SYDNEY Dec 15 (AFP) – Dozens of asylum seekers, including children, were feared dead after a boat sank in violent seas off Australia's Christmas Island, in what witnesses described as a "major tragedy".
Witness Phillip Stewart said on Wednesday he saw people drowning and others smashed against floating debris after their boat broke up against the limestone cliffs of the remote island off western Australia.
"The tragedy continued for some time and we witnessed people actually drowning.... Unfortunately (they) were hit against the rocks," he told Sky News.Australian police confirmed that a suspected asylum seeker boat had been involved in an accident off Christmas Island.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Monday, December 6, 2010
FLOODS HAMMER AUSTRALIA'S EASTERN STATES WITH LOSS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS
After years of unending drought, Australia's wheat belt has been pounded by torrid rains - and a giant swarm of locusts - forcing mass evacuations and wiping millions off the nation's economy.
New South Wales, Australia's key economic province, has been declared a natural disaster zone after floods, driven by torrential rain, threaten the nation's agricultural economy and drive up global wheat costs.
New South Wales, Australia's key economic province, has been declared a natural disaster zone after floods, driven by torrential rain, threaten the nation's agricultural economy and drive up global wheat costs.
Friday, December 3, 2010
Wife & Girlfriend
At home watch TV
go out bring MOBILE
No money, sell TV
Got money change MOBILE
Sometimes enjoy TV
but most of the time play with MOBILE
TV is free for life
but MOBILE if you don't pay, the services will be terminated
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Bhutanese refugees mark Dashain in Melbourne
The Bhutanese refugees resettled in Melbourne, Australia held a cultural show in Melbourne on Saturday marking the Dashain festival.
The program featured a series of cultural performances in typical Nepali dress and songs, Sangini, Balan, Deusi, children dance and fashion parade exhibiting diversity of dresses from Bhutan.
“The costume parade was the show case of what ethnicity lives in Bhutan and education to the wider Australian and Nepalese communities,” Bhutanese Community in Australia (BCA) chairperson Parsu Luitel said. The costumes for the show were collected from Nepalese community in Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra and Victoria.
Traditional Bhutanese and Nepali cuisines were served by Hilmayan Sherpa such as Emadachi (a traditional food from Bhutan), dahi chiura.
The program was attended by Hon George Lekakis, chairperson, Victorian Multicultural Commission (VMC), John Gibson, President, Refugee Council of Australia; Sam Afra JP, chairperson, Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria (ECCV), Chandra Yonzon, Hon Consulate General of Nepal in Victoria, Geoff Porter, Mayor of Hume City Council, Tony Ryan, Inspector Victoria Police Broadmeadows, representatives from Nepalese and Karen Burmese communities and government and non governmental agencies including 400 Bhutanese from Melbourne, Woodunga, Albury and Tasmania.
The program featured a series of cultural performances in typical Nepali dress and songs, Sangini, Balan, Deusi, children dance and fashion parade exhibiting diversity of dresses from Bhutan.
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| Yonzon addressing the function. |
Traditional Bhutanese and Nepali cuisines were served by Hilmayan Sherpa such as Emadachi (a traditional food from Bhutan), dahi chiura.
The program was attended by Hon George Lekakis, chairperson, Victorian Multicultural Commission (VMC), John Gibson, President, Refugee Council of Australia; Sam Afra JP, chairperson, Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria (ECCV), Chandra Yonzon, Hon Consulate General of Nepal in Victoria, Geoff Porter, Mayor of Hume City Council, Tony Ryan, Inspector Victoria Police Broadmeadows, representatives from Nepalese and Karen Burmese communities and government and non governmental agencies including 400 Bhutanese from Melbourne, Woodunga, Albury and Tasmania.
Friday, October 8, 2010
Papaya Juice to Fight Cancer
Papaya
No need to cry about scarcity of blueberries, strawberries, etc in SINGAPORE . We have our wonderful payayas, pineapples and bananas, and durians and mangoes are affordable.
No need to cry about scarcity of blueberries, strawberries, etc in SINGAPORE . We have our wonderful payayas, pineapples and bananas, and durians and mangoes are affordable.
Papaya was the only studied food found to halt breast cancer
Scientists studied 14 plant foods commonly consumed in Mexico to determine their ability to halt breast cancer cell growth. These included avocado, black sapote, fuava, mango, prickly pear cactus (nopal), pineapple, grapes, tomato, and papaya. They also evaluated beta-carotene, total plant phenolics, and gallic acid contents and antioxidant capacity. They found that only papaya had a significant effect on stopping breast cancer cell growth. (International Journal of Food Science and Nutrition, May)
Scientists studied 14 plant foods commonly consumed in Mexico to determine their ability to halt breast cancer cell growth. These included avocado, black sapote, fuava, mango, prickly pear cactus (nopal), pineapple, grapes, tomato, and papaya. They also evaluated beta-carotene, total plant phenolics, and gallic acid contents and antioxidant capacity. They found that only papaya had a significant effect on stopping breast cancer cell growth. (International Journal of Food Science and Nutrition, May)
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
The Pride of Bhutan
What is Bhutan proud of? It is a simple question but which I believe has a complex answer. We can give a numerous definition to this small land locked Himalayan kingdom like any other countries. But there is a growing concern in the international arena to have a closer look to this last Shangri-La.
Ever since the resettlement process of the Bhutanese refugees kicked off our fellow Bhutanese have encountered several questions raised by the citizens of the host countries. The exchange of names is mostly followed by a question `Where are you from`? And like a primary school children we say ´from Bhutan´. Bhutan? Where is it? What is it? Infinite question shoots out like bullets from a machine gun and the recently resettled Bhutanese seems astonished to know that more than 70% of the world population is unaware of the existence of this tiny Himalayan country.
Ever since the resettlement process of the Bhutanese refugees kicked off our fellow Bhutanese have encountered several questions raised by the citizens of the host countries. The exchange of names is mostly followed by a question `Where are you from`? And like a primary school children we say ´from Bhutan´. Bhutan? Where is it? What is it? Infinite question shoots out like bullets from a machine gun and the recently resettled Bhutanese seems astonished to know that more than 70% of the world population is unaware of the existence of this tiny Himalayan country.
Monday, July 5, 2010
JINX STILL THERE
The Nepali speaking southern Bhutanese has to find solace by cursing own fate for being born in Bhutan and blame the ancestors for settling in the country because of which one has to bear the wrath of their follies. Suppose to be the land of Buddhists that propagates peace, harmony, fraternity and believe in principle that hatred does not cease by hatred but ceases by love has inflicted untold sufferings to a section of ethnic-Lhotsampas. Today more than 100000 southern Bhutanese are far flung and proscribed and declared non-Bhutanese arbitrarily and made to suffer. Somehow, the suffering as refugee for last 20 years in Nepal is being mitigated by resettlement though justice has not yet prevailed.
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