Tuesday, November 15, 2005 In a move aimed at hampering the near-daily bombing attacks in southern Thailand, all owners of prepaid phones are required to register by midnight local time today or face being blocked. Originally scheduled for implementation at the end of last year, the move was deferred to allow people more time to…
Rosemary Cousin, Greens candidate in South Gippsland, Australia, speaks to Wikinews about democracy, transport, forests and other local issues
Sunday, October 3, 2021 Nominations were declared on September 21 for South Gippsland Shire’s upcoming council elections, to be held by post from October 5-22. A total of 24 people in the Australian council’s three wards have put themselves forward to stand as candidates. The shire has been governed by administrators appointed by the Victorian…
Can The Lemon Detox Diet Help Obese Men Lose Weight?
Read More About: Gastric Sleeve Cost California Can the Lemon Detox Diet Help Obese Men Lose Weight? by Pluto Becks The idea that the reason why so many men today are obese is because they are lazy and have no willpower is absurd. How could we possibly have progressed in the last thirty years from…
Canadian government faces elections speculation
Sunday, March 18, 2007 Talks of an election are beginning to rise again in the media as Canada’s Conservatives rallied last night in Toronto. Conservative MPs came to the two day event in Toronto for a training session. It was a campaign-style event with about 5,000 party supporters. During the event, the Prime Minister talked…
Bank of America leads Consumer Financial Protection Bureau complaints about mortgages
Thursday, October 3, 2013 A review this week by Wikinews of US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) complaints about mortgages in the United States shows Bank of America leads all lending institutions in complaints. Since mortgages complaints were recorded in December 2011, 77,622 total have been added to CFPB’s database. 29.2% of these complaints involved…
New Year, New You: Losing The Weight For Good
Read More About: Gastric Sleeve California New Year, New You: Losing the Weight for Good by JonathanTrott2k1 If your weight problem falls in the category of obesity rather than a few extra pounds, the typical New Years resolution of getting trim through diet and exercise probably seems daunting and with good reason. Practically speaking, it…
Wikinews interviews candidate for Cleveland mayor Arthur Kostendt
Monday, June 14, 2021 Arthur Oliver Kostendt, a candidate running in the mayoral election of the US city of Cleveland, Ohio set to take place November 2, discussed his campaign and policies with Wikinews this spring. According to Cleveland Scene, 29-year-old Kostendt is a member of the Cuyahoga County, Ohio Republican Party but has referred…
Online buyers conned by fake Olympics ticket web sites
Thursday, August 7, 2008 Two web sites purporting to sell tickets to the 2008 Summer Olympic Games due to open in Beijing, China on Friday have been the subject of lawsuits from the International Olympic Committee in United States courts in recent weeks. The web sites, beijingticketing.com and beijing-2008tickets.com, were designed to resemble official sites…
Wikinews interviews Anda Banikos, local council candidate in South Gippsland, Australia
Wednesday, September 15, 2021 Since June 2019, the people of South Gippsland Shire, located at the southernmost tip of Australia, have been without a local council, after a state government inquiry found “high levels of tension” within the council. Administrators were appointed by the Victorian state government in July 2019, who have governed the shire…
Buyer’s Remorse And How To Short Circuit It
Read More About: Real Estate Agency Bald Hills By Kenrick Cleveland It’s human nature to want to believe that we have done something of value when we make a purchase. We like to feel we’ve used proper sense and keen determination in choosing things that are going to be good for us and of the…