* Thaksin on mission to humiliate Nov 8, 2009
Recent snapshots show him golfing in Brunei and Dubai, inspecting diamond mines in South Africa, sipping coffee in a private jet and meeting prime ministers or presidents on trips to Sri Lanka, Papua New Guinea and the Maldives. His new relationship with Hun Sen is bound to revive speculation of private business deals between the two while he was prime minister. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
Wiesel slams tea partiers Nov 7, 2009
" Not surprisingly, Goyette basically said yes, and a few minutes later, there was Liddy again, talking about how secure the stuff was. And the budget for my big retirement party, sometime in the early 2040s, got bumped up a bit. The gold mania didn't actually start with the ad boycott. The market value of the commodity has been since Obama took office back in January, and it's now trading for around the highest prices it's seen in 10 years, a bit more than $1,000 an ounce. Even the mutual fund... (Salon)
United States Claims #1 Spot For First Time as World's Top Country Brand Nov 6, 2009
- Canada Holds on to Second Spot and Australia Slips to Number Three - - Global Study Expanded to Cover Regional Rankings Including Asia Pacific, Sub-Sahara Africa and the Americas. This category remains one with tremendous potential not only for tourism but investment, trade and policy. (Canada Newswire)
'Climate change will be an election issue in five years' Oct 25, 2009
None more so perhaps than Maldives 41-year-old president Mohamed Nasheed, who ended dictator Maumoon Abdul Gayooms three-decade grip on power ... If global warming proceeds apace, sea levels around the Maldives will rise 60 cm in the next 50 years, swallowing large tracts of the country, says the president ... Are you able to adhere to your roadmap of establishing democracy in Maldives. (India Times, India)
Best from Sunday Oct 19, 2009
GIRIFUSHI, Maldives - Members of the Maldives' Cabinet donned scuba gear and used hand signals Saturday at an underwater meeting staged to highlight the threat of global warming to the lowest-lying nation on earth. MANILA, Philippines - Police went door-to-door urging residents to leave landslide-ravaged areas of the northern Philippines on Saturday in a "pre-emptive evacuation" as a new typhoon loomed after recent back-to-back storms killed more than 750 people, officials said. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Maldives leaders sign climate plea under water Oct 19, 2009
From underwater, Maldives sends warning on climate change - CNN.com ... From underwater, Maldives sends warning on climate change ... (CNN) -- With fish as witnesses, the president of Maldives and his Cabinet wore scuba gear and used hand signals Saturday at an underwater meeting to highlight the threat climate change poses to the archipelago nation. (CNN -- World)
Voters 'punish failing councils' Oct 18, 2009
Page last updated at 01:15 GMT, Sunday, 18 October 2009 02:15 UK. Voters 'punish failing councils. (BBC News -- UK)
Anger over Mail column on Gately Oct 17, 2009
Page last updated at 18:20 GMT, Friday, 16 October 2009 19:20 UK. The PCC is making contact with representatives of the singer's family. (BBC News -- UK)
Supermarkets 'hurting suppliers' Oct 17, 2009
Page last updated at 03:43 GMT, Saturday, 17 October 2009 04:43 UK. Supermarkets 'hurting suppliers. (BBC News -- UK)
'Toxic waste' report gag lifted Oct 17, 2009
Page last updated at 06:10 GMT, Saturday, 17 October 2009 07:10 UK. Toxic waste' report gag lifted. (BBC News -- UK)
MP expenses audit defended Oct 17, 2009
Page last updated at 12:48 GMT, Friday, 16 October 2009 13:48 UK. Speaker defends MP expenses audit. (BBC News -- UK)
Man guilty of racist row killing Oct 17, 2009
Page last updated at 17:25 GMT, Friday, 16 October 2009 18:25 UK. George Austin punched Mohammed so hard that he fell on the pavement. (BBC News -- UK)
Eye of the storm Oct 17, 2009
Page last updated at 16:29 GMT, Friday, 16 October 2009 17:29 UK. Wilders' world of protest and publicity. (BBC News -- UK)
UK ban on Guantanamo documents lifted Oct 17, 2009
Page last updated at 21:54 GMT, Friday, 16 October 2009 22:54 UK. Ban on 'torture documents' lifted. (BBC News -- Americas)
Mail strike 'strategy is genuine' Oct 17, 2009
Page last updated at 11:16 GMT, Friday, 16 October 2009 12:16 UK. Mail strike 'strategy is genuine. (BBC News -- Business)
Space pile-up 'condemned dinos' Oct 17, 2009
Maldives cabinet makes a splash. Toxic waste' report gag lifted. (Yahoo News -- Dinosaur & Fossil Discoveries)
Sandpit science Oct 17, 2009
Page last updated at 12:51 GMT, Friday, 16 October 2009 13:51 UK. Science and literacy in the sandpit. (BBC News -- UK)
Iraq sends back UK asylum flight Oct 17, 2009
Page last updated at 13:55 GMT, Friday, 16 October 2009 14:55 UK. By Marie Jackson BBC News. (BBC News -- UK)
Jail for cannabis factories gang Oct 17, 2009
Page last updated at 18:03 GMT, Friday, 16 October 2009 19:03 UK. The man behind one of the largest cannabis operations in the UK has been jailed for nine years. (BBC News -- UK)
'I've found your balloon', Queen tells five-year-old Oct 17, 2009
Page last updated at 12:09 GMT, Friday, 16 October 2009 13:09 UK. Balloon boy gets note from Queen. (BBC News -- UK)
136,000 hens die after break-in Oct 17, 2009
Page last updated at 14:41 GMT, Friday, 16 October 2009 15:41 UK. Broiling hens are kept in a completely enclosed environment. (BBC News -- UK)
Brain 'can beat early blindness' Oct 17, 2009
----------------- ----------------- RELATED BBC SITES. Last Updated: Saturday, 17 February 2007, 00:33 GMT. (Yahoo News -- Brain Research)
Maldives cabinet makes a splash Oct 17, 2009
The government of the Maldives has held a cabinet meeting about five metres (16ft) underwater to highlight the threat of global warming ... The Maldives stand an average of 2 ... FROM OTHER NEWS SITES Maldives government goes underwater for climate change - 5 hrs ago Island nation of Maldives to hold underwater Cabinet meeting to show climate change threat - 17 hrs ago * Maldives Set for Undersea Cabinet Confab - 18 hrs ago * Maldives: All set for underwater Cabinet meeting - 18 hrs ago Maldives... (BBC News -- South Asia)
Smart cities Oct 17, 2009
Page last updated at 11:10 GMT, Friday, 16 October 2009 12:10 UK. Sentient cities may answer back. (BBC News -- Technology)
US sex-abstinence drive 'flawed' Oct 17, 2009
Page last updated at 02:13 GMT, Friday, 1 December 2006. US sex-abstinence drive 'flawed. (Yahoo News -- Birth Control)
Bracelets 'useless' in arthritis Oct 17, 2009
Page last updated at 11:52 GMT, Friday, 16 October 2009 12:52 UK. Magnetic devices have been used for arthritis for centuries. (BBC News -- Health)
British actors dominate TV Globes Oct 17, 2009
----------------- ----------------- RELATED BBC SITES. Last Updated: Tuesday, 16 January 2007, 10:47 GMT. (Yahoo News -- Golden Globe Awards)
Rebranding Africa Oct 17, 2009
Page last updated at 11:55 GMT, Friday, 16 October 2009 12:55 UK. Mo Ibrahim's mobile revolution. (BBC News -- Business)
BBC defends Blue Peter contest Oct 17, 2009
Page last updated at 12:11 GMT, Friday, 16 October 2009 13:11 UK. BBC defend Blue Peter competition. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Film centre gets government funds Oct 17, 2009
Page last updated at 16:38 GMT, Friday, 16 October 2009 17:38 UK. The Tate extension is expected to be completed in 2012. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Carbon capture plant backed by EU Oct 17, 2009
Page last updated at 16:47 GMT, Friday, 16 October 2009 17:47 UK. Carbon produced at Hatfield would be stored under the North Sea. (BBC News -- Science)
Bank on seeds - the world's buffer Oct 17, 2009
Page last updated at 12:22 GMT, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 13:22 UK. VIEWPOINT Steve Hopper. (BBC News -- Science)
Tweeting Masses Shine in New Hurricane Katrina Oct 2, 2009
Investors can choose to ignore how seas promise to swallow up nations such as the Maldives. Such indifference wont be an option as rising encroach on more economically vital targets in the capital cities around the world. (Bloomberg -- Columnists)
Leading the way Sep 23, 2009
Other examples include the "Long-Term Mitigation Scenario" published by South Africa in 2008, and plans by the Maldives and other island nations to achieve carbon neutrality in the mid-term. South Korea is investing approximately 80% of its fiscal stimulus package in climate-related measures. (BBC News -- Americas)
At UN summit, Obama promises action on climate Sep 23, 2009
Mohamed Nasheed, president of Maldives, an island nation in the Indian Ocean that is at risk of being submerged under rising seas, told the assembled group that rousing speeches are not enough to save his country. The sympathy fades, the words cool, and then we carry on business as usual, he said. (Boston Globe)
Maldives president in trial call Sep 10, 2009
The president of the Maldives says his predecessor Maumoon Abdul Gayoom should face a court trial over allegations of human rights abuses. President Mohamed Nasheed defeated Mr Gayoom, criticised as a dictator, in a presidential election 10 months ago. (BBC News -- South Asia)
We'll have to cut costs - Darling Sep 8, 2009
Page last updated at 05:00 GMT, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 06:00 UK. Mr Darling says the government faces a "test of character". (BBC News -- UK)
Leading by achievable example Jun 16, 2009
A promise that the Maldives will go carbon-neutral in 10 years is not just good for PR, says the country's president Mohamed Nasheed ... Some people may find it ironic that the Maldives, which emits just a tiny proportion of global carbon dioxide emissions, has set the most ambitious carbon reduction goals of any nation on Earth ... To some, it may seem even odder that the Maldives has made such stringent environmental targets when it is also a relatively poor, developing country. (BBC News -- Science)
Hostile attacks Mar 17, 2009
Page last updated at 14:14 GMT, Monday, 16 March 2009. French face tough Afghan reality. (BBC News)
Rebels no more Mar 17, 2009
How sea level rise has affected the Maldives. Fritzl daughter giving video testimony. (BBC News)
Wanted: 20L bottles of 'poll' ink Mar 11, 2009
MVPL also exports the voters' ink to a few countries such as Canada, Cambodia, the Maldives, Nepal, Nigeria, South Africa and Turkey. Text. (India Times, India -- Community News)
Total makeunder Feb 18, 2009
Extreme makeunder in the Maldives ... Last year Mr Nasheed won a democratic election against Maumoon Gayoom, the man who ordered his imprisonment and who had ruled the Maldives for 30 years ... Mohamed NasheedMaldives president. (BBC News -- South Asia)
Bad science and politics go together Feb 10, 2009
jeroze wrote on Feb 9, 2009 8:32 PM:" I am in the middle of the experiment of the glass with water and ice that HFRMACK suggested. I expect for the level of the water to go down and not up, since when I put water in the ice cube trays the level of the ice cubes rise higher than the level of the water was before the tray was put in the freezer. But I still have 3 hours and 30 minutes before I can report the final outcome.But, what about the 60 Minutes program a few months back which featured what... (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
