That's Trouble with a capital T which rhymes with D which stands for Disco Dancing. Sigh.
Beijing has banned disco and other dance music in private rooms of nightclubs and karaoke bars. Police hope to curb the flood of illegal drugs into the Chinese capital's entertainment venues.
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So how are they going to enforce the ban?
All the top bureaucrats and business men head immediately for a private room, which is set up for karaoke.
Then the girls come in, in groups of ten, in evening gowns, until every guest has picked their own "host-girl"
They kneel down in front of you when they serve drinks (a bit embarrassing for a westerner)
After that it's bacchanalia.
AND that's with Chinese romance songs, let alone Western dance music.
After that, it's up to the hotel room upstairs.
Everyone (including the girls)meets up for breakfast at 9 the next morning.
Ah!! the memories.
Prime Minister John Howard leaves for Indonesia on Sunday for crucial presidential talks aimed at patching up soured relations between Canberra and Jakarta.
Mr Howard plans to meet Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Monday to soothe recent rows over Australia's granting of protection visas to 42 Papuan asylum seekers and Indonesia's release of jailed Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir.
The important visit comes after Mr Howard failed to convince his backbench to support tougher asylum-seeker laws, widely seen as an attempt to appease Indonesian anger.
Relations between the two countries dipped dramatically after Australia granted asylum to the Papuan refugees, prompting Jakarta to withdraw its ambassador.
Mr Howard had wanted the toughened asylum-seeker laws passed before his visit to Indonesia, but several coalition MPs have refused to support the new measures, under which all boat arrivals would be processed in offshore detention centres.
Mr Howard's office was tight-lipped on Saturday after reports Indonesian officials were considering cancelling Monday's planned talks in response to the Australian government's failure to pass the immigration changes.
A spokesman for Mr Howard said the meeting with President Yudhoyono on the Indonesian island of Batam had never been officially confirmed.
But the visit was still going ahead as planned and Mr Howard was expected to make a statement before leaving Sydney for Indonesia on Sunday, the spokesman said.
"The prime minister hopes to meet President Yudhoyono shortly," he said.
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade would not comment on reports frantic diplomatic manoeuvring was underway to try to prevent the Indonesians scuttling the bilateral meeting.
Central to Monday's talks will be a joint declaration endorsing Australia and Indonesia's co-operation in finalising a new security treaty.
The release of Jemaah Islamiah spiritual leader Abu Bakar Bashir from an Indonesian prison is also likely to feature prominently in discussions.
Mr Howard has said he will convey Australians' anger and frustration at Bashir's release.
The hardline Muslim cleric served 25 months in jail for giving blessing to the first Bali bombings in 2002 in which 202 people, including 88 Australians, were killed.
A massive police and military presence, including anti-terror squads, will guard Mr Howard's meeting with President Yudhoyono amid predictions of protests by human rights activists and extremist Muslim groups.
Customs officers in Sydney have intercepted an Australian woman who swallowed 320 condoms full of heroin in an attempt to smuggle the drug into the country.
The 25-year-old Australian was stopped as she came off a flight from Singapore last Sunday, June 18, on suspicion that she was concealing drugs internally.
She was taken to hospital for a medical examination, which revealed a large number of items in her stomach, the Australian Federal Police said.
The woman has been in hospital under medical supervision while the condoms, containing approximately 300 grams of heroin, passed from her system.
She has been charged with importing a marketable quantity of a border-controlled drug and was due to appear in Parramatta Bail Court on Sunday.
The charge carries a maximum penalty of $825,000 and/or life imprisonment.
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And I appologize for laughing so much.
If Zarkawi gets 72 virgins, they prolly all look like Helen Thomas.
Really, Helen, we're so sorry. Hahahahahahahaha
sorry, Zark. Hahahahahahahahaha
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I don't understand what he said that was wrong, required an apology, or wasn't reasonably factual?
Tony Snow even had to tell the old bitch live on camera on national TV the other morning to stop heckling him - the stupid idiot (Helen) just wouldn;t shut the fuck up!
MULTAN: A women, whose face was mutilated by her husband, has appealed to the government to provide her security, as, she said her husband was threatening her. Nasira Bibi was seriously injured when his husband cut off her nose and threw acid over her body. "I want the police to take a stern action against my husband and his brother," she said, while talking to Daily Times at the Multan Nishtar Hospital's burn unit on Friday. Her condition was stated to be critical after the medical officers said that she had received 30 percent of her body had been burned.
The 30-year-old Nasira, who belongs to Rajanpur district, said her husband, Safdar Hussein, had cut her nose and threw acid on her over a domestic quarrel. She said that her husband was a labourer and had earlier taken her to Karachi where he tired to kill her by slitting her throat, but she managed to escape. She said that she returned to Rajanpur, where her husband again contacted her and requested for reconciliation. "I went with him to his house in Eidgah Colony. He again pressured me to leave the city for Karachi on June 20, but I refused. A few moments later, he returned to the house along with his brother, Tariq Hussain, who held me, while my husband chopped off my nose with a knife. Afterwards, he threw acid on me. My sons Shafqat and Adnan and daughter Faryal were also injured when the acid fell on them, she said. She said that she was taken to Rajanpur District Headquarters Hospital and was later referred to Multan Nishtar Hospital for further treatment. When contacted, Rajanpur City police duty officer Muhammad Akram said a case had been registered against Tariq and Safdar and police had arrested Tariq.
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PESHAWAR: Declaring Swara illegal and against human rights, the Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Friday rejected a tribal jirgas decision against two sisters, one of whom was going to be married as compensation to a man for settling a family feud. A PHC division bench, consisting of justices Ejaz Afzal and Fazlur Rehman, also directed the station house officer (SHO) of Mandani tehsil, Charsadda district, to take action against members of the jirga, if they tried to implement their decision.
Sanad Bibi, 11, and Shah Izzat Bibi, 9, residents of Brawal Banda tehsil, Dir Upper district, had challenged the Jirgas verdict with the PHC. Muhammad Iqbal Mohmand, counsel for the petitioners, said that Fouzia, resident of Takht Bhi, Mardan, had earlier been married to the uncle of the two girls. After two months of their marriage, another man, Sangeen, resident of Shaheed Kali Tehsil Tangi Charsadda district, claimed that Fouzia had been engaged to him. Sangeen then summoned a tribal jirga, which passed the verdict that one of the two girls would have to be married to him. The jirga also impounded a vehicle belonging to the girls father and told him to marry one of the girls to Sangeen if he wanted to get his vehicle back.
The sisters, in their petition, had asked the court to declare the jirgas verdict as illegal. It is a terrible custom, it would not do anything except destroying our lives. It must be abolished, the girls told the court.
The PHC had earlier declared swara as illegal in 2000, but the custom still prevails in the semi-autonomous tribal regions, where tribal jirgas are used for settling disputes. The jirgas verdict came after the Supreme Court issued directives to the inspectors general of police (IGPs) of the four provinces and the Northern Areas to stop forced marriages of women for settling feuds and declared the customs of Vani and Swara un-Islamic.
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MULTAN: A women, whose face was mutilated by her husband, has appealed to the government to provide her security, as, she said her husband was threatening her. Nasira Bibi was seriously injured when his husband cut off her nose and threw acid over her body. "I want the police to take a stern action against my husband and his brother," she said, while talking to Daily Times at the Multan Nishtar Hospital's burn unit on Friday. Her condition was stated to be critical after the medical officers said that she had received 30 percent of her body had been burned. 
PESHAWAR: Declaring Swara illegal and against human rights, the Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Friday rejected a tribal jirgas decision against two sisters, one of whom was going to be married as compensation to a man for settling a family feud. A PHC division bench, consisting of justices Ejaz Afzal and Fazlur Rehman, also directed the station house officer (SHO) of Mandani tehsil, Charsadda district, to take action against members of the jirga, if they tried to implement their decision.
