Thursday, October 11, 2007

From culture to cult

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Culture has been called "the way of life for an entire society." As such, it includes codes of manners, dress, language, religion,...
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Tuesday, October 09, 2007

A young woman's journey searching religion.

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The main message that I picked out is that by learning the virtues of different religions we learn to tolerate the intolerance.
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Monday, October 08, 2007

Indians abused in Malaysia

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More than 200 Indian nationals working in a Malaysian factory have alleged that they were being abused by their employment agent and are des...
Sunday, October 07, 2007

New York mayor takes the train to work

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Michael Bloomberg is an American businessman, and the founder of Bloomberg L.P., currently serving as the Mayor of New York City. Bloomber...
Saturday, October 06, 2007

University puts courses on YouTube

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Berkeley university, one of the most prestigious universities in the US, is embracing the Internet revolution by putting free videos of cour...
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Friday, October 05, 2007

Weeding out pious frauds

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What is emerging in the reports coming out from the Sultan Park bombing incident reveals that some of our youth are getting radicalised in I...
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Thursday, October 04, 2007

Increasing climate change refugees

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Environmental degradation around the world is creating a new category of people known as "environmental refugees." According to a ...
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007

"NO TO TERRORISM! DON'T TOUCH OUR MALDIVES!"

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"We don't want terrorists and terrorism in our Maldives! Join the cyber-protest by Maldivian bloggers."

Worries over veil in Turkey

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Turkey is a secular democratic republic whose political system was established in 1923 under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, foll...
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Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Stop the madness

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Maldives has long maintained a stand of remaining a moderate Islamic country. In all travel guides that gives advice to tourists visiting Ma...
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Monday, October 01, 2007

The youngest CEO at 17.

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Here's a rags to riches story where the American 17-year-old girl Ashley Quall is featured in a Fastcompany article. It is an interesti...
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Sunday, September 30, 2007

What feeling does our Gaumi salaam evoke?

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Romanized Transliteration of gaumi salaam " Gaumee mi ekuverikan matee tibegen kureeme salaam, Gaumee bahun gina hyo du'...
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Friday, September 28, 2007

Gandhi's triumph of non-violence changed the world

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Mahathma Gandhi was the pioneer of a civil disobedience movement that brought the British empire down to its knees and gained independence ...
Wednesday, September 26, 2007

What kind of capitalism for us!

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After the collapse of communism in Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, when it comes to the prosperity and growth of an economy, the choice is ...
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Monday, September 24, 2007

Is Pyrard's opinion true for Maldivians?

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Writing about the state of affairs in our country on his blog , Simon writes that we lack ambition and foresight. We lack the power of forw...
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Saturday, September 22, 2007

Black O-pium energy drink gets ousted

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I wonder whether anybody got drunk on the black o-pium energy drink for it to be banned in Maldives. This is a Thai energy drink with mushro...
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Friday, September 21, 2007

Politicians battle over Lord Ram's existence

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Here is the kind of incident that can lead to an explosive situation when politics is mixed with religion and religion is used as the punchi...
Thursday, September 20, 2007

Abusive language and name calling

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When you hear a person hurling abusive language at another, it is generally a cry for attention by someone who feels in some way inadequate....
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Will a recession hit our shores?

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More and more economists are predicting about the severity of the bad US housing loans and its impact on the global markets. Commerce Intern...
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Monday, September 17, 2007

Enforcing Death Penalty

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Islamic Democratic Party leader Umar Naseer has said that if he is elected president in the next election in 2008 he would impose capital ...
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