Kyaemonhttp://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/photo/2010-05/16/c_13297509_6.htm ATM dispenses pure gold http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/photo/2010-05/16/c_13297327_4.htm BallerStatus.com » Dubai Hotel Installs Gold-Dispensing ATM Machine http://www.ballerstatus.com/2010/05/15/dubai-hotel-installs-gold-dispensing-atm-machine/ The ATM that dispenses gold bars – Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/unitedarabemirates/7720491/The-ATM-that-dispenses-gold-bars.html Abu Dhabi’s Emirates Palace Hotel, which boasts that it is the most luxurious hotel in the United Arab Emirates, has raised the ante in a region known for its mania for […]
ToneToneThe 2010 Miss USA Pageant Television show – The 2010 Miss USA Pageant TV Show – Yahoo! TV http://tv.yahoo.com/the-2010-miss-usa-pageant/show/46500/news/tv-news.en.ap.org/tv-news.en.ap.org-20100517-us_miss_usa Arab-American from Michigan crowned 2010 Miss USA By OSKAR GARCIA, Associated Press Writer A 24-year-old Arab American from Michigan beat out 50 other women to take the 2010 Miss USA title Sunday night, despite nearly stumbling […]
This story reminds me of a poor woman in Buddha’s time. She was very poor. Yet, she wanted to donate what little she had. She was struggling with her decision for quite some time. Buddha knew about it, but he didn’t intervene. Finally, she made the donation out of her pure cetana (goodwill or generosity). […]
Gift Shows China Philanthropy Has Reached the Big Leagues Charity Surges on the Mainland as Donations Fall in the U.S.; ‘Time for Us to Give,’ top Chinese Philanthropist Says Chinese Philanthropy Comes of Age – WSJ.com http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703612804575221880681800788.html?mod=WSJ_World_RIGHTTopCarousel HONG KONG—A real-estate and hotel tycoon’s billion-dollar giveaway is the latest sign that Chinese philanthropy has come of […]
Lin Yu Chun, ‘Taiwan’s Susan Boyle’, signs Sony record deal The shy and portly singer who shot to fame after appearing on a Taiwanese talent show is to record his debut album Lin Yu Chun, ‘Taiwan’s Susan Boyle’, signs Sony record deal | Music | guardian.co.uk http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/may/14/lin-yu-chun-sony-record-deal Lin Yu Chun, Taiwan‘s bow-tied “answer to Susan […]
Whitney Houston Sound-Alike Doing Better Than Whitney Houston – Stop The Presses! http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/stopthepresses/198228/whitney-houston-sound-alike-doing-better-than-whitney-houston/ Whitney Houston may be struggling with her career, but her sound-alike is hitting a high note. The Taiwanese singing sensation Lin Yu-Chun, who rose from obscurity to YouTube stardom thanks to the Taiwan version of “American Idol,” is now a true star […]
Sailor Jessica Watson to fall short of official round-the-world record | The Australian http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/sailor-jessica-to-fall-short-of-official-round-the-world-record/story-e6frg6nf-1225862771532 DESPITE her heroics at sea, teenage solo sailor Jessica Watson is set to be denied formal recognition of being the youngest to circumnavigate the globe alone and unassisted. As the 16-year-old entered the home stretch of her epic journey, battling heavy […]
Photos: The Sinuous Vision of Architect Zaha Hadid – Photo Essays – TIME http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1985954_2131979,00.html Zaha Hadid – The 2010 TIME 100 – TIME http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1984685_1984745_1984651,00.html YouTube – Interview with Zaha Hadid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk-vhQSycfI&feature=related Zaha Hadid and Amman’s New Performing Art Center. http://bit.ly/deWdNZ YouTube – Zaha Hadid Interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27rjmtgyyHo&feature=related YouTube – Zaha Hadid Talking About Challenges of Architecture […]
The 2010 TIME 100 In our annual TIME 100 issue we name the people who most affect our world Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1984685_1984745_1984651,00.html#ixzz0nyyWBCxS The first time I experienced Zaha Hadid’s work — in 2000, at an exhibit of 20 years of her designs at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London — I had a visceral […]
Shwemannmayမနေ ့က ည က ပူလွန်းလို ့ မအိပ်နိုင်ပါဘူး။ အိမ်ပြင်ထွက်ထိုင်တော့လည်း ခြင်ကကိုက်တာမို ့ ခြင်ထောင်ထဲမှာပဲ ငုတ်တုတ်ထိုင်ယပ်ခတ်နေရပါတယ်။ မီးက ၁၁ နာရီကျ ပြန်လာမှာမို ့ မီးလာရင်တော့ အဲ ကွန်းလေးနဲ ့အိပ်ကြမယ်ဆိုပြီး မီးအလာကို စောင့်နေကြတာပါ။ အမေကတော့ ယပ်ခတ်ရင်းနဲ ့ တစ်ချက်တစ်ချက်မှိန်းနေ တာပေါ့လေ။ ဒီနွေကပူလွန်းတော့ ကလေးသူငယ်တွေနဲ ့သက်ကြီးရွယ်အိုတွေ အပူဒဏ်ကို အတော်ခံစားရရှာပါတယ်။ အိ်ပ်ပျော်နေတဲ့အမေကို ယပ်ခတ်ပေးရင်း ဒီအသက်အရွယ်ထိ မိဘကို ပြုစုစောင့်ရှောက်ခွင့်ပေးတဲ့ ကံတရားကို ကျေးဇူးအတော်တင်မိပါတယ်။ တဆက်တည်း မှာ ငယ်ငယ်တုန်းကဖတ်ဖူးတဲ ့စာအုပ်တစ်အုပ်ထဲက စာပိုဒ်လေးကိုသတိရလို ့မန္တလေးဂဇက်မှာ တင်မယ်လို ့ တေးထားလိုက်ပါတယ်။ အခု ရောက်ရောက်ချင်းပဲ စာစီပြီး တင်ပေးလိုက်ပါတယ်။ ဘာသာရေးစာအုပ်တစ်အုပ်မှာ ဖတ်ဖူးတာပါ။ […]
PareByokeHoli – (Indian Thingyan) II Both festivals are derived from Hindu mythology. However, water festivals in Burma and other parts of South east Asia and in Yunnan, have a different version from Indian Holi. Both of them are occasions of great fun and merriment, songs and dances, and of joyful splashing. Enjoy the different cultures […]
Graft is rampant in some countries, even blatant and bold. “It’s the custom, don’t you know? You must have been away (from the country) far too long,” a minor custom official allegedly said. Witness Than Shwe’s daughter’s opulent wedding jewelry. We need a free media to contain this scourge or culture. Some people didn’t stop […]
***** Los Angeles Chinatown then and now Once the hub of Chinese American life in Los Angeles, the 24-block Chinatwon neighborhood northeast of downtown, has lost much of its luster since its heydays in the 1940s. During daylight hours, the Chinese-themed shops and restaurants clustered around three main plazas still draw visitors, hunting for cheap […]