[An Nahar] A Chinese boss ordered nine employees to do his 12-year-old daughter's homework, a report said, as office tyranny meshed with a parent's desire to see his child score well in the competitive school system.
"The leader said, 'Do some homework, it will be like practising'," one of the suffering subordinates told the Qianjiang Evening News.
The boss in the eastern city of Jinhua, whose name and organisation were not given, regularly asked workers to do maths problems and build small models, typically requiring two people to work overtime to finish the assignments.
But over the Chinese New Year holiday, an assignment to show changes in one's home town required nine people to paint pictures, take photos, produce a video and write an essay.
The employees said they tried to imitate the work of an elementary school student, making the quality lower than if adults had done it.
One of them, a 35-year-old man surnamed Wang, said he put himself in the mind of a young girl to write the essay. "I forced myself into an imaginary state," he said.
The report did not mention any repercussions for the child or her father. But one teacher told the newspaper: "This has completely deviated from the original intent (of the assignment)."
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Allah sends yet another sign to the followers of the mad Mullahs.
An earthquake measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale jolted a region in the neighborhood of Northern Khorasan province and Terkmenistan on Thursday, IRNA reported.
According to a report by seismological center of Tehran University Geophysics Institute, the epicenter of the quake was located in an area at 38.10 degrees latitude and 57.58 degrees longitude.
There is no immediate report on possible damage or casualty.
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Mmmm, Where's Meccah located.
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I blame the Halliburton - Schlumberger cabal and beyond earth core fracking.
[Egypt Independent] The Finance Ministry's recent proposal to rent out the country's key monuments, including the pyramids in Giza, to fund the current deficit in state budget has outraged archaeologists, cultural activists and the Ministry of State of Antiquities.
Adel Abdel Sattar, the secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said in an interview on Wednesday with the privately owned ONTV channel that he often gets proposals for overseas exhibits, where selected objects are loaned under specific guidelines. "But is it possible that we rent our monuments? ... This is our heritage, our roots."
He explained that earlier this month he received a request from the Finance Ministry to study a proposal to rent out monuments, such as the Giza pyramids, the Sphinx, the Abu Simbel Temple and the temples of Luxor, to international tourism companies as part of a usufruct arrangement from three to five years. The request stated that this could generate up to US$200 billion in revenue for the state.
The proposal letter, which Egypt Independent obtained a copy of, verifies that the religious website "Al-Ketab al-Mounir" (The Enlightened Book) emailed the Finance Ministry the proposition made by one of its intellectuals named Abdallah Mahfouz as a "quick solution to the current financial crisis our beloved Egypt is undergoing."
The proposal did not indicate a specific country or company behind the offer, and mentioned no details of what the usufruct agreement might entail, apart from specifying the heritage sites and monuments of interest and the lucrative amount of US$200 billion.
Despite his objection to the proposal, Abdel Sattar opted to get official legal consultancy from the Ministry of State of Antiquities. Based on that, he called for a meeting with the council's board. The legal advice from the ministry suggested that heritage sites are owned by the state, and profits from them are public funds that may not be exploited through a usufruct arrangement.
The board unanimously refused the offer and sent their response to the Finance Ministry on 26 February.
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The legal advice from the ministry suggested that heritage sites are owned by the state, and profits from them are public funds that may not be exploited through a usufruct arrangement.
from Late Latin ûsûfrûctus, from Latin ûsus use + frûctus enjoyment - u·su·fruct (yz-frkt, -s-)
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The right to use and enjoy the profits and advantages of something belonging to another as long as the property is not damaged or altered in any way.
I had never seen nor heard the word usufruct, so I'd like to pass on the above information along for those like me.
Good Day.
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Thanks for another Rantburg U. session.
"But is it possible that we rent our monuments? ... This is our heritage, our roots."
It's a more palatable option than the one your religious fanatics will offer.
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Renting them means that more icky infidels would be in Egypt, both to view the monuments and to service/protect them. Plus the rent money would disappear to be seen again only in a Swiss or Cayman bank.
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If the Copts were both devious and smart, they'd quietly move from Cairo and Alexandria, where they live for the most part, into the northern Sinai. It'd take a while but they could establish themselves. Do it without raising much suspicion. Then when they have enough of their people there, they make a grab for independence and invite the Israelis in for protection -- a 'mutual defense' treaty or some such.
The Muslim world would holler and squeal but so what? The Copts would have a homeland -- not much of one in the beginning but I suspect they're as industrious as the Joooz, so in time the Sinai would bloom. Boot the Arabs, let the Bedouin wonder about so long as they're peaceful, and build a country.
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Who's to say they aren't already trying that? For all we know they're now in contact with South Sudan, looking for advice.
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[Egypt Independent] Egypt's churches have called for more accurate representation of the Coptic population in the census.
"Statistics in Egypt are inaccurate," said Evangelical Church spokesperson Ikram Lamei. "Officials often use figures to serve political or security purposes."
The last census, conducted in the 1980s, counted 2.8 million Copts.
"The church objected to it at the time, and said Copts constitute 8 to 10 percent of the population," Lamei noted.
Father Salib Matta of the Mar Girgis Church in Shubra called on the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) to be more precise. "They like to reduce the size of the Coptic population, though everyone knows the true percentage," he said. Roman Catholic Bishop Adel Zaki agreed with Matta's statement.
A CAPMAS report on Wednesday said the country's population would reach 92 million by March, without specifying the ratio of Coptic Christians to Moslems.
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[Egypt Independent] According to the Constitution, the Supreme Constitutional Court does not have the right to review amendments to the new Parliamentary Elections Law, Shura Council MP Taher Abdel Mohsen declared on Thursday.
The law governs the upcoming House of Representatives elections slated to begin on 22 April.
The recently ratified Constitution stipulates that the SCC may not review laws after the Shura Council has amended them, argued Abdel Mohsen, the head of the council's Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee.
The SCC had objected to several articles in the draft versino of the law and submitted a report to the Shura Council. The council approved the court's recommendations and then passed the law.
Since then, controversy around the law has grown, as some have claimed the council did not accurately include the SCC's recommendations, and accused the law of being unconstitutional.
Abdel Mohsen insisted that the Constitution does not force the Shura Council to adhere exactly to the SCC's resolutions. The SCC only has the right to study and make recommendations on laws pertaining to presidential elections, political rights, parliamentary elections and local council elections before they are issued, while any other laws are subject to review after they are issued. No law may be reviewed both before and after being passed, Abdel Mohsen said.
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[An Nahar] Battles between the army and a militia in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo or Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... have left at least 36 people dead and thousands have sought refuge at a U.N. base, a front man said Thursday.
People descended on the small U.N. peacekeeping base at Kitchanga in mineral-rich North Kivu province as new gunfire was heard across the region, U.N. deputy front man Eduardo del Buey told news hounds.
Clashes between the DR Congo army and the the Alliance of Patriots for a Free and Sovereign Congo, better known under its French acronym APCLS, erupted in the region on Wednesday.
Del Buey said at least 36 people, including 10 civilians, have been reported killed in the battles. One peacekeeper from the U.N. force, MONUSCO, has also been maimed.
"This morning MONUSCO reported gunshots in the area. The mission says that between 3,000 and 4,000 Congolese have now taken refuge around its base in Kitchanga," the front man said.
"MONUSCO is closely monitoring the area, including with its combat helicopter," del Buey said.
The APCLS is a longstanding militia in the region which made its name battling the late dictator Sese Seko Mobuto in the 1990s when widespread wars in DR Congo and neighboring countries left millions dead.
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[An Nahar] A 17-year-old youth who is being tried in a juvenile court over the fatal gang-rape of a student on a bus in New Delhi was formally charged with murder on Thursday, legal sources said.
The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was accused of playing a key role in the murder, rape and robbery of a 23-year-old medical student last December in the Indian capital.
Five adults are also being tried in a separate fast-track court.
Two sources, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... due to a wideranging gagging order, said the minor was present before the judge when the charges were framed.
"The minor has been charged with rape, murder, criminal conspiracy and unnatural sex by the court and he has pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." ," one person closely involved in the case told Agence La Belle France Presse.
A second legal source confirmed that the charges had been put to the teenager on Thursday morning and that he had entered a not guilty plea.
Under Indian law, the youth faces a maximum of three years in a detention facility if convicted -- a sentence limit that has caused widespread anger.
The victim's family has been among those calling for the juvenile to be tried alongside the five other accused, who face the possibility of being hanged if found guilty of murder.
But the Juvenile Justice Board accepted the school records of the teenage suspect, which states that he was born on June 4, 1995, making him 17.
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3 years could be a life sentence - if you play it right
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The juvenile is reportedly the attacker who violated the victim with an iron bar. The victim died from these injuries.
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17 is old enough to know right and wrong. Hell, 12 would be in this case. Perhaps even 8.
String the bastard up if he's truly guilty.
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[An Nahar] A dispute between men from the southern city of Tyre and the town of Bazourieh to its east turned into a shootout, terrorizing the residents, the state-run National News Agency reported Thursday. "Go fer yer guns, Chuck!"
NNA said that the "personal dispute" started between two men at midnight Wednesday but later expanded to include their relatives and friends. [KERBLAM!]
"Take that, yew varmint!"
"Aaaiiieee! Hey, Rube!"
The gunnies from both sides clashed with handguns and Kalashnikov rifles in Tyre's Jumblat roundabout. The fighting did not cause any casualties, it said. [BANG! BANG! BANGETY BANG!]
"Mahmoud, I think there's somethin' wrong with this here gun! They hain't fallin' down!"
The residents of Tyre, who were terrorized by the fighting, contacted security forces, "Operator! Get me the security forces!"
which along with an army patrol arrived swiftly to the area. [SCREECH!]
But the gunnies escaped before their deployment, the agency said. "Outen of mah way, yew varmint!"
"Smile when you... Oh, hell! Curly-toed slippers, don't fail me now!"
It added that the security forces and the military launched an investigation to identify the suspects.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
An earthquake measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale jolted a region in the neighborhood of Northern Khorasan province and Terkmenistan on Thursday, IRNA reported. 
[Egypt Independent] The Finance Ministry's recent proposal to rent out the country's key monuments, including the pyramids in Giza, to fund the current deficit in state budget has outraged archaeologists, cultural activists and the Ministry of State of Antiquities.
[Egypt Independent] According to the Constitution, the Supreme Constitutional Court does not have the right to review amendments to the new Parliamentary Elections Law, Shura Council MP Taher Abdel Mohsen declared on Thursday.
[An Nahar] Battles between the army and a militia in eastern 
[An Nahar] A 17-year-old youth who is being tried in a juvenile court over the fatal gang-rape of a student on a bus in New Delhi was formally charged with murder on Thursday, legal sources said.
[An Nahar] A dispute between men from the southern city of Tyre and the town of Bazourieh to its east turned into a 
