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Laura Zuniga: Mexican Beauty Queen Arrested In Gun-Filled Truck
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
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Only in Mexico? Are the Mexicans trying to take the “ONLY IN” title from the Aussies? I calls it the “girls will be girls” story of the week!
Laura Zuniga: Mexican Beauty Queen Arrested In Gun-Filled Truck
GUADALAJARA, Mexico — A reigning Mexican beauty queen from the drug-plagued state of Sinaloa was arrested with suspected gang members in a truck filled guns and ammunition, police said Tuesday.
Miss Sinaloa 2008 Laura Zuniga stared at the ground, with her flowing dark hair concealing her face, as she stood squeezed between seven alleged gunmen lined up before journalists. Soldiers wearing ski masks guarded the 23-year-old model and the suspects.
Chinese music video transcends culture.
Friday, August 29th, 2008
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This is actually really good. Dig the violin player. Cool, mellow and I don’t know what the words mean but I like it.
Check out this site if you thnk this is good….wow…View the latest and newest Chinese music videos here
Light travel reading. Phillipines bound?
Friday, May 16th, 2008
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full article here: Bangkok’s Independent Newspaper
THE PHILIPPINES
Paradise shunned
By Phoowadon DuangmeeThere is history, hidden beaches and water sports - so why is it that Thais ignore the holiday isles of Cebu and Borocay?
Cebu Pacific Air’s midnight flight kisses goodbye to Suvarnabhumi Airport’s tarmac and we’re on our way to the Philippines. Though this country of 90 million is just a short hop away, most Thais’ knowledge of it is limited to the odd Filipino musician you come across playing in Bangkok’s hotels. Then we meet them every two years in the SE Asian Games (nobody beats the Filipinos on a basketball court).
Yao Ming puts faith in traditional medicine
Saturday, April 5th, 2008
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Yao puts faith in traditional medicine
Yao puts faith in traditional medicineChina’s NBA sensation Yao Ming believes traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) could help speed up the recovery of his foot injury.
The 2.28-m all-star center arrived in Beijing on Thursday night and will undergo a series of TCM examinations in Beijing in the coming two weeks before returning to the US for further rehabilitation.
Sex, financial risk linked in brain
Saturday, April 5th, 2008
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Full sexy story here: Sex, financial risk linked in brain
WASHINGTON - A new brain-scan study may help explain what is going through the minds of financial titans when they take risky monetary gambles: sex.When young men were shown erotic pictures, they were more likely to make larger financial gambles than if they were shown a picture of something scary, such as a snake, or something neutral, such as a stapler, university researchers reported.
The arousing pictures lit up the same part of the brain that lights up when financial risks are taken.
“You have a need in an evolutionary sense for both money and women. They trigger the same brain area,” said Camelia Kuhnen, a Northwestern University finance professor who conducted the study with a Stanford University psychologist.
Sarkozy to visit French Polynesia
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
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Sarkozy to visit French Polynesia, Bruni to give concert this month, says local radio
Radio New Zealand International
Sarkozy to visit French Polynesia, Bruni to give concert this month, says local radioPosted at 01:17 on 02 April, 2008 UTC
French Polynesian radio says the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, is expected to make an official visit to Tahiti this month. The visit is to coincide with a concert by his wife, Carla Bruni, in Papeete. The report comes after claims that Mr Sarkozy’s planned visit was annulled following the surprise return of Gaston Flosse to the presidency. Mr Sarkozy’s UMP Party severed all ties with Mr Flosse’s Tahoeraa Huiraatira after the election in February when Mr Flosse declined to enter into a coalition with the French-backed To Tatou Aia group.
The radio says the tourist sector has been inundated with enquiries ahead of the visit.
Cosmetic castration now banned in Thailand
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
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Cosmetic castration banned | International | Reuters
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand’s health chiefs barred hospitals and clinics on Wednesday from castrating would-be “ladyboys” amid growing concern about the operation being seen as a cheap and quick alternative to a full sex-change. ………..
…… Thailand is home to a large number of “ladyboys,” or “katoey” in Thai, a term that covers anything from a transvestite to a man who has undergone a full sex change.The tolerance shown towards the “third sex,” as it is often referred to, has led to the country becoming a world leader in sex-change surgery.
Thailand expands cellular service
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
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Bangkok’s Independent Newspaper
AIS to launch 3g broadband this year
Advanced Info Service (AIS) is set to launch a 3G broadband cellular service on its existing 900MHz band within the next six months, its president Wichian Mektrakarn said yesterday.
Published on March 22, 2008
TOT, which owns the AIS concession, already has permission from the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) for AIS to import the third-generation equipment needed for the service.
However, the service is expected to be limited to some potential areas, said Wichian, who declined to specify the exact locations or investment cost.
If launched, AIS still has to share the revenue from the 3G service with TOT, given that the service will be launched on its existing concession owned by the state agency.
more bad news for Asia
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
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Coming financial crisis will make times much harder, warns economist
By LALA RIMANDO
abs-cbnNEWS.com/NewsbreakExpect the coming months to be tough, warned an economics professor. And the tough times may start next month.
“It’s going to be a hard year for us. Everyone will be affected. And the hurt will be deepest among the low-income families,” Ernesto Pernia, a professor of economics at the University of the Philippines and former economic chief at the Asian Development Bank told abs-cbnnews.com/Newsbreak in an interview.
Sex Drugs Anyone?
Friday, March 7th, 2008
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Bangkok’s Independent Newspaper
Illegal sex drug after-effects are on the rise in men. Singapore - The number of men suffering serious reactions to an illegal sex drug in Singapore are on the rise, data from the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) said on Saturday.Six more males have developed dangerously low blood-sugar levels in the past two weeks after taking the sexual enhancement drug called Power 1 Walnut, believed to have been made in China, bringing the number of confirmed cases to 16 and suspected cases to 40.
The 56 men are between 20 and 90, some of whom are foreign workers, said the HSA, the national drug watchdog. One of the victims is in a coma and another suffered a stroke three weeks ago.
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