They are having to sleep outside.

So we have to keep running like a squirrel in a cage.

The new millennium has bought with it the burden of financial gain, with mahouts (elephant owner) having to work their elephants seven days a week to earn a living.

Among all of the positive outcomes of this year's draft resolution, however, there is one regarding which we feel compelled to note a concern for possible future trends.

In the absence of reliable statistics, let us focus on two iconic figures of China s pro democracy movement Hu Jia and Chen Guancheng.

We are, unfortunately, compelled to recall once again that the High level Panel comprised 16 personalities, only one of whom came from our region.

Though steps toward democracy are possible, when the euphoria of the moment passes, political contenders will realize that, if only in self defense, they must restrict their opponents freedoms.

This genre of dappankuthu dance is exclusively confined in Tamil movies from India and if Petronas advertising team thought that dappan dance will hit the right chord with Malaysian Indians and Malaysians at large, well, sorry to burst your bubble but you are sorely mistaken. WE ABHOR IT!!

We all understand, one of the leading Kremlin ideologues recently confided to me, but we can t get out. They will come for us at once.

The bankers retort that they must pay a higher return on any additional equity that they issue, so that more equity would increase their cost of capital, forcing them to raise interest rates on the loans they make, which would reduce economic activity.

Because non Americans cannot vote in US elections for him (a pity for Obama, who would probably win a global vote by a landslide), we have to depend on the judgment of that 17 of undecided voters watching television this month.