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Climate Change & COP15 -Let's not wait for another Katrina or Tsunami to take action

The Copenhagen Summit is a Convention so big one could say 'It's bigger than Ben Hur". Never before has such an international event taken place of this magnitude. Where leaders of the world have come...

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Poverty: The Debate

Money is no object...is it? Money: the biggest problem in the world. We need more money than we have, and what are the consequences of that? Stress. Conflicts. Famine. Bad hygiene. Illness. Death. But the...

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RIP NEWSPAPERS

Every year at this time, television broadcast networks do a ‘year-end-wrap’ of stories which happened over the course of the year.  These wrap-ups usually include the most newsworthy events like...

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Water Powerful and Destructive

Through out history, there have been thousands of floods. Every week, somewhere in the world a flood makes headlines. When China's Yellow River flooded in 1931 3.5 million people lost their lives. In 1966,...

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Solidarity

Solidarity, a word much used recently conducted in our society, whether as the word says we should be able to live together always taking into account our neighbors and join in a common struggle, to walk our...

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KD Sri Inderapura - USS Spartanburg County (LST-1192)

When I went to Pangkor few months back. I was fascinated with KD Sri Inderapura which was one of the largest ship anchored at the Lumut Naval Base. It was built on 7 February 1970, at National Steel and...

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Centuries Of Fact And Fiction

The centuries have shaped what each of us knows to be facts or fiction.  Over these centuries, individuals have been fascinated with what is called “end times.”  The idea that all of this could end, on...

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Short Story: Wave Goodbye

Stars shot through the darkness in Sung He’s mind, piercing colour swirling into a vortex of confusion, disrupting the peaceful blackness. Something grabbed his foot. Go away, he thought, leave...

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Tsunami Affected Vailankanni - My Experiences

We are watching the damaged beach of Vailankanni. The Indian coastline experienced the most devastating tsunami on 26th December 2004. The tsunami was triggered by an earthquake of magnitude 9.0 on the...

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The Wrath of the Ocean

Written on:  March 10, 2005 It was the day after Christmas 2004 and many were enjoying the holidays in beaches and various recreational areas in and out of the country.  Millions were having their...

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