| Fri 27 Jan 2012 |
The billionaire, the banker – and a bit of birch-thrashing
The Independent | This week, Nathaniel Rothschild, the investment banker and heir to the Rothschild dynasty, went to the High Court to sue the Daily Mail for its investigation into the January 2005 trip in which a group of business figures stayed at the Siberian cha... |
Shanghai Pengxin Group to buy 16 New Zealand dairy farms
m&c | Wellington - The New Zealand government announced Friday that it had approved the controversial sale of 16 farms to a Chinese conglomerate, Shanghai Pengxin Group Ltd, which has pledged a multi-million dollar investment to develop dairy products fo... |
| Thu 26 Jan 2012 |
1,300 inmates sow mouths shut as Kyrgyzstan hunger strike widens
m&c | Moscow - A prison hunger strike in the Central Asian republic Kyrgyzstan against alleged guard violence has widened, with more than 6,000 inmates refusing food and 1,300 having sewed their mouths shut, a human rights official said on Thursday. | So... |
Stans Energy Hires Vice President of Mining Operations
Mineweb Stans Energy Corp. | Toronto, Ontario CANADA, January 25, 2012 /FSC/ - Stans Energy Corp. (HRE - TSX Venture, HREEF - OTXQX) ('Stans' or 'The Company') is pleased to announce the hiring of David Newton as its new Vice President of Mining Operations. ... |
Top Secret Places Governments Don’t Want You To Know About
Pakalert Press Share | by Nick Redfern | Area 51, Hangar 18, Montauk, Pine Gap, Fort Detrick, Rudloe Manor, Zhitkur, Porton Down, the Dugway Proving Ground, and the Dulce Base: these are just a handful of the many and varied select, highly-classified installation... |
NASA Evidence: Alien Spaceships Patrol The Planets
Pakalert Press Share | By Terrence Aym | US and Russian Martian space probes have mysteriously vanished over the past four decades. One probe was allegedly destroyed by a gigantic cylindrical UFO miles long. Probes and manned vehicles have been stalked, tracked—s... |
Faulty medicine kills scores in Pakistan
Al Jazeera | A senior health official has said the number of people in eastern Pakistan suspected to have died in the last month from taking bad heart medicine has risen to 70. | Saeed Illahi said on Wednesday that an investigation found that a total of 419 hea... |
| Wed 25 Jan 2012 |
Research and Markets: Kyrgyzstan - Telecoms, Mobile and Internet - 2012
Business Wire | DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/4d0280/kyrgyzstan_telec) has announced the addition of the "Kyrgyzstan - Telecoms, Mobile and Internet" report to their offering. | Kyrgyzstan's open market p... |
Stans Energy Hires Vice President of Mining Operations
Business Wire | TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Stans Energy Corp (TSX-V: HRE, OTCQX: HREEF)(‘Stans’ or ‘The Company’) is pleased to announce the hiring of David Newton as its new Vice President of Mining Operations. | Mr. Newton MSc. is a graduate of the Cambor... |
More Than 1,300 Kyrgyz Prisoners Have Sewn Their Lips Shut In Protest
Business Insider | More than 1,300 prisoners have sewn their lips together in protest at conditions in the post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan prison system, the BBC reports. | The group are part of a wider group of around 7,000 that is on hunger strike. RFE/RL reports that the p... |
Show off your souvenir collections
Newsday | If you collect Christmas ornaments, miniature spoons, salt and pepper shakers, matchbooks or something else from your travels, we want to see them! Upload photos of your favorite souvenirs or your entire collection -- and tell us the stories behind... |
1,300 Kyrgyz prisoners sew their mouths shut in protest at poor jail conditions
The Daily Mail | More than 1,300 Kyrgyz prisoners have sewn their mouths shut in a widespread protest against poor living conditions, it has been reported. | Thousands of inmates at jails across Kyrgyzstan have staged hunger strikes as they demand more basic libert... |
Kyrgyzstan prison protest: Inmates sew lips together
BBC News More than 1,300 Kyrgyz prisoners have sewn their lips together as part of an ongoing protest at poor living conditions, say officials. | Nearly 7,000 are already on hunger strike. Their latest move came in response to an official decision to force-fe... |
Who should save Egypt's archives?
Al Jazeera | - It has sometimes been claimed that, like human rights and democracy, the protection of Egypt's cultural heritage cannot be left to the Egyptians. Corruption, poverty and ignorance, Egypt's critics maintain, pose a serious threat to the preservati... |
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