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Malay temple trustees furious at semi-dressed praying woman’s pics

August 19, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Kuala Lumpur, Aug 19 (ANI): Pictures of a semi-dressed young Caucasian woman supposedly praying at the Kek Lok Si Temple has left temple trustees furious.

The trustees have denied that the pictures, being circulated through an email, were shot inside their temple, and have claimed that it is the work of some mischievous people, who are trying to tarnish their name.

The 12 e-mail pictures show the young woman clad in a blouse and short skirt, exposing her panties and breasts while performing prayers.

Temple trustee Datuk Steven Ooi said that they were aware of the claims, but ruled out that the pictures were shot inside the temple.

“Someone is out to smear the good name of the temple, which is one of the state’s popular tourist attractions,” the Star Online quoted him as saying.

Ooi said that a comparison of the pictures with the temple’s internal and external features, including the Buddha statues, showed that they could not have been taken at the Kek Lok Si Temple.

“It is almost impossible for the woman to pull off such a stunt inside the temple because it is busy with visitors, nuns and monks most of the time,” he added.

Ooi said that the temple would not make a police report because they did not want to be dragged into a controversy. (ANI)

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Prehistoric man’s cave found in southwest China

May 9, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, May 9 (ANI): A group of construction workers have accidentally stumbled upon a prehistoric man’s cave underneath a Buddhist temple in southwest China’s Guizhou Province.

The stone structure, containing hundreds of mammal fossils and stone implements, was between 10,000 and 40,000 years old and presumably dated back either to the end of the Old Stone Age or the start of New Stone Age, according to Cai Huiyang, a top archaeologist with the Guizhou Provincial Museum.

“We hired the workers to relocate one of the Buddha statues at a donor’s suggestion last month,” said Sheng Guo, abbot of Simingdong Temple in Xiuwen County, in the northern suburbs of the provincial capital Guiyang.

After they removed the statue, the workers found a hole about the size of a rice bowl, and caught a snake about 6 cm thick.

“When they dug deeper, they found the stone cave and the fossils,” said Guo.

After two weeks of research at the site, Cai and his colleagues concluded it was a prehistoric residence of human beings, similar to that of the Peking Man found in Beijing early last century.

Before this major discovery, Cai said archaeologists had found pieces of similar animal fossils and stone implements near the temple.

“We’re conducting research to see whether the cave should be excavated further in search of human skeletons and other relics,” he said.

Guizhou is home to a number of heritage sites, including a prehistoric man’s cave in Panxian County that contains fossils of mammals, birds, fishes and a human tooth.(ANI)

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Afghanistan announces establishment of first national park

April 23, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, April 22 (ANI): Afghanistan’s National Environment Protection Agency (NEPA) has announced the establishment of the country’s first internationally recognized national park.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) provided key funding that led to the park’s creation, including support of Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) to conduct preliminary wildlife surveys, identify and delineate the park’s boundaries, and work with local communities and the provincial government.

WCS also developed the park’s management plan, helped the government hire and train local rangers, and provided assistance to the Afghan Government to design the laws enabling the park to be created.

The park, known as Band-e-Amir, will protect one of Afghanistan’s best-known natural areas: the spectacular series of six deep blue lakes separated by natural dams made of travertine, a mineral deposit.

Travertine systems are found in only a few places throughout the world, virtually all of which are on the UNESCO World Heritage list and are major international tourist attractions.

Band-e-Amir had been a destination for travelers since the 1950s, with a peak visitation in the 1970s. Tourism was almost entirely absent during the war years between 1979-2001.

Today, Band-e-Amir is visited every year by thousands of Afghan tourists and religious pilgrims as well as many foreigners currently living and working in the country.

The park is near the Bamyan Valley, where the 1,500-year-old giant Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban once stood.

“At its core, Band-e-Amir is an Afghan initiative supported by the international community. It is a park created for Afghans, by Afghans, for the new Afghanistan,” said Dr. Steven E. Sanderson, President and CEO of the Wildlife Conservation Society.

“Band-e-Amir will be Afghanistan’s first national park and sets the precedent for a future national park system,” he added.

Though much of the park’s wildlife has been lost, recent surveys indicate that it still contains ibex (a species of wild goat) and urial (a type of wild sheep), along with wolves, foxes, smaller mammals and fish, and various bird species including the Afghan snow finch, which is believed to be the only bird found exclusively in Afghanistan.

Creating the national park will provide international recognition essential to helping develop Band-e-Amir as an international tourist destination, and assist it in obtaining World Heritage Status, which would provide additional protection.

The park will provide employment, tourism-derived revenue, and ensure that local communities play a key role in protecting this world-class landscape. (ANI)

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