| Wed, 10 Mar 2010 Suburban doctor visits Haitian orphanage
| Dr. Mona Khanna, an Oakbrook Terrace physician and Northwestern University journalism graduate, is in Haiti working on relief efforts in the wake of the earthquake there. | Khanna, 44, is working with a team from AMURT, an international volunteer disaster-relief group... | Ask Tom: your travel dilemmas answered
| Lonely Planet's Tom Hall answers your questions on worldwide travel. This week: is Colombia really a safe destination and can you do Cairo in a day? | for help planning your next trip | Fresh grounds ... a Colombian coffee plantation, near Armenia. The interior has op... | The ecological case for ebooks
| Should you be getting an e-reader for the planet's sake? I'd always thought not, but a new study has made me think again | A paper mill in Pangkalan Kerinci, Sumatra. Photograph: Sebastien Blanc/AFP | The recent announcement that is further proof (as if any were neede... | Taipei's elegant new boutique art hotel - Hotel Eclat
| Discreetly located in a quiet part of Taipei’s most fashionable district, Da-An, is Hotel Eclat, an eclectic, elegant new boutique art hotel which is the first new luxury hotel to open in the city for many years. | The French word “Eclat” literally m... | Climate Goal Is Supported by China and India
| WASHINGTON -- China and India formally agreed Tuesday to join the international climate change agreement reached in December in Copenhagen, the last two major economies to sign up. | The two countries, among the largest and fastest-growing sources of greenhouse gas em... | Seminar on natural resources and environment in October 2010
SOIL, WATER and vegetation are the three basic natural resources. The survival of God’s creation depends upon them and nature has provided them as assets to human beings. The management of natural resources to meet people’s requirements has been practiced si... | The people's king
| The young Crown Prince of Norway Haakon Magnus rules with heart and humility. | startwo@thestar.com.my | DURING the oil crisis in 1975, the then reigning Norwegian King Olav V, at the grand old age of 80, was photographed paying for a ticket to ride the tram with his ... | |
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