Tradisional Sabah Borneo

MANILA

Islamic extremists in the southern
Philippines ambushed a military convoy
by planting a landmine that killed
three solders ,the latest outbreak of
violence as the government cracks
down on the miitants

The military convoy of three vehicles
was travelling on the southern island
of Jolo to secure a road project when
a truck hit the landmine,Fighters from
the AlQaeda linked Abu Sayyaf group
then ambushed the surviving solders,
according to military spokesman Con
onel Restituto Padilla,

Three  soldiers were killed  while six
others were wounded he said,
He  said the attacked was in retaliation
for a military offensive launched against
the group in their job strongholds last
week which killed 24 militants-

AFP

HEART TALK,
Do you agree that WE ARE SLAVE to our habits?
  It takes courage to close the gap between what
we are and what we should be,Are we slaves to
our habits?

These are the questions we are going to ans,
Do habits control us?WE create habits but soon
become slaves to them,we can break free,but it takes
effort to reverse the trend,

It is important to find positive replacements for our
weak habits and make the transformation a worthwhile
and rewarding experience,

Habist ,like emperors,rule the self, The mind is the
throne of these emperors,robbing us of our peace
clarity,
Habits domineer without sweetness or sympathy,hrone
Our aim should be to dethrone t
hese tyrants of negative thoughts and feelings,
For this we need the third eye,that  is the eye
of understanding

With this spiritual insight ,reason returns and this
reawakening gives it the power to overcome
our habits,

The angry husband,spendthrift wife,the alcoholic
brother ,the lazy sister are all examples of those
who have taken on these roles out of habits,

Our thought are largely predetermined by our
habits ,Succumbing to anger is a habit whether
in the form of irritation or annoyance,aggressiveness
or contempt,

It is not that one volunteers to get angry ,but
to-day's world is such that one is prone to trigger
the habits of being angry at any given moment

Thus we mus be careful
Why sacrifice my peace,especially when anger
will only aggravate situations?

YOUR LOCAL  VOICE

PONTARLIER(FRANCE)

It's the drink that,more than any lover,drove a
 generation of artists,fromVan Gogh to Oscar
Wilde and Verlaine,to distraction,

Absinthe was their muse ,their creative rocket
,but the fabled "fee verte:(green fariy) which
they venerated in painting and prose,was also
their ruin,That was the theory ,at least ,when
France banned the green tinted liquor during
World War1claiming it drove drinkers insane

Since France lifted the ban on selling and drinking
absinthe in 1988,guy has been hard at work to
help the spirit shed its dark-and as it turns out,
inaccurate image,

But it was in late 19th century Belle Epoque
Paris that absinthe had its heyday,becoming
the favourite refreshiment of Vincent Van Gogh
and Henri de Toulouse Lautrec and Paul Verlaine,

Banning of the spirit in France and several other
countries caused economic calamity in Pontarlier,
In 1900,Pontarlier had 23distilleries,which pro
duced 10 million litres of absinthe for domestic
and export markets and employed 3000 people,

Back then ,80 percent of activity here depended
on absinthe production and pratically no one
managed to transition into other activities
Guy said,AFP

TONGON
Gold is not forever,Ivorian boom town
worries about future;

Tongon once a poor rural community,
the village of Tongn in the northern
Ivory  Coast now  glows with well being
since becoming a regional  gold mining
hub five years ago,

Electricity and  clean water flows to all
the homes ,brick and mortar houses have
replaced many huts and new schools and
maternity clinic have sprung up

"The villages is becoming a fine place"boast
school headmaster Antoine Yapo Boni,
Randgold has also financed a high voltage
power line linking the Tongo mine to the
regional capital Korhogo,60 kilometers
away,for which it is negotiating repayment
terms with the Ivorian government

Overall,Randgold says it has invested $500
million dollars in the giant open cast mine,
but the firm declined to tell AFP how much
it makes in return,On its Internet site,it
reported a frofit of $134 million in 2013

 AFP
 

NEW  YORK



Pop Gaga diva Lady  Gaga announced
Monday that she is getting married to
an actor she met making a video,in which
she wore her mother's wedding dress

The 28 year -old superstar who has becomeo
as known for her extravagant outfits as
for her music,revealed the engagement by
showing a simple,heart shaped ring that
fiance Taylor Kinney gave her AFP

MELBOURNE

Migrant women will feel more at ease when
facing court after the Australian Government
committed Aus $120,000 to the legalsystem
friendlier.

Announcing this during a UN Women's Day
breakfast at Parliament  House in Canberra
yesterday Prime  Minister Tony Abbot said
is was a daunting task to approach courts at
the  best of time,

But is must be terrifying if your language
skill are poor and you do so without the
support of your family and community"


Abbott said the money would help train
judges,court administrators and officials to
deal sinsitively with cases involving child
marriage ,forced,marriage, female genital
mutilation and human trafficking.

Abbott said legal representatives would
work with migrant communities to
develop a national plan to bring about
cultural change.BERNAMA

PARIS,

A top US official Tuesday warned that the
current tensions between tradisional allies
US and Israel  could last until the end of
2016 of the Obama adminstration in 2016

There are monents of significant agreement
and then there are moments of tactical
disagreement" US deputy sceretary of state
Antony Blinken told French rad statin Europe 1


"That's the nature of things and I imagine that
will continue for the last two years of the Ob
 ma administration added Blinken,who spoke
in French

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
is poised to go to Capital Hill on Tuesday
for another round in an increasingly heated
battle with the White House over Iran's nuclear
ambitions,

Obama n Monday lashed out at the Israel prime
minister,pointing to Netanyahu's attacks on a
previous interim US Iran deal that paved the
way for this week's ongoing talks in Switzerland

Blinken stressed that Obama had spent more time
incontact with Netanyhu than any other world
leader ,but warned that the Israel prime minister's
speech could have"a bit a corrosive effect"on ties

"It does not cearte trust"said that  diplomat ,stressing
nevertheless that theUScommitment toIsraael
security will not change"

"Assad is anenormous problem He  has lost his
legitimacy He has lost his ability to lead his
country he said AFP