My father, who died 25 years ago, was born in Jongju, North Pyongan Province. He was always proud of his hometown, saying it was the birthplace of many great people. It was a poor town but filled with fond memories and the true home my father wished to make his final resting place. Three years [...]
This requirement has been set by City Hall as mandatory prerequisite for food operators when they apply for their license to open a new restaurant or when existing operators renew their license. However, the requirement would only apply to restaurants owners operating on premises bigger than 120 sq m in floor size. Besides the restaurants, [...]
Hazel Jones always wondered why she suffered from terrible cramps and heavy periods during puberty. But it wasn’t until she turned 18 that she was given her astonishing diagnosis – she had two vaginas. The blonde 27-year-old from High Wycombe has the million-in-one condition uterus didelphys, which means she has two separate uteruses and cervixes [...]
A female magician from Japan has been invited to Kim Jong-il’s funeral, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported on Wednesday. The 51-year-old lady, who goes by the stage name Princess Tenko, was officially asked to perform a magic show in North Korea twice in 1998 and 2000. She also attended no fewer than 10 of the ‘dear [...]
The first class cabin of Qantas’s A380 super-jumbos looks astonishingly like the U.S.S. Enterprise in Star Trek - although you’ll have to settle for earthly routes such as London to Sydney and Sydney to Los Angeles. The interior, designed by Marc Newson includes LCD touch panels, leather seating, plants, sheepskin-covered full-length beds and more than 1,000 videos [...]
The Netherlands has about 40,000 hemp growers. This makes the Netherlands the leading producer of hemp in Europe. The cultivation of Cannabis Hemp is big business in the Netherlands, with profits estimated to have reached over 2 billion euro a year, according to figures from the police and the Dutch Task Force for organized cannabis. [...]
An Islamic cleric living in Europe has said that women should not be close to bananas or cucumbers, in order to avo id any ‘sexual thoughts’. The unnamed sheikh was quoted by el-Sawsana news saying that if women wish to eat these food items, a third party, preferably a male relative, should cut the items [...]
When I was first ‘introduced’ to this character, it was over a mega scandal that shook the whole nation. The scandal was so complex that up till today, it remains unresolved as yet, pending a lot of things that I personally think are lame excuses for an attempt to ‘vapourize’ this scandal one day. However, [...]
The Batak people live in the north of Sumatra, in the hilly region of lake Toba. At the beginning of this century the last Batak were placed under the authority of the Netherlands. Marga is a term in Batak societies referring to a famiy name. The term is derived either from the Sanskrit varga, meaning [...]
Billionaire Larry Ellison has finally settled a long-running dispute with his neighbours about overgrown trees – by buying the house next door for $40 million. The Oracle founder had been battling with his neighbours on his street known as ‘Billionaire’s Row’ in a wealthy San Francisco neighbourhood for years over trees that he claims block [...]