Share I am getting angrier everyday watching this unrestrained massacre unfolds. Bombing UN schools? They must be cold-blooded enough to do that. The world’s — I should say the western world — double standard once again shows how terrible they could be when they name someone “terrorists”. How many Israeli civilians have the Hamas killed [...]
Share BC Stats release – With the rapid economic growth of countries such as China and India, Asia has become a focal point for exporters looking to expand their marketplace. For British Columbia, Asia has long been an important destination for the province’s commodity exports, with the share of BC’s total goods exports rising above [...]
Share Japan Times – The Tokyo High Court on Wednesday upheld a lower court defamation ruling, ordering a historian and a publishing company to pay a combined 4 million to a female Nanjing Massacre survivor for calling her an impostor in a book about the atrocity. Dismissing appeals from both the plaintiff and the defendants, [...]
Share Washington Post – The crew of a Chinese airliner bound for Beijing thwarted an attempt to crash the plane last week, a Chinese government official said Sunday. The plane had taken off from the region of Xinjiang in northwestern China, where police in January raided an office of an ethnic minority separatist group. Police [...]
Share World’s first triangular coin has been presented on December 6, 2007, to commemorate the return of treasures of Tutankhamun to the capital of UK. The coins, having the shape of a pyramid, represent a part of a series depicting artifacts that were uncovered in the tomb of the young pharaoh. The place, were the [...]
Share Canadian Media Research Consortium release – Members of Parliament and the journalists who report on them agree on the importance of accuracy, balance and impartiality in reporting, but are poles apart on just how far journalists should go to get their stories. Those are just some of the findings in an insightful new study [...]
Share Oh boy, we are going to experience much chill this winter :P CTV – The weather phenomenon La Nina will bring Canada the coldest winter in nearly 15 years, Environment Canada warned Friday. Environment Canada’s temperature forecast shows the majority of the country will experience a “temperature anomaly” of below-normal temperatures through the months [...]
Share In today’s Asahi.com, there is an article blasting the lack of effort by the post-war Japanese governments to extricate remains of soldiers died overseas, as well as questioning if the Japanese leaders “wants to hide the truth because it is afraid of being held responsible for the war?” The author talks about his recent [...]
Share This is REALLY cool. Hundreds of naked people pose in front of the Aletsch glacier during a massive naked photo session with U.S. photographer Spencer Tunick, near Bettmeralp, Switzerland, Saturday Aug. 18, 2007. The environmental group Greenpeace commissioned Tunick to take pictures of nude volunteers on a Swiss glacier to call attention to the [...]
Share Free Internet Press – The Australian government has admitted the need to secure oil supplies is a factor in Australia’s continued military involvement in Iraq. Defense Minister Brendan Nelson said Thursday that oil was a factor in Australia’s contribution to the unpopular war, as “energy security” and stability in the Middle East would be [...]
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