Big cats banned from Australia

Ross Kendall — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:49:58 +0000

Making a mistake isn’t necessarily stupid, but making the same mistake twice is. Thankfully Australia has learned from its past and banned the introduction of Savannah cats, a natural destroyer of the country’s unique wildlife.

The humble ‘moggy’ or domestic cat maybe a cute little family pet to those in the rest of the world but to Australia’s wildlife it is a born killing machine. And once the cats have adapted to life in the wild they are even more devastating.

Google Banned by Myanmar Govt., Still Donates $1 Million to Cyclone Relief

Gavin Hudson — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:14:18 +0000

Despite being banned by the government of Burma (also Myanmar), Google has said that it will donate up to $1 million USD to assist victims of Cyclone Nargis.

Google has offered to match donations made to UNICEF and Direct Relief International for all donations made at Google’s Support disaster relief in Myanmar page, up to one million dollars.

Internet users in Burma reported that access to Google and Gmail had been blocked by the strict military junta governing the country in the summer of 2006. By this time, Yahoo and Hotmail had already made the censored IT blacklist.

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Big cats banned from Australia

Google Banned by Myanmar Govt., Still Donates $1 Million to Cyclone Relief