MANILA: A top Philippine communist rebel with a US$128,000 bounty on his head was arrested on Tuesday, the military said.The arrest of Filemon Mendrez, the country's sixth most-wanted man, comes amid a Christmas ceasefire and as the government and rebels are engaged in high-level peace talks aimed at ending one of Asia's longest-running insurgencies.Mendrez, a key New People's Army rebel...
HC allows transfer of Gayatri Devi's shares to grand children
Label: Lifestyle NEW DELHI: The legal battle over transfer of late Maharani Gayatri Devi's shares in royal family's firms has been decided in favour of her grandchildren, Devraj and Lalitya Kumari with the Delhi high court ordering rectification of share registers of the companies. Jagat Singh, son of Gayatri Devi and Sawai Man Singh, held 99 per cent shares in firms including Jai Mahal Hotels Pvt Ltd and later...
Photos: Humboldt Squid Have a Bad Day at the Beach
Label: HealthPhotograph by Chris Elmenhurst, Surf the Spot Photography“Strandings have been taking place with increased frequency along the west coast over the past ten years,” noted NOAA’s Field, “as this population of squid seems to be expanding its range—likely a consequence of climate change—and can be very abundant at times.” (Learn about other jumbo squid strandings.)Humboldt squid are typically found in...
Newtown Christmas: 'We Know They'll Feel Loved'
Label: Business As residents prepared to observe Christmas less than two weeks after a gunman killed 20 children and six educators at an elementary school, people sharing in the town's mourning brought offerings of cards, handmade snowflakes and sympathy.Tiny empty Christmas stockings with the victims' names on them hung from trees in the neighborhood where the children were shot. On Christmas...
Dec
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Important to preserve each community's identity: Indranee Rajah
Label: Technology SINGAPORE: Senior Minister of State for Law and Education Indranee Rajah has stressed the importance of preserving the identity of Singapore's various communities, at a dinner to raise funds for the Vairavimada Kaliamman temple."What is special about Singapore is that each community has preserved its identity, has preserved part of its past and at the same time is forward looking," she...
Himachal CM-designate Virbhadra Singh acquitted in corruption case
Label: LifestyleSHIMLA: A day before he is to take oath as the chief minister of Himachal Pradesh for the record sixth time, Virbhadra Singh has been acquitted by the court of special judge B L Soni in Shimla on Monday in a corruption case slapped against him and his wife Pratibha Singh by the vigilance department.Since the very beginning, Virbhadra Singh has maintained that the case against him was concocted...
Pictures: Fungi Get Into the Holiday Spirit
Label: Health
Photograph courtesy Stephanie Mounaud, J. Craig Venter InstituteMounaud combined different fungi to create a Santa hat and spell out a holiday message.Different fungal grow at different rates, so Mounaud's artwork rarely lasts for long. There's only a short window of time when they actually look like what they're suppose to."You do have to keep that in perspective when you're making these creations,"...
Newtown Inspires Country to Spread Kindness
Label: Business While the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School have no doubt left the nation shaken, they have also inspired an outpouring of acts of kindness from across the nation and around the world.The central hub of many of these is on display in the U.S. Post Office in Newtown, Conn., a community shaken by the killing of 20 children and six school staff members by 20-year-old Adam...
Dec
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History of gun control is cautionary tale for those seeking regulations after Conn. shooting
Label: World
At 3 a.m. on July 2, 1993, Steve Sposato sat down in his darkened living room to write, by hand, a letter to the president of the United States. His life had just been shattered.
Hours earlier, in the afternoon, a deranged man armed with semiautomatic weapons had gone on a rampage, slaughtering eight people at an office building in downtown San Francisco. The gunman’s motive would remain...
S'pore's top manpower issues in 2012
Label: Technology SINGAPORE: Foreign worker levies were raised in last year's Budget. All the changes would have been implemented next July.Depending on the sector companies are in and how reliant they are on foreign workers, companies will pay between 250 and 750 dollars more in levies per worker.To reduce dependency on foreign workers, companies are being urged to raise productivity.In addition, they...
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