The top of 50 Heroes of our time: Aung San Suu Kyi

 Aung San Suu Kyi
Heroes of our time – the top amongst 50
 

There was no doubt about our winner: Aung San Suu Kyi, who received three times as many nominations as even the great Mandela in second place. She has, as Richard Eyre wrote of her in a recent issue, “endured grief, danger and loneliness with [...]

Anwar Ibrahim, one of The World’s Most Influential People

Anwar Ibrahim
By Paul Wolfowitz
The World’s Most Influential People
Our fifth annual list of the world’s most influential people: leaders, thinkers, heroes, artists, scientists and more

Leaders & Revolutionaries
Heroes & Pioneers
Scientists & Thinkers
Artists & Entertainers
Builders & Titans

Holier-than-thou Malaysians exposed by illegals in UK

  
Holier-than-thou Malaysians exposed by illegals in UK
Envoy appeals to overstayers in Britain to go home
 
With this exposure, Malaysians could be black pots if you all profile all Indons, Africans and Myanmars as black kettles.
FYI, there are more than 100,000 Malaysian illegals in US, UK, Aystralia, Japan, Canada etc. And there are thousands of Malaysian refugees in Burma after the [...]

Nuclear Disasters and Accidents

 One of the scariest things about nuclear power is when something goes wrong and an accident occurs. Radiation is released into the environment and people get hurt. Two of the most famous nuclear accidents occurred at the Three Mile Island reactor 2 in the United States and the Chernobyl reactor 4 in the former Soviet [...]

Major Nuclear Power Plant Accidents

December 12, 1952
A partial meltdown of a reactor’s uranium core at the Chalk River plant near Ottawa, Canada, resulted after the accidental removal of four control rods. Although millions of gallons of radioactive water poured into the reactor, there were no injuries.

RISKS OF NUCLEAR POWER

Bernard L. Cohen, Sc.D.
Professor at the University of Pittsburgh
Radiation
The principal risks associated with nuclear power arise from health effects of radiation. This radiation consists of subatomic particles traveling at or near the velocity of light—186,000 miles per second. They can penetrate deep inside the human body where they can damage biological cells and thereby initiate [...]