skip to main |
skip to sidebar
London, 12 July 2010 (MIA) - A Pakistani hotel cleaner, Essa Khan, is being hailed as a national hero after he returned 50,000 dollars in cash left behind by a Japanese NGO worker.
Khan found the money in a bag, which was kept in the safe deposit box, while carrying out a routine inspection of the room before another guest arrived.
Talking about the incident, Khan, who has been working at the Gilgit Serena Hotel near Karakoram for the past 20 years, said that he was simply doing his job.
"I have a responsibility as a human being, as a Pakistani, a Muslim. I never thought about keeping the money," The Telegraph quoted Khan, as saying.
The hotel staff managed to track down the guest and returned the money, which was intended to fund a feasibility study into tourism projects in northern Pakistan.
Gilgit Serena Hotel's General Manager, Rashid Uddin, said that the Japanese man was embarrassed to learn that he had lost the cash.
"Even after three days, he had no clue that he had left the money. He came in the next day, and it was easy to see from the look on his face just how relieved he was," Uddin said.
The hotel gave Khan a Rs.10,000 reward for his honesty, but Uddin said that the 50-year-old's actions deserved wider recognition.
"In these economic conditions, and in a region of poverty, we should be very, very proud of people like this," he added.
New Delhi, 7 July 2010 (MIA) - Authorities in Porbunder, western India, say that the family took the lid off the coffin just once a day to feed Rajan Killaker before nailing it down again, and that they drilled holes in the casket so he could breath.
They kept him trapped after he had refused to sign over his farm, worth around £100,000, to them
'We have arrested eight of his relatives who confessed to torturing him,' said a police spokesman.
New York, 13 July 2010 (MIA) - Popular social networking website Facebook will add a 'panic button' application which will report child abuse to Britain's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP).
Once installed, the application appears on the homepage saying that the users are in 'control online'.
Facebook had initially resisted the idea, but finally agreed after months of negotiation with the CEOP, BBC reported.
CEOP is a government law enforcement agency tasked with tracking down online sex offenders.
Other social networking websites including Bebo and MySpace have already added the button, but Facebook had resisted the change, saying its own reporting systems were sufficient.
Pressure mounted on Facebook after the rape and murder of a 17-year-old girl by a 33-year-old convicted sex offender, posing as a teenage boy, whom she met on Facebook.
Forty-four police chiefs in England, Wales and Scotland, signed a letter backing CEOP's call for the 'panic button' on every Facebook page.
'Our dialogue with Facebook about adopting the 'ClickCeop' button is well documented - today however is a good day for child protection,' Jim Gamble, CEOP's chief executive, was quoted as saying.
Meanwhile, Facebook's head of communications in Britain, Sophy Silver, said the new application would integrate reporting to both Facebook and CEOP.
In addition to the reporting application, a new Facebook/CEOP page is being set up, with a range of topics that will be of interest to teenagers, such as celebrities, music and exams, and it will link these subjects to questions about online safety.
Underground subway systems are great for placing ads for two reasons: first, there are many people, and secondly, potential buyers are captured - whether waiting for a train or do not want to see them he must see the ad.See these excellent examples.
read more "10 creative ads on subway"
