May 15, 2008

Over 40 children have died in an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) in China, and the country’s capital of Beijing reported its first death due to the disease on Wednesday. According to Xinhua News Agency, Beijing Health Bureau spokeswoman Deng Xiaohong said that the 13-month-old boy died Sunday while en route to [...]

May 14, 2008

A series of seven coordinated bombs detonated in Jaipur, the capital of the state Rajasthan, in India on Tuesday, May 13.
At least eighty people were killed and over two hundred injured in the attacks.
The bombs went off over a period of twenty minutes and tore through the city’s crowded bazaars, beginning at 7:20 p.m. IST [...]

Officials say the death toll in the recent earthquake in China has reached almost 15,000. The news comes as 2,000 of the nation’s troops were dispatched to the Zipingku Dam to repair “extremely dangerous” cracks in the structure, which is upriver from Dujiangyan City, already severely hit by the disaster.
It is feared the toll will [...]

May 5, 2008

At least 4,000 people have been reported dead after a tropical cyclone officially named “Nargis” struck Burma, which is also known as Myanmar. As a result it has been declared by the Burmese government that five states are currently disaster areas.
A diplomat in the area spoke to the Reuters news agency, giving them a description [...]

May 4, 2008

Primitive Love: Jayne Mansfield in something completely different
In Primitive Love, Jayne Mansfield, sex bomb, plays Jayne Mansfield the noted cultural anthropologist. Yep. If you think the premise is odd, you’re right, and the movie made from it is a genuine curiosity.
Looking her usual glamorous self, Jayne Mansfield checks into a hotel where she is to [...]

April 28, 2008

As if taking a page out of former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s playbook, the Chinese military has decreased troop levels by more than 200,000 men and women, the official newspaper of the People’s Liberation Army announced last week.
While liberals, Democrats and members of the news media openly showed distain for Rumsfeld when he [...]

April 20, 2008

I rarely write about issues of local importance, but this one required action.
KDHX-FM in St. Louis is one of the most powerful listener-supported FM stations in America. It can be heard as far away as Joplin, Missouri, and of course all over the internet.
This week KDHX is doing one of those long-winded fund [...]

April 18, 2008

Indonesian officials have expressed displeasure with a decision by the European Union to leave all 51 of the nation’s air carriers on the list of air carriers banned in the EU. State-owned flag carrier Garuda Indonesia had hoped to begin flights to Europe imminently and has ordered ten new jetliners to serve routes there and [...]

After admiting to price fixing on cargo services between Japan and the United States, Japan Airlines (JAL) has been fined US $110 million by the United States Department of Justice.
Prosecutors allege JAL earned $2 billion illegally between 2000 and 2006, although it is possible the scheme was operating as early as 1995. British Airways, Korean [...]

April 11, 2008

New ‘deadly’ sexual enhancement products have been found in Singaporean markets and can cause serious side effects on users.
The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) announced the presence of the illegal drugs, known as Power 1 Walnut, Santi bovine penis erecting capsule, Zhong Hua Niu Bian and fake Cialis, which have been discovered over the past 3 [...]