Manila’s police are mulling over converting their patrol fleet to run on cooking oil as a cost saving measure in the wake of rising oil prices.
There will be plenty of used cooking oil, no doubt - thanks to McDonald’s and other restaurants – but is it really fit for use?
It’s probably passable to bring […]
Some people believe they score points towards a place in heaven by doing charity.
I am more inclined to think that, for all the sin we bottle within – greed, hatredness, lust to name a few - we simply fall short of the absolute holiness that God demands. Being charitable perhaps simply means we don’t drown […]
Former Canadian PM Paul Martin, ex-World Bank chief James Wolfensohn and former head of IMF Michael Camdessus are neither friendly nor diplomatic when they jointly call for Malaysia to drop its sodomy charges against Anwar Ibrahim. (* link below)
For all the conspiracy speculations that float around, the fact remains that it was Saiful Azlan, Anwar […]
This quote makes me think about what I shouldn’t spend too much time thinking about.
Aerodynamically the bumblebee
Shouldn’t be able to fly
But the bumblebee doesn’t know it,
So it goes on flying anyway.
- quote Mary Kay Ash
We often hinder ourselves from venturing into new territories because we think we lack the experience, skill, time, money, contact, dah […]
I may be in a completely different league from John McCain, but I can certainly identify with his frustration with the media’s bias in his bid for that top job.
In fact, most people with some years in the corporate world will understand: only those select few get noticed, and they get all the pats on […]
UNESCO conferring the ancient Preah Vihear temple as World Heritage Site, and the exploitation of it by Thai protestors as another reason for Thai PM Sundaravej to step down, are only triggers to the armed military standoff between Thailand and Cambodia.
The true cause of the spat is the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) ruling in […]
The Israeli cabinet may have approved it, but still, the Germany brokered swap of 5 live Israeli-held Lebanese prisoners for 2 dead Israeli soldiers is outright inequitable.
Samir Kantar, a vicious Lebanese militant among the 5 released, gloats in victory.
He is not done yet. “We swear by God… to continue on your path and not to […]
Five years on, with troop loss in excess of 4000, John McCain’s reference to the Iraq war as ‘a proving ground for the tactics needed to beat back a resurgent Taleban’ comes across to me as rather tactless. (*see below )
Think of those who have lost their sons, husbands or fathers. If they had finally come […]
The rate at which the world human population increases is not a new concern – it has been around for ages.
Overcrowding strains the planet as man competes for wood, metals, water, clean air, land and food, ie crops and livestock. Crops and livestock in turn compete with man for some of the other resources.
It’s hard […]
What do guilt, innocence and justice really mean?
The current debate in Singapore results from the reversal of an April 2007 conviction of schoolteacher William Ding for molesting his male students.
Judge of Appeal V.K. Rajah’s basis for acquitting Ding a year later in April 2008 was that the alleged victims’ accounts and evidence were inconsistent and […]
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