Park Yong Ha

Cung Le Vs Scott Smith

Cung Le did not let Scott Smith to reach the final night, and finish it in two with a pair of brutal spinning kicks to the body.

The 1st was the battle is one of the most epic come backs in the history of MMA as if Cung battered and bruised Scott Smith with an impressive array of kicks before getting out in the third round of the right hand of a brave difficult to Smith.

According to Scott Smith of aggression against Cung Le in the opening seconds the second match took place in the offensive: Werdum Fedor Vs. But the tie with Cung and survived an attack early. If I start to respond with the punches, but not delivered a penalty in the early going. Staggered even if Smith left with a row that forced Smith to take down the fire. Stuffed if they fired body punches while he was working to secure the President of the Front. The signs, if Smith and when I stood back up and then dropped Smith with two of the knees in the face of victory. Again lock the front of the head as if time ran out on the tour.

Register and if again with blows to start the second period. Then he started to launch spot, dropping Smith spinning back kick to the body. Smith continued the bottom of the knees and fell to the body. After the stand, and down again from the penalty if the spinning Smith quickly pounced and finished his opponent of bleeding.

G8 Summit Begins In Canada

The G-8 leaders are meeting in Canada today. World leaders were searching for common ground on economics, health, security and other issues as three days of summits.

Among the issues to be discussed will be fuirther sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme – building on expanded Security Council measures adopted this month.

The US and EU want tough sanctions but China and Russia only reluctantly support sanctions, and have balked at new unilateral steps against Iran, saying any measures should not exceed those called for by the Security Council.

Some 12 leaders representing the fast-growing developing economies including China, India and Brazil also arrived to attend the summit. US President Barack Obama has called for more spending to keep world economies from slipping back into recession.

He is being rebuffed by leaders in Europe and Japan, who have emphasized cutting government spending and raising taxes to try to keep their deficits in check. Obama is also calling for an overhaul of financial regulations to prevent another global meltdown.

The G-20 group represents 85 percent of the global economy and the United States wants this group to endorse the outlines for global financial reform to eliminate the threat that banks facing tougher regulations in one jurisdiction will move their operations to countries with more lax rules.

Unmet pledges getting special attention this year: the G-8?s vow in Scotland five years ago to double international aid to Africa by 2010 and to make significant strides in providing access to AIDs treatment to all who need it.

Neither of those goals have been achieved. G8 comprises the US, Canada, Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, and Russia.

Tay Ping Hui and Edna Lim

SINGAPORE,Tay Ping Hui and Edna Lim: Singapore actor Tay Ping Hui bade goodbye to bachelorhood, marrying long-time girlfriend university lecturer Edna Lim last Friday.

The actor, who turns 40 this year, revealed that he had proposed to Lim, 39, last year and planned to marry her after the Singapore General Election, which he expected to be held in May this year.

But May came and went without any news on the election, so Tay decided to go ahead with the wedding.

“I couldn’t wait any longer for our country’s big event so I just tied the knot,” he said with a laugh.

“I got married on Friday and went through all the traditional marriage rites like fetching the bride, registering our marriage and the wedding banquet on the same day.

Tay and three of his buddies were made to do 168 push-ups within a minute, down punishing beverages such as drinks laced with chilli padi and even give out what he estimated to be a “four-figure sum” in red packets before he was allowed claim his bride.

Whitney Houston Postpones Paris Show Due To Illness

LOS ANGELES: U.S. pop diva Whitney Houston has postponed a concert in Paris on Tuesday night due to illness, delaying the European leg of a world tour that received a rocky reception in Asia and Australia.

Concert organizers said the 46-year-old singer had been excited about opening her European tour in Paris at the Omnisport Bercy and regretted having to postpone the show.

“Whitney is suffering from an upper respiratory infection and after a consultation with her doctors has been advised to postpone her performance,” said a statement from the concert’s organizers. “Whitney and her band apologize that the show has to be rescheduled on such short notice.”

Her tour will resume as scheduled in Manchester, Britain, on April 8 and a new date for Paris will be announced shortly.

Houston, one of the top selling U.S. female vocalists of all time, launched a comeback last year after battling drug addiction and released “I Look To You”, her first studio album in seven years that topped the U.S. and other international charts.

But her performance during her “Nothing but Love” world tour in Australia was panned by some critics and fans who walked out of her concerts, complaining she was off key, out of breath, and looked exhausted.

Her publicist Kristen Foster issued a statement denying Houston was having health problems and insisted she was in great health and having a “terrific time on her tour and with her fans.”

Houston’s tour began in South Korea in February with the singer performing in Japan then Australia. She is set to tour Britain, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland by June.

Toyota Recall Models And Years

Toyota Recall Models And Years, With all of these different problems from the brakes and the accelerator pedal and all these other issues, the indication seems to be coming from the computer system, that is being sent mixed signals. The indication or the problems that are starting to surface could date back several years, and there could have been some underlying issues that only now are becoming amplified to the point where people are noticing them or getting significant issues with the drivability, they might have been so minor that people just ignored them in the past.People are really concerned about their car especially with the recent developments around Toyota and the problems that are occurring with the gas pedal situation and the brakes.
Toyota Prius brakes are being looked into in Japan and there US just announced they’ll be looking into these as well.

It really is hard to envision how a company even as big as Toyota, is made to handle such a crisis, their response time and their ability to handle the volume of problems that are coming to them is unimaginable and people who own Toyota are demanding that they be helped as quickly as possible.

The Following Toyota vehicles are not affected by the recall:

Toyota Yaris
Toyota Prius
Toyota Corolla with VINs that begin with “JT”
Toyota Camry with VINs that begin with “JT”
Toyota Camry with VINs that begin with “4T1” AND are equipped with Denso accelerator pedals
Scion – All models
Toyota Venza
FJ Cruiser
Highlander with VINs that begin with “JT”
RAV4with VINs that begin with “JT”
Land Cruiser
Sienna
4Runner
Tacoma

Below is a list of new and used vehicles that are affected by the voluntary recall:

Avalon VINs beginning with “4T1” MY 2005 – 2010
Matrix VIN # beginning with “2T1” MY 2009 – 2010
Tundra VIN # beginning with “5TB” MY 2007 – 2008
Tundra VIN # beginning with “5TF MY 2007- 2010
Sequoia VIN # beginning with “5TD” MY 2008 – 2010
Camry VIN # beginning with “4T4” MY 2007- 2010
Camry VIN # beginning with “4T1” with CTS pedal MY 2007- 2010
Corolla VIN # beginning with “1NX” and “2T1” MY 2009 – 2010
Highlander VIN # beginning with “5TD” MY 2010
RAV4 VINs beginning with “2T3” MY 2009 – 2010

Japan Welcomed Decision By Delegates At A UN Wildlife Trade Meeting

DOHA : Japan welcomed on Friday a decision by delegates at a UN wildlife trade meeting to reject a ban on cross-border commerce in rapidly declining Atlantic bluefin tuna, a sushi mainstay.

Backers of a ban, the European Commission and the United States both regretted the result, with the Commission warning the consequences could be catastrophic for the future of the species.

After aggressive lobbying by the Japanese, the controversial proposal was crushed at a meeting in Doha of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

The proposal, which had been put forward by Monaco with the backing of the United States and European Union, had needed the support of two thirds of the nations present.

In the end, there were 68 votes against the measure, 20 in favour and 30 abstentions.

“We welcome the rejection” of a ban on cross-border trade of bluefin caught in the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic as well as an amendment to allow a moratorium on the ban, a Japanese foreign ministry statement said.

“We will continue our efforts to get understanding of our country’s position” so that the rejection will be adopted at a general meeting on March 24-25, it added.

US Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks Tom Strickland lamented the vote as “a setback for the Atlantic bluefin tuna,” but vowed to “keep fighting” for the sustainable management of the fishery.

The European Commission warned that rejecting the ban threatened the species with extinction.

Environmental groups and experts also slammed the result.

“The abject failure of governments here to protect Atlantic bluefin tuna spells disaster for its future and sets the species on a pathway to extinction,” said Oliver Knowles of Greenpeace International.

Last November, ICCAT agreed to cut its catch for bluefin tuna in the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean regions by 40 percent, from 22,000 tonnes in 2009 to 13,500 in 2010.

Industrial-scale harvesting on the high seas has caused bluefin stocks to plummet by up to 80 percent in the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic, the two regions which would have been affected by the ban.

A single 220-kilo (485-pound) fish can fetch 160,000 dollars (120,000 euros) at auction in Japan, which consumes three quarters of all bluefin caught in the world, mainly as sushi and sashimi.

Meanwhile, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) warned that another expensive delicacy, caviar, had pushed sturgeon into the most threatened creature on the planet.

“Four species are now possibly extinct,” it said in a report on the conference sidelines.

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Fourteen Hours Of Load Shedding Announced In Balochistan

QUETTA PAKISTAN : Fourteen hours of load shedding has been announced in various rural areas of a Balochistan province.

According to the report, KESCO Chief Shafiq Khattak said fourteen hours load shedding will be carried out in various rural areas of Balochistan.

He said KESCO was facing 858MW power shortfall and it required 1200MW power. Explosions of power transmission tower for the last three years have caused loss of Rs 200 million, he added.

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Asian Markets Notch Up Modest Gains

Asian stocks rose for the third time in four days, led by finance and consumer companies, amid speculation the Bank of Japan will take more steps to ease deflation in the world’s second-largest economy.

The MSCI Asia Pacific Index increased 0.3 percent to 123.06 as of 4:03pm in Tokyo, with five stocks advancing for every four that fell. The Bank of Japan started a two-day policy meeting today, while the US Federal Reserve is due to announce an interest-rate decision after Asian markets shut.

Japan’s Nikkei 225 Stock Average lost 0.3 percent, while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index declined 0.1 percent. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 Index gained 0.3 percent. Taiwan’s Taiex Index climbed 0.8 percent as Powerchip Semiconductor Corp. led memory- chip makers higher after chip prices increased.

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Water At Chashma Barrage Reaches Dead Level

After Mangla and Tarbela dams, water in Chashma Barrage has also dropped to dead level today.
According to IRSA sources, inflow of water in Chashma Barrage is 33,853 cusecs while outflow is 42,655 cusecs. At Marala, inflow of water is 9,156 cusecs while outflow is 1,056 cusecs. According to IRSA sources, due to shortage, discharge of water from Tarbela Dam was curtailed by 9,400 cusecs. Here, water’s level is 1,378 feet and outflow is 21,600 cusecs. Level of water in Mangla Dam is 1,040 feet.

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