The global internet trade is increasingly making our lives easier in purchasing gadgets and other products online.

These days everything has gone hi-tech.

Everything seems to be within one’s reach in the Internet. Websites are created to post different products for review. The long hours of preparing to go to the a nearby store has been reduced.

The Tibetan riots have been a miserable experience for those who have been deeply hurt and injured by the way they were treated by Chinese authorities.

Women who expressed their sentiments in the rallies against China, along with the monks, have been victimized by cruelty and curtailment of their freedom of expression.

Somalia remains one of the chaotic nations in the world where peace seems to hide its face away from the African nation. With the Islamist rebels gaining control of the country, I wonder how the crisis is being handled by its government. When will the riots and killings end?

What the news on Somalia shows to the viewers is that protection even to its government officials has gone out of bounds. In this case, what security awaits the ordinary citizens who are unarmed to defend themselves?

With Kenya’s post-election violence still underway, it is a saddening reality that families are being broken due to several abductions, burning of houses and other human rights violations. It seems Kenya remains in a desperate situation and its government hopeless in responding to the needs of the people.

It seems Indian farmers are deeply in need of its government’s attention as millions are trying to end their lives due to poverty and inability to pay their loans.

Many reported cases of debt-ridden farmers drinking low-cost variety of hair dye to simply end their misery are an example of these people who struggle the trying times in India’s remote areas. But authorities have already ordered not to sell cheap hair dyes to the farmers.

As the 2010 national poll in the Philippines nears, ousted President Joseph Estrada is determined to be visible again. But this time, he will not be a running candidate but a supporter of who will top the surveys as the next president.

Whoever he or she will be, the former president will give his 100-percent support and personally campaign him or her toward his or her landslide victory. The fortunate candidate will be asked to be the standard bearer of the opposition.

Everything we eat, do and think about has an impact on our health. As we look for ways to fight a wide range of diseases, the American Association for Cancer Research 2008 Annual Meeting suggested that continuous engaging in bad habits like drinking and eating fatty foods may lead to cancer, melanoma or other diseases.

Bangladesh is terribly in hot water as the protest for gender equality is underway. Hundreds are currently experiencing the lashes of the patriarchal system of male dominance over women.