Tuesday, April 7, 2009 Correction — Nov 1, 2013 The article below claims each passenger paid 4000 to 8000 USD. Each paid 30,000 Rupees, equivilent at the time to about US$375. The bodies of 46 Afghan illegal immigrants who suffocated to death in a container truck Saturday near Quetta, Pakistan, returned home Tuesday. The Edhi Foundation placed the victim’s bodies into coffins to transport them back to Chaman. Funeral prayers were said before victims left Quetta hospital. “We are taking these dead bodies to Spin Boldak and later these will be…
Read MoreWikinews interviews Donald K. Allen, independent candidate in US presidential elections
Monday, July 7, 2008 While nearly all mainstream coverage of the 2008 Presidential election has focused on the Democratic and Republican candidates, the race for the White House also includes independents and third-party candidates. These prospects represent a variety of views that may not be acknowledged by the major party platforms. Wikinews has reached out to these candidates throughout the campaign and now presents an interview with Donald K. Allen of Youngstown, Ohio, an independent presidential candidate who registered with the Federal Election Committee in January 2007. ((Wikinews)) Why do…
Read MoreThe American Heart Association
Read More About: Hair Transplant Surgeons Near Me By Sven Ullmann The American heart association is an organization in the United States thats goals are to promote and foster cardiac care and awareness One of its primary goals is to reduce the death rate caused by heart attack and stroke. It is a nonprofit organization. Their mission statement is as follows. The American heart association is a national voluntary health agency whos mission is to reduce disability and death from cardiovascular diseases and stroke and help people cope. That American…
Read MoreNo injuries after Antarctica research station support plane crashes
Tuesday, December 25, 2007 A Basler BT-67, chartered from Canadian air carrier Kenn Borek Air for the National Science Foundation (NSF), a United States government agency, has crashed whilst attempting take-off during a support assignment in Antarctica. None of the ten people on board were injured, but the modified Douglas DC-3 was substantially damaged in the accident. The accident occurred on the morning of December 20 local time, about 550 miles from McMurdo Station, a US-run Antarctic base. The aircraft was carrying a crew of four, and six researchers. The…
Read MoreGaruda Indonesia Flight 200 pilot released on bail
Friday, February 15, 2008 Indonesian national Marwoto Komar has been released on bail having earlier been arrested over the March 7 crash of a Boeing 737 he was piloting. Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 overshot the runway at Yogyakarta Airport whilst landing after a scheduled domestic passenger flight, leaving 21 Indonesian and Australian passengers dead, out of 140 on board. The subsequent investigation by the National Transport Safety Committee concluded with report released in November that found the aircraft had approached at far in excess of safe landing speeds, with Komar…
Read MorePainless Laparoscopic Gastric Banding Surgery
Read More About: Khalili Center Site Painless Laparoscopic Gastric Banding Surgery by Mike Nicholson Surgery, name seems frightening, right? But it also depends from where you are getting treated from. There are hospitals all around the world, then why people travel here and there. They to and fro from their place to get the best treatment, to be back to their earlier position, isn t it? Here, health is considered more than money. If there is health then wealth can be earned more easily but if health is gone then…
Read MoreWikinews interviews Mark Bunker, producer of anti-Scientology website ‘XenuTV’
Monday, February 18, 2008 Television producer and owner of the anti-Scientology website www.xenutv.com (XenuTV), Mark Bunker, also known as Wise Beard Man, chatted online with Wikinews for nearly three hours. More than 120 people followed the interview live (many from Project Chanology), which makes this exclusive Wikinews interview our most attended IRC interview to date. Bunker started XenuTV in 1999 and began to make videos that he provided for the Lisa McPherson Trust. Bunker has been a critic of the Church of Scientology since 1997. In 2006, he won a…
Read More2008 Leisure Taiwan launched in Taipei World Trade Center
Saturday, July 19, 2008 This year’s Leisure Taiwan trade show (a.k.a Taiwan Sport Recreation and Leisure Show) started yesterday, with 131 companies participating including sports media companies such as ESPN and VideoLand Television, businesses selling sports equipment and fitness clubs. There were also a variety of sports being played in the arena built for the trade show. The events included a 3-on-3 basketball tournament, free style shooting, and bicycle test-riding. In addition, conferences discussed issues related to sports and physical education. A major topic in the trade show was energy-efficiency…
Read MoreTop 25 Market Forecast Shows Real Estate Stabilizing
Read More About: Compare Car Insurance Green Slip By Mike Colpitts The Top 25 Housing Predictor U.S. Market Forecast for 2007 shows a growing trend of local real estate markets that are stabilizing with thirteen states represented in the annual forecast. Housing Predictor is an information driven website, providing independent local housing market forecasts for all 50 U.S. States. Battling back from the headlines New Orleans, Louisiana is Housing Predictor’s # 1 pick to appreciate the most in 2007. Despite the loss of nearly half of its residents, the Big…
Read MoreTaipei Computer Association – a key player at IT industry and exhibition in Taiwan
Wednesday, October 24, 2007 From October 22 to 25, Taipei Computer Association (TCA) promoted three organized or sponsored expositions including “2007 WiMAX Forum Taipei Showcase & Conference”, “Exhibition of the First 5-year Period of the National Science & Technology Program of e-Learning”, and “2007 IP Comm Asia” showing great determination on improving the IT industry in Taiwan. With Computex Taipei 2008 will add Taipei World Trade Center Nangang Exhibition Hall (TWTC Nangang) area, how TCA transform their ways and goals with operating their IT shows? It will be affected on…
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