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Tifatul blocks porn sites with holy curtain A | A | A | The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Wed, 08/11/2010 9:11 AM | Headlines A complete ban on all pornographic websites in observance of the Ramadan fasting period is unfeasible, Communications and Information Technology Minister Tifatul Sembiring says. “A 100 percent ban wou... | The message one Indonesian saw when attempting to access pornography today The Indonesian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has announced that the government will be banning pornographic sites in the country. The announcement comes before the Islamic holiday of Ramadan. The ministry conducted a tec... |
December 17, 2006 Nobel Prize laureate Paul Crutzen says he has new data supporting his controversial theory that injecting the common pollutant sulfur into the atmosphere would cancel out the greenhouse effect. Although such a project could not be implemented for at least 10 years, the data is aimed at appeasing criti... | Nobel Prize winner Professor Paul J. Crutzen has stated he has data to support his controversial claim that injecting sulfur into the atmosphere would negate the greenhouse effect. The data is intended to quiet critics of the theory he first discussed in the scientific journal ''Climatic Change'' in August, 2006. The 1... |
CURRENT FUEL TAXES Introduction Good public policy requires above all else certainty and consistency from Government in its treatment of fuel taxation. Any change in Government transport or fuel policies including fuel taxation has the potential to change the road transport fuel mix. Investments, both on the supply sid... | The Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard, has announced new measures to alleviate the impact of rising global oil prices on Australians. They include grants of up to $2,000 to switch to LPG, and $17.2 million over three years to improve E10 blend ethanol fuel infrastructure. Speaking in Parliament House, the Prime ... |
Dec. 13: Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., has been hospitalized with symptoms initially described as stroke-like. NBC's Chip Reid reports. NBC, MSNBC and news services WASHINGTON - Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson of South Dakota was hospitalized Wednesday, weeks before his party was to take control of the Senate by a one-vote mar... | U.S. Senator Tim Johnson Tim Johnson, a United States Democratic Senator from South Dakota, reportedly suffered a stroke at about 11:30 this morning. However, subsequent tests revealed that the senator did not suffer a stroke or a heart attack. He was transported to George Washington University Hospital by ambulance, w... |
The Trump administration is not extending its waiver of the Jones Act for Puerto Rico, after it expired Sunday night. The Homeland Security Department (DHS) told CBS News in a statement that the department believes the waiver isn't necessary at this time. The act requires that goods shipped between U.S. ports be carrie... | According to the United States on Monday, Puerto Rico's exemption from the , which temporarily lifted the rule requiring that only U.S.-owned ships might carry goods between U.S. ports, was allowed to expire on Sunday rather than being renewed. The island commonwealth had been given a temporary exemption from this law ... |
Police officers in an undated file photo. A father and son were named among the victims of a triple shooting in Hertfordshire, police said on Thursday. REUTERS/File LONDON (Reuters) - A father and son were named among the victims of a triple shooting in Hertfordshire, police said on Thursday. Keith Cowell, 52, and his ... | A three-year-old girl is under police guard following her discovery in a house which gunmen had broken into, killing three men and injuring two women, in Bishop's Stortford, England. Police announced on Wednesday that the toddler had been discovered, unharmed, when they had been called to an incident on Tuesday evening... |
A study of the WebmasterWorld states that 75% of all blogs on Google's blogspot are spam. According to this study the top 15 doorway domains consist of 14 domains, where the spam percentage is over 74%. This means that in four search results of current study, three sites turned out to be spam. The researchers scanned 1... | According to a survey conducted by some web sites, providing free web space for amateur bloggers contain in many cases mostly spam. Certain queries showed even a rate of 100% spam. Experts from WebmasterWorld provided precise figures and statistics to their survey. For example the following list shows the percentage of... |
Scorecard - Commentary - Wickets - Partnerships - Wagon wheels - Player v player - Over comparison - Over graphs - Career averages - Match home - Bulletin - Article index (5) - Photo index (25) ODI no. 2545 ICC World Cup - 15th Match, Group A Scotland v South Africa 2006/07 season Played at (neutral venue), on 20 March... | South Africa beat Scotland by 7 wickets (with 160 balls remaining) in Group A of the World Cup at the Warner Park Stadium, Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis. Scotland captain Craig Wright missed this match as he had flown home to attend his aunt's funeral; Ryan Watson deputised as captain in his absence. This victory m... |
Tech blogs are fizzing with rage at the 'revelation' that Microsoft small print says a new Windows OEM licence must be purchased if a motherboard is changed or upgraded. The software behemoth is quoted as saying that the 'heart and soul' of a PC lies therein, and so changing it - other than in the case of a failure - a... | Microsoft has recently made changes to the Windows license agreement, saying that, “An upgrade of the motherboard is considered to result in a new personal computer to which Microsoft OEM operating system software cannot be transferred from another computer." This will force users who upgrade their motherboard, even vi... |
Take action! Help Wikileaks fight to get the truth out and change the world for the better. From Wikileaks EDITORIAL Thursday February 28, 2008 Julius Baer Bank & Trust -- the Swiss-Cayman "private banking" entity currently attempting to sue Wikileaks before US Federal court Justice Jeffery White in San Francisco, toda... | The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have sided with ''Wikileaks.org'' and will defend them against a lawsuit which took the site off line in the United States. Wikileaks is a website dedicated to hosting leaked documents that are "anonymous, untraceable, uncensorable."... |
MOSCOW — A chaotic day of deadly street violence in southern Kyrgyzstan ended Friday with the interim government’s retaking control of administration buildings in two southern cities. The buildings were overrun a day earlier by followers of the former president, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who was toppled in an uprising a month... | Supporters of Kurmanbek Makiyev, shown here in 2006, took over several government buildings yesterday. The interim government of Kyrgyzstan has regained control of several government offices after a day of violent clashes with supporters of former . Backers of the ousted president took over regional government offices ... |
Search all sections About ODPM Building Regulations Devolution Fire Government Offices Homelessness Housing Local Government Planning Regions Science and Research Sustainable Communities Urban Policy Advanced Search ||||| Property Policies File Downloads No documents found The policies available here relate to the way ... | The British Parliament approved the first stage of the new Crossrail underground railroad through London as a £15 billion construction project earlier this month. Crossrail is the first major new train line to be built in London in decades. The rail line being implemented as a hybrid bill in Parliament. After a second ... |
Borlaug won the Nobel Peace Prize and US Congressional Gold Medal Norman Borlaug, the man known as the father of the Green Revolution in agriculture, has died in the US state of Texas aged 95. Prof Borlaug won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for agricultural innovation and the development of high-yield crops. The Green R... | Norman Borlaug in 2003 American agronomist and Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug has died aged 95. Borlaug, known as the father of the Green Revolution that transformed agriculture in the 20th century, died of complications from cancer at his home in Dallas, Texas in the United States late on Saturday evening. Borlaug was ... |
Fahmida Mirza, a former medical doctor, on Wednesday became the first woman speaker of the National Assembly as the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and its allies, poised to form the government, showed their strength and voted for her. Only 324 parliamentarians were present in the National Assembly or the lower house of P... | The of Pakistan has elected of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) as its first female speaker, weeks after the general elections which ousted President Pervez Musharraf's party and gave the PPP the most seats in Parliament. Mirza, a former medical doctor who has previously served three terms in the National Assembly, was... |
Yisrael Beirenu's proposal was aimed mainly at Israel's Arab and ultra-Orthodox population [AFP] Yisrael Beirenu's proposal was aimed mainly at Israel's Arab and ultra-Orthodox population [AFP] The legislation committee on Sunday scrapped the bill, which had been tabled by the Yisrael Beitenu party, led by Avigdor Lieb... | Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu firmly rejected calls to end settlements in the occupied on Sunday after Netanyahu was pressed by the Obama administration to halt all settlement activity during a meeting last week in Washington. PM Netanyahu Obama criticized settlement activity saying, "On the Israeli side, t... |
Women in Saudi Arabia to vote and run in elections Saudi women face severe restrictions in their working and personal lives Continue reading the main story Related Stories Women in Saudi Arabia are to be given the right to vote and run in future municipal elections, King Abdullah has announced. He said they would also ... | King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has announced women will be allowed to in the country and run for there. The modifications will apply from 2012. Abdullah made this announcement at the start of a new term. In a speech, the king said "we refuse to marginalise women in society in all roles that comply with sharia" and so ma... |
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