Meet the 10-yr-old who is CEO of two companies and a lecturer!

November 10th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Companies committing fraud can find innovative ways to fudge numbers, making it hard to detect wrongdoing. But researchers have unveiled a new warning system that sees through such sharp practices by evaluating things that are easily verifiable, namely the number of employees or the area that a company owns.

September 29th, 2009 BEIJING - The annual prime ministers' meet of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will be held in Beijing Oct 14, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu announced here Tuesday. The leaders from Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, the SCO observer countries and other relevant countries would be attending the meet.

September 28th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Explorer and mountain climber Sir Edmund Hillary might have died more than 18 months ago, but he has still topped a list of the greatest living New Zealander. Officially, according to the Research New Zealand poll, former prime minister Helen Clark topped the list of 500 people, followed by All Black legend Sir Colin Meads and Olympic triple gold medallist Sir Peter Snell.

September 18th, 2009 Obama to meet Japan's new prime minister at UNWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will meet Japan's new leader for the first time at the United Nations next week. U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice said that Obama will meet Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama on Wednesday.

September 3rd, 2009 SYDNEY - Indian minister Sri Prakash Jaiswal is in Australia to search for "some foreign coal" so that his country's energy needs are met. Jaiswal, who is India's minister of state for coal, has visited coal mines in New South Wales and Queensland.

August 14th, 2009 MELBOURNE - A law lecturer at Melbourne's Victoria University is alleged to have solicited and received "bribes in the form of sexual favours and money from some female Asian international students" to improve their marks, a media report said Friday. The 46-year-old is later believed to have taken his own life, apparently overdosing on prescription drugs at his home at Footscray here, The Australian reported.

August 13th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Notwithstanding the sour relationship between both countries, at least 25,000 companies of India and Pakistan are engaged in mutual trade. According to Pakistan's Trade Ministry, 2656 Indian companies traded with Pakistan amounting to deals worth 8.92 billion rupees.

August 13th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - At least 25,000 Pakistani and Indian companies traded goods worth Rs.74.32 billion ($900 million) last year, the National Assembly, the lower house of Pakistan's parliament, was informed Thursday. According to figures furnished by the trade ministry, 2,656 Indian companies traded goods worth Rs.8.92 billion with Pakistani companies, while 22,943 Pakistani companies had Rs.65.32 billion of trade with India, Geo TV reported.

July 19th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - An Indian lecturer-turned-street magician in Malaysia says that he keeps churning out new tricks all the time to gain the satisfaction he gets when he sees the smiles of his audience. A.C. Vasanth, 34, has been at his mesmerising best at the KLCC over the past few days, performing his "number guessing" and "money changing" tricks.

July 15th, 2009 Sharm-el-SHEIKH - Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon and his Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir, who met here late Tuesday, will meet once again Wednesday before the prime ministers of the two countries hold talks, official sources said. Holding out the possibility that the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Yousuf Raza Gilani would perhaps meet the press together after their talks Thursday morning, sources here said that the two foreign secretaries held one-on-one discussions for 90 minutes.

June 25th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has arrested a lecturer of a private international university who allegedly demanded sex and money from his students in return for better grades. The man in his 40s who lectures in Cyberjaya was nabbed after a victim complaint to the MACC, reports the Star Online.

June 23rd, 2009 LONDON - In the first sign of a public reaction against Silvio Berlusconi, three social sciences academics have urged wives of the world leaders due to attend next month's G8 summit in Italy to boycott the meeting because of the Italian premier's "sexist" and "offensive" attitude to women. Although the Italian Prime Minister's wife will not be hosting as she is seeking a divorce, a number of wives, including Sarah Brown and Michelle Obama, are to join their husbands at the summit.

May 28th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - In a startling revelation, about 30 years after it actually happened, it has been disclosed how a young woman, who was betrayed by a nuclear scientist, helped the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to nab 12 scientists and engineers, who were planning to sabotage the country's nuclear sites. The story dates back to 1978 when Pakistan was trying hard to join the list of nuclear countries.

May 18th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - Indian temples in Malaysia should conduct religious classes for schoolchildren on their premises, Ipoh Teachers Training Institute lecturer I. Manirajan has said.

May 7th, 2009 LONDON - Ranting Islamic hate preacher Anjem Choudary is planning to peddle his hate to teenagers at a "jihad" summer school. According to the Daily Star, this vile extremist has appointed himself principal lecturer of a 20-week course in his twisted version of Islam, and there are fears that Choudary and his followers will indoctrinate a new generation of Muslim fanatics.