http://zolengthe.net Connecting the Zo People Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:35:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://zolengthe.net/2010/03/09/first-woman-to-be-appointed-as-un-police-chief/ http://zolengthe.net/2010/03/09/first-woman-to-be-appointed-as-un-police-chief/#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:19:36 +0000 Admin http://zolengthe.net/2010/03/09/first-woman-to-be-appointed-as-un-police-chief/ UNITED NATIONS (BNO NEWS) – United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appointed the first woman in history as the UN police chief on Monday. Ann-Marie Orler, an experienced Swedish police officer, who first came to the UN to serve as Deputy Police Adviser in 2008 and has been Acting Police Adviser since last year, made history Monday as she is the first woman to hold the position of police chief in the UN’s history. Ms. Orler served as the Secretary General of the non-governmental organization (NGO) Amnesty International in her native Sweden, ...]]> http://zolengthe.net/2010/03/09/first-woman-to-be-appointed-as-un-police-chief/feed/ 0 http://zolengthe.net/2010/02/18/no-nuclear-power-for-australia-says-kevin-rudd/ http://zolengthe.net/2010/02/18/no-nuclear-power-for-australia-says-kevin-rudd/#comments Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:45:05 +0000 Admin http://zolengthe.net/?p=18048 Sydney, Feb 17 (AFP) Prime Minister Kevin Rudd today ruled out introducing nuclear power to Australia, saying the government was working to cut greenhouse gas emissions through other means. United States President Barack Obama yesterday unveiled a plan to build new nuclear reactors, saying nuclear energy must play a key role in cutting carbon pollution and reducing the US’s dependence on foreign oil. Rudd said Australia would not adopt a similar strategy. “Our policy is that Australia has multiple other energy sources and we will not be heading in the direction of civil ...]]> http://zolengthe.net/2010/02/18/no-nuclear-power-for-australia-says-kevin-rudd/feed/ 0 http://zolengthe.net/2010/02/11/myanmar-ethnic-leaders-dismiss-union-day/ http://zolengthe.net/2010/02/11/myanmar-ethnic-leaders-dismiss-union-day/#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:35:53 +0000 Admin http://zolengthe.net/?p=17743 Thursday, February 11, 2010: Several of Burma’s ethnic leaders have dismissed the ruling junta’s plans to mark the 63rd anniversary of Union Day on Friday, saying that the celebration lacks essence and any meaningful spirit. During the 1970s and 80s, the Burmese military government held held a military parade on Union Day and drove through the streets of Rangoon in jeeps bearing the Union flag. Offices and schools are usually coerced into bring their staff and schoolchildren out to line the streets and wave flags as the regime chiefs pass by. However, ...]]> http://zolengthe.net/2010/02/11/myanmar-ethnic-leaders-dismiss-union-day/feed/ 0 http://zolengthe.net/2010/02/09/costa-rica-elects-first-woman-president/ http://zolengthe.net/2010/02/09/costa-rica-elects-first-woman-president/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:58:58 +0000 Admin http://zolengthe.net/?p=17617 SAN JOSE, February 8 (Reuters): Laura Chinchilla, a protege of Nobel peace laureate President Oscar Arias, won a landslide election victory in Costa Rica on Sunday to become the country’s first woman elected president. Chinchilla, formerly Arias’ vice president, has vowed to continue his pro-business policies in the Central American nation, expanding free trade pacts and courting investment. The centre-leftist won 47 percent of the vote, around double the scores of her two closest rivals, who quickly conceded defeat. She will join a small camp of women leaders in typically male-dominated ...]]> http://zolengthe.net/2010/02/09/costa-rica-elects-first-woman-president/feed/ 0 http://zolengthe.net/2010/01/30/australia-most-sinful-nation-bbc-study/ http://zolengthe.net/2010/01/30/australia-most-sinful-nation-bbc-study/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:08:45 +0000 Admin http://zolengthe.net/?p=17141 MELBOURNE, Jan 29 (IANS): Australia, the home of cricket legend Don Bradman, singing sensation Kylie Minougue, is also the land of world’s top sinners, a new study has claimed. Envy is the biggest weakness of people down under in a study of the seven sins – lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride. A team of British researchers number-crunched the global differences in the deadly sins and found, when you add up the wrongdoings, Australia is at the top, according to BBC’s Focus magazine. The US topped the table for gluttony while ...]]> http://zolengthe.net/2010/01/30/australia-most-sinful-nation-bbc-study/feed/ 0 http://zolengthe.net/2010/01/28/more-violence-four-indians-attacked-in-australia/ http://zolengthe.net/2010/01/28/more-violence-four-indians-attacked-in-australia/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:43:24 +0000 Admin http://zolengthe.net/?p=17015 MELBOURNE, January 28, 2010 (PTI): In fresh incidents of violence against Indians in Australia, four community youths, including three cabbies, were attacked in two “Four more attacks on Indians in Brisbane, Queensland, took place,” Sky news reported without giving out any more information about the victims. “Three of them have been directed at cab drivers, one who told how he was punched and dragged from his taxi,” it said. Indian cabbies are believed to account for over 70 per cent of the cab driving jobs thus are said to be more prone ...]]> http://zolengthe.net/2010/01/28/more-violence-four-indians-attacked-in-australia/feed/ 0 http://zolengthe.net/2010/01/28/iraq-war-ending-all-troops-coming-home-obama/ http://zolengthe.net/2010/01/28/iraq-war-ending-all-troops-coming-home-obama/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:05:51 +0000 Admin http://zolengthe.net/?p=16981 WASHINGTON, January 28, 2010 (AFP): The war in Iraq is ending and all US troops are coming home, US President Barack Obama said in his State of the Union address, vowing continued US support of the Iraqi people. “As we take the fight to Al-Qaeda, we are responsibly leaving Iraq to its people,” Obama told lawmakers. “But make no mistake: this war is ending, and all of our troops are coming home,” he added, winning a standing ovation in Congress. He renewed his pledge that all American combat troops would leave Iraq by ...]]> http://zolengthe.net/2010/01/28/iraq-war-ending-all-troops-coming-home-obama/feed/ 0 http://zolengthe.net/2010/01/26/aung-san-suu-kyi-to-be-freed-in-november/ http://zolengthe.net/2010/01/26/aung-san-suu-kyi-to-be-freed-in-november/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:32:06 +0000 Admin http://zolengthe.net/?p=16864 YANGON, January 25 (Reuters): Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will be freed when her house arrest ends in November, according to a government minister quoted by witnesses on Monday, but critics said that may be too late for this year’s elections. Home Minister Major General Maung Oo told a Jan. 21 meeting of local officials the 64-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner would be released in November, a month after many observers expect the country to hold its first parliamentary elections in two decades. The information could not be verified ...]]> http://zolengthe.net/2010/01/26/aung-san-suu-kyi-to-be-freed-in-november/feed/ 0 http://zolengthe.net/2010/01/24/new-osama-tape-warns-obama-of-more-911-type-attacks/ http://zolengthe.net/2010/01/24/new-osama-tape-warns-obama-of-more-911-type-attacks/#comments Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:11:24 +0000 Admin http://zolengthe.net/?p=16817 Dubai: A purported audio tape of Osama bin Laden aired on Al Jazeera television claimed responsibility for a December 25 attempted bombing of a US-bound plane, and the al Qaeda leader vowed to continue attacks on the United States. “The message sent to you with the attempt by the hero Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is a confirmation of our previous message conveyed by the heroes of September 11,” bin Laden said on the tape, aired on Sunday.”If it was possible to carry our messages to you by words we wouldn’t have ...]]> http://zolengthe.net/2010/01/24/new-osama-tape-warns-obama-of-more-911-type-attacks/feed/ 0 http://zolengthe.net/2010/01/23/osama-worth-more-alive-than-dead-to-the-us-says-his-son/ http://zolengthe.net/2010/01/23/osama-worth-more-alive-than-dead-to-the-us-says-his-son/#comments Sat, 23 Jan 2010 05:07:07 +0000 Admin http://zolengthe.net/?p=16781 London, Jan.22 (ANI): Al Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden’s fourth son, Omar, has told the Rolling Stones magazine in an interview that his father is worth more to the United States alive than dead because his death could unleash “very,very nasty” attacks by militants. The interview, which was conducted in part in a Damascus strip club, saw Omar saying that his father had already won the War on Terror because he had achieved his aim of humbling the US and would probably not feel the need to launch more big attacks. According ...]]> http://zolengthe.net/2010/01/23/osama-worth-more-alive-than-dead-to-the-us-says-his-son/feed/ 0