Bangladesh, struggling to ensure energy security after 2011 when its proven and recoverable reserves of gas runs out, will intensify efforts to diversify energy sources, a senior official said on Tuesday. Bangladesh faces a shortage of 100 million cubic feet (mmcf) of gas every day now and if it fails to find and explore new […]
Home-Based Business Ideas
Say good-bye to the Dilbert cartoons pinned up on your corporate cubicle wall … to a commute that stretches out longer than it takes an astronaut to orbit the earth … to one more day stuck at the freeway ramp behind 55 other nail-biting commuters. Say hello—with several million other Americans—to your own home-based business! […]
House Arrest: Judge’s Daughter Tells of Family’s Plight
Pakistan’s youngest political prisoner lives in a house on a hill just a few hundred meters from President Pervez Musharraf’s soaring presidential palace in Islamabad. Little about him is typical. He is physically disabled, spends his days watching cartoons on TV, and is eight years old. Bilaj Chaudhry is the son of Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, […]
Shuttle Atlantis Blasts Off Carrying Europe’s Space Hopes
It looks like a hollow metal canister the size of a single-decker bus. But to the European Space Agency, the precious cargo that blasted off from Cape Canaveral today aboard the shuttle Atlantis represents an historic turning point in more than 50 years of space dominance by Russia and the US. Almost five years after […]
Shuttle Atlantis Blasts Off Carrying Europe’s Space Hopes
It looks like a hollow metal canister the size of a single-decker bus. But to the European Space Agency, the precious cargo that blasted off from Cape Canaveral today aboard the shuttle Atlantis represents an historic turning point in more than 50 years of space dominance by Russia and the US. Almost five years after […]
China: Storm in the way home
By Bob Chen It’s just a 20-hour travel, but I have lost contact with my 3 kids for 3 days! The train must have been stranded in somewhere unknown, in the wild far from any station. The only cell-phone text message they sent yesterday told that they were out of money, the train short of […]