Australia said: A FOREIGNER, Malaysian woman charged in Melbourne with smuggling drug in bra

   Malaysian woman charged in Melbourne with smuggling drug in bra
 
MELBOURNE, Jan 23 — Australia has charged a Malaysian woman with attempting to smuggle heroin into Melbourne by hiding the drug in her bra.
Customs Department officials say they suspected the woman may have been carrying drugs when she arrived yesterday at Melbourne International Airport on [...]

Food for thought for our privatization advocator leaders

Food for thought for our privatization advocator leaders: 
Paul Krugman, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
advised for the nationalization of banks
Paul Robin Krugman (pronounced /ˈkɹuːɡmən/; born February 28, 1953) is anAmerican economist, columnist, author andintellectual. He is a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University, and a columnist for The New York Times. In 2008, Krugman won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences ”for his [...]

U Thant – Missle Bases. Castro Balks at the UN Team 1962

A Burmese Hero – U Thant

Migrant Crackdown Won’t Solve Problem: Rights Groups

By LAWI WENG
from:Irrawaddy
The Thai government’s vow to crackdown on illegal migrants will not solve the country’s migrant problems, say human rights groups.
Jackie Pollock, a founding member of the Chiang Mai-based Migrant Assistance Program (MAP), said, “A crackdown is not a good solution. It’s just making migrants’ lives more risky. The best solution is to offer [...]

Cloud cuckoo land

 
Cloud cuckoo land
 
Cloud Cuckoo Land refers to an unrealistically idealistic state where everything is perfect. (“You’re living in Cloud-cuckoo-land.”) It hints that the person referred to is naïve, unaware of reality or deranged in holding such an optimistic belief. The reference is to the play, The Birds by the Athenian playwright Aristophanes, in which Pisthetairos (which can be translated to mean [...]

Dreams from My Father, Barack Obama, Sr.

 
Dreams from My Father, Barack Obama, Sr.
 
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance is a memoir by President of the United States Barack Obama. It was first published in 1995 after Obama was elected the firstAfrican-American president of the Harvard Law Review, but before his political career began. The book was re-released in 2004 following Senator Obama’s keynote address at [...]

Third UNSG, the late, U Thant of Burma 100th birthday anniversary

Third UNSG, the late, U Thant of Burma 100th birthday anniversary  

3rd Secretary-General of the United Nations

In office
November 30, 1961 – January 1, 1972

Preceded by
Dag Hammarskjöld

Succeeded by
Kurt Waldheim

Born
January 22, 1909
Pantanaw, Burma, British India

Died
November 25, 1974 (aged 65)
New York City, USA

Nationality
Burmese

Spouse
Daw Thein Tin

Religion
Buddhism

 

 

Al Jazeera:UN releases Gaza attack photos

 
The United Nations has released images of what it believes are white phosphorus munitions raining down on one of its compounds during Israel’s war on Gaza.
The pictures, broadcast by Al Jazeera on Thursday, show what appears to be flame-generating munitons, thought to be white phosphorus “wedges”, falling into a UN compound in Gaza where hundreds of [...]