Tourism, Travel & Holidays

Thailand

WORLDHOTELS has extended its offering in South East Asia with two prestigious resorts from Thailand: Indigo Pearl in Phuket and Villa Lawana in Koh Samui. Both hotels have joined WORLDHOTELS as part of its Deluxe Collection.

With kilometres of pristine sandy beaches, warm water, cool breezes and an unlimited choice of entertainment for the young and the young at heart, Phuket makes an ideal vacation spot.

Hanging on for dear life The Sydney Morning Herald  
Up-and-coming Krabi ELAN PERUMAL The Star, Malaysia
Airline safety drops in Asia BOONSONG KOSITCHOTETHANA Bangkok Post

Nature & Environment

Real Estate

Sea level rise and coral bleaching are known impacts of climate change on the oceans, but scientists worldwide are increasingly concerned about acidification of seawater, a subtler effect, but one that is much more damaging to the marine ecosystem...

Chiang Mai property developer Koolpuntville Group this year plans to launch its second new residential project in Bangkok, worth up to Bt1 billion. The developer has already completed its first residential project, Belgravia Residences, worth Bt1....

World News

USA

BANGKOK, May 12 (Reuters) - A furious rescue worker accused Myanmar's military junta on Monday of crimes against humanity for refusing to give visas to aid officials desperate to enter the country to help the 1.5 million survivors of Cyclone Nargis.

AMY ROLPH Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Traveler sets his sights on higher learning

Seattle's universities finally made their way onto an ever-expanding list last weekend: colleges Steve Lake has visited. For most, that list might be 10 -- maybe 20 -- colleges long. For Lake, it's nearing 500.

Science

Sports

SEATTLE - The bone marrow, or stem cell, transplant, a procedure that every year saves tens of thousands of lives and won for the Seattle physician who pioneered it the 1990 Nobel Prize in Medicine, appears poised to come full circle and finally b...

Luis Fabiano is reportedly a target of Manchester United (Reuters/Javier Barbancho)

Sir Alex Ferguson has been promised whatever funds he needs in the transfer market this summer to maintain Manchester United as the dominant force in the Barclays Premier League. United won a second successive league title on Sunday and hope to ad...

Magazines & Books

Israel

Damian Whitworth Times Online

Harry who? Meet the new J.K. Rowling

Stephenie Meyer, a teetotal Mormon mother of three, has sold seven million novels about high school vampires and knocked Harry Potter off the No1 bestseller spot in the US

Envy surrounds no country on Earth like the state of Israel, and with good reason: by objective measures, Israel is the happiest nation on Earth at the 60th anniversary of its founding. It is one of the wealthiest, freest and best-educated; and it...

Video

Hong Kong


HONG KONG (AFP) — A Hong Kong woman splashed out 130,000 US dollars for a car licence plate carrying "4444", despite the number's traditional links to death in Chinese culture, a report said Monday.

Internet, Computing & Cellular

Business & Economy

Many low-cost laptops are aimed at the developing world

Microsoft is cutting the cost of putting Windows XP on low cost laptops.

Plane maker Airbus has warned that airlines face further delays in receiving the A380 superjumbo.

China

Health

Parents mourn near the covered body of their child at the site of a collapsed school building in Dujiangyan. (Reuters)

DUJIANGYAN, China: The children who were considered fortunate escaped with a broken bone or a severed limb. The others, hundreds of them, were carried out to be buried, and their remaining classmates lay crushed beneath the rubble of the schoolhouse.

Exhaust fumes contain small particulates

Breathing in air pollution from traffic fumes can raise the risk of potentially deadly blood clots, a US study says.

Film & TV

Celebs

Some fans had been waiting to see the stars since dawn

Hundreds of screaming fans have greeted the stars of the Sex and the City movie at its world premiere in London.

Madonna holds her adopted son, David Banda, at an orphan care centre run by Raising Malawi, a grassroots initiative by Madonna, in Mphendula Village, about 25 miles from the capital Lilongwe April 19, 2007.  REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

LIPUNGA, Malawi (Reuters) - The father of a Malawian child that Madonna wants to adopt said on Monday he supported her case but wanted the U.S. popstar to bring his boy home for visits.

Picture of the Day

Fun

The gates of hell have been opened

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Leave My Crops Alone!

Law & Order

Babies & Parents

LOS ANGELES, May 12 (UPI) -- A U.S. grand jury in Los Angeles has indicted a museum director from Thailand on charges related to an alleged tax scam involving donated Asian antiquities.

Patsy Yang Shanghai Daily

Properly prepared during pregnancy

FOR women, pregnancy can be the most joyous time of their life. However, along with the excitement and joy associated with bringing a new life into this world come the challenges of going through several psychological, emotional, and physical chan...

Scandals

Weird & Interesting

Vice Adm. John Stufflebeem carried on an eight-month affair with a State Department staffer while the two were assigned to the White House in 1990.

Vice Adm. John Stufflebeem seemed to have it all. He rose from deck seaman to a Naval Academy football star whose punting prowess earned him the nickname "Boomer" and a part-time practice gig with the Detroit Lions.

A strong earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale has rocked Wenchuan in Sichuan province, some 92km northwest of Chengdu. The earthquake took place at 14:48 Beijing Time and tremors were felt (by our MSN friends) as far as Wuhan, Shanghai an...

Australia

Politics & Corruption

Young Fremantle defender David Mundy is sure to become a target for rival clubs after delaying contract negotiations with the Dockers until the end of the season.

I was sitting here puttering at my computer a little while ago, and trying to force myself to get up and grade some papers, so I turned the TV to C-Span, figuring there wouldn't be anything there with a plot that would suck my attention away from ...

BHP Billiton will buy Canadian potash Australian Associated Press Live News
American Women's Club of Perth American Women's Club American Women's Club
Racism in Perth Mathaba.Net  

Motor

Food & Dining

Renault-Nissan has announced a joint venture with Indian firm Bajaj to produce a $2,500 (£1,276) car. The vehicle, so far known only as Codename ULC, will cost about the same as Tata Motors' Nano - which it has claimed is the world's cheapest car.

"Et voilà!"

Get a delicious, nutritious dessert ready in 25' with basic ingredients...

Love & Relationship

Art & Culture

A shocking 34 percent of mothers reported having had an extramarital affair after the birth of their children, according to a study released yesterday (May 1, 2008). More than half, 53 percent, of women polled in the "Sex and the American Mom" sur...

This is the first known painting of the settlement at Sydney Cove. It was painted by Thomas Watling. He was sentenced in 1792 to 14 years in Australia for forging a bank note. This was painted in 1794 and is titled ‘A Direct North General View Of Sydney Cove.’

The painting was presented by Sir William Dixson in 1929, and hangs in the State Library Of New South Wales.We find it stressful moving house and for some of us, those moves might be a considerable distance. However, it’s not like we just up and m...

Boeing on Broadway? No, "Boeing Boeing" Rami Grunbaum The Seattle Times
Last of Vernon Regal collection on block Marylynne Pitz Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Blessings from Bangkok KEE HUA CHEE Malaysia Star

UK

Opinion

Leo was born on May 20, 2000

Cherie Blair was astonished by the ruthless manner in which her husband made public within hours the fact that she had lost the baby she was carrying

Photo: observer.com

From the very beginning, the premise and the promise of Barack Obama’s campaign was that it would transcend race. And last autumn the Obama team also knew this was the only way it could win. The Clinton brand among black voters was so strong, so u...

Brown hits all-time low in shock new survey # Andrew Rawnsley and Jo Revill The Observer
The truth about Tony and Gordon – by Cherie Blair Janice Turner and Philip Webster Times Online
Teenager survives 25,000-volt shock Elizabeth Stewart Guardian.co.uk

Beauty & Fashion

Education

Brian C. Gibson Film School Rejects

Officially Cool: Freddy Krueger Nike Sneakers

While I had time to find the Jason Voorhees Nike shoes, I found something else that I just had to feature. This is undoubtedly in the same vein, and if you are a huge fan of Freddy Krueger and Friday The 13th, this is yet again totally up your alley.

Author Mark Bauerlein aims to provoke in his new book, "The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future" (Tarcher/Penguin). Do you agree? Take a look at eight reasons the Emory University English pr...

Live the Mother Life Abroad Hugh Leong Mother Earth News
Fighting human trafficking Fumiko Yarita Bothell Reporter
Special education reforms would likely include classes taught in pairs By Emily Heffter Seattle Times education reporter The Seattle Times

Home & Garden

Lifestyle

Steven Mellini sells ''furniture for the bath.'' His contemporary vanities are designed in Italy under the brand name Priele, crafted in hardwoods in Thailand, and topped with tempered glass sinks from Germany.

Lifestyle Hong Kong  

Ride the White Horse

Porsche's hot collection of luxury goods is out

Defeating the Possums Roger Fox Better Homes and Gardens
ESSENCE INTERIORS DESIGN TRENDS FOR 2008 Simone Gillespie HomeBase Expo
Smog Eating Eco House in Cyprus Mike Chino Inhabitat

Security, Defence & Intelligence

Journalism, Media & Advertising

The United States says the Lebanese Shia group, Hezbollah, poses a threat to international peace and must be held accountable for the violence that's swept the Lebanese capital, Beirut.

vivek prakash Reuters Blogs

Training for the unforeseen

Recently I was one of a group of journalists who attended a four-day hostile environment training course in Bangkok. I was unsure just what to expect as I’d been told all sorts of tales - mostly scary - about what sort of things would happen to us.

Music

Singapore

HK Live!  

tHe pEneLOpe[s]

The release of the french label Citizen gives new relevance to a sound too often neglected on the dancefloor: a music that is brutal, bright , and existential. The source of this delicate equation goes by the name of tHe pEneLOpe[s], a Franco-Fin...

Singapore's policies focus on the long-term trend, said Mr Shanmugaratnam. -- ST PHOTO: THOMAS WHITE

SINGAPORE'S inflation may slow in the second half from the preceding period, Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said in Jakarta on Friday.

Born To Hula HK Live!  
Elton John - 10 May 2008 Simone van Hattem Enjoy Perth
Madonna loves to 'french the French' Sydney Morning Herald  

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