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Ok, now links here but Chinese officials including the IOC (International Olympic Committee) are thinking of scrapping the torch run. In what appears harmful to Chinese politics at every single location people have protested against the uprising of citizens in Tibet.
It’s only natural that people want to be in power of their location. However China [...]

Following on from the UK model Australia is to offer up to 600 Iraqi citizens visa’s for permanent stay in Australia for helping out our armed forces. The UK recently gave the same offer for 2,000 Iraqi’s that had helped their forces.
I’ve only seen this reported on the channel nine news and haven’t found it [...]

In what may be the greatest loss of face ever experienced by a nation more than 1.5 million people have signed the Avaaz petition against human rights abuse in Tibet by the Chinese Communist Party.
It would seem there torch is doing a global protest tour rather than a global peace tour in an event which [...]

I just received access to the beta trial today, I decided to try it out on one of my
fave shows “The Bill.” the speed was great, I connect on 21mb/s ADSL2… I found when the
initial loading started I could hear but I couldn’t see anything, I had to click rewind
before the video came through.
The quality [...]

I was inspired to write this from a piece shown on the SBS television show Dateline last week, where the journo delved into a scheme where all school children aged to 13 must be given a cooked lunch while at school.
This program was initiated in 2001 after a supreme court decision that made it compulsory [...]

Today at the official start of the Beijing Olympics torch rally Reporters Sans Frontières were able to get behind the speaker and hold up a protest flag. The flag consists of five handcuffs in the traditional lay out of the Olympic rings logo.
Here is an excerpt taken from the Reporters Sans Frontières website:
“They are charged [...]

Ok, interesting topic – but recently we’ve seen two footballers in separate cases been caught out by the police for urinating in public. Sure it’s not legal, but do these two individuals deserve a trial-by-media?
I’m not quite sure what part of the media makes the reporting of this news-worthy. Requiring the players teams to “do [...]