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Original Article:http://www.news.com.au/weird-true-freaky/artist-stephen-wiltshire-ready-to-dazzle-sydney-with-his-memory/story-e6frflri-1225858297785

A thirty six year old artist is able to draw cities by just taking a look at them for some minutes (by helicopter ride). Stephen Withshire will arrive in Australia to show his extrordinary drawings of this city. Stephen is 36 years old who was diagnosed with with autism when he was three. He has impressed many people around the world with his large scale drawing of Lodon. He took 5 days to finish 4 meters long paroma of England without any help. Before he starts to draw the two famous cities, he memorize position and size of hundred building and landscape. Lat october he completed a 5.5 meters drawin of New York City.

“I find it hard work to put in lots of information in just a few days,” he said.

“Sometimes it’s hard to remember because there’s lots of detail.

“My favourite is New York. They have the big avenues and lots of yellow taxi cabs. The traffic is chaotic and it’s full of people.”

He was discovered as an amazing artist when he was around five years old. An drawing is one of the way that he communicate with people around him.

In 2006, he was awarded an MBE for services to art by Prince Charles

Sharp Corp. will begin selling a touch-panel handheld device that can access to Internet and used as a electronic book reader.  Sharp’s NetWalker PC-T1, at just 2.1cm thick, is smaller than Amazon.com’s Kindle and Apple Inc.’s iPad, which both has a similar output.

The NetWalker has a 5-inch display, which is between the iPad’s 9.7-inch display and the iPhone’s 3.5-inch screen. However, it does not have phone or camera functions.

A publicity official at Sharp said that they want to develop the market for the midsized devices which is not covered by Apple or any other companies, and Sharp expects to produce 5000 units a month.

Original article:

http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201004200354.html

Recycling day is the name of the event this time. People find out their old clothes and then exchanged it to another one. This event was held in HCM parks. 8000 people were joined in this event. Surprisingly, 1000 people are more than last year.

People found out they are really excited with this event and they want it to happy more in the year. They consider others old clothes just as their new clothes. So that they don’t need to spend money to buy new stuffs anymore.

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/Environment/201004/Large-crowd-attends-Recycling-Day-to-increase-awareness-905471/

A national recored which was held last week with the joined of many famous singers in Vietnam such as Siu Black, Luu Thien Huong … to stand up and sing a song together to help and save the environment. 4000 peoples were also joined in this events.

This is a year of Tiger, so we need and supported to do some thing to help and save the amounts of tiger that are left in Vietnam. As we want to do this, we need to stop using products from tiger and wildlife animals. We need to save their habitat as not burning and cutting down trees. Those solutions are saying and to be made at the hottest topic on TV or Internet these days but questions us as “How many of us do care for the world and our future generations?”

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/Entertainment/201004/Enormous-chorus-says-’no’-to-illegal-wildlife-905457/

17 prostitutes were caught while they were doing their “business” in Ho Chi Minh city last week after nearly 2 months of finding enough information from the police.

There are plenty of the opinions if we should support this business or not. Guest comes to these karaoke or restaurants because they need request from SEX. But on the other hand, we are worried if HIV virus can be spread widely over the country.

In Singapore, there is one street called GeyLang which is  a red street where prostitutes can work freely.

Prostitution is a bad business, but people need to earn money and this is the last chance they can find their work so we should not think too bad about this.

The question for now is : ” Should Vietnam accept to have a street where prostitute can work legally?”

Original website :http://english.vietnamnet.vn/reports/201004/Prostitution-Should-Vietnam-fight-it-or-recognize-it-as-‘honest-work’-906150/

As we know, Korea is one of million nations in the world that is technologically advanced. Therefore it can’t be kept away from internet addicts…

There are many heart-rending cases and examples of this issue…Example,Lee Mi-hwa’s 15 year-old son stays on computer all night long without even touching food or homework. Isn’t that too much?! One of the newly uptaded news was about a couple whose 3-year-old child died because of starvation. The reason was that they were too busy with taking care of a “virtual” child on the Internet…

More than 90% have the Internet acess at home. PC rooms are available 24 hours. So how can we solve this issue?There are more and more horrifying cases but such incidients have warned the country to be more careful about gaming.

As Kim has announced: “In South Korea it’s easier for citizens to play online games than to invest in their offline personal relations through face-to-face conversations,” he added: “People are becoming growingly numb to human interaction.”

Original article:  http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/04/22/2010-04-22_south_korean_govt_2_million_addicted_to_the_internet.html#ixzz0lwIit4qJ

Oringinal Article:http://www.news.com.au/weird-true-freaky/man-gives-dead-possum-mouth-to-mouth/story-e6frflri-1225846260440

A man was found in a highway of Pennsylvania trying HARD to bring back life for a dead possum. The man name is Donald Wolfe, 55 years old. He was spotted out by the local police man around 3 pm, north of Pittsburgh.According to the news paper the state police arrested Wolfe along the highway and charged him with publice drunkness.

Trooper Jamie Levier said:” he was extremely intoxicated and did have his mouthe in the area of the animal’s mouth”

Wolfe will be fined with publice drunkness first before he is sent to court.

By just stumbling on Facebook one day, Capone Almon (mayor of East Haven, Connecticut) saw a status update from an acquaintance (Carlos Sanchez) who was not aware that it could change his life.

The two acquaintances only knew each other through friends in the area, but by just seeing Sanchez’s status which indicates that “his friends and relatives had all been tested and couldn’t donate a kidney”, it was quoted that Almon “just had a feeling she would be a perfect match. It was by only a doctor’s proposition that Sanchez had posted his private situation out to the public. He was rather nervous about how people might pity him.

At first, Sanchez would not believe how the mayor would offer her kidneys to him and thought that Almon was joking. As a response, Almon firmly secured Sanchez’s doubts by saying that she was serious and willingly to get tested.

After a long series of tests and explanation, the kidney transplant was successful. The surgeries were paid by insurance and both were released from the hospital in less than a week.

Original Article:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36700163/ns/us_news-wonderful_world/

The Mayor of East Haven - also known as the donor

Following the blockbuster 3D film ‘Avatar’, James Cameron – its director is planning for the second part to be in the ocean.

Cameron said that he wanted to create a different environment in Pandora besides the sky. He wants to concentrate on the rich, diversity and imaginative ocean on Pandora.

Because the budget along with the time spent on ‘Avatar’ was quite high and long, another goal is set which is reducing 25 percent in both categories.
Besides that, Cameron also mentioned the possibility for the third film of Avatar in space.

Original article:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36698664/ns/entertainment-access_hollywood/

Original article: http://www.news.com.au/technology/boy-kills-dad-with-sledgehammer-after-banned-from-playing-computer-games/story-e6frfro0-1225853471820

A fourteen years old boy killed his father with a slegdehammer in russia, after  is being told not to play video games anymore.  He bludgeoned his father while he was sleeping. According to authorities, the parents has taken away the keyboard as a punishment for him after he had played video games for a week.  At some point, the mother was so frightened and give him back the keyboard. The boy then play for a couple more of hour and falls as sleep, his mother then called the police.

Due to Russian law, he is old enough to be arrested. This boy is now being held in pre-trial detention.