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Stop Anti-Chinese Activities

Nepal, as a landlocked country, has its own specialties. The specialties are both the possibilities and the challenges for the nation. Nepal, due to its geographical location, itself is the combination of the challenges and the possibilities.

Nepal has adapted the foreign polity based on the five principles of co-existence and mutual benefit. Therefore, Nepalese are conscious and aware about the activities against the neighboring countries like china and India.

India from the same measurement and the same level of understanding. Protest against India is due to the big-brother behave and incessant interference in the internal affairs of Nepal, whether it is political, cultural, diplomatic or the boarder encroachment. But, on the other hand, the protest against China is an artificial and imposed by the Imperialist America and the expansionist India because of their enmity with china.

(Source:The Red Star ,Nepal)

WHO meet next week (Nepal news)

KATHMANDU, Sept 5 - A Southeast Asian regional meeting of the World Health Organisation (WHO) will be held in Kathmandu from Sunday.

Health ministers from 11 WHO member states--Bangladesh, Bhutan, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, India, Indonesia, the Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thiland and Timor Leste--will attend the four-day meet. They will discuss key health issues

confronting the states and explore and work out ways to tackle the issues

together.

Speaking at a function, Dr. Alex Andjaparidze said the health ministers will share the national experiences in the social and political dimensions of health and highlight the burning issues confronting each member country. The meet will also focus on  pandemic influenza preparedness, the issue of climate change and its impact on human health.

(source:ekantipur)

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Mass Vaccination Hubs Are Part of D.C. Swine Flu Plan

 

By Michael Laris

Washington Post staff writer
Saturday, September 5, 2009

District officials said Friday that they are working to set up mass vaccination centers, potentially at city recreation centers, as part of a broad push to minimize the number of people sickened by swine flu this fall and beyond.

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A network of doctor offices, schools, clinics and hospitals is also being put together for the vaccinations. The city will update its flu Web site with case counts and recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and it is preparing radio and TV spots.

"We're a lot further than we were just a few short weeks ago. And we're monitoring what other states are doing to make sure we're not missing anything," D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty said, adding that city preparations are "on par" with what he has seen elsewhere.

Fenty (D) appealed to business owners to be far-sighted about encouraging employees to stay home if they are sick, even if that means taking a financial hit. "Being very proactive at the beginning will save businesses a lot of money," he said.

Spotlighting some of the high-risk groups that will get priority when the vaccine is released -- it is expected in October -- Fenty and other officials outlined the city's plans outside Mary's Center, a maternal and child health clinic in Adams Morgan. Clinic doctors in the District and in Silver Spring provide 19,500 immunizations a year.

"This may be nothing, and yet it may be big," said Mark R. Fracasso, the center's vice president of medicine.

racasso met this week to discuss strategy with D.C. health officials and doctors from clinics across the city. As cases of swine flu prompt more residents to seek care or vaccinations, officials and physicians don't want hospitals to be inundated. "We're going to be the first line," Fracasso said.

Pierre Vigilance, director of the D.C. Department of Health, said officials want residents' own doctors to handle the bulk of the vaccinations if possible. Higher-risk groups will get the initial shots or nose sprays, with the general population to follow.

But for the significant numbers of people who don't have access to medical care, large-scale vaccination sites will be in place. Schools will be used, and Vigilance said recreation centers are being considered.

"They are relatively large, they have been strategically located around the city, they have gymnasiums" big enough to handle crowds, Vigilance said, "so you could get a lot of people taken care of."

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Microsoft gets Reprieve in MS Word Case

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In an expected move, a federal appeals court has given in to Microsoft's request for a stay order on an earlier injunction that would have barred the software giant from selling some versions of MS Word from Oct. 10 onwards. The injunction would have prevented Microsoft from selling Word 2003 and Word 2007 in their current forms after Oct. 10, as ordered by U.S. District Court Judge Leonard Davis on Aug. 11, after the company was found guilty of infringing a patent held by Canadian software developer i4i.

On Aug. 18, Microsoft filed a motion to stay the injunction while it took the case to appeal.

Both parties are expected to face-off on Sept. 23 in front of the Court of Appeals, after which the court will come out with a final decision.

Source: CXOtoday.com

Nepal's new Cyber Law

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Nepal's new Cyber Law   Nepal passed The Electronic Transaction and Digital Signature Act 2004, also known as Cyber law, but is the legislation strong enough?   The Cyber Law received royal assent from His Majesty King Gyanendra last week. The law is forecasted to be a landmark legislation for the development of IT industry in Nepal.   Conducts such as hacking, deleting data, stealing e-document, software piracy and posting defamatory information are capable of criminal and civil sanctioning under the new Cyber law. The government can punish cyber offenders with up to five years of imprisonment and/or a fine of up to Rs.50, 000. However, much depends on the severity of the crime.   Before the Cyber Law was passed, the government dealt with cyber crimes under the Public Offence Act.   The law has tightened the security for banking transactions through electronic means, which should boost the economic activities across the Internet via Nepal. The law has also made a new judicial body to listen to complaints, cases and matters concerning cyber crime.   Before the law was passed, Nepal Police dealt with all cyber crime related matters but they were not aware about the technical aspect of the cyber crime, which meant that the sanctions were not effective and relative to the crime.   This is the first Cyber Law in Nepal. Previously there were no clear provisions to regulate online cyber law but the introduction of the new Cyber Law by the Government will allow it to introduce new provisions under the Act in order to control and regulate the criminal activities apparent in Nepal's cyber environment.

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