Saturday, December 31, 2011

DTN News - 2012 NEW YEAR CELEBRATIONS: 2012 Hong Kong ~ Predicted To Be For The People Year - Photo Courtsey Robie Seth

DTN News - 2012 NEW YEAR CELEBRATIONS: 2012 Hong Kong ~ Predicted To Be For The People Year - Photo Courtsey Robie Seth
Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - December 31, 2011: Revellers around the world are celebrating the end of 2011 and starting to see in 2012. Hong Kong property prices and rents expected to fall in 2012

In Hong Kong the countdown to 2012 was made in giant illuminated numbers on the side of a skyscraper facing the harbour. Toronto, Canada is 12 hours behind Hong Kong. Photo Courtsey Robie Seth



*Link for This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources 
*Speaking Image - Creation of DTN News ~ Defense Technology News 
*This article is being posted from Toronto, Canada By DTN News ~ Defense-Technology News Contact:dtnnews@ymail.com 
©COPYRIGHT (C) DTN NEWS DEFENSE-TECHNOLOGY NEWS

DTN News - 2012 NEW YEAR CELEBRATIONS: New Zealand Mark The Start Of 2012

DTN News - 2012 NEW YEAR CELEBRATIONS: New Zealand Mark The Start Of 2012
Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources
 (NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - December 31, 2011: Revellers around the world are celebrating the end of 2011 and starting to see in 2012.

Bad weather prompted some New Zealand planners to cancel outdoor events, but a fireworks display off Auckland's Sky Tower started at midnight (1100 GMT). Toronto, Canada is 18 hours behind Auckkand, New Zealand.

*Link for This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources 
*Speaking Image - Creation of DTN News ~ Defense Technology News 
*This article is being posted from Toronto, Canada By DTN News ~ Defense-Technology News Contact:dtnnews@ymail.com 
©COPYRIGHT (C) DTN NEWS DEFENSE-TECHNOLOGY NEWS

Friday, December 30, 2011

DTN News - NEW YEAR GREETINGS: DTN TIGER - New Symbol / Logo For 2012

DTN News - NEW YEAR GREETINGS: DTN TIGER - New Symbol / Logo For 2012
Source:  This article compiled by Roger Smith from DTN News
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - December 30, 2011: To Our Readers and Viewers of  DTN News Plus Everyone in the Global Village, A  Very Happy Prosperous New Year 2012 from DTN News ~ Defense-Technology News. Tigers are the largest members of the cat family. They live in Asia and belong to the same genus as the lion, leopard, and jaguar. 




*Link for This article compiled by Roger Smith from DTN News 
*Speaking Image - Creation of DTN News ~ Defense Technology News 
*This article is being posted from Toronto, Canada By DTN News ~ Defense-Technology News Contact:dtnnews@ymail.com 
©COPYRIGHT (C) DTN NEWS DEFENSE-TECHNOLOGY NEWS

DTN News - NEW YEAR GREETINGS: To Our Readers & Viewers Of DTN News

DTN News - NEW YEAR GREETINGS: To Our Readers & Viewers Of  DTN News
Source: This article compiled by Roger Smith from DTN News
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - December 30, 2011: To Our Readers and Viewers of  DTN News Plus Everyone in the Global Village, A  Very Happy Prosperous New Year 2012, Best Wishes from DTN News ~ Defense-Technology News 
*Link for This article compiled by Roger Smith from DTN News
*Speaking Image - Creation of DTN News ~ Defense Technology News 
*This article is being posted from Toronto, Canada By DTN News ~ Defense-Technology News Contact:dtnnews@ymail.com 
©COPYRIGHT (C) DTN NEWS DEFENSE-TECHNOLOGY NEWS


Thursday, December 29, 2011

DTN News - KAZAKHSTAN VIOLENCE: Kazakhstan Probes Police Use Of Weapons After Deaths

DTN News - KAZAKHSTAN VIOLENCE: Kazakhstan Probes Police Use Of Weapons After Deaths
Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources BBC News
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - December 29, 2011: Prosecutors in Kazakhstan have opened a criminal inquiry into the use of weapons by police after 16 protesters were killed earlier this month.

The deaths occurred in clashes between police and oil protesting workers in Zhanaozen on 16 and 17 December.

A "criminal enquiry into the use of weapons by the security forces" had been opened, the prosecutor-general's office said on Thursday.

The violence was the worst since Kazakhstan's independence 20 years ago.

The investigation comes after video footage emerged on the internet appearing to show security forces beating and shooting people.

Eyewitnesses said police fired on unarmed oil workers, who had been protesting for months, in the town of 90,000.

But police say they were forced to defend themselves. A 20-day curfew is in effect until 5 January.

"General prosecutors opened a criminal enquiry into the use of weapons by the security forces which were aimed at hitting (their targets) and caused death," the prosecutors' spokesman Nurdaulet Suindikov said in a statement.

"An investigation group headed by a special prosecutor will carry out the investigation to ensure impartiality," the statement added.

The move marks the first time since the incident that Kazakh prosecutors have accused the police of firing on the protesters. Last week Kazakhstan asked the UN to help investigate the violence.

Separately, the privately-owned Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency reports that 18 people accused of taking part in the disturbances and looting have been arrested.

The governor of the Mangistau region, where the clashes occurred, has reportedly been sacked, along with the local boss of the state oil firm.

President Nursultan Nazarbayev has fired his son-in-law, Timur Kulibayev, from his position as head of Kazakhstan's sovereign wealth fund, which holds stakes in the companies whose workers were striking.

Correspondents say Mr Nazarbayev is keen to maintain his country's reputation as a bastion of stability in central Asia.
 
*Link for This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources BBC News 
*Speaking Image - Creation of DTN News ~ Defense Technology News 
*This article is being posted from Toronto, Canada By DTN News ~ Defense-Technology News Contact:dtnnews@ymail.com 
©COPYRIGHT (C) DTN NEWS DEFENSE-TECHNOLOGY NEWS

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

DTN News: North Korea Top Stories / Headlines News Dated December 27, 2011


DTN News: North Korea Top Stories / Headlines News Dated December 27, 2011
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - December 27, 2011: Comprehensive daily news related to North Korea for the world of TODAY.
*Comprehensive daily news related to North Korea Top Stories / Headlines News for the world of TODAY.
DTN News - December 27, 2011: North Korea Prepares Huge Send-Off For Late Leader

North Korea was Tuesday preparing a massive ceremonial farewell to late leader Kim Jong-il as it strove to strengthen a new personality cult around his youthful son and successor Jong-un.
The secretive state has so far given no details whatever of Wednesday's funeral for its "Dear Leader" of the past 17 years.
But analysts say the regime, as it did in 1994 when Kim Jong-il's own father died, will use the event to shore up loyalty to the new leader and will likely mobilize hundreds of thousands of people.
The untested Jong-un, aged only in his late 20s, has been thrust into the world spotlight since his father died suddenly on December 17 aged 69.
Official media has added several titles to his flimsy CV, declaring him "great successor", supreme commander of the world's fourth-largest military and head of the ruling party's powerful Central Committee.
The son, who has not yet been formally appointed to the party and military posts, has been the central figure in scenes of mourning at the Kumsusan Memorial Palace, where his father lies in state in a glass coffin.
On Monday he met the leaders of two South Korean delegations at the palace, expressing "deep gratitude" for their presence, according to official media.
South Korea, which has remained technically at war with the North for six decades, has responded cautiously to the shake-up in its nuclear-armed neighbour.
Unlike in 1994, the Seoul government expressed sympathy to the North's people and made other conciliatory gestures.
But it authorized mourning visits to Pyongyang by just the two South Korean delegations, a restriction that the North termed "inhuman".
Lee Hee-ho, widow of late South Korean president Kim Dae-jung, and Hyundai Group chairwoman Hyun Jung-eun paid respects Monday to the late leader and expressed condolences to Jong-un.

Kim Dae-jung and Kim Jong-il held the first-ever inter-Korean summit in 2000 and Hyundai pioneered cross-border business projects.
While Kim Jong-il had 20 years to prepare for the communist world's only dynastic succession, Jong-un has had barely three. Analysts will closely watch the funeral for possible clues about who will have most influence with him.
Jong-un, "great successor to the Juche (self-reliance) revolutionary cause and sagacious leader of our party, state, army and people, is at the helm of the Korean revolution", the North's news agency reported early Tuesday.
South Korean media, basing their predictions on arrangements for the 1994 funeral, said the obsequies would likely begin at 10:00 am Wednesday, with Jong-un and senior officials paying final respects at the memorial palace.
They said the military was expected to fire a 24-gun salute and troops would march through central Pyongyang, accompanying a limousine carrying Kim's coffin and another car with a giant photo.
Military marching bands would play funeral music while convoys of motorcycles and cars carrying flowers and senior officials would follow the coffin as hundreds of thousands looked on, the media forecast.
Mourning will officially end Thursday with a nationwide memorial service including a three-minute silence, the North's media has reported.
On Tuesday the South Korean delegations, who were to return later Wednesday across the heavily fortified border, met the North's de facto head of state and parliament chief Kim Yong-nam, state media reported.
Lee and Hyun expressed hope that declarations agreed at summits in 2000 and 2007 would be implemented, it said.
On their way home they stopped off at the Kaesong industrial estate just north of the border — the last major joint venture still functioning, the South's Yonhap news agency reported.
The complex, utilising the North's labour in Seoul-owned light industries, has survived high cross-border tensions of recent years.



  1. North Korea crafts new cult figure

    Herald Sun - 8 hours ago
    Kim Jong-un, North Korea's heir apparent following the death of his father, pictured in September this year. Picture: AFP Source: AFP Kim Jong-un, ...
    North Korea burnishes new ruler's credentials‎ AFP
    S. Korea, China hold talks after Kim's death‎ The Express Tribune
    N. Korea set to mobilize masses for funeral‎ Inquirer.net
    National Post (blog) GMA News
    all 3632 news articles »

    Inquirer.net
  2. Foreigner in North Korea a witness to surreal scenes

    AFP - 4 days ago
    The aid worker who lives in the North Korean capital, and spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity, said the city is largely operating as normal but lies ...
    Young mourner a key to North Korean dynasty's future?‎ The Australian
    Kim Jong-il 'blocked the howling wind of history': North Korean ...‎ National Post (blog)
    North Korea To Welcome South Korean Condolence Delegations ...‎ Wall Street Journal
    Bloomberg NEWS.com.au
    all 6262 news articles »

    AFP
  3. Japan PM, China in talks on Korea

    Sydney Morning Herald - 13 hours ago
    Photo: AFP But Mr Kim's death has shifted the agenda to worries about nuclear-armed North Korea, where his untested son Kim Jong-un appears to be taking the ...
    Focus on N. Korea as Japan PM meets China's leaders‎ Sin Chew Jit Poh
    Japan Asks China For Help on North Korea‎ Voice of America
    all 638 news articles »

    Sydney Morning Herald
  4. China urges North Koreans to stand behind Kim's son

    AFP - 20 Dec 2011
    Police told an AFP reporter at the scene that the embassy would remain off limits to non-North Koreans for at least one day. "You can't have a visa today," ...
    Kim Jong-il's son, Kim Jong-un, to rule North Korea‎ Herald Sun
    Mourning in North Korea, worries in South after Kim Jong Il's death‎ msnbc.com
    Death of North Korea's Kim Jong Il Might Present Nuclear Crisis ...‎ Bloomberg
    The Australian Channel News Asia
    all 18958 news articles »

    AFP
  5. Website offers rare glimpse of North Korean TV

    AFP - 10 Dec 2011
    "I started live streaming three years ago mainly to let people here witness what North Korea is really like," Lim, 47, told AFPNorth Korean television is ...
    N. Korea warns against Xmas lights‎ NEWS.com.au
    US envoy says North Korea 'must change behaviour'‎ Straits Times
    South Korea allows 2 more Christmas trees‎ News24
    RT The Epoch Times
    all 288 news articles »

    AFP
  6. S. Korea tightens monitoring of social media

    AFP - 8 Dec 2011
    "Postings and sites that praise North Korea or glorify its leaders are also ... as they increased rapidly this year," team leader Han Myeong-Ho told AFP...
    South Korea tightens social media monitoring‎ ZDNet Asia
    South Korea to buy cruise missiles‎ Pakistan Observer
    all 166 news articles »

    AFP
  7. N. Korea raps S. Korean response to Kim's death

    AFP - 18 Dec 2011
    Jeung Young-Tae of the South's Korea Institute for National Unification, told AFP theNorth was "trying to foster division" with its offer and would exploit ...

    AFP
  8. General Dellosa on his first AFP Day

    Inquirer.net - 1 day ago
    With the Army and Navy being established in 1897 and 1898, how could AFP Day be ... unit as its contribution to a United Nations effort against North Korea...
  9. The Day's Best | 12.26.11

    News & Observer - 7 hours ago
    ASSOCIATED PRESS Anti North Korea activists attend a rally to protest the South Korean ... AFP/Getty Images Elyssabeth Fuller, 12, one of over 40 people who ...

    News & Observer
  10. US Republican candidates refocus on foreign policy

    AFP - 6 days ago
    "I do want to take a minute, because of the North Korean situation, ... upsetting factor" in the party's nomination process, Goldford told AFP by telephone. ...

    AFP
  11. News archive results for north korea afp

    *Speaking Image - Creation of DTN News ~ Defense Technology News 
    *This article is being posted from Toronto, Canada By DTN News ~ Defense-Technology News Contact:dtnnews@ymail.com 
    ©COPYRIGHT (C) DTN NEWS DEFENSE-TECHNOLOGY NEWS

Sunday, December 25, 2011

DTN News: Nigeria Top Stories / Headlines News Dated December 25, 2011

DTN News: Nigeria Top Stories / Headlines News Dated December 25, 2011
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - December 25, 2011: Comprehensive daily news related to Nigeria for the world of TODAY.
*Comprehensive daily news related to Nigeria Top Stories / Headlines News for the world of TODAY.

DTN News - NIGERIAN NEWS: Islamic Militant Boko Haram Claims Christmas Day Church Bombing

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - December 25, 2011:  A bomb blast during Christmas mass left 35 people dead and dozens wounded at a Nigerian church near the nation’s capital of Abuja.

The radical Muslim sect Boko Haram claimed responsibility for both the Abuja-area explosion, which left bodies on rooftops and in nearby gutters, as well as a bombing near a church in Jos, in which one police officer was killed. In all, at least 39 people were killed Sunday during ongoing sectarian violence in Nigeria, which also included at least three explosions in Yobe, an agricultural state in the country’s northeast that has often been at the heart of fighting between security forces and Boko Haram.

The Islamist group routinely attacks police and security forces as well as civilians in Africa’s most populous country. A faction of the group, whose name roughly means “Western education is forbidden,” has used increasingly violent means to advance its call for a strict interpretation of Islamic law in Nigeria. Fifty percent of the population of the  oil-rich nation of 155 million is Muslim and 40% is Christian.

Diplomats and global security analysts say the sect, which has members in Cameroon, Niger and Chad, maintains contact with terror groups in North Africa and Somalia.

Last year, explosions in Jos on Christmas Eve killed 32 people and left 74 wounded. In August, an attack on UN headquarters in Abuja killed 20 people. In recent days, ongoing clashes with paramilitary forces in the north of the country had left 61 people dead. On Friday, the U.S. Embassy in Abuja issued a warning for Americans to be “particularly vigilant” around churches and public crowds.

With Sunday’s bombings,  Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for at least 504 deaths in Nigeria this year alone, according to a count by the Associated Press.

According to local newspapers, the Abuja blast ripped through St. Theresa's Church in the town of Madalla at the end of the 6 a.m. Mass of Nativity. The parish priest of St. Theresa’s, Rev. Fr. Isaac Achi, told Nigerian newspaper This Day that more than a dozen cars leaving the church were destroyed, packed with bodies inside that were burned beyond recognition.

“Nigeria must intensify its efforts in the area of security and guarantee freedom of movement and worship,” the newspaper reported Achi as saying.

The second attack occurred shortly after in the central city of Jos, near the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Church. Government officials said one police officer was killed when gunfire broke out among those outside the church, according to the Associated Press. Two undetonated explosive devices were also reportedly discovered in nearby buildings.

Jon Gambrell, chief Nigeria correspondent for Associated Press, said via Twitter that Nigeria’s secret police, the State Security Service, claimed three people died in suicide attacks on its headquarters in the town of Damaturu, in Yobe state.

The attack on the Abuja-area Catholic church came just hours after Pope Benedict XVI delivered his traditional Christmas message from the Vatican. A spokesman for the Vatican, Father Federico Lombardi, condemned the bombings as “terrorist violence.”

“We are close to the suffering of the Nigerian Church and the entire Nigerian people so tried by terrorist violence, even in these days that should be of joy and peace,” Lombardi said, according to Reuters news agency.


‘N39B BUDGET FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY INSIGNIFICANT’

E-mailPrint
User Rating: / 1
PoorBest 
elemo-GIVEN the place of Science and Technology in the technological transformation of the country, the paltry allocation of N39 billion to the sector in the 2012 budget has been described as a major barrier to the actualisation of the desired...
READ MORE...

POMP AS NEW NAVY SHIP BERTHS IN SENEGAL

E-mailPrint
nigerian-navy-shipIT was pomp and carnival as the new Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS), ‘Thunder’, berthed on African soil after many weeks of sojourn on the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific.

The Ship, which was transferred from the United States of America’s (USA)...

READ MORE...

OBI, MIMIKO, SYLVA, OSHIOMHOLE, AREGBESOLA, ATIKU, OTHERS URGE PEACE, TOLERANCE

E-mailPrint
User Rating: / 2
PoorBest 
OBI-05-11-12Obi:  ‘Amid Celebrations, We Must Master Our Challenges’

GOVERNOR Peter Obi of Anambra State has called on all Christians to reflect on the mystery of the salvation through Jesus Christ.

In his Christmas message to the people of Anambra...

READ MORE...

ABDULMUTALLAB MAY APPEAL CASE, SAYS GOVT LAWYER

E-mailPrint
User Rating: / 1
PoorBest 
UmarUMAR Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 2009 Christmas day alleged underwear bomber of a US jetliner, may be laying the grounds for an eventual appeal of his terrorism case. This is after he had pleaded guilty to the offence.

However, the US-based...

READ MORE...

JONATHAN RENEWS COMMITMENT TO SERVING THE PEOPLE

E-mailPrint
User Rating: / 2
PoorBest 
JonathanPRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan yesterday restated his government’s commitment to education and peace in a country reeling from terrorist attacks that had claimed hundreds of lives.

The president gave the pledge in a Christmas message to the...

READ MORE...

JOS CLERICS PREACH PEACE FOLLOWING BOMB THREATS

E-mailPrint
CONCERNED over the recent threats to bomb some 21 designated areas in Jos, the Plateau State capital, by unknown hoodlums before December 26, religious leaders voluntarily went on air yesterday to appeal to people of the state to demonstrate love...
READ MORE...

EX-ENVOY URGES AU TO END CONGO CRISIS

E-mailPrint
NIGERIA’s former Ambassador to China, Ambassador Victor Chibundu has called on the African Union (AU) to nip the Democratic Republic of Congo crisis in the bud.  According to him, there has been a lot of publicity in the international and...
READ MORE...

GROUPS SUPPORT FUEL SUBSIDY REMOVAL, TASK FG ON ECONOMY

E-mailPrint
User Rating: / 3
PoorBest 
NIGERIANS have been asked to take the opportunity of the raging debate on the removal of oil subsidy to reach a consensus with the government on the urgent need to move the country from its present debilitating wealth sharing structure, to a...
READ MORE...

NIGERIANS TASKED ON SECURITY

E-mailPrint
BRIEFS

NIGERIANS have been urged to play their own individual roles in the efforts to address security challenges facing the nation as government alone cannot solve all the problems without the cooperation of the citizenry.

The Director General...

READ MORE...

‘GAY MARRIAGE NOT CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE’

E-mailPrint
THE Archdeacon of Enugu Diocese, Venerable Davidson Udodi, has said that Christian marriage is not gay marriage.

Speaking during the wedding ceremony between Adaobi Okoye and Zoltan Ebozue at Our Saviour Church, Diocese of Lagos (Anglican...

READ MORE...

BENUE, TARABA YOUTHS PLEDGE TO UPHOLD PEACE

E-mailPrint
THE dreams of those planning to thwart the existing peace between Benue and Taraba states have been dashed as the youths of Wukari Local Government Area of Taraba State have resolved to do everything in their power to ensure lasting peace between...
READ MORE...

FAMILY OF SIX PERISHES IN JIGAWA AUTO ACCIDENT

E-mailPrint
frsc_BOSSA FAMILY of six travelling from Maiduguri en-route Jigawa-Kano Road, died yesterday after the car conveying them had a head-on collision with a truck and immediately bust into flames.

The accident, which occurred at about 5.30 am, happened about...











DTN Nigeria

DTN NIGERIA

@DTNNigeria Canada
Comprehensive Daily News on Nigeria Today ~ © Copyright (c) DTN News Defense-Technology News





 DTN Nigeria 
DTN Nigeria: Bombs: Obama Sympathises with Nigerians: President Barack Obama has condemned what he called a “sen...
 DTN Nigeria 
DTN Nigeria: In Pictures: Scenes from the bombed Church in Mandala: By Femi Ipaye 
 DTN Nigeria 
DTN Nigeria: Suicide Bomber kills 3 Nigeria’s secret servicemen: Nigeria intelligence agency, the State Security... 
 DTN Nigeria 
DTN Nigeria: 39 dead in Nigeria terror attacks: Terror attacks across Nigeria by a radical Muslim sect killed at... 
 DTN Nigeria 
DTN Nigeria: Christmas Day church bombings kill 39 in Nigeria: Men look at the wreckage of a car following a bom... 
 DTN Nigeria 
DTN Nigeria: Nigeria blast mars Pope's plea: Pope Benedict XVI issued pleas for peace to reign across the world ... 


*Link for This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources 
*Speaking Image - Creation of DTN News ~ Defense Technology News 
*This article is being posted from Toronto, Canada By DTN News ~ Defense-Technology News Contact:dtnnews@ymail.com 
©COPYRIGHT (C) DTN NEWS DEFENSE-TECHNOLOGY NEWS