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By STAFF Writer August 15, 2011 In the Vintage Newspaper section today we are revisiting India and Pakistan independence in 1947. Below are just few of the chosen newspapers' extracts that covered the news of India and Pakistan independence, partition of India and Pakistan, and riots started on the eve of independence. The Windsor Daily Star - August 14, 1947 ( Click on image to view full size ) This is how India is divided. The white spaces are the princely states, which either adhere to British rule or are being governed by their maharajahs as independent states... The Border Cities Star - January 27, 1930 ( Click on image to view full size ) Three hundred Communist mill workers rushed the platform at Chowpathy Sea Face Sunday while a monster crowd was holding an independence day meeting, pulled down the independence flag and sought to hoist the red flag in its place... The Pittsburg Press - January 28, 1930 ( Click on image to view full size ) Commun...

By STAFF Writer August 15, 2011 In the Vintage Newspaper section today we are revisiting India and Pakistan independence in 1947. Below are just few of the chosen newspapers' extracts that covered the news of India and Pakistan independence, partition of India and Pakistan, and riots started on the eve of independence. The Windsor Daily Star - August 14, 1947 ( Click on image to view full size ) This is how India is divided. The white spaces are the princely states, which either adhere to British rule or are being governed by their maharajahs as independent states... The Border Cities Star - January 27, 1930 ( Click on image to view full size ) Three hundred Communist mill workers rushed the platform at Chowpathy Sea Face Sunday while a monster crowd was holding an independence day meeting, pulled down the independence flag and sought to hoist the red flag in its place... The Pittsburg Press - January 28, 1930 ( Click on image to view full size ) Commun...

By STAFF Writer October 24, 2011 MALAYSIA NEWS - Amendment in Income Tax Act in Malaysia may affect foreign investment along with some negative impact on the local business community as well as on taxpayers, said MCA Young Professionals Bureau on Saturday. According to the MCA chairman, in the Section 81 amendment of Income Tax Act the Internal Revenue Board's director-general (DG) gets the power to disregard, partly or completely, the income tax claims proof after the end of notice period. In a press conference in Kuala Lumpur chairman Datuk Chua Tee Yong said, "Previously, a person is entitled to appeal any additional assessment issued by the DG. "However, this new amendment does not allow for any room to appeal, as the DG may disregard proof of claims, such as receipts or documents." He illustrated the amendment with an example: if any public listed company claims for travelling expenses of RM500,000 that were actually incurred four years ago, then D...

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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. ...