29 Feb 2012 - 6:47pm
KUALA LUMPUR: Christian denominational magazine Asian Beacon writer Henry Ng has apologised for offending the Iban community in his article titled “Of Skulls and Sago Worms,’’ which was published in the magazine’s February-March 2012 issue. In an email reply to The Mole, Henry said: “I have erred in writing the article by over-...
28 Feb 2012 - 5:38pm
MILAN: International buyers have packed out the shows at Milan Fashion Week, offering a lifeline for an industry that is headed for another slump this year as Italy grinds through a painful recession. "It's a more commercial market than New York or London," Ekaterina Moiseeva, commercial director for Russian fashion chain Bosco di Ciliegi,...
28 Feb 2012 - 2:31pm
MADAIN: Suspected of being a biological weapons site under Saddam Hussein and later an Al-Qaeda stronghold, an Iraqi town wants to return to its previous status as a centre for archaeology and tourism.
Madain, a town of some 7,000 inhabitants, was founded by the Parthian King Mithridates I more than 2,000 years ago.
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24 Feb 2012 - 5:21pm
PARIS: Lighter, faster and even smarter smartphones will premiere at the world's biggest mobile fair next week, sparking a race for ways to prevent network overload from rendering the phones "dumb".
Mobile phone giants Nokia, LG and Sony are among a long list of manufacturers which will show off their latest offers during the four-day...
23 Feb 2012 - 1:30pm
HAVANA: The decision by high-end retailer Victorinox to open a store here left many people scratching their heads.
Who, in cash-strapped Cuba, would be able to afford the pricey Swiss emporium's deluxe cutlery, sleek luggage items and precision watches?
Lots of folks, it would seem.
"We sell to tourists from Russia, China,...
21 Feb 2012 - 2:31pm
PARIS: Rugby fans who say the modern game is being dominated more and more by heftier players and pumped iron can point to scientific evidence to back their case.
Teams with the tallest backs and heaviest forwards are the likeliest to win the World Cup, according to a study by French researchers published on Tuesday.
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21 Feb 2012 - 11:29am
HONG KONG: The government on Tuesday launched an appeal against a landmark court ruling which grants thousands of foreign maids the right to seek permanent residency in the southern banking hub.
Government counsel David Pannick told the Court of Appeal the original ruling was mistaken as it restricted the authorities' ability to determine...
19 Feb 2012 - 10:44pm
CYBERJAYA: Cyberjaya, selected as one of Japan's 2011 FutureCities, has been invited by the Japanese government to its international forum on the "FutureCity Initiative" on Tuesday. Other cities that will be present to share their initiatives are Copenhagen, Malmo and Surabaya. The FutureCity Initiative is one of Japan's national strategic...
17 Feb 2012 - 1:46pm
WASHINGTON: The number of mixed racial marriages in the United States has doubled in thirty years, a study released by the Pew Research Center said Thursday.
Fifteen per cent of all US marriages were among mixed race couples in 2010, up from 6.7 per cent in 1980, Pew said.
The proportion of mixed race couples, regardless of the date...
16 Feb 2012 - 2:03pm
KABUL: A passion for fashion is not the first image that springs to mind when most people think of Afghan men, usually pictured in war reports wearing beards, turbans and carrying AK47s as accessories.
But male beauty salons in downtown Kabul now hum with activity as young men update their hair and beards in the latest Western styles --...
