The Chinese Phrase,henduo yiqian,means, "a long time ago". A literal translation reads "a long way in front of me", which suggests a very different sense of the direction one faces to look at the past from the one we are accustomed to. It calls to mind the image of a Chinese historian seated beside the […]
CORRUTION STINKING ON WORLD BANK
By: Daniel Aforo For many years, the World Bank, IMF and other international donor organizations have complained about corruption on the continent of Africa. Indeed, the continent has record cases of corruption which have affected politicians, public and civil servants, individuals, religious bodies and pagans like. The canker has called […]
Poor Paul
Remember that old song by the Coasters entitled "Charlie Brown"? Well it appears that Paul Wolfowitz has pulled some lyrics right from that classic tune. Why is everybody always picking on me? Today the World Bank president is attempting to claim that this whole fiasco is actually a smear campaign started by the World Bank, […]
On the Long-awaited Cusp of a New Generation in Computing
In February of 2007, D-Wave Systems, of Burnaby, Canada, successfully demonstrated the world’s first quantum computer, to much fanfare. Known as Orion, this 16-qubit adiabatic quantum computer is designed to be scaled up to a 1024-qubit model by mid-2008 that can very quickly compute a very specific sort of problem using somewhat different properties of quantum […]
Bhutan’s Refugee mess in changed context
For the last sixteen years of horrific lives in Bhutanese refugee camps, several attempts to draw the attention at regional, national and international level were made one after the other but to no avail. As a result, now the Bhutanese refugee problem is gradually getting complicated. With the long term stay inside the unimproved plastic […]
Flower to the Survivor
This week, soldiers across the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) took part in a special project to visit Holocaust survivors across the country. "Flower to the Survivor" was born three years ago in 2005 as an initiative of the IDF Education Corp and the Museum of the Ghetto Fighters and promised that 1,000 Holocaust survivors across the country […]