- Couple are arrested in the Dominican Republic on suspicion of drugs trafficking ...
2008-10-06 06:00:00
- NAT11National/ReligionDalai Lama makes public appearance after almost a monthDharamsala, Sep 26 IANS The Dalai Lama, exiled spiritual head of the Tibetan community, made his first public appearance after nearly one month during a teaching ceremony at McLeodganj near here, his aide said Friday.The Dalai Lama, 73, had been confined to his residence in this Himachal Pradesh hill town since Aug 28 when he returned from Delhi, where he spent a few days after undergoing a series of medical tests at Mumbai's Lilavati Hospital and Research Centre."He the Dalai Lama started his three-day preaching session Thursday in which more than 100 students from 12 countries are participating. This means he is in excellent health... back to routine affairs," Thubten Samphel, a spokesperson for the Tibetan government-in-exile, told IANS."The spiritual head has been advised two months' rest by doctors of Lilavati Hospital last month, but now on the advice of his personal physicians he started his routine activities," Samphel said.Earlier, the Nobel laureate had cancelled his visits to Europe, Mexico and Dominican Republic after complaining of fatigue.After cancelling his visits, speculations were rife among his followers that he was not likely to get back to routine affairs."After this discourse, the Dalai Lama will deliver preach for five days on Arya Nagarjuna's commentary on Bodhichitta. This hectic schedule means all is well," Samphel said.--Indo-Asian News Servicevg/rd/jg242 Words26091200
2008-09-26 03:00:00
- INT27International/Disaster/EconomyHaiti's storm toll rises to 426Port-au-Prince, Sep 23 IANS The toll in hurricanes and tropical storms that hit Haiti in the recent past has risen to 426, besides causing extensive damage to the economy, officials said, calling upon donor nations to live up to their promised aid, EFE reported Tuesday.Some 800,000 of Haiti's 8.5 million people have been affected by flooding and mudslides caused by the storms, Interior Minister Paul Antoine Bien-Aime told reporters Monday.President Rene Preval said the economic losses the country sustained "is far beyond its capacity to handle" and the nation needed the international community's assistance to deal with the storms' aftermath."The load is heavy," Preval said before travelling to New York to attend the opening of the UN General Assembly.Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis said Haiti, which needed more than $100 million in aid, had only $21 million to deal with the people's most pressing needs.Preval said he planned to meet several of his counterparts in an effort to try to obtain aid for Haiti.Total agricultural loss from the storms has been estimated at more than $180 million, the government said.The United Nations and the Haitian government called in recent days for $107.7 million in foreign aid, but just two percent of that amount has been received so far, officials said."I hope that this two percent is just the beginning," Preval said.Three consecutive natural disasters - Hurricane Gustav, Tropical Storm Hanna and Hurricane Ike - have devastated the country in the recent past destroying standing crops, flooding arable lands and snapping communication.The Western Hemisphere's poorest country is prone to landslides and flooding because of man-made deforestation, which has reduced the amount of Haiti covered by forest from 25 percent 50 years ago to just two percent today, while the neighbouring Dominican Republic retains a vast forest land.--Indo-Asian News Servicedkg/jg333 Words23091146
2008-09-23 02:01:04
- Despite not having practiced as a team since their gold medal performance in Beijing, on Sunday the Brazilian women's volleyball team won the Final Four tournament in Fortaleza, Brazil. With...
2008-09-00 00:00:00
- The premier of the Turks and Caicos islands says a lot of people lost their homes to Hurricane Ike. Several deaths are reported in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, where the storm is preventing aid f...
2008-09-08 17:07:09
- The premier of the Turks and Caicos islands says a lot of people have lost their homes to Hurricane Ike. Several deaths are reported in the Dominican Republic and in Haiti. Sept. 7...
2008-09-08 17:10:09
- Residents and tourists alike fled Jamaica as a strengthening tropical storm Gustav lurched toward the island late Thursday after triggering floods and landslides that killed at least 67 people in Hait...
2008-09-07 11:28:20
- Representative Charles B. Rangel has not reported rental income on a villa he owns in the Dominican Republic. ...
2008-09-05 18:40:10
- Rain and wind strike the Dominican Republic as Tropical Storm Hanna passes by....
2008-09-05 17:04:10
- Reuters - House Rep. Charles Rangel, chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, failed to report ๛,000 of income from a villa he owns in the Dominican Republic, his attor...
2008-09-05 12:21:12
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