Singapore Airlines Ltd. (SIA SP): The carrier has begun hiring cabin crew after freezing recruitment in February, the Straits Times reported, without saying how it obtained the information. The world’s biggest carrier by market value also signed a three-year marketing agreement with government agency Tourism New Zealand, the agency said in an e-mailed statement. Singapore Airlines shares dropped 1.1 percent to S$13.90

Kathmandu Holdings Ltd. (KMD AU):The outdoor equipment retailer with shops in Australia and New Zealand began trading in Sydney for the time first Nov. 13. Its stock closed at A$1.76, 3.5 percent more than then A$1.70 paid by investors in an initial public offering which valued the company at A$340 million

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got the hulla hoops from gallen sports and started playing with it

and it hit my hand just below my thumb and bruised the whole area…..OUCH !!

主席 – 主要工作是休息
总裁 – 总是害人无辜被裁
老板 – 老在公司看天花板
经理 – 经常走动找人修理
主管 – 主要任务尽量少管
员工 – 原来只有我在做工

for tdy came thru. even though i tell myself not to intiate any contact but i will reply if contact comes thru first

QQ, YY et moi each took a shot of the cut oranges

same subject, different perspectives…interesting results

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An angry crowd hurled missiles and tipped over a vehicle near the Eiffel Tower in Paris Saturday after a company promised a massive cash giveaway but then failed to deliver, police said.

Trouble flared among the crowd of around 7,000 people when they realised the Internet company Rentabiliweb was not going ahead with the publicity stunt to give away some 40,000 euros (60,000 dollars).

Police arrested around 10 people and nine were remanded in custody as anger erupted in the shadow of the Paris landmark.

Metal barriers were erected in an attempt to contain the crowd but people clambered over them. Angry youths also hurled missiles at police.

The police said: “Following traffic problems in the Champ de Mars (park near the Eiffel Tower) area and large crowd movements, the police asked the organiser not to go ahead with distributing the money.”

Rentabiliweb “lamented the excesses which occurred” and added precautions been taken in an effort to ensure the event ran smoothly.

Jean-Baptiste Descroix-Vernier, chairman of the company which also runs the website Mailorama.fr, said the money intended for distribution would instead be given to charity.

The French interior ministry said it would lodge a formal complaint over the botched publicity stunt.

The police said they had told the event organiser that giving out money as a means of advertising was banned and stressed it could be a risk to public order.

But the Paris force added that it did not have the legal powers to stop people who wanted the money taking to the streets.

Gerard, a Parisian in his 40s who had turned up to get his hands on the free cash, wondered “if it wasn’t actually a hoax.”

“What is certain, is that they have got a lot of advertising from it,” he added.

Rentabiliweb announced with great fanfare last month that it planned to give away the huge sum in 5,000 pouches containing a bank note of between five and 500 euros each.

saw a purple shoyru at ann’s place and reminded of my beloved neopets

of coz we hardly ever play nw but i popped by to check out my acct anyway

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is a persistent little girl

she’s been on my back to finish wrapping all her P1 books and she doesn’t relent

but i’m glad it’s all done now

juz a few other missing things eg. her art folio to be prepared before 1st Jan

she has been looking forward to pri skool for a yr nw, admiring her pencil box as a nightly ritual before sleeping

In a clinic in the beleaguered Gaza Strip, Ratib Samur makes his way from one patient to the next armed with little more than a small box filled with enraged bees.

He uses the bees to sting those who have come to him for help — and amid the territory’s deepening isolation, his clinic has been transformed into a hive of activity.

Since the Islamist movement Hamas seized power in Gaza in 2007 the coastal enclave has been sealed off from all but vital aid by both Israel and Egypt, limiting the ability of Gazans to seek medical care abroad.

It has meant growing demand for Samur’s bee venom treatment.

“The bee stings are really great,” says Mohammed al-Dayya, paralysed from the waist down because of muscular atrophy.

The 25-year-old used to be treated in Egypt, but has had to resort to the bees because of the closures. Confined to Gaza, he wheels himself into Samur’s clinic each week to get stung, which he says has stabilised his condition.

“I no longer have this pain that used to keep me from sleeping,” he said during a recent session. “This treatment made my condition stable and now it won’t get worse before I am able to travel.”

Most claims of apitherapy — the medical use of bee venom — are anecdotal and have not been proved to the satisfaction of scientists, although believers say it help relieve pain from multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis and certain other ailments.

Bee stings however also entail risks of serious allergic reactions, and of course the process of getting stung is not one most people would enjoy — at Samur’s clinic, patients often get four to six stings a time.

Samur admits his treatment is no substitute for advanced medical care.

“I cannot help him walk again, but my treatment basically focuses on easing the pain and preventing his condition from deteriorating further,” said Samur, who studied agricultural engineering in Egypt.

When the 53-year-old opened the clinic in 2003 after testing out bee venom treatments on his family and friends, he was greeted with scepticism.

“It became more acceptable when I got brilliant results from the treatment with a number of patients, and it increased even more after the Israeli siege,” he said.

Israel generally allows people to leave Gaza for emergencies but grants only a limited number of permits for medical treatment abroad.

The lack of medical options and the economic crisis gripping the territory has sent hundreds of men, women and children flocking to Samur’s clinic, where he pricks them with bees raised in dozens of backyard hives.

A course of three injections costs just 2.50 dollars (1.60 euros).

Many of his patients suffer from wounds inflicted during Israel’s assault on Gaza at the turn of the year aimed at halting Palestinian rocket attacks. Some 1,400 Palestinians were killed before the fighting ended on January 18.

Ismail Matar has been receiving bee stings to treat the shock he suffered when a friend was killed before his eyes by an Israeli air strike.

“My friend was torn apart right in front of me by shrapnel from an Israeli missile,” the 23-year-old said.

“I was in psychological shock. I was not strong enough to move my legs, I could barely see, and none of the drugs worked. But now, after seven months of treatment with bee stings, I am much better. I can walk again.”

The natural remedy, which contains large amounts of the anti-inflammatory agent melittin, has been used in other nations to treat multiple sclerosis and arthritis, but there is little experimental evidence of its effectiveness.

“The bee venom treatment is a complement to medicine,” Samur says. “I don’t diagnose the illness, but rely entirely on the opinion of the doctor.”

He also refuses to treat people with heart disease, diabetes or cancer.

Patients such as Nivine Ajur, a 32-year-old mother of six who suffers from rheumatoid arthritis, swear by the treatment.

“I have been suffering from rheumatoid arthritis for five years and nothing helped because there is no treatment for this disease in Gaza,” she said as a bee plunged its stinger into her wrist.

“I could not climb stairs at all but now, after five months of treatment, I can climb them six times a day.”

In another corner of the clinic 10-year-old Mohammed Barud does not flinch even as bees gather on his ear lobe just below his hearing aid.

“I’m used to this, and I am not afraid,” he said.

“My hearing gets better every week and I will keep coming here until I can take out this hearing aid. The doctor told me I would have to wear it my whole life.”