Earth Hour - March 26 at 8.30 pm - Please Join!!!

At 8.30pm - Dubai Time (+4GMT), Saturday 26 March 2011 Earth Hour will celebrate a worldwide commitment to ongoing change for the betterment of the one thing that unites us all - the planet. It will provide each and every one of us with an opportunity to help make a difference and add to the action of billions of people who commit to saving the planet every day.

Earth Hour has done a lot to raise awareness of sustainability issues. But there’s more to it than switching off lights for one hour once a year. It’s all about giving people a voice and working together to create a better future.

Filipino's must leave Bahrain

By AFP

MANILA (AFP) - The Philippines on Tuesday advised its 31,000 citizens in Bahrain to leave the Gulf state after troops from neighboring countries moved in to help the ruling monarchy quell anti-government protests.

"We are urging 31,000 Filipinos to restrict movements to only those absolutely essential and to voluntarily depart the country," Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Rafael Seguis told reporters.

He said embassy staff in Manama had been in contact with Filipino community leaders there and briefed them on contingency plans.

"We are hopeful the political situation will stabilise, but precautionary measures are in place," he said.

Armed forces from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates rolled into Bahrain on Monday to help the government there deal with pro-democracy protesters.

An estimated nine million Filipinos work abroad, and their dollar remittances have traditionally fuelled the local economy.

Many of these workers are in the Middle East.

Last week, the government also told its 1,400 citizens in Yemen to leave over rising political violence there.

More than half of the 26,000 Filipinos in Libya were also evacuated last month, with the rest opting to stay, officials said.

source: yahoonews.com

Major tsunami after 8.9 quake damage in Japan

TOKYO, Japan (AP) --
A magnitude 8.9 earthquake slammed Japan's northeastern coast Friday, unleashing a 13-foot (4-meter) tsunami that swept boats, cars, buildings and tons of debris miles inland. Fires triggered by the quake burned out of control up and down the coast.
At least one person was killed and there were reports of several injuries in Tokyo, hundreds of kilometers (miles) away, where buildings shook violently through the main quake and the wave of massive aftershocks that followed.
TV footage showed waves of muddy waters sweeping over farmland near the city of Sendai, carrying buildings, some on fire, inland as cars attempted to drive away.

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Iran is threatening to boycott the 2012 London Olympics

Iran is threatening to boycott of the 2012 London Olympics because it claims the official logo for the games resembles the word "Zion," which is a biblical term for Jerusalem.

Bahram Afsharzadeh, the secretary-general of Iran's National Olympic Committee, says he sent a letter to IOC president Jacques Rogge in which he condemns the logo as "racist" and calls upon other Muslim countries to join in protest.

The logo was unveiled four years ago to mass criticism, almost all of which had to do with the awkward, bulky design and not pro-Zionist conspiracy:

If you're reading vertically rather than horizontally and think an irregular pentagon resembles the letter "I" then you can sort of make out "zion" in the logo. Although if you read counterclockwise from the bottom left it also looks like "Izzo," which may draw copyright complaints from Jay-Z and cries of protest from Ohio State fans. 

"There is no doubt that negligence of the issue from your side may affect the presence of some countries in the games, especially Iran, which abides by commitment to the values and principles," Afsharzadeh said in the letter to Rogge.

Source: yahoonews by: Chris Chase