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Wednesday February 10 2010
Published February 10, 2010, 6:56 am, The Malaysian Insider
FEB 8 — As you read this, 400,000 people are in danger of being made homeless by rising sea levels, but we haven’t taken much notice. We haven’t done so because those people live in the Maldives, a small nation with no natural resources other than its (non-extractable) natural beauty.
World Wildlife Fund launches campaign to save tigers
Published February 10, 2010, 6:29 am, CNN
The number of tigers in the wild has dwindled to 3,200, the World Wildlife Fund said Wednesday as it launched a campaign to save them.
The biggest show in town
Published February 10, 2010, 5:00 am, Herald Sun
FOR a pocket pachyderm, it sure was a mammoth welcome.
Bio: Sarath Fonseka, Sri Lanka's Arrested Ex-Army Chief
Published February 10, 2010, 12:33 am, Time Magazine
On Feb. 8, former General Sarath Fonseka, who led Sri Lanka's government to victory against the Tamil Tigers last May, was seized by military police for allegedly conspiring to launch a coup, a charge his supporters say is trumped up
Sri Lanka Will Hold Parliamentary Elections in April (Update1)
Published February 9, 2010, 11:06 pm, Bloomberg
Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka will hold general elections in April as President Mahinda Rajapaksa dismissed parliament a day after the arrest of Sarath Fonseka , the defeated opposition candidate in January’s presidential ballot.
Saving the tiger
Published February 9, 2010, 10:54 pm, People's Daily
&$ &$Jackie Chan befriends a tiger in a new tiger conservation campaign. &$ &$ As the Year of the Tiger approaches, conservationists are using the occasion to highlight increasing concerns of China's dwindling tiger population, issuing calls to protect tigers in the wild and ramping up efforts to save the endangered species. A series of public service announcements (PSA) were unveiled Friday ...
Fewer than 50 wild tigers left in China
Published February 9, 2010, 10:49 pm, Vietnews Online
China has an estimated 50 or fewer tigers left living in the wild, but efforts to stabilize one population in the bleak northeast are starting to pay off, a conservationist says
Wednesday February 10 2010
Published February 9, 2010, 10:46 pm, The Malaysian Insider
FEB 10 — I took part in a “qat chew” the other day at the home of a Yemeni official. Never done that before. Qat is the mildly hallucinogenic leaf drug that Yemeni men stuff in their cheek after work — and sometimes during.
Fewer tigers to welcome their year
Published February 9, 2010, 10:40 pm, People's Daily
China has been observing a sharp dwindling in its wild tiger population, with fewer than 50 now believed to remain in the country, conservationists said Monday, days before the Chinese lunar new year of the Tiger, which starts Sunday. About 15 Bengal tigers live in Tibet, 10 Indochinese tigers are in southwestern Yunnan Province, and around 20 Siberian tigers are in the northeast, Xie Yan ...
It’s All About Schools
Published February 9, 2010, 9:54 pm, New York Times
By rebuilding Yemen’s educational system, the West could prevent the country from becoming an Al Qaeda breeding ground.
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