May 11
Displays have been on display in Tokyo - and the latest flat-panel screen technology is getting thinner and more flexible. This so-called ‘e-paper’ not only allows users to read the latest edition of a favourite news paper electronically, it also means pages in e-books can be changed, or documents amended much more easily than using a traditional pen. And, most importantly, the technology saves real paper - and therefore, real trees.
Tags: display, e-paper, electronics, panel, screen
May 06
More than 22,000 killed and 41,000 missing, Myanmar radio reports- 3.6-meter storm surge leaves more than 100,000 homeless in one area
- U.N. estimates that up to a million people could not be homeless
- Storm damage concentrated over a 30,000 square-kilometer area
A Myanmar government radio station said Tuesday that more than 22,000 people are dead and 41,000 missing after the catastrophic cyclone that battered the country.
Buddhist monks move branches from an uprooted tree blocking a street in Yangon.
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Tags: Burma cyclone, CNN, death, Myanmar, Yangon
Apr 28
Interpol warn of Beijing terror attacks as China agrees to meet Dalai Lama
China yesterday attempted to stop more international protests before the Beijing Olympics by announcing it would meet aides of the Dalai Lama. But campaigners for democracy in Tibet have warned that concrete progress has to follow, or the dramatic announcement amounts to little more than a cynical PR gesture by the government.
The move marks a change in tactics on the part of Beijing, which has stepped up its vilification of the Buddhist spiritual leader since anti-government protests hit Tibet and rippled across China during the last few weeks. Continue reading »
Tags: Beijing, China, Daily Mail, Dalai Lama, Interpol, Olympics, terrorism
Apr 28
A male orangutan, clinging precariously to overhanging branches, flails the water with a pole, trying desperately to spear a passing fish. It is the first time one has been seen using a tool to hunt. The extraordinary image, a world exclusive, was taken in Borneo on the island of Kaja, where apes are rehabilitated into the wild after being rescued from zoos, private homes or even butchers’ shops. Continue reading »
Tags: Daily Mail, discovery, fishing, hunting, monkey, orangutan
Apr 16
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad cast doubt over the United States’ version of the September 11 attacks on Wednesday, calling them a pretext used to invade Afghanistan and Iraq.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has again publicly questioned the reality of the 9/11 attacks.
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Tags: 9/11, Ahmadinejad, CNN, excuse, invasion, Iran, State Department, USA
Displays have been on display in Tokyo - and the latest flat-panel screen technology is getting thinner and more flexible. This so-called ‘e-paper’ not only allows users to read the latest edition of a favourite news paper electronically, it also means pages in e-books can be changed, or documents amended much more easily than using a traditional pen. And, most importantly, the technology saves real paper - and therefore, real trees.
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