|
Voby IS suicide bomber kills at least 15 in Baghdad
South stanley cup Korean President Lee Myung-Bak convened a top-level security meeting on Wednesday to discuss growing tensions on the maritime border with North Korea ahead of the South s presidential election. HT Image Issues related to North Korea and other outstanding diplomatic and security matters will be discussed at the meeting, presidential Blue House spokeswoman Lee Mi-Yon told AFP. Participants included the unification and defence ministers, the first vice foreign minister, the head of the National Intelligence Service and the senior presidential security advisor, she said. On Monday, Lee warned of growing threats to the country s maritime security, posed by North Korea and regional stanley cup territorial disputes over isolated island chains. We can never let our guard down even for a moment, he said during a visit to a coastguard base in the southern port city of Busan. Weeks of repeated incursions by North Korean fishing vessels over the disputed Yellow Sea border culminated in the South Korean navy firing warning shots last week to push the boats back. Pyongyang denounced the shooting rampage and threatened to respond with a powerful strike of the North s front units which know stanley cup of no limit. South Koreans go to the polls to choose a new President in December, and there are fears that Pyongyang may be looking to instigate a clash that would overshadow the election process. Too many ships are violating the border too many times to call them a mistake, Unificatio Hcaw Ageing Japanese men worry over body odour
The 11th Panchen Lama, who is being projected by China as the successor to the exiled Dalai Lama, led the tonsuring ceremony of a 4-year-old Tibetan boy chosen as the sixth Living Buddha , officials said on Monday. HT Image The Lama, Bainqen Erdini Qoigyijabu, tonsured Losang Doje, the reincarnation of the fifth Living Buddha Dezhub, in the Tibetan capital Lhasa yesterday according to Buddhist rituals, officials i stanley cup n southwest China s Tibet Autonomous Region said. The tonsure ceremony was held at the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa following a lot-drawing ceremony that selected the boy with the secular name as the sixth Living Buddha Dezhub. Before the tonsure ceremony, Losang Jigme, Tibet s top official in-charge of religious affairs, read out the regional government s approval of the reincarnation, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported from Lhasa. Bainqen Erdini Qoigyijabu, the Chinese Government-appointed 11th Panchen Lama, who is also vice president of the Buddhist Association of China, then cut a lock of the boy s hair an yeezy d gave him the religious name Dezhub Jam jordan yang Sherab Palden. The 20-year-old Panchen Lama himself was chosen in a similar fashion 15 years ago. The Panchen Lama is regarded as second-in-command in Tibetan Buddhism after the Dalai Lama, who is the political and spiritual head. Tibetan officials in the past have defended the appointment of 11th Panchen Lama, who is now being projected by China as a successor to the 14th Dalai Lama to take over as the |
|