File from Residency

5/6/2008

Crackdown on traffickers strains Thailand's wildlife centres

by Elizabeth Gibson, AFP Bangkok
Yahoo.com, May 4, 2008

Staff at one of Thailand's 23 state wildlife rescue centres are getting good at scrimping by.


5/6/2008

Israeli Reform Jews celebrate first non-Orthodox synagogue built with government funding

By BETH MARLOWE, Associated Press Writer
Jerusalem
MSNBC.com,May 5, 2008

MODI'IN, ISRAEL - Israel's Reform Jews dedicated the first non-Orthodox synagogue to receive state funding on Monday, after a long court battle that accented the rift among streams of Judaism in Israel.


4/29/2008

Indian Tibetans fight for symbolic homeland

by Ambreen Ali, AFP, Delhi
Yahoo.com, Thursday, Apr 17, 2008

Migmar Tsering has never seen Tibet, but he says he knows it is the anti-Delhi: its streets are clean, the water drinkable, and the air unpolluted.


4/23/2008

Thousands of Christians baptized near Jordan River site

By BETH MARLOWE, Associated Press Writer, Jerusalem
Los Angeles Times, April 22, 2008

QASR EL-YEHUD, West Bank — Israel blocked thousands of Christians from making a Tuesday pilgrimage to the Jordan River site where Jesus was baptized, citing safety concerns.


4/15/2008

Carter offers to be Hamas go-between

By BETH MARLOWE, Associated Press Writer, Jerusalem
Yahoo.com, April 14, 2008

Former President Jimmy Carter defended his plan to meet with the top leader of the violently anti-Israel Hamas movement, saying Monday he hopes to become a conduit between the Islamic militant group and Washington and Israel.


4/8/2008

Israel to bar UN official for comparing Israelis to Nazis

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

JERUSALEM: The Israeli Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that it will not allow the U.N. official appointed to investigate Israeli-Palestinian human rights to enter the country, after he stood by comments comparing Israelis to Nazis.


4/7/2008

Evangelist pledges $6 million in contributions, backs Israeli control of all Jerusalem

Evangelist pledges $6 million in contributions, backs Israeli control of all Jerusalem

By BETH MARLOWE, Associated Press Jerusalem
MSNBC.com, Sun., April. 6, 2008

JERUSALEM - American evangelist John Hagee on Sunday announced donations of $6 million to a number of Israeli causes and declared that Israel must remain in control of all of Jerusalem.


12/13/2007

Coming home to IT

By Andrew J. Baltazar, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
Hindustan Times, November 19, 2007

Twelve years ago, Rajesh Mehta, an IIT Roorkee-trained electrical engineer, left India for the US, ready to ride on the dot-com bubble. After nine years in the land of opportunities, Mehta found himself riding yet another technology boom — this time back at home.


 


12/13/2007

Highs and lows of open source

 By Andrew Baltazar, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
Hindustan Times, November 14,2007

Purchasing a computer is an enormous expense in itself. Adding software to your new machine will drain your wallet even further. Computer users often shell out thousands of rupees for commercial applications like Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop, but comparable programs are available for free download on the Internet.

 


12/13/2007

BSNL set to float Rs 2,000-crore Wi-Max tender

 By Andrew Baltazar & Archana Khatri, Hindustan Times
Hindustan Times, October 18

State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) said on Thursday it had begun work on a Rs 2,000-crore tender to link remote villages by wireless broadband Internet services through the Wi-Max technology.

 


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