Host nation Laos is doing its very best to make sure they don’t. For years, in news rooms across the region, reporters and editors have argued about the merits of sending teams of journalists and photographers to cover the annual ASEAN summits. Interest is in a state of constant decline …
Sophia Kuo says she still hears the whispers as she walks through international airports in her EVA Airways Corp. pilot’s uniform: “‘Wow, we have female pilots.’ ‘How does she fly an airplane?’ ‘She must be really smart!”’ More than eight decades after Amelia Earhart’s solo flight across the Atlantic, women …
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Places like ShantiNiketan, a retirement community for Indian-Americans, are examples of what may be a growing niche of the assisted living industry. Ram and Geeta Chandran had always planned to move into a senior community after they retired. The couple had no children, and “we knew we had to move …
Source: LOOK AT MY HAT – Cheezburger
Many soap operas are adapted from Thai novels in which rape of female protagonists is commonplace. Nitipan Wiprawit was watching television with his family when the soap opera plotline that he detests appeared once again on screen: a man bribes a hotel clerk to trick the woman he loves into …
VALLEY OF THE KINGS, Egypt (AP) — Egypt on Friday invited archaeologists and experts from around the world to examine new data from new, extensive radar scanning conducted on King Tutankhamun’s tomb to explore a theory that secret chambers could be hidden behind its walls. The open invitation to a …
THE CREATOR of China’s ‘Great Firewall’, an internet censorship tool widely used by the communist ruling party, was recently forced to circumvent the blocking system in front of an audience during a public talk recently. Fang Binxing found himself in the awkward position when he used a virtual private network …
CARACAS, Venezuela, April 6 (UPI) — Venezuela is closer to declaring a national humanitarian health crisis that would force the ruling government of President Nicolas Maduro to accept foreign medicinal aid. The Bill to Address the Humanitarian Health Crisis passed the first of two votes in Venezuela’s unicameral National Assembly on …
On April 7, 1933, less than a month after President Franklin Roosevelt asked Congress to permit the manufacture and sale of beer, the Volstead Act was modified to allow for this request. Today is Thursday, April 7, the 98th day of 2016 with 268 to follow. The moon is new. …
Source: 04/07 Mike Luckovich: states of denial | Mike Luckovich
“The overall price trend is upward.” ~OSAMA BIN LADEN to Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, the Qaeda general manager, in a 2010 letter encouraging the terrorist group to invest in gold. The day his letter was dated, gold closed at $1,414.08 an ounce. Today, the price is hovering around $1,230 an ounce. …
