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According to a poll in Hong Kong, Jackie Chan movie star has been voted one of the least trustworthy Hong Kong personalities.
Chan, 56 who stunned his home city last year by saying Chinese people needed to be controlled and too much freedom might harm China, finished behind Beijing – appointed Tsang, who ranked 77th out of 80 in most trusted poll.
The least trusted profession was fortune teller, the poll found, following a celebrated case in which a feng shui master tried unsuccessfully to claim the $13-billion fortune of Asia`s richest woman Nina Wang using an allegedly forged will.
The most trusted professions in the poll were firefighters, medical technicians, doctors, physiotherapists, pharmacists and dentists.
Thousands of firefighters and other rescue members searched house by house for trying to help those who still stranded by a storm that smashed sea walls and killed at least 62 people across western Europe.
Storm called Xynthia blew into France early Sunday with hurricane-force winds, flooding ports, destroying homes and leaving 1 million households without electricity. Storm affected many places like Belgium, Portugal, Spain and parts of Germany.
Nicolas Sarkozy French President toured the worst-hit areas Monday, the coastal regions of Vendee and Charente-Maritime, and pledged euro3 million ($4 million) in emergency aid.
Regional officials clamored for France to quickly reinforce its aging sea walls. About half the French death toll of 51 was attributed to the breach of the sea wall off the coastal town of L'Aiguillon-sur-Mer, where ocean waters surged up to the roofs of some homes.
A new survey has made a shocking discovery that schoolgirls as young as ten are getting pregnant.
A 'Freedom of Information' survey conducted by the Sun shows that in the last eight years, 15 girls of 10 and 39 aged 11 were found to be expecting. Also, around 300 aged 13 or under get pregnant every year in England and Wales. And since 2002 there have been 63,487 pregnancies among under-15s almost 23 every day.
Frank Furedi Sociology Professor from the University of Kent said, "They show the consequences of the sexualisation of childhood."
Also, Norman Wells, of the Family Education Trust, added: "There are far too many schools telling children they are entitled to become sexually active when it is "right for them"."
Anastasia de Waal, of the British think tank Civitas, said, "We have kids behaving as adults, not realising the complications. Often the girls feel they have to have sex to please their older boyfriends."
The youngest girl reported to be pregnant in the UK gave birth aged 12.
According to a survey, “Pretty Woman” the 1990 romance starring Roberts and Richard Gere is in the top spot in a list of favourite V’Day movies.
Film critic Barry Norman said: "What develops here is a modern-day fairy tale, a cross between Pygmalion and Cinderella for a raunchier age, an endearing love story in which masculine and feminine wish fulfilment are made celluloid."
‘Four Weddings And A Funeral’, with Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell, took second place for both genders, reports The Mirror.
Other films in the list were ‘When Harry Met Sally’, ‘Some Like It Hot’ and ‘Amelie.’
Recently, Australia cancel 20,000 visa applications from foreign nationals including Indians.
The changes which will be unveiled on Monday will see 20,000 current applications binned as a result of an overhaul of the list that identifies occupations in demand and awards points on the basis of professional qualifications of the applicants.
State governments will develop a new migration plans and a new list will be prepared to define occupations in demand in the country.
The cancelled applications apply to all offshore general skilled migration claims lodged before September 2007. Refunding 20,000 visa applications will cost taxpayers about $14 million.
If foreign graduates fail to find an employer willing to sponsor their applications, they will have to return to their country of origin.
Chris Evans, immigration minister said, “has been delivering self-nominated migrants from a narrow range of occupations with poor to moderate English language skills who struggle to find employment in their nominated occupation".
Evans also acknowledged the unscrupulous migration agents in the country.
He said, "These (agents) have been misleading many international students into believing that a course in Australia will give them an automatic entitlement to permanent residence, It does not, and it will not".
He added, "The government supports skilled migration and continues to want migrants, "Be they from India, the United Kingdom or China - our three largest source countries or elsewhere".
Evans said, "We want skilled migrants on terms that work both for Australia and for the migrants themselves. We need a program with integrity and direction,"
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