FLASH FLOODS KILL 2 IN WATER-WEARY NE AUSTRALIA

Flash floods swept through an Australian city Monday, killing at least two people, trapping others in cars and leaving some clinging to trees as relentless rains brought more misery to a region battling its worst flooding in decades.

3.000 participants in Network Campaign against Domestic Violence

For 6 days the Eastern Network against Domestic Violence conducted various events to raise the invisible issue that deeply affects the life of many families, mostly women, in Nepal. 3.000 people in Ilam, Jhapa and Dhankuta directly participated in different sensitization events like forum theatre and received relevant information and legal counseling in the field of Domestic Violence. 1.000 posters and more than 5.000 brochures have been distributed. Indirectly more than 25.000 people have been reached.

FLOOD WATERS SWEPT THROUGH VAST AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN AUSTRALIA SATURDAY

Flood waters swept through vast areas of northeastern Australia Saturday, threatening to inundate thousands more homes in a disaster one official said was of "biblical proportions".
As Queen Elizabeth II sent her "sincere sympathies" to Queenslanders who rang in a damp new year, the military was assisting deliver food and other supplies to isolated towns by helicopter.
Up to 200,000 people have been affected by the floods which have hurt the state's lucrative mining industry and cut off major highways as the water rushes through sodden inland regions to the sea.
"In many ways, it is a disaster of biblical proportions," Queensland State Treasurer Andrew Fraser told reporters in flood-hit Bundaberg.
Emergency workers were focusing their efforts on Rockhampton where the Fitzroy River had broken its banks and was rising dangerously, threatening some 2,000 to 4,000 homes ahead of reaching its expected peak on Wednesday.

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TOP CHINA BLOGGER SHUTS DOWN MAGAZINE

One of China's most popular bloggers announced Tuesday he was forced to shut down his freewheeling print magazine after just one issue because government officials appear to have blocked the printing of any new editions.
Han Han, a novelist and race car driver, has amassed a huge readership with his sly online critiques of China's social problems and hoped to tap that audience with an arts and literature magazine, Party.
Han wrote in a blog post that it appeared that the government was behind the closure, but he was unsure which department and why they had objected to the magazine.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL HAS ASKED THE INDIAN JUDICIARY

Amnesty International has attacked the Indian judiciary for sentencing a doctor to life imprisonment on charges of helping Maoist rebels, warning the verdict could further stoke unrest.

Binayak Sen, arrested in 2007 in the state of Chhattisgarh and accused of waging war against the country, was convicted and given the life sentence by a local court on Friday.

Amnesty said it considered Sen a "prisoner of conscience" and added the jailed paediatrician had been "convicted under laws that are impermissibly vague".

Nine dead in Bhutan accident

Eight, including three children under 14 years, were killed on the spot while one died on the way to Thimphu hospital.
As of 12:30 pm 25 passengers including the driver were evacuated to Thimphu hospital and four are believed to be in critical condition.
The 22-seater Pelyab bus was reported to be carrying 35 passengers including the driver and his assistant. The cause of the accident is being investigated. The bus is reported to have rolled backwards on a climb before plunging 519 feet below the road at around 9:30 this morning.