မူရင္းအဂၤလိပ္လိုသတင္းေလးပါ...
Belgium became the first European country to impose a full ban on wearing a burka last night.
Its parliament approved a draft law which states women can be jailed for hiding their faces in public.
The bill - which must be rubber-stamped by the Belgian senate - is set to become law by July.
Centre-Right MP Daniel Bacquelaine said last night: 'The notion of recognising people in the street is essential to maintain public order.
'It's also a question of human dignity. The full face veil turns a woman into a walking prison.'
The ground-breaking legislation comes just ten days after an earlier vote on banning the burka was scuppered by the collapse of the country's parliament and resignation of its prime minister, Yves Leterme.
Despite the political turmoil, MPs in the fragile five-party coalition managed to push through the controversial law yesterday evening.
It means anyone will be banned from covering their face in a public place, including the street, shops, offices, schools and hospitals.
Women will be fined £110 for the first offence.
If they refuse to pay or are caught a second time, they can be jailed for a week. It is estimated up to 400 of the country's 280,000 Muslims wear the burka in public.
The move comes as other countries consider bringing in similar legislation. There is widespread support for a ban on burkas, or full face veils, and niqabs, which cover the head and face but leave the eyes visible, in the Netherlands.
In Switzerland, voters recently supported a ban on the construction of new minarets, while France is preparing to vote in July on its own law banning Islamic headwear.
Under French proposals, women would be fined up to £600 for hiding their faces, and be 'unveiled' at a police station so they could be identified.
Husband who forced their wives to wear burkas would be sent to prison.
Jean-Francois Cope, president of France's ruling UMP party, said this week: 'The prime minister has told us the new law on wearing burkas would be adopted by mid-September.
'A recent survey found 70 per cent of French people are opposed to the wearing of full face veils in public.'
Despite widespread support for a ban, France's highest legal body, the Council of State, has warned any law could be overturned by EU human rights laws.
Belgium's law could also be challenged by the same legislation.
Dead men tell no tales, but apparently they can still get votes.
Carl Robin Geary Sr. died of a heart attack on March 10 but that didn't stop voters from electing him mayor of Tracy City.
On Tuesday, the late Mr. Geary defeated incumbent Barbara Brock by 268 votes to 85, according to Grundy County Administrator of Elections Donna Basham.
"I knew he was deceased. I know that sounds stupid, but we wanted someone other than her," said Chris Rogers, owner of the town's Lunch Box restaurant. "If he were to run again next week I'd vote for him again."
His widow, Susan Geary, said his election "was not a surprise at all to me. The day he passed away, people were calling with condolences and saying, 'We're still voting for him,'" she said.
Ms. Basham said the seat would be declared vacant and the city's four aldermen would select a new mayor. Staff members at the Tennessee Secretary of State's Office said they've never heard of a dead person winning an election.
Brolly good: Security personnel protect with umbrellas Speaker of Ukraine's parliament Volodymyr Liytvyn during a fight at a parliament sitting in Kiev this morning
Members of the Ukrainian parliamentary opposition factions stand in smoke near their seats covered with large pieces of blue-and yellow fabric symbolising Ukrainian national flag
Opposition lawmakers hurled eggs and smoke bombs inside Ukraine's parliament on Tuesday as the chamber approved an agreement allowing the Russian Navy to extend its stay in a Ukrainian port until 2042
Ukraine's parliament has voted to extend Russia's lease of a Crimean naval port for the Black Sea Fleet in a chaotic session during which eggs and smoke bombs were thrown
Fighting has broken out and smoke bombs been thrown inside Ukraine's parliament amid massive public protests in Kiev. Thousands furious at a recent naval deal with neighbours Russia stormed the capital's streets, blocking roads and setting up tents around the Verkhovna Rada building.
Clashes then erupted inside after the parliament's speaker was egged from an unknown assailant during a session ratifying the controversial deal. Volodymr Lytvyn took cover behind two black umbrellas after the pelting, before smoke from two hurled bombs billowed inside the chamber.
Parliament cameras showed representatives punching, shoving and pulling each others' hair as the white haze descended. A scramble then emerged for ownership of a giant yellow and blue national flag in the middle of the room as alarms sounded.
Remarkably, order in the notoriously fractious parliament was restored, although some disquiet could still be heard.
အဂၤလိပ္လိုသတင္းေလးပါ...
As an infant, Bharti Kumari was abandoned at a railway station in Bihar, one of India’s poorest states. Now, at the age of 12, she has become the head teacher at a school in Kusumbhara, her adopted village.
Every morning and evening, under the shade of a mango tree, she teaches Hindi, English and maths to 50 village children who would otherwise receive no education.
In between, she attends a state school in Akhodhi Gola, a two-mile walk away. Dressed proudly in her school uniform, she passes on the knowledge gleaned from her lessons to the village children, aged between four and 10, in her own class.
“I have a long day. My school is from 10am to 3pm and I study late,” she said. “This is what I love doing. I enjoy teaching children their ABCs as well as the Hindi alphabets.”
Her pupils are among the 10 million Indian children who are outside the state education system because their parents are so poor that they need them to work or no schools are nearby. Earlier this month the Indian government pledged £3.6 billion for a “right to education” scheme which aims to provide free schooling for all.
Bharti’s adoptive father, Rampati, an impoverished farmhand, said he would not follow the rural tradition of pushing girls into early marriages but would allow her to continue her studies. Her future career has already been decided. “I definitely want to become a teacher when I grow up,” she said.
As women across the globe today bared their breasts in defiance of Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi’s claim that cleavage caused earthquakes, the earth shook in Taiwan.
A tremor, measuring 6.5 on the richter scale, came as a Facebook event called ‘Boobquake’ received support from 200,000 women vowing to bare their chests. Boobquake founder Jennifer McCreight may have some serious questions to answer.
Her day of action calling on the women of the world to dress scandalously and prove wrong an Iranian cleric who blames natural disasters on cleavage has started, well, disastrously. At 11am local time, a 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit Taiwan, no doubt causing thousands of Boobquake fans to hastily button up.
Although she’s claiming it doesn’t count because it happened outside her Boobquake time zone, Ms McCreight admits on her blog that the wobble was significant, but not unusual. But the organiser, Jennifer McCreight, a student at Purdue University, Indiana, today insisted the Taiwan quake does not count because it happened outside her time zone.
“On avg, 134 magnitude 6-6.9 earthquakes occur annually,” she said: “If we get many of a similar magnitude in the next 24 hours, we might start worshipping the power of immodesty.”
အဂၤလိပ္လိုသတင္းေလးပါ...
This pint-sized stallion could be a record breaker as the world's smallest foal.
The three-day old pinto stallion, called Einstein, is just 14 inches high and weighs only an incredible 6lbs.
The diminutive horse was born in Barnstead, New Hampshire, on Friday at Tiz Miniature Horse Farm.
His tiny proportions may be more suitable for a human baby, but they are tiny for a horse, even a miniature breed like Einstein.
Dr Rachel Wagner, Einstein's co-owner, claims the Guinness Book of Records lists the smallest newborn horse as weighing just 9lbs.
Breeders say that unlike the current record holder, Thumbelina, Einstein shows no signs of dwarfism - he is just a tiny horse.
Weighing 15 stone and wearing size 11 shoes Marvadene comes from a large family and her sister Kimberly is 6ft 4in and calls her sister the 'baby giant'.
အဂၤလိပ္လိုသတင္းေလးပါ... Joking Jamaican basketball ace Bubbles, 16, is world's tallest teenage girl at 6ft 11in
Towering over her teacher and friends this teenager stands an astonishing 6ft 11in tall and is the world's tallest teenage girl.
The 16-year-old Jamaican Marvadene Anderson is, perhaps not surpisingly, a basketball ace and terrorises opposing school teams.
Marvadene, who is studying under scholarship in the U.S. is five inches taller than Michael Jordan , her idol in the sport.
‘Marvadene is wonderful addition to the school and the basketball team here,’ said JJ Quenault, 42, a teacher at Rutgers Preparatory School in New Jersey. ‘The other girls were stunned by her height when they first met her and I must admit so was I, but now she is almost irreplaceable in the team.
She is going to be a star in the world of girls basketball and even though she has only recently adapted to basketball from netball, we expect a big future from her.’
Attending classes at the prestigious school, Marvadene is used to towering over her teachers. ‘I work in the school photographic department and so have taken a few pictures of Marvadene,’ said Mr Quenault.
‘To see her standing over her teacher Peter Richardson is quite amusing, as he ft 8in and she of course is the world's tallest teenage girl at six foot eleven inches.’
Having taken the title from Thai national Malee Duangdee who stands at 6ft 10in, Marvedene has become media shy since her appearance in an American television program about tall children.‘People are friendly with me because of my height and my personality. If I was tall and mean, I think I'd have a problem,’ she said in an interview with an American paper recently.
‘The rudest thing anybody ever said about my height is that I'm not going to be able to find a husband.’
အဂၤလိပ္လုိသတင္းပါ...
Forget about getting a job as a police officer in Indonesia's Papua if you have had your penis enlarged.
You won't get it, according to the Papua police chief.
An applicant "will be asked whether or not his vital organ has been enlarged," said Papua police
chief Bekto Suprapto said. "If he has, he will be considered unfit to join the police or the military."
The ban was applied since the unnatural size causes "hindrance during training," said police
spokesman Zainuri Lubis in Jakarta. Indonesia's remote easternmost province is home to
Papuan tribes, many of whom are known for wearing penis gourds.
Papuans use a local technique to achieve the enlargement, according to a sexologist,
wrapping the penis with leaves from the "gatal-gatal" (itchy) tree so that it swells up
"like it has been stung by a bee," the expert said.
Sometimes people grow horns. These are cutaneous horns that appear due to various epidermal lesions. Often horns grow in people who are over 55-65 years old. Such cases are rare, and right now you can have an exclusive look at seven horned people of nowadays.
တစ္ခါတစ္ရံမွာ လူေတြဟာ ဦးခ်ဴိလို အသားဖု ေတြထြက္လာတတ္ႀကပါတယ္...
အဲဒီအဖုေတြဟာ တစ္ကယ္ေတာ ့အေရၿပားေပၚမွာၿဖစ္တဲ ့ဦးခ်ဴိပံု အဖုေတြပါ...အေရၿပားေရာဂါတစ္မ်ဴိး
ေႀကာင္ ့ၿဖစ္တယ္လို ့ဆုိပါတယ္...
အခုလိုဦးခ်ဴိေပါက္တဲ ့သူေတြဟာ အမ်ားအားၿဖင္ ့အသက္ ၅၅ ႏွစ္ကေန ၆၅ ႏွစ္အတြင္းရွိတဲ ့သူေတြ
ၿဖစ္ႀကပါတယ္...
ဒီလုိၿဖစ္ရပ္မ်ဴိးဟာအလြန္ပဲရွားပါးပါတယ္...
အခုသက္ရွိထင္ရွားဦးေခါင္းမွာ ဦးခ်ဴိေပါက္ေနတဲ ့သူေတြ ( အဖုိး၊ အဖြားမ်ား ) ရဲ ့ပုံေတြပါပဲ...
ေႀသာ္... အခ်က္အလက္တစ္ခုမမွန္ေႀကာင္းသက္ေသၿပဖုိ ့ကိုယ္ ့ကုိယ္ကုိ ေဖာ္ႀက၊ ၿပႀကေတာ ့မယ္ေပါ့... တတ္လဲတတ္နုိင္ႀကပါေပတယ္...
A one-woman mission to prove breasts don't cause earthquakes has swollen into a shirt-straining global movement preparing for the inaugural "Boobquake". Iranian cleric Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi angered womens' groups around the world on Monday when he claimed that promiscuous women were responsible for literally making the earth move. "Many women who do not dress modestly ... lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently) increases earthquakes,'' Sedighi said.
"What can we do to avoid being buried under the rubble?'' he asked during a prayer sermon on Friday. "There is no other solution but to take refuge in religion and to adapt our lives to Islam's moral codes.''
Jennifer McCreight is determined to prove him wrong. Since launching the "Boobquake" Facebook page two days ago, she has enlisted more than 20,000 women promising to show as much cleavage as possible on Monday, April 26. If the world doesn't then disappear into an apocalyptic fiery chasm, then Sedighi will have no option but to admit he was wrong. "On Monday, April 26th, I will wear the most cleavage-showing shirt I own," Ms McCreight wrote. "Yes, the one usually reserved for a night on the town.
"I encourage other female skeptics to join me and embrace the supposed supernatural power of their breasts. Or short shorts, if that's your preferred form of immodesty. With the power of our scandalous bodies combined, we should surely produce an earthquake. If not, I'm sure Sedighi can come up with a rational explanation for why the ground didn't rumble."
BANGKOK: Wanted - Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
Mission? Solve the quagmire beleaguering protest-hit Thailand.
If Ratana Orn-Arun has her way, she wants to "borrow" the former Prime Minister to help Thailand turn around.
The insurance executive is frustrated with the political situation in her country especially with street protests by both camps.
"Can we borrow Dr Mahathir? Maybe for five to 10 years?. He is very good.
"He can restructure the country and make Thailand more developed," she told The Star.
Ratana is no stranger to Malaysia, having to travel twice a year as the parent company is in Kuala Lumpur.
She said she liked Malaysia's methods of handling illegal assemblies, where protesters would be dispersed by the police quickly before the crowd got too big.
"The protesters here should gather in the public parks. Not in the city, closing roads and affecting businesses," she said.
Ratana is critical of both Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and his predecessor Thaksin Shinatwatra.
"Thaksin must win and doesn't care how he does it while Abhisit wants to be nice to everybody.
"You cannot be like this in politics."
Far more people in India have access to a mobile phone than to a toilet, according to a UN study on sanitation.
India's mobile subscribers totalled 563.73 million at the last count, enough to serve nearly half of the country's 1.2 billion population.
But just 366 million people - around a third of the population - had access to proper sanitation in 2008, said the study published by the United Nations University, a UN think-tank.
"It is a tragic irony to think in India, a country now wealthy enough that roughly half of the people own phones," so many people "cannot afford the basic necessity and dignity of a toilet," said Zafar Adeel, the UN University director.
အဂၤလိပ္လိုေလးပါ.... An interesting piece of history was discovered in a document that the State Department’s historical office released. It was a conversation transcript between China’s Chairman Mao Zedong and US Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger. “You know, China is a very poor country,” Mao said. “We don’t have much. What we have in excess is women. So if you want them we can give a few of those to you, some tens of thousands.” Mao circled back to the offer a few minutes later. “Do you want our Chinese women?” he asked. “We can give you 10 million.” Kissinger noted Mao was “improving his offer,” and the chairman is on record then saying, “We have too many women … They give birth to children and our children are too many.”“It is such a novel proposition,” Kissinger replied. “We will have to study it.”
The conversation occurred in 1973 in Beijing, China and as far as we could find… the promised10 million Chinese women were not given to the US.
အဂၤလိပ္လိုသတင္းေလးပါ... An air stewardess fears she can't return to Dubai where she lives because she has had a baby out of wedlock. Ex-pat Liz Curry, 30, didn't even know she was pregnant when Alexandra was born during a 24-hour stopover in South Africa.
Dubai's strict Muslim laws mean Liz could now be sent to prison if she goes back to the country where she has lived for eight years. The penalty for having sex outside marriage is at least three months in prison followed by deportation.
Liz said: "I'm on unpaid leave at the moment but I can't go back to work in Dubai - not just because I'm a new mother but also because of the law. I'm unmarried so if I'd had the baby in Dubai I would have been arrested and I can't take that risk."
Liz, from Ireland, said female cabin crew often have unusual menstrual cycles - she thought her stomach pains were ulcers so began taking tablets. Doctors in Dubai ran urine and blood tests and told her to stay on the medication. She only found out the truth in her Johannesburg hotel room in January.
Liz, who works for Emirates, said: "The cramps were horrendous and within a few minutes there was a baby. I was in complete shock."
Alexandra, who was just over 2lb, spent two months in an intensive care unit. The pair are still in South Africa but the baby's Australian dad, who lives in Dubai and who has been with Liz for two years, has not been able to see them.
မူရင္းအဂၤလိပ္လုိသတင္းပါ...
After having spent nearly a year in provisional detention over the murder of his girlfriend, a waiter secured a final acquittal from the Court of Cassation.
The waiter, an Indian, Santo Shaker Abourti, was pronounced not guilty by the court on the charge of killing his girlfriend, a Burmese national.
He was charged with killing his girlfriend after celebrating Valentine's Day with her last year.
The seven-member jury panel presided over by Judge Mohammed Nabil Riyad upheld the acquittal verdict by a lower court and dismissed the contestation filed by the Public Prosecution. It was believed that the victim injured her head after Abourti pushed her onto the ground on February 16 last year. He then allegedly throttled her and dumped the body into a sewer hole in Sharjah’s Al Nahda after taking Dh300 from her pocket.
It is learnt that Abourti was acquitted in absentia. The latter had regained his freedom since February 23 when the Court of Appeals cleared him after he had been sentenced to 15 years in prison for the premeditated killing of his girlfriend for want of sufficient evidence.
The court panel quashed the sentence handed out by the Court of First Instance on December 8 last year. The preliminary court had also ordered his deportation at the end of the jail term.
“The defendant insisted that his confession to the police officers was taken by intimidation and pressure. Besides, his statements in the police station were taken in the absence of as worn translator,” the panel said.
“According to his statement to police, the defendant offered the victim a bag as a gift while the case papers and evidence did not include that bag. It was believed the waiter killed the victim because she owed him Dh200, which contradicts the fact that he gave her a gift and dated her on Valentine’s Day.” Eyewitnesses’ statements were also inadequate to convict the defendant, the panel ruled.
Dubai: A construction worker discovered the body of a dead Myanmarese woman in a manhole in Al Nahda, Dubai, on Sunday morning.
The labourer, who was one of many at the scene, discovered the body at around 10am.
The Dubai Police were contacted and the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) cordoned off the area. An ambulance later arrived to collect the body.
Eyewitnesses at the scene said the workers who found the body were horrified. Some said the woman was "completely naked".
"I first saw her legs pointing outwards and her head trapped inside. It is horrific & I just can't believe what I saw," one of the workers said.
According to Colonel Khalil Al Mansouri, Director of the CID, the Burmese waitress had been reported missing five days earlier by her roommates and employer, Emirates airline.
"One of her male Indian colleagues, whom she had a relationship with, has been in police custody since the day she was reported missing as it is believed he was the last person to be seen with her. We are still investigating the cause of death," he told Gulf News.
A roommate said the deceased, 30, was "a beautiful, young, petite woman who was kind, loving and friendly - especially to her Myanmarese roommates".
She said they had come to Dubai together in September 2008.
"She told us she befriended a colleague around 15 to 20 days ago and that he proposed to her. I don't know if they were in a relationship. I think she saw him only as a friend," the roommate said.
The woman said she last saw her friend on February 15, while on duty.
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by bad people : but, the silence over that by the good people. (Martin Luther King.Jr) ၀မ္းနည္းစရာအေကာင္းဆုံးကလူဆုိးေတြ လူသြမ္းေတြရဲ့ရက္စက္ယုတ္မာမႈ့မဟုတ္ပဲ လူေကာင္းေတြကျငိမ္ခံေနျခင္းသာျဖစ္တယ္....
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