Archive for February 6th, 2010
General Interest

Chinese television has shown live footage of the pandas' arrival
“Two pandas born in the US have arrived in China for the start of a new life. The pandas were born while the two sets of parents were on loan from China to US zoos. Loaned pandas and offspring must eventually return to China”
Entertainment

Leonard Cohen collapsed on stage last year
“Canadian singer Leonard Cohen has had to postpone his tour of Europe by six months due to a back injury, his spokesperson has said. Cohen, 75, has been told to undergo physiotherapy to help in his recovery, but it is still unclear how the back injury was caused”
International Crime

Gennady Pavluk often criticised the Kyrgyz government
Sitting in a dim corner of a coffee shop in central Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, Olga Kolosova is holding back her tears. ’I could not believe what had happened until I saw him in the hospital,’ she said. ’I was hoping until the very last moment that there was some kind of a mistake. But there was not”
Entertainment
Australian band Men At Work had two number one singles in the US





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