14 May

KFH backs student’s trip to Malaysia

Bahrain (KFH-Bahrain) has sponsored the educational trip of a Bahrain University student to Malaysia. Executive manager Abdul Razak Jawahery presented a cheque to Yousif Hassan Arafa at a ceremony at the KFH-Bahrain headquarters.
The educational field trip to Malaysia is undertaken by the students from the Department of Mass Communication Tourism and Fine Arts at the [...]

12 May

3 faiths coming together for Mideast trip

They will travel halfway around the world together, build a house for a needy family together and reach out to refugees of war together.
But showing people how different faiths can work together for the common good is the biggest thing a group representing Muslim, Jewish and Christian communities in Indianapolis hopes to achieve on a [...]

16 Apr

Thousands use outdoor centre every year

The particular trip we are talking about the OPC have been running for 36 years. There have been tens of thousands of young people who have cheerfully gone through that gorge and had a terrific experience which is what it is all about, New Zealand Outdoor Instructors Association chief executive Matthew Cant told Radio New [...]

15 Feb

Business Needs to Play a Role in Fighting HIV

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04 Feb

Borders, Transit Top Security Spending

WASHINGTON - Preventing terrorists from hacking into computer systems that run the nation’s power grid and other vital networks gets a new emphasis in President Bush’s proposed budget for homeland security.The president would spend at least $294 million for the Homeland Security Department to protect federal networks from hackers, including $83 million to deploy a [...]

03 Feb

Suspect Chinese group under attack

STATE Government authorities will demand the Beijing-based
Australian International Trade Association stop using its higher
education material.
The Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development
confirmed it had investigated copyright breaches by AITA and “we
will be asking them to cease using Victorian Government
material”.
The Sunday Age last week reported that an Australian who
was teaching English in China using books supplied [...]

31 Jan

Scholarship takes muso to Switzerland

Years later, his talent is about to take him across the world.
The 33-year-old Grey Lynn resident has won a $10,000 scholarship from the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra Foundation, which he will use to travel to Switzerland next week.
A sub-principal clarinet player in the orchestra and Auckland University clarinet department head, Mr Fry will use the trip [...]

31 Jan

Kiwi uncovers a nudist market

Naturist Kay Hannam said Europes naturists had traditionally travelled to United States and Canada for their holidays, attracted by low exchange rates. But they were now looking more widely afield and were impressed with what New Zealand had to offer.
Ms Hannam, who runs Wai-natur, a nudists retreat in Marlboroughs Wairau Valley, was New Zealands sole [...]

28 Jan

Win-win as KL-Singapore air route opens up

Travellers, budget carriers and long-established airlines will
all be winners when the Singapore-Kuala Lumpur air route opens to
competition on Friday, analysts and industry players said.
Jetstar and Tiger Airways will get one daily flight each while
Malaysia’s AirAsia will operate two flights starting on Friday.
Agreement by Singapore and Malaysia to free up the sector is
long overdue and will [...]

28 Jan

Haute couture flower power finds favour

Just days before the summer haute couture collections, the
florists in Marcelle Guillet’s workrooms tucked behind the Bastille
opera house are putting the finishing touches to their speciality:
artificial flowers.
Whether pinned to the lapel of a jacket, nestling in cleavage or
trimming a hat, the exquisite floral creations that grace the
catwalks of the top designers will all have emanated [...]