colorado said that there will be a 50% chance that the already thin ice on the North Pole will melt away this September as a result of the on-going global warming. The center’s senior researcher Mark Serreze said that in September of 2007, ice...
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An asteroid the size of Pluto that slammed into the Northern hemisphere of Mars created the Borealis basin, based on the latest survey of NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Mars Global Surveyor. The report released by the magazine Nature explains the 1984 observation of the unusual shape of Mars terrain in the northern hemisphere...
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In a previous blog, I wrote about a major disadvantage of fulltime homemaking as an occupation: there is no retirement from it. In that blog, I mentioned that my father is retired from being a cab driver. In the years since that retirement, he has never once expressed any guilt feeling about failing to...
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