Preah Vihear is a 900-year-old temple that has raised fears of a military clash between Thailand and Cambodia, the Southeast Asian neighbors. Soldiers were deployed along the border area sides and a standoff continued for nearly six weeks.

The two sides have blamed each other for violating each other’s territory where the Preah Vihear temple is located.

The ancient Hindu temple sits on a jungle-clad escarpment that forms the natural boundary between the two countries. The International Court of Justice awarded the ruins to Cambodia in a 1962 ruling that has rankled many Thais ever since.

Tensions flared in July after the ancient temple became a UNESCO world heritage site, irking nationalists in Thailand who still claim ownership of the site.

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Business people and their corporations need to be reminded about their role and responsibilities. The following issues need special attention today:

1. Globalization should mean that all people are considered to comprise one family. All human beings should be treated with respect, equality, and fairness. Exploitation of one group by another should stop. There should not be any division among people because of their race, color, nationality, gender, or faith.

2. The resources of the Earth are not only for us, we share this biosphere with other species, and so we take care not to waste or destroy them.

3. We should use the Earth’s resources with great care and should remember that we have a duty to leave this world in a better condition for the generations to come after us.

4. Human beings are one family, although we have our differences. Diversity is natural and beautiful. We should try to understand other people’s religions and cultures and we should be sensitive to their feelings and emotions.

5. The universal golden rule states, “Love for others what you love for yourself.” We should try to empower others and work to eradicate poverty, hunger, illiteracy, disease, and unsanitary conditions in the world in order that all people can live in peace and happiness.

6. Businesses should promote ethical and moral behavior in their corporations, as well as in the world at large. People involved in business should always be honest, truthful, and fulfill all promises and commitments. We must eliminate fraud, cheating, and cut-throat competition.

7. We should also promote more political freedom, open debates, participatory democracies, and representative governments.

8. We must encourage and support an educational system that promotes openness, dialogue and that guards against fanaticism. Our educational system should not teach every view in the absolutist terms. Our children should be taught about the multitude of perspectives and one should be open to other points of view.

Source: Zaharuddin.net.

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Today is a third time, petrol and diesel prices are reduced in Malaysia. The fuel prices have been reviewed on August 23 and September 24, 2008 previously. Compared with the old prices, it reduced up to 15%.

The current prices stand at MYR 2.30 per liter (USD 2.48 per gallon) for Petrol RON 97 and MYR 2.20 per liter (USD 2.37 per gallon) for Petrol RON 92 and Diesel.

It will provide some relief but will not have much impact as many doubt that prices of basic necessities would go down in tandem with the reduction.

Anyway, it is still good for us!

Here are 10 steps to save more than 20% on fuel:

1. A clean air filter will save you 10%.

2. Properly aligned tires will save you 10%.

3. A properly tuned engine will save you 4%.

4. Properly inflated tires will save you 2.8%.

5. Having a broken or missing gas cap can cost you 2 cents per gallon.

6. SLOW DOWN. Every 5mph (8 km/h) you reduce on the highway can reduce fuel consumption by 7%.

7. Smooth acceleration and deceleration can save you 33% on the highway and 5% in town.

8. For every 100lbs (45.4 kilogram) of extra weight you carry in your vehicle you loose 1-2%.

9. Don’t idle your engine. You can save 1 cent per gallon for every 2 minutes you don’t idle.

10. Don’t ride with your foot on the brake. You can save 35%.

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“We saw an opportunity, given how much the Web has evolved, to rewrite the browser from scratch,” says Sundar Pichai, Google’s vice president for product management. The goal, he says, was to create a simple, yet powerful user experience with no interruptions: “The user should enjoy surfing the Web, and the browser should stay out of it.”

If the above is their goal, then I believed Google has achieved it.

The centerpiece of Chrome is the tab, which is located at the top of the browser. If one tab is loading a page, a user can switch to another tab to continue work without waiting. Similarly, if one tab crashes or freezes, you can close that tab without affecting other open tabs. This helps to keep memory jams from bogging down the computer or the whole browser.

When you open Chrome, the default page brings you to your nine most visited sites, giving the page a customized look and feel. It also displays your search history and recent bookmark selections.

One user-friendly feature is that the search and address window have been combined. Now there’s just one box, and it has become a center of power - just starting to type any letter in the alphabet will bring up suggestions. These are culled from bookmarks (Chrome automatically imports bookmarks and passwords from your existing browser) and from popular searches that begin with that letter.

Enough say. I started leaving Firefox behind. To download Chrome: Click Here.

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