by Dayhawk Kim | Jun 12, 2006 | Uncategorized
Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej celebrates the 60th anniversary of his rule. (Photo: Courtesy Royal Thai Government) Few world leaders are as loved and respected as the 78-year-old Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej who celebrated his 60th year on the throne. One million Thais...
by Dayhawk Kim | Jun 10, 2006 | Uncategorized
Under attack from hard-line Islamic groups, Playboy Indonesia shows more skin in its second edition, but its advertising pages were bare in protest. The same religious groups, who did little to help recent quake victims, could become the target of a government...
by Dayhawk Kim | Jun 6, 2006 | Uncategorized
Female U.S. embassy staffers in bikinis were partying it up by the pool, karaoke singers were rocking and Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root was serving up roast beef, pasta and crab dishes all at the Iraq Republican Palace, Soma reports from Baghdad....
by Dayhawk Kim | Jun 6, 2006 | Uncategorized
Barry Manilow’s music is being enlisted as the weapon of choice in a psychological warfare against Australian youths who are revving the engines of their souped-up cars and playing ground-thumping music at a neighborhood parking lot. Officials are hoping the...
by Dayhawk Kim | May 30, 2006 | Uncategorized
Spain’s latest headache is the increasingly popular human smuggling route that starts in West Africa and ends in the Canary Islands. The international fishing industry has all but wiped out the livelihood of local fishermen in Senegal, forcing them to risk death...
by Dayhawk Kim | May 25, 2006 | Uncategorized
Exotic dancer “Samantha” tells the San Francisco Chronicle about her encounter with a 9/11 hijacker. Terrorists, as well as would-be terrorists, have been caught relaxing with hardcore porn. Not a pastime for a pious Muslim. When the F.B.I. arrested a...
by Dayhawk Kim | May 25, 2006 | Uncategorized
Source: El Universal newspaper and Ministerio de EnergÃa y Petróleo [MENPET] The Europeans are used to it. The Germans are paying US$6.37 a gallon (€1.31/L), and the Belgians $6.76 a gallon (€1.39/L). The Norwegians shell out $7.45 a gallon (€1.53/L), an...
by Dayhawk Kim | May 22, 2006 | Uncategorized
The time of greatest risk of chikungunya virus transmission from a mother to a fetus appears to be during birth, if the mother acquired the disease days before delivery and carries the virus, according to the Perinatal Network of Réunion. This network of physicians...
by Dayhawk Kim | May 19, 2006 | Uncategorized
The murder of high-ranking judge, who upheld the controversial ban on headscarves, and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his party’s radical rhetoric that incited the incident places Turkey on the brink of another political upheaval. If political and...
by Dayhawk Kim | May 16, 2006 | Uncategorized
The Philippine military is using psychological warfare to stoke paranoia inside the New People’s Army [NPA] by claiming that army agents have infiltrated the communist rebel group. Whether true or not today, the U.S., led by the late Colonel James Nicholas Rowe,...
by Dayhawk Kim | May 1, 2006 | Uncategorized
Unmonitored, these untrained local police intelligence units could turn into the infamous Red Squads that suppressed dissent and protests before the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act limited the power of local police. Local and state police are forming...
by Dayhawk Kim | Apr 25, 2006 | Uncategorized
There are few coincidences at Foggy Bottom. The sudden departure of Reno L. Harnish III, U.S. ambassador to Azerbaijan, from Baku today is no different. Local and regional media are rife with speculations over the human smuggling ring that trafficked young Azeri women...
by Dayhawk Kim | Apr 20, 2006 | Uncategorized
A cure for malaria is about to become very cheap, thanks to a Berkeley professor and his team of researchers. But 10 years is not going to be any time soon when someone, most likely a child, dies of malaria infection every 30 seconds. The World Health Organization...
by Dayhawk Kim | Apr 19, 2006 | Uncategorized
Information is power — and something the Chinese government fears. In the hands of disenchanted masses, information can undermine the legitimacy of the C.P.C. or destabilize the country. (Some 87,000 protests over corruption and poverty shook China in 2005.) To...
by Dayhawk Kim | Apr 3, 2006 | Uncategorized
Saudi Arabia is developing nuclear weapons with the help of Pakistani scientists who have entered the kingdom disguised as pilgrims, German magazine Cicero reports. These scientists were tracked by Western intelligence between 2003 and 2005, during which some of them...
by Dayhawk Kim | Mar 30, 2006 | Uncategorized
In a report issued just days before national elections, the United Nations has urged Thailand to raise the number of women in politics and civil service, chastising the country’s “cultural and traditional prejudices of a male-dominated society.”...
by Dayhawk Kim | Mar 29, 2006 | Uncategorized
It’s not a proposition for anyone. But if you are a country suffering from insurgency, call Blackwater USA for help. The rising star in the private military industry wants to sell its services at a fraction of the cost of operating NATO or U.N. peacekeepers....
by Dayhawk Kim | Mar 21, 2006 | Uncategorized
A quarter-century after the U.S. military’s failed Lebanese Army Modernization Program, and the humiliating withdrawal in 1984, the Pentagon is quietly laying the groundwork for re-establishing close ties with the Lebanese military. The United States now has an...
by Dayhawk Kim | Mar 20, 2006 | Uncategorized
To compile a representative a consumer price index, Britain’s Office for National Statistics [ONS] added MP3 players, flat-screen television, music downloads, digital camcorders, and a bottle of lager at nightclubs to its “shopping basket” of more...
by Dayhawk Kim | Mar 16, 2006 | Uncategorized
The U.S. government has launched massive surveillance efforts using not just spy satellites but also state and federal scientists to begin culling and testing key suspects for the potentially deadly avian flu virus. Federal scientists have conducted a study to analyze...
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