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Representatives from developing countries said they refused to participate in any working groups at the 192-nation summit until the issue was resolved.

The move was a setback for the Copenhagen talks, which were already faltering over long-running disputes between rich and poor nations over emissions cuts and financing for developing countries to deal withclimate change.
]]> Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:54:00 EST http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/1522765 27.7166667 85.316666727.716666785.3166667 http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/986157 Her five-year-old daughter Sudha and three-year-old daughter Asha are undergoing treatment in a local health post. Their condition is said to be critical. Ram Bahadur Chand of District Public Health Office, however, said he had not got details about the outbreak since most health workers were on leave. Diarrhoea cases have also been found in Phuletekra and Kachanapur villages. A medical team had returned from the area before Tihar. Meanwhile, diarrhoea patients have been increasing at Bheri Zonal Hospital in Nepalgunj. Hospital sources said cases of diarrhoea, typhoid and pneumonia were on the rise.]]> Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:14:00 EDT http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/986157 27.7166667 85.316666727.716666785.3166667 http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/859555 The dramatic shift was announced by the White House as President Barack Obama hosted his first major summit in Pittsburgh, which was marred by occasional violence as anti-capitalist protesters clashed with police.
"Today, leaders endorsed the G20 as the premier forum for their international economic cooperation," a statement said.
"This decision brings to the table the countries needed to build a stronger, more balanced global economy, reform the financial system, and lift the lives of the poorest."
The G8, which included only wealthy nations Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, and the United States, has served as the premier economic forum for decades and held closely watched annual summits.
The announcement came as G20 leaders closed in on a deal to tighten financial regulations after last year's meltdown, with China signaling emerging countries would be granted more clout on the IMF.]]> Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:17:00 EDT http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/859555 27.7166667 85.316666727.716666785.3166667 http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/841729 Iran is under three sets of U.N. Security Council sanctions for refusing to freeze enrichment. The officials said that Iran revealed the existence of a second enrichment plant in a letter sent Monday to International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei.
It had previously said it was operating only one plant, which is being monitored by the IAEA.
The Islamic Republic insists that it has the right to the activity to generate fuel for what it says will be a nationwide chain of nuclear reactors.
But because enrichment can make both nuclear fuel and weapons-grade uranium, the international community fears Tehran will use the technology to generate the fissile material used on the tip of nuclear warheads.
The revelation further burdens the chances of progress in scheduled Oct. 1 talks between Iran and six world powers.
At that planned meeting the first in more than a year the five permanent U.N. Security Council members and Germany will be pressing Iran to scale back on its enrichment activities. But Tehran has declared that it will not bargain on enrichment.]]> Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:12:00 EDT http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/841729 27.7166667 85.316666727.716666785.3166667 http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/824897 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:40:00 EDT http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/824897 27.7166667 85.316666727.716666785.3166667 http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/774765 The ministry "has so far recorded 673 cases countrywide" of the highly contagious disease in almost a third of the country's 34 provinces, including in the capital Kabul. No deaths have been reported.
"All outbreaks are under control and no active one is reported as of today, September 13," a ministry statement said.
It said staff had been deployed to outbreak areas and medication was being provided to try to prevent the spread of the disease, which thrives where sanitation is poor and can spread rapidly.
Afghanistan's health system has been battered by decades of civil war, and facilities remain poor across the fifth poorest country in the world.]]> Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:38:00 EDT http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/774765 27.7166667 85.316666727.716666785.3166667 http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/760831 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:05:00 EDT http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/760831 27.7166667 85.316666727.716666785.3166667 http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/759369 "We call on all parties to exert patience and restraint and to wait for the official announcement of the election results," the G8's foreign ministers said in a statement released in Rome. Italy currently holds the rotating presidency.
"We trust that all Afghans will continue to work together in the interest of their country," the statement added.
Even though final results are not due until next month, President Hamid Karzai declared a decisive win Friday and his main rival, former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah, insisted he was ahead.
Italy currently holds the rotating presidency of the G8 which also comprises Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Russia and the United States.]]> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:19:00 EDT http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/759369 27.7166667 85.316666727.716666785.3166667 http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/758251
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]]> Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:59:00 EDT http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/758251 27.7166667 85.316666727.716666785.3166667 http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/756007 However, experts and authorities don’t agree to it. The declining number of labourers bound for major destination countries shows the reality, said undersecretary Mukunda Adhikari. The number of Nepali blue-collar jobseekers has significantly reduced in crisis-hit countries — Malaysia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar.
According to the Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE), the Nepali labour market abroad has reduced by 12.80 per cent in 2008-09 compare to the
preceding year. Around
2,17,164 Nepalis had gone to more than four dozen countries last year. The number of Nepali labourers going to Malaysia, the UAE and Qatar has fallen by 15,484 (30.62 per cent), 13,674 (30.11 per cent) and 9,267
(10.84 per cent), respectively.
“We have minimized the effect with the help of outsourcing agencies,” Adhikari said. Most of the foreign employment agencies themselves paid the compensation, he added. The Ministry of Labour and Transport Management (MoLTM) has decided to provide compensation to the returnees from Malaysia and Gulf countries in March. FEPB has paid Rs 16,09,686.
Nepal Association of Foreign Employment Agencies president Tilak Ranabhat echoed Adhikari view and explained, “It is the collective effort of outsourcing agencies, employment companies and the government that has minimised the impact of the crisis.” According to Ranabhat, Nepali foreign employment agencies have been supportive of outbound labourers.
Moreover, FEPB has helped bring back 96 dead bodies of Nepali workers. “We spent Rs 9.6 million in bringing back the dead bodies,” a board official said. FEPB also helped seven families to take the dead bodies of their kin to their home districts from Kathmandu by giving them an additional Rs 1,32,150.
The board returned orientation fees of Rs 700 each to 178 women migrant workers which they had paid before going abroad.]]> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:57:00 EDT http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/756007 27.7166667 85.316666727.716666785.3166667 http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/756005 The Lockheed Fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains has blackened close to 8 square miles of remote wilderness and prompted mandatory evacuations of the mountain communities of Swanton and Bonny Doon, which have about 2,400 residents and several wineries.
Lt. Gov. John Garamendi declared a state of emergency Friday for Santa Cruz County. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has returned to California after attending the Massachusetts funeral of his mother-in-law, Eunice Shriver, is scheduled to visit the fire zone Saturday.
The fire sent huge plumes of smoke across Monterey Bay and damaged two small structures. It also was threatening more than 1,000 homes and buildings but no injuries have been reported. The cause is under investigation.]]> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:43:00 EDT http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/756005 27.7166667 85.316666727.716666785.3166667 http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/751477 "It told us how quickly many people really took Twitter into their hearts," Robert Thompson, director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University, said Friday.
Tens of millions of people have come to rely on social media to express their innermost thoughts and to keep up with world news and celebrity gossip.
Twitter "is one of those little amusements that infiltrated the mass behavior in some significant ways, so that when it went away, a lot of people really noticed it and missed it."
The attacks Thursday also slowed down Facebook and caused problems for the online diary site LiveJournal. But Twitter, the 140-character-or-less messaging site used by celebrities, businesses and even Iranian protesters, suffered a total outage that lasted several hours.
Those attacks continued Friday from thousands of computers pummeling its servers, said Kazuhiro Gomi, chief technology officer for NTT America Enterprise Hosting Services, which hosts Twitter's service.
Twitter crashed because of a denial-of-service attack, in which hackers command scores of computers toward a single site at the same time to prevent legitimate traffic from getting through. The attack was targeted at a blogger who goes by "Cyxymu" — Cyrillic spelling of Sukhumi, a city in the breakaway territory of Abkhazia in Georgia — on several Web sites, including Twitter, Facebook and LiveJournal.
But they could have just as well targeted Twitter itself. That's because the effects were the same whether the excess traffic went to the "twitter.com" home page or to the page for Cyxymu at "twitter.com/cyxymu." Same with Facebook and LiveJournal.]]> Sat, 08 Aug 2009 20:33:00 EDT http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/751477 27.7166667 85.316666727.716666785.3166667 http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/749691
COMMENTS
So many Nepali workers are being killed abroad, but our leaders and beaurocrats are fighting for chairs. Nepali youth could work in the country if there is job opportunity and secure environment. I blame political leaders, beaurocrats, security wings and business community for this tragidy. May God grant eternal peace to departed soul.
-Rajiv

I'm extremely sorry to hear the news death of Nepali worker-Uttar Dhoj Waiba-in Malaysia while working. My heart is rearlly beating of this news and want to pray for his soul to have in the peace in heaven. And May God bless to his bereaved family as well.
-Chitra Magar]]> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:04:00 EDT http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/749691 27.7166667 85.316666727.716666785.3166667 http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/748901 The explosions, heard by AP reporters, occurred to the east of the city, toward the international airport and near several residential areas.
The impact of one of the rockets could be seen about 200 yards (meters) from the U.S. Embassy on a main road of central Kabul. It hit the house of a senior Interior Ministry official but caused no casualties, security officers said.
At the scene, Maj. Ghulam Rasul of the Afghan national army said he believed the five rockets that hit were of the long-range type that can be fired from several miles away. "The capital is closely guarded. They had to fire from far away," Rasul said.
Col. Fatih Uddin, the security chief at the damaged Interior Ministry house, estimated the building probably wasn't the main target of the attack.]]> Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:36:00 EDT http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/748901 27.7166667 85.316666727.716666785.3166667 http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/745097 As of Tuesday, more than 260 people had died in three of the four northern states where security forces are hunting down members of an anti-establishment fundamentalist sect that went on a violence spree since the weekend.
On Wednesday, fresh gunbattles in Yobe state left 43 dead, taking the global toll to more than 300.
"The 43 corpses are on their way to the police headquarters in Damaturu (state capital) in two police vans," said the source who demanded anonymity.]]> Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:32:00 EDT http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/745097 27.7166667 85.316666727.716666785.3166667 http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/742427 The mandate of the United Nations Mission in Nepal or UNMIN has been extended till January 23, 2010.
In its resolution unanimously adopted by the 15-member body, the Security Council said UNMIN would assist in the management of arms and armed personnel in line with the June 25, 2008 agreement between political parties in Nepal.
Welcoming the progress achieved so far, the Security Council, however, called on all political parties in Nepal to expedite the peace process and to work together in a spirit of "cooperation, consensus and compromise to continue the transition to a durable long-term solution to enable the country to move to a peaceful, democratic and more prosperous future".
The Council called on the Government to continue to take the necessary decisions to create conditions conducive to completion of UNMIN's activities by the end of the current mandate, including through implementation of the 25 June 2008 Agreement, in order to facilitate the Mission's withdrawal. ]]> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:26:00 EDT http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/742427 27.7166667 85.316666727.716666785.3166667 http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/742425 The 30-year-old was convicted of an accident in crowded downtown Chengdu in December last year that resulted in his Buick sedan smashing into four other cars as he tried to speed away from the scene, the paper said. Besides being drunk, Sun was also driving without a licence, it added.
“Sun Weiming will go down as the first traffic troublemaker in China to be sentenced to death for endangering public safety,” the paper said. After the sentencing, Sun shouted out that he was sorry for the crime and vowed to appeal, the paper said.
“I hope to use the time that
I have left to compensate the families of the victims, I am still young,
I am only 30 years old, I can earn
money to compensate,” the paper quoted Sun as shouting.]]> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:24:00 EDT http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/742425 27.7166667 85.316666727.716666785.3166667 http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/740263 Nepal had received a consolation prize in the year 2007 in the conference held at Iran and had to return empty hand in the year 2008 at the conference held at Vietnam.
The conference which is held annually has about 90 countries participating.]]> Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:54:00 EDT http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/740263 27.7166667 85.316666727.716666785.3166667 http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/739375 Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:05:00 EDT http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/739375 27.7166667 85.316666727.716666785.3166667 http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/739373 She also assured India that while the US wants it to do more to fight climate change, Washington will never impose conditions that would limit India’s economic growth.
Clinton, who arrived in India late Friday, said devising a comprehensive and strategic approach for achieving a clean energy future is an important topic of her three-day trip.
“I am very confident the United States and India can devise a plan that will dramatically change the way we produce, consume and conserve energy and in the process spark an explosion of new investment and millions of jobs,” she said, without elaborating.]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:04:00 EDT http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/739373 27.7166667 85.316666727.716666785.3166667 http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/738115 Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:18:00 EDT http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/738115 27.7166667 85.316666727.716666785.3166667 http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/737315 The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii warned that a tsunami was generated, but it later said the waves were less than 8 inches (20 centimeters) in height and the warning was canceled after about an hour.
The Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Centre also issued a tsunami alert for eastern Australia that was still in effect late Wednesday.]]> Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:16:00 EDT http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/737315 27.7166667 85.316666727.716666785.3166667 http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/735491 After 10 years with two blood pumping organs, Hannah Clark's faulty one did what many experts had thought impossible: it healed itself enough so that doctors could remove the donated heart.
But she also had a price to pay: the drugs Clark took to prevent her body from rejecting the donated heart led to malignant cancer that required chemotherapy.]]> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:42:00 EDT http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/735491 27.7166667 85.316666727.716666785.3166667 http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/733283 The service says earthquake struck at 1:12 a.m. (0612 GMT) Sunday, 35 miles (60 kilometers) northwest of the city of Juliaca.
]]> Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:28:00 EDT http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/733283 27.7166667 85.316666727.716666785.3166667 http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/732539 Authorities fear that this might not be the final death toll as dozens more people have been admitted to hospital.
Most of the dead are slum dwellers. Deaths from illegally brewed alcohol are common in South Asia.

At least 96 people are now known to have died in India's Gujarat state after drinking toxic illegal alcohol, police say.]]> Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:05:00 EDT http://suneboy.tigblog.org/post/732539 27.7166667 85.316666727.716666785.3166667