http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7825476.stm

this news is regarding the shut off of the gas supply in russia, which in turn affected many other neighbouring countries.
i feel that Russia should not have resorted to such drastic measures even though i don't know what Ukraine did to anger Russia. By cutting off the gas supply, Russia puts many innocent citizen's lives in danger. Furthermore that simple action did not only affect one country, but several instead. It is the winter season and so many innocent people have to suffer in the cold because the gas supply is cut off. Such heartless behaviour is inconsiderate and selfish. i do hope ukraine can get the gas supply back as soon as possible, and hopefully the other countries would try to help them out of this sticky situation.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7818440.stm

it is hard to believe that no one in hongkong is able to keep the fishes alive.i'm sure there must be some marine doctors in hongkong who know the solution to the constant deaths of the sturgeons.in my opinion, it is really embarrasing to return gifts people give you,especially when the gift is a living thing at the brink of extinction, and it is actually dying soon. perhaps china should not have sent another 5 to hongkong when they heard the sturgeons were dying. if anything went wrong, they might have just aggravated the rate of extinction of the sturgeons. giving pets as gifts is definitely a wrong choice, it might just turn into a burden instead of a present.

http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4136,189238,00.html?

this article is regarding the stoppage of the Singapore Flyer.

the cause of the huge wheel stopping was actually a small fire. Its ironic and quite dumb if you think of it logically. How can a major tourist attraction fail to just one small flame? And as a result of the failure to design better quality cables, passengers on the Flyer were stuck up there for 7 hours.

many people laughed at the news, while others thought that the passengers might have felt angry. but if i were in the passengers' shoes, i would have felt blessed instead of feeling unlucky. how many times in your life would you get that rare opportunity to be lowered on harnesses and ropes from the top of the observation wheel? and as Mr Mohd said, he was not really worried for the passengers as most of them were smiling and giggling away when the wheel stopped for many hours.

i think everyone can learn a lesson from this incident. when we set our heart into making or doing something, we must look for every possible loophole, whether big or small. just because the wheel is so big, does not mean its invulnerable to small problems. if they had thought of this small and minute fault that could have happened, they might have created a backup system lest it really happens.