Source – Star InTech, Tuesday 29 May 2007
Advertisements on the Web will be smarter and even more targeted in the near future. Microsoft Corp CEO, Steve Balmer believes there will be no more “dumb adverts” such as banners and pop-ups. Instead, advertisements on the Web will target each individual user with what he [...]
News from Berlin
A 9 year old German girl was so upset about having to tidy her room. So she put up a sign in her window urging passers-by to call police for help.
Pedestrians in the central city of Braunschweig saw the girl crying in the window, holding up a sign saying “Help! Please call [...]
Extracted from The Star, Monday 21 May 2007
A 14-year-old Hong Kong schoolboy has been arrested for claiming to be a triad gangster on an Internet journal. The boy was arrested at his home on Saturday after allegedly setting up a blog and identifying himself as a member of one of the city’s notorious trad [...]
This is in China……
Chinese police have arrested a corpse trader who killed six women so he could sell their bodies for superstitious “weddings of the dead”. The man identified as Song, was part of a network supplying “ghost brides” to families seeking afterlife spouses for their dead sons. Arranged marriages for the dead [...]
This is what I read Today from The Star (Friday 18 May 2007)
The Fact:
Some 355 workers fell severely ill or died from overwork in the year to March, the highest figure on record and 7.6% up from previous year. Of the total, 147 people died, many from strokes and heart attacks.
Death from overwork grew [...]