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By ONE Liners Agency July 31, 2011 Harvard School of Public Health cites figures in its press release that global population may exceed 9 billion by 2050. In a review article of Professor David Bloom published in Science, it is learned that by 2100 the population is expected to rise to 10 billion. In 2011 it will top 7 billion, mentions the article, which is more than double what the global population was 50 years ago. Bloom says that the growth will be highly uneven geographically. He adds that developed countries such as Germany and Japan may see flat population growth figure or even it may decline, but the developing countries are expected to explode. In developed countries demographics crisis can be faced as society will fail to produce enough adults who could take care of the old, where as the demographics will be challenging to the developing countries with food supply, water, housing and energy. The report says that in Africa alone the population may grow to 1.1 billio...

|--Advertisements------> <------Advertisements--| By ONE Liners Agency July 08, 2012 In over forty years today the Libyans voted what is said to be their first election. Threats and gunfire were heard in some places. A 55-year voter said the country will vote for their fatherland amid shooting takes place or not. Libya is on the way of conceiving a new nation after the country overthrown Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. The shooting and threats of violence came from the protesters who hoped of stopping the vote as they have the fear the 200 new elected member congress may favor the more populous west around Tripoli and also allow them to dominate in the writing of the new constitution of the country. The protesters in recent days have attacked polling stations and also burned ballots. The country suffered a dictatorship rule for forty years under Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. |--Advertisements----> <------Advertisements--|

By STAFF Writer December 05, 2011 After the recent successful capture of Independent Liquor of New Zealand, Japan's Asahi Group Holdings now eyes Mountain H2O, the Australian mineral water supplier. It is reported that the two companies have reached a basic deal and are expected to approach regulators soon for the clearance in finalising the acquisition. Mountain H2O is located at the border between NSW and Victoria in Australia. It bottles Coles Private label bottled spring water as well as its own brand mineral water. It has an annual sales of approximately $A31.4 million. Asahi seeks to buy Mountain H2O to capitalise on the growing demand of bottled water. The company is the maker of top-selling "Super Dry" beer in Japan and had earlier bought New Zealand's beverage group for $1.3 billion. It is learned the Japanese firm is also seeking for Malaysian bottler for PepsiCo, Permanis, for about $275 million. The company announced earlier about a dea...

From EDITOR's Desk August 13, 2011 17 years later, the story continues with a simple photograph of a sea green eyed girl when a casual photography by McCurry turned out to be one of those captivating portrait that sear the heart and ran on the cover of National Geographic magazine in June 1985. The shy girl was among hordes of refugees at the refugee camp in Pakistan. The anger of those haunted eyes was apparent, which swept away the photography fraternity and not least the whole world, but after 17 years nobody actually remember her, even her name. The year is 2011 when a team from National Geography Television & Films brought McCurry to Pakistan to search the immortal face. They searched around Nasir Bagh where the refugee camp still stands lonely among multitude. After showing her photographs to number of people, they came to know the girl in the picture returned to Afghanistan and now lived in the mountains near Tora Bora. So, they decided to hunt the girl. ...

Incest Story In Haryana Just a few days back India gloriously celebrated its 64th Independence Day but the oxymoron of Indian freedom runs in Indian villages. Nowadays one of the most noted sarcasms is quite in style in national news channels. The noise is quite audible, and annoyance level is also comfortably high. The subject is the most tempting one to mankind – sex. Haryana, a state in India known for flourishing industrialism and affluent farmers, seems living in the medieval period. The self-proclaimed Haryana’s Khaps are the sham ‘kings’ of the villages. Their “moral judgments” can even make shy to the epitomes of immorality. They do all sort of things – to solve personal problems of family, to give judgment of any conflict, and above all their profound knowledge in ancient gotras, caste system etc. is mind-boggling. A recent example is about a law graduate and resident of Karora village Seema whose brother had been killed for marrying a woman from the same got...

Japan: 体調不良で舞台を降板し療養中の女優・ 川島なお美 の夫でパティシ エの鎧塚俊彦氏が22日、フェイスブックを更新し、 悪質なデマに苦言を呈した。 発端は21日に一部Twitterユーザーが「 川島なお美 さんが 亡くなった」とツイート。マスコミが裏取りに走るなど、 騒然となった。 Source

By STAFF REPORTER October 17, 2011 In the first eight months of this year the trade between Thailand and Cambodia went up by 8%. Thai Embassy in Phnom Penh said yesterday the trade between went up to $1.93 billion. The export of Cambodia to Thailand was 125.6 million dollars, which is 17% lower compared to the same period last year, whereas the export of Thailand to Cambodia went up by 10% to 1.8 billion dollars. Director of Thai embassy's Foreign Trade Promotion Office, Jiranan Wongmongkol said trade between the two countries is seeing better recovery since August when the Pheu Thai Party came to power led by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. She added, "We project that through restoring good relations between the two nations, the bilateral trade will grow around 20 percent this year." Director of statistics department at Cambodia's Ministry of Commerce, Kong Putheara also said that Cambodian and Thai trade would re-grow well henceforth after it slow...

Incest Story In Haryana Just a few days back India gloriously celebrated its 64th Independence Day but the oxymoron of Indian freedom runs in Indian villages. Nowadays one of the most noted sarcasms is quite in style in national news channels. The noise is quite audible, and annoyance level is also comfortably high. The subject is the most tempting one to mankind – sex. Haryana, a state in India known for flourishing industrialism and affluent farmers, seems living in the medieval period. The self-proclaimed Haryana’s Khaps are the sham ‘kings’ of the villages. Their “moral judgments” can even make shy to the epitomes of immorality. They do all sort of things – to solve personal problems of family, to give judgment of any conflict, and above all their profound knowledge in ancient gotras, caste system etc. is mind-boggling. A recent example is about a law graduate and resident of Karora village Seema whose brother had been killed for marrying a woman from the same got...

From EDITOR's Desk August 13, 2011 17 years later, the story continues with a simple photograph of a sea green eyed girl when a casual photography by McCurry turned out to be one of those captivating portrait that sear the heart and ran on the cover of National Geographic magazine in June 1985. The shy girl was among hordes of refugees at the refugee camp in Pakistan. The anger of those haunted eyes was apparent, which swept away the photography fraternity and not least the whole world, but after 17 years nobody actually remember her, even her name. The year is 2011 when a team from National Geography Television & Films brought McCurry to Pakistan to search the immortal face. They searched around Nasir Bagh where the refugee camp still stands lonely among multitude. After showing her photographs to number of people, they came to know the girl in the picture returned to Afghanistan and now lived in the mountains near Tora Bora. So, they decided to hunt the girl. ...