Posted by: ronakorn on: September 17, 2009
A boxer with a prominent under-bite, scrunched face and floppy ears has been named the world’s ugliest dog. Pabst, a boxer-mix, won the annual World’s Ugliest Dog contest at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Northern California. The dog, who was rescued from a shelter by Miles Egstad of Citrus Heights, California, beat former champion Rascal, a [...]
Posted by: ronakorn on: September 14, 2009
German anatomists plan a new show dedicated solely to dead bodies having sex as part of the Body Worlds exhibitions. Gunther von Hagens and his wife Angelina Whalley show corpses prepared using a technique invented by von Hagens called “plastination,” that removes water from specimens and preserves them with silicon rubber or epoxy resin. “It’s [...]
Posted by: ronakorn on: September 14, 2009
While much of the fun of traveling revolves around new experiences, even the most adventurous explorers may draw the line at trying certain foods. Proving that one man’s winged rat is another man’s pricey appetizer, members and editors of travel website VirtualTourist.com have come up with a list of 10 of the world’s most unusual [...]
Posted by: ronakorn on: March 7, 2009
Delegates from the World Health Organization (WHO) joined ASEAN tobacco-controlling organizations’ representatives to seek measures to prevent interference in cigarette-controlling policy. A joint meeting took place on February 27. ASEAN delegates included countries such as Japan, Mongolia and the Philippines. Strategies were set so that they would reach the goal of preventing government agencies from [...]
Posted by: ronakorn on: January 1, 2009
The number of Thai children who develop diabetes tends to increase more at the rate of 200 per day, according to the public health ministry. Dr. Praj Boonyavongviroj, permanent secretary for public health, said diabetes disease is becoming the health problem worldwide. It tends to become more serious since more patients, especially children and youths, [...]
