Zimmetro — Maldives army and police have taken control of the government on Tuesday following protests, AFP reported. The island nation south of India is one of the five Asian microstates (alongside Singapore, Brunei, Hong Kong and Macau), formed by a double chain of twenty-six atolls, and is well-known for its beach resorts and honeymoon tourism.
Zimmetro — The Simpsons is an American animated cartoon series, a satirical parody of a middle class American family consisting of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie Simpsons. Since its debut on 1989, the show has broadcast 498 episodes and the twenty-third season, becoming the longest-running American animated program. The show is set in the fictional town of Springfield and parodies American culture, society, television and many aspects of the human condition.
Zimmetro — In the 1940-1950s, Myanmar was the wealthiest nation in Southeast Asia, a country who was on its way to become the second developed nation in Asia after Japan. By 1950, Myanmar was the first Asian economic tiger, whose economy was on fast-track development. At the end of 1960 Myanmar had built up the largest pool of qualified, educated workforce in Southeast Asia.
JOHANNESBURG — Not long ago he was the golden boy of Polokwane. On Saturday, ANC Youth League supporters urinated on a Julius Malema T-shirt and set it alight.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A U.S. Congressional delegation on a fact-finding trip to Saudi Arabia discovered one hard fact – the Saudi ministry of defense building has no women’s toilet. Nine members of US Congress including four women, headed by Rep. Peter Welch, traveled to talk with Saudi government officials about how the region assesses the threat of a nuclear Iran. When the lawmakers asked to use the bathroom after a lengthy visit to the Saudi Defense Ministry, they ran into an unexpected challenge: no women’s restroom.
Zimmetro — One of the few remaining industries China fails to dominate in the world, is chemicals. The chemical industry is central to the modern world economy, as it converts raw materials (oil, natural gas, air, water, metals, and minerals) into more than 70,000 different products. Chemicals have a nearly $3 trillion global market, and of the 20 biggest chemical corporations in the world, 18 of them are either Europeans, Americans or Japanese.
Zimmetro — Fighters loyal to Muammar Gaddafi have seized back the town of Bani Walid and raised the late dictator’s green flag, in a blow to Libya’s struggling provisional government, the first major offensive launched by his loyalists since the “liberation” of Libya on October 23. The town, where militias loyal to the ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) were driven out in a gun battle earlier, said they have revolted and appointed their own government and rejected any interference from the authorities in the capital Tripoli.
Zimmetro — Imagine you are a furniture retailer and one of your customers bought furniture from your shop for a brothel, unfortunately, police raid that brothel and they find the furniture used in there came from your shop. With that, you face charges of associating with prostitution and you’re sentenced to death.
TEHRAN — While little girls in America may look forward to their first Barbie doll, in the eyes of Iran, they are devil dolls. The Iran authorities are cracking down on the sale of Barbie dolls to protect the public from what they see as pernicious western culture eroding Islamic values, and a destructive element that will ruin the Iranian nation, shopkeepers in Tehran said on Monday.
Zimmetro — Even after his death, former North Korean leader Kim Jong il continues to bring sufferings for his people. The North Korean authorities are now punishing those who failed to ‘cry sincerely’ when the death was announced. And the sentence? Up to six months in labor camps. Remember all those North Korean people sobbing uncontrollably in the streets during Kim Jong-Il’s funeral a few weeks ago? From the woman in black on television, who announced that the Dear Leader had slipped these surly bonds of earth, to those who have gathered daily since then to moan, wail, and beat their chests in agonized sadness, the North Koreans have shown the world that they can do public grieving better than anyone else can.
