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Now this should make demands for endangered animals' organs reduced right?

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MEN can improve their fertility by eating a banana every three days, reported Sin Chew Daily.

Quoting a Singaporean urologist, the daily reported that the fruit can increase sperm count as it contains high level of magnesium to produce sperm cells.

Taking food like cashew nuts, potato, spaghetti and seafood will also have a similar effect, according to the doctor.

He advised men to avoid drinking alcohol, smoking, taking a hot shower or spending time in a sauna as these can affect the production of sperm.

The daily also reported that devotees have to wait for more than eight hours before they could seek blessings from spiritual adviser Master Kin Nam, whose followers include some Hong Kong superstars.

Some of them started queuing outside the temple in Bangkok since midnight on Friday.

They were only allowed to go into the temple at 6am before Master Kin Nam, popularly known as Bai Long Wang, who had just recovered from a lung infection attended to them about two hours later.

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Startup Lessons Learned From a 20-Year-Old CEO | BNET

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This girl got smarts and guts. Tons of lessons I could learn from here.

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Job performance and ambivalent thinking

I think the researcher need to also look at the work environment that the employer is creating. If the employer are risk tolerant, then the employee will be more willing to take chances and make decisions. Else they'll be at pains making up their mind and being productive. Me? I'm ambivalent no matter what environment I'm in. Kinda like "half empty" mindset?

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How Ambivalence Shades Your Thinking and Productivity

In the workplace, employees who are highly ambivalent about their jobs are more erratic in job performance; they may perform particularly well some days and poorly other times, says René Ziegler, a professor of social and organizational psychology at the University of Tübingen in Germany whose study of the subject is scheduled for publication in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology. Positive feedback for a highly ambivalent person, such as a pay raise, will boost their job performance more than for someone who isn't ambivalent about the job, he says. Read more at lifehacker.com

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Death to Poachers

I don't how much of the "killing" goes into the enforcement officers, customs officers and border patrolmen. I bet there's a lot.

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Smugglers and poachers generate RM90bil a year

A whopping US$30bil (RM90bil) in black money is generated annually from the poaching and smuggling of endangered wildlife and animal parts in countries in South-East Asia, according to the latest figures compiled by regional and international wildlife agencies.

Last month alone, more than 1.5 tonnes of tiger and elephant parts, tiger and leopard skins, ivory tusks, gall bladders and other wildlife were seized in Vietnam.

In Cambodia, more than 500kg of endangered animal parts were seized, more than 1,000 rare tortoises were confiscated alive in Thailand, 422 live clouded monitor lizards rescued from poachers in Johor, and in Singapore, three men were arrested for auctioning tiger parts, tiger skins and hedgehogs via the Internet. Read more at thestar.com.my

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Death to Poachers

I don't how much of the "killing" goes into the enforcement officers, customs officers and border patrolmen. I bet there's a lot.

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Smugglers and poachers generate RM90bil a year

A whopping US$30bil (RM90bil) in black money is generated annually from the poaching and smuggling of endangered wildlife and animal parts in countries in South-East Asia, according to the latest figures compiled by regional and international wildlife agencies.

Last month alone, more than 1.5 tonnes of tiger and elephant parts, tiger and leopard skins, ivory tusks, gall bladders and other wildlife were seized in Vietnam.

In Cambodia, more than 500kg of endangered animal parts were seized, more than 1,000 rare tortoises were confiscated alive in Thailand, 422 live clouded monitor lizards rescued from poachers in Johor, and in Singapore, three men were arrested for auctioning tiger parts, tiger skins and hedgehogs via the Internet. Read more at thestar.com.my

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More Troubles for Anwar

Good "aides" are hard to find these days. DSAI must stop picking young men as his aides. Hmm ... young men? I see a trend here.

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Men stop Anwar’s former assistant from talking to media

KLANG: Groups of men stormed a restaurant here and stopped a former aide of PKR leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim from talking to the press.

It was learnt that Rahimi had stated in the report that he was forced to sign two statutory declarations in 2008 implicating Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and his wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor in the sodomy case involving his friend Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan, who is also Anwar’s former aide.

It is believed that he had made a new statutory declaration yesterday to debunk his earlier two declarations. Klang OCPD ACP Mohamad Mat Yusop confirmed that Rahimi had lodged a report at the Klang police station.

Anwar’s aide in charge of Indian affairs K. Suresh Kumar, who was at the restaurant, accused Rahimi of trying to create chaos at a time when the PKR polls for the top posts were around the corner, and that he had been “paid” to make his allegations. Read more at thestar.com.my

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More Troubles for Anwar

Good "aides" are hard to find these days. DSAI must stop picking young men as his aides. Hmm ... young men? I see a trend here.

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Men stop Anwar’s former assistant from talking to media

KLANG: Groups of men stormed a restaurant here and stopped a former aide of PKR leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim from talking to the press.

It was learnt that Rahimi had stated in the report that he was forced to sign two statutory declarations in 2008 implicating Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and his wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor in the sodomy case involving his friend Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan, who is also Anwar’s former aide.

It is believed that he had made a new statutory declaration yesterday to debunk his earlier two declarations. Klang OCPD ACP Mohamad Mat Yusop confirmed that Rahimi had lodged a report at the Klang police station.

Anwar’s aide in charge of Indian affairs K. Suresh Kumar, who was at the restaurant, accused Rahimi of trying to create chaos at a time when the PKR polls for the top posts were around the corner, and that he had been “paid” to make his allegations. Read more at thestar.com.my

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