Obama and His Family Tied to CIA for Years Scoop Friday, 3 September 2010, 10:59 am | Opinion: Sherwood Ross | Obama and His Family Tied to CIA for Years | By Sherwood Ross | President Obama---as well as his mother, father, step-father and grandmother---all were connected to the Central Intelligence Agency---possibly explaining why the President p...
Cracks in India's nuclear law Asia Times | Sep 2, 2010 Cracks in India's nuclear law | By Indrajit Basu | KOLKATA - Pleasing neither supporters nor its critics, India this week passed a Nuclear Liability Bill, opening up the country’s US$150 billion nuclear power market to global equipment suppliers. The first to b...
Indictment Accuses Firm of Exploiting Thai Workers The New York Times | A federal grand jury in Honolulu has indicted six labor contractors from a Los Angeles manpower company on charges that they imposed forced labor on some 400 Thai farm workers, in what justice officials called the biggest human-trafficking case eve...
Bomber's Blog - The War On News (video) Scoop Saturday, 4 September 2010, 11:55 am | Article: Bomber's Blog | Bomber's Blog - The War On News | Martyn "Bomber" Bradbury delivers his weekly current affairs expose, the war on news! The show broadcasts weekly on Triangle/Stratos TV and on Scoop. Bo...
Ling: Declassify Cabinet papers The Star | PUTRAJAYA: Former Transport Minister Tun Dr Ling Liong Sik has applied to declassify confidential Cabinet papers pertaining to the charge he faces of cheating the Government over the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal. | His counsel Wong Kian Kheo...
Scoop Feedback: Pictures of the Christchurch Quake Scoop Saturday, 04 September 2010, 10:04 am | Column: Scoop Feedback | What follows is a collection of photographs and accounts from Scoop readers in Christchurch. | Thanks to Toby Vincent for the following three images of the Christchurch City: | Click to...
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HIV Discrimination Case Filed in China The New York Times | Filed at 1:54 a.m. ET | BEIJING (AP) -- A municipal court in central China has accepted the country's first lawsuit alleging work discrimination because of HIV status, state medi...
Former Playboy boss misses date with Indonesian jail cell The Daily Telegraph Australia | THE former editor in chief of "Playboy Indonesia" missed a deadline to begin serving a two-year jail term for indecency, vowing to fight his conviction, the Jakarta Glo...
Fixing our farms Inquirer | CONSIDER THE following facts, all drawn from official statistics: | 'Seventy percent of the Filipino poor can be found in the rural areas, where the dominant source of livelihood...
The man who fooled everyone NZ Herald By 5:30 AM Saturday Sep 4, 2010 Share Email Print | Loizos Michaels liked to call himself "The Phantom". | It was part of his arrogance but also true. He only ever introduced himself as "Michael". No one knew his surname for a long time and even now ...
When punishments outweigh the gravity of the crime NZ Herald By 5:30 AM Saturday Sep 4, 2010 Share Email Print | When Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were facing jail terms on drug charges in July 1967, an editorial in the Times newspaper was headlined, "Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?" | The point of the pi...
World alerted as town's dolphin hunt gets under way NZ Herald By Yuri Kageyama 5:30 AM Saturday Sep 4, 2010 Share Email Print | Dolphins were herded into a cove as part of an annual hunt in the Japanese seaside town made famous by an Oscar-winning documentary about their slaughter, conservationist group Sea She...
Swing-vote MP hints at possible Labor deal Gulf News | Canberra: One of three independent MPs needed by Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard to form a minority government hinted yesterday he could negotiate on Labor's mining profits tax he has previously opposed. | Maverick outback MP Bob Katter gave Gillard and conservative Opposition Leader Tony Abbott a "wish list" of 20 priori...
Rising gold prices trigger mining rush in India The Times Of India KOLKATA: As gold prices reach record highs, it is adding new lustre to prospects for gold mining. While moves are afoot to revive state-owned Bharat Gold Mines (BGML), closed since 2001, Deccan Gold Mines, the country’s only listed private gold miner, is also stepping on the gas to start gold production. | Also, the Karnataka government-owned Hut...
