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Sunday, May 5, 2013
Saturday, May 4, 2013
Outgoing Alibaba CEO Ma says he's 'old' for Web
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) ? Alibaba founder Jack Ma, the billionaire who has run the Chinese e-commerce giant since 1999, says he's getting "a bit old" for the Internet.
That's what the outgoing chief executive told a charitable event in Santa Monica Thursday as he pledged $5 million toward a China-based fund that supports environmental conservation projects outside China.
"I'm young for new things but I'm a bit old for the Internet," the 48-year-old said.
Ma's gift doubles the amount raised for the China Global Conservation Fund, an offshoot of the Arlington, Va.-based organization, The Nature Conservancy.
Ma steps down as CEO from Alibaba Group on May 10, ahead of a widely expected initial public offering of stock that could create a windfall for Yahoo Inc., which owns nearly a quarter of the company.
Ma said that he prepared for his retirement for the last nine years and is looking forward to working on philanthropic causes such as environmental conservation.
He said he was inspired to act after visiting his home in China six years ago. A lake he nearly drowned in as a boy had mostly dried up. He also spoke to a farmer who used chemicals on produce that he wouldn't feed his family. "I know something is wrong," Ma said.
Ma will chair the Chinese board overseeing the fund once he steps down as CEO.
Associated PressFriday, May 3, 2013
Survivor Caramoan Episode 12 Recap ? The Double Boot!
We have a busy Survivor Caramoan reap of Episode 12 which featured a double-boot with two Tribal Councils. So let us begin on Night 30 as the gang returns to Camp Enil Edam after booting Malcolm. Reynold and Eddie are running out of allies and options. Cochran is plotting to take over The Game, ready to make some ?big moves? when needed. Day 31 and tree-mail arrives announcing another Immunity Challenge. The former ?Stealth? alliance is already targeting Reynold to be their next victim. The IC event is an endurance one. Each player must stand on a triangular perch off shore. Every 15 minutes, the players will move up to the next level until the third which is just 4 inches wide. Not only are the perches floating, making them unstable, but there is also a strong breeze that is gusting, too. There is also a reward for the winner, a clue to the hidden immunity idol. Shortly after they begin, Jeff Probst offers a bribe of milk and donuts. Eddie and Erik bailout. After 15 minutes, the rest move up to the second level of the perches. Jeff offers another bribe, hotdogs and soda pop, which Cochran goes for. [...]
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Thursday, May 2, 2013
Taliban kill senior peace envoy in south Afghanistan
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban fighters killed a senior member of Afghanistan's peace council on Wednesday, officials said, dealing another blow to nascent peace efforts with the insurgency.
President Hamid Karzai formed a 70-member High Peace Council in 2010 in a bid to reach a peace settlement with the insurgents, but little has been achieved, with the Taliban saying they will not talk with the Afghan government.
Malim Shahwali, the council's chief in the southern province of Helmand, was traveling to the violence-plagued Gereshk district when insurgents ambushed his convoy, said the provincial governor's spokesman, Omar Zwak.
"First an explosion hit his convoy and then the Taliban gunmen opened fire, killing Malim Shahwali and two bodyguards," Zwak told Reuters.
Three policemen and an Afghan soldier were wounded, Zwak said.
The attack came a day after three British soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb attack in Helmand.
In 2011, a suicide bomber disguised as a peace envoy killed the then chairman of the peace council, former president Burhanuddin Rabbani.
In May last year, gunmen in Kabul assassinated Arsala Rahmani, a former Taliban minister turned peace negotiator.
Helmand, which is the largest producer of opium in Afghanistan, has been the scene of the some of the fiercest fighting between NATO-led foreign forces and their Afghan government allies and the Taliban.
Fear is mounting that Afghanistan could be engulfed in turmoil after the pullout of most NATO combat troops by the end of 2014. A presidential election is also due that year.
NATO and its partners are training Afghanistan's 350,000-strong security forces, though questions remain over how well the Afghans will be able to tackle the insurgency.
Last week, the Taliban vowed to start a new campaign of suicide attacks on foreign military bases, diplomatic areas as well as the "Karzai regime" as part of their spring offensive.
(Reporting by Mohammad Sarwar; Writing by Hamid Shalizi; Editing by Robert Birsel)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/taliban-kill-senior-peace-envoy-south-afghanistan-101446429.html
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