Like all festivities, Chinese New Year is no different. You invite friends over for a good meal and drinks, and vice versa. The challenge is how do you keep up with the widening circle of friends accumulated in the course of your business and work. Next is how do you ensure that you are able to keep up with all the feasting and yet stay fit. It's just as well as today is Ash Wednesday, as it means having to fast and abstain. So we get a break in-betweeen the sometime senseless nibbling away at the food and cookies spread out from day to night.
But amid all the celebrations, it is interesting to read about how a senior Hamas commander was assissinated in Dubai. The operation, according to accounts in the newspaper, was apparently carried out with the precision of an well-organized body, with the assailants coming from different countries disguised as tourists. No doubt the finger is pointed at the Mossad. It's killing like these that no one claims responsibility unlike those terror acts carried out by the extremists where they would proudly raise their hands to own up their deeds. But while one deputy leader was killed another was captured by US and Pakistan forces. The Taleban denied their leader was captured though the captors are beating their chests to bare their success. Amid all these fireworks in the international arena, a lesser known leader in Sri Lanka is facing trial for purported acts of treason. Fonseka, who lost in the war-ravaged island's presidential race recently, was a new twist to the otherwise happy ending to the years of struggle between the Colombo government and the Tamil Tiger insurgents. Meanwhile, the world is waiting with bated breath on the release of Aung Sung Su Kyi by the Burmese military junta, as neighbouring Thailand's court grapples with its delibrations on whether there's case to confiscate Thaksin billions. Indeed, there's so much happening around the world politically that economic events have to take a back seat.
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