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A recent BBC report from Sudan said that Lubna Hussein, journalist and UN worker, is to be charged in Khartoum for wearing “indecent” clothing in a restuarant with 18 other women. It seems that 10 of these women (including non-Muslims) were already dealt with by the court – they were each fined $100 and ordered to be given [...] The bombing of the 2 hotels in Jakarta is still very much in the news in Indonesia. While press reports concentrate on the progress of police investigation and the possible outcome thereof, it is refreshing to read an article published in The Jakarta Post recently. In it the writer differentiates between ritualistic and religious. In an article [...] Manchester United FC’s pre-season tour was supposed to include Indonesia. In the runup to their visit to Jakarta, there was a TV advertisement showing – surprise, surprise – Wayne Rooney, Edwin van der Sar, Ryan Giggs, Rio Ferdinand, Park Ji-sung and Michael Carrick attending a Bahasa Indonesia language class. Enter the pretty teacher. She said, “All right boys, let’s [...] We are familiar with stories about banks disappearing due to financial crisis – in effect these banks failed and went into bankruptcies. But a BBC report the other day tells of a bank in Uganda called the Visa Finance Bank that disappeared quite literally. And no wonder, for it was really a scam run by what [...] Have you noticed how people are always complaining? They complain about everything, you try to address their grievances, but they still find something else to complain again and again. It is like they are ungrateful to all your efforts at trying to please them. The story is told of a regular customer at the restaurant who was always [...] We are all accustomed to beauty pageants such as the Miss Universe contest. It is pretty straightforward. Contestants from around the world parade before the judges wearing both the swim suits and the evening gowns. And then there is that individual interview round before the judges decide on a winner. But what if the contestants are [...] It is offical now. The H1N1 virus is declared the fastest moving pandemic of all time by no less an authority than the World Health Organization (WHO). Barely one month after declaring a pandemic, the WHO now says it’s pointless to report the number of infected cases because the number is growing too fast all over [...] Wouldn’t it be nice if we can know the end of each path that we take in life from the beginning, before we even set foot on that path? But the fact is that we don’t. Take the case of a Western tourist who visited a third world country. He wanted to go to some tourist attraction [...] It takes a world with trouble in it to make possible some of the finest qualities of life. You do not need to be an art connoisseur to realize that it is an essential of a good picture that in it there should be shadow as well as light. You do not need to be a [...] Today, parts of Asia (the Indian sub-continent, China and Japan) will witness a total solar eclipse. That’s when the moon moves between the earth and the sun and all three heavenly bodies are aligned in a straight line. For many, this is a once in a lifetime natural phenomenon. At least one promoter has chartered a plane to [...] |
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