Tuesday, March 25, 2008

terrorism at forests

Indonesia, the fourth biggest population in the world is suffering not from conflicts and disasters only, but from illegal tree logging and that can cause a big difference in Indonesia's environment. Also about 10% of animals are found only there will be homeless. Indonesia now has the highest rate of deforestation and 70% of its forests are disappeared. Unfortunately, 90% of the woods are smuggled to border countries illegally. And because of this the floods and landslides are occurred. In 2005, the biggest smuggling of merbau wood in the rainforests of West Papua happened, and most of it is smuggled to china which is about 300.000 cubic meters every month. In 2001, the government stood up and stops the strugglers, but they had other ways of smuggling woods. In December 2002, China and Indonesia cooperate to decrease smuggling woods but the bribes were taking place at that time. It's expected that in five years all the forests in Indonesia will be deforest, if there is no action against it.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

First women to break Egyptian traditions


For the first time in the Muslim world an Egyptian women is selected to conduct Muslim marriages. Amal Soliman, 32, mother of 3, with a master in Law has overcome 10 men by her education to be chosen to that position. She says her job has many advantages to the Egyptian community and that she can manage to solve the difficulties that will face her in this job. Also she thinks that she will be closer to the bride to know if she is forced to do this marriage and to discuss the women about the divorce reasons.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7269848.stm

Monday, March 10, 2008

strong like its mountains

Introduction
"The land of milk and honey" that what's said about Lebanon in the bible. Lebanon has borders with four countries which are: Jordan, Syria, Israel and Cyprus. The capital of it is Beirut, the undead land and Paris of the east. Lebanese are known with their multiculturalism such as the famous singer shakira is half Lebanese.

Modern history
In 1943 Lebanon got its dependency from France and at that time the Christians were holding and controlling the country while the Muslims have no word. Till 1948 the tension increased between them. In 1975, the tension reach its peak when a group of Christians "The Phalange" attacked a bus full of Palestinians in Beirut and then the revenge killing begin. In 1982, Israel attacked the Palestinians Liberation Organization (PLO) and as a reaction they defense for their land then Israel throw bombs over them and invaded west Beirut. The peace showed up at 1989, but as a result of this conflict about 175,000 people were died, 300,000 were injured and nearly quarter of the population immigrated to other countries. Moreover, the economy of Lebanon was frozen.

Lebanon now
Unfortunately, the undead city can recover its economy by being a famous tourism city. Also there are a lot of things that the tourist can be interested in, such as: the history and culture of Lebanon, the beach in summer and snowboarding in winter, bars, belly dancers and nightlife. But the war traces still exist and some people are suffering from it. The life had became harder and very expensive, also most of the young people went away so there are few people to rebuild this country again, and there are a lot of traffic on the streets and that what cause the high rate of pollution.


"Eye on Lebanon." Spring 2006. 10 Mar. 2008 http://www.globaleye.org.uk/.

Saturday, March 1, 2008

wanna see cooool video...

IF you wanna see a coooool circus wait till 2 minutes and see it till the end

waiting for ur comments