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On Sunday, March 7th, the Oscars will be giving out awards to this past year’s best films. One of the potential winners is the documentary “Burma VJ” which stars U Gawsita, a Buddhist monk from Burma who has been living as refugee in Utica, NY for the past year.
“Burma VJ”is about a peaceful protest lead [...]

In an attempt to provide aid more directly and quickly, the State Department, the Pentagon, Haiti’s leading cellphone carrier, and a myriad of volunteers have set up an emergency contact network in which Haitians can send text messages to call for aid. This new coalition also scans through Facebook and Twitter posts to find out [...]

A few weeks ago while running in the gym and watching Justin Bieber singing and dancing provocatively to women triple his age (it was the only thing on TV, I swear), a radio show that was playing simultaneously was discussing about Noah Cyrus and Emily Grace Reaves, both 9, modeling for a new line of [...]

It is commonly viewed that the job of hosting the Olympic games is a great package deal which creates new jobs and brings in capital for the city – as the Games inevitably attract private investments and tourists – which are then spent on improving public infrastructure. Yet in past cases and now in Vancouver, [...]

Burma recently freed the vice-chairman of the National League of Democracy (NLD), the opposition party of Aung San Suu Kyi’s.
Mr. Tin Oo, 82, has been in prison or under house arrest for over a decade. His release comes as ruling military junta in Burma prepares to hold national elections in 2010, though no date has [...]

A recent research study lead by Dr. John Harrington, an assistant professor at Eastern Virginia Medical School, has revealed that the “tipping point” which secures children towards the path of lifetime obesity often occurs before the age of two.
The research studied over 100 obese children and teenagers and found that more than half were overweight [...]

Tan Zuoren, a Chinese activist who investigated in whether careless construction contributed to the deaths in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake was recently sentenced to five years in jail by the Chinese government.
Formally, Tan was indicted for subversion in having connections with the suppression of pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
In response to the verdict, [...]

The Obama administration recently announced that they would stand firm on having President Obama meet with the Dalai Lama even though China warned that such a move would place Sino-American relations in a precarious position.
The Chinese Government responded to this decision from the White House by saying they “resolutely oppose” any meetings between the Dalai [...]

Film maker, Darryl Roberts, spent the past five years gathering interviews and stories to create his potent documentary, America the Beautiful. This film captures the excessive emphasis on “perfect” beauty in American culture and the consequences of this mentality.
The documentary chronicles the rise and fall of Gerren Taylor, a runway model who began her career [...]

Darlene Eitenne, a 16 year old girl, was recently found alive amidst all the rubble in Port-au-Prince, 15 days after the ruinous 7.0 earthquake struck. The discovery of Ms. Eitenne came 5 days after the Haitian government had officially ended the search and rescue operation.
Ms. Eitenne was found not too seriously injured but dehydrated. How [...]