Daily Archives: October 4, 2013

Female robot used as a tour guide for Chinese art expo is taken out of action after being groped by over-zealous tourists

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An attractive female robot used as a tour guide for a Chinese art expo has been taken out of action after being groped by over-zealous tourists.

The robot was introduced to offer tour guides for visitors to the Jinzhou world garden art expo in Jinzhou, Liaoning province, northeast China.

But it proved too fascinating for many visitors who wanted to take a closer look at the robot which has bright red lips and wears a blue silk blue ballgown.

Expo spokesman Feng Kung said: ‘The event is a big occasion and we get lots of visitors, and it is a lot of stress for the guides, so we came up with the idea of using a robot.
‘But we designed it as an attractive female robot, and it seems more people are interested in grabbing the robot to have a snap made, or even fondling the dress to see what is underneath.

‘As a result of the interference the robot keeps breaking down, and we have to put the human guides back into place.

‘It is broken again  now for example, we think next year we will use a man or a more robot looking robot.

Introduced in the summer the robot was designed to last until the event ends in October.

 

Saudi court jails four young men for up to TEN YEARS and sentences them to thousands of lashes for naked dance on car

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A Saudi Arabian man has been jailed for 10 years and sentenced to 2,000 lashes after a film of him dancing naked on the roof of a car was posted online.

Another man, who is believed to have made the film, received seven years in prison and 1,200 lashes.

Two others were jailed for three years and sentenced to 500 lashes each.

The public prosecutor in the case reportedly objected to what he described as ‘light sentences’.

The four men men were charged with ‘dancing on a vehicle in public’ and ‘violating public morals’, following the incident in Borayda, the capital of al-Qasseem province, north-west of the capital Riyadh.

A video of the incident was posted online, media reports say. It is not clear whether the men were caught in the act or traced by the video.

Al-Qasseem province is notoriously conservative and religious police there are said to be the most strict in the kingdom.

The law prohibits the playing of music, dancing and many movies also are a concern for hard-liners who believe they violate religious and moral values.

 

Jewelry Confiscated From Former Russian Official

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Russia’s Investigative Committee has confiscated 57,000 diamonds and 19 kilograms (42 pounds) of jewelry from a former defense ministry official in an ongoing investigation into corruption charges.

Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said Friday that the jewelry, worth more than 126 million rubles ($3.9 million), was discovered at the home of Yevgenia Vasilyeva and “returned to the state.”

Vasilyeva was charged in 2012 with fraud related to the sale of military assets, then said to be worth about $11 million. Russia’s military investigators announced Tuesday that they are now estimating the total damage at about 3 billion rubles ($93 million).

 

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Hayastan All-Armenian Fund constructing medical center in Khachardzan

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Kachardzan Medical center

 Yerevan, October 4, 2013- With financial support from its Argentinean affiliate (benefactor – Kalciyan family), the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund is building a medical center in Khachardzan, a village in Armenia’s Tavush Region. The facility will also include a multifunctional events hall for use by various community organizations.

 

Currently construction crews are working on the interior and exterior trimming as well as landscaping of the structure, which is slated to open by the end of 2013.

 

This is a vitally important project for our village,” said Khachardzan mayor Gagik Shahnazaryan. “Thanks to the initiative, our residents will be able to receive quality healthcare at a state-of-the-art clinic, only in acute emergency cases having to be transported to a regional hospital.”

 

Commenting on the issues that continue to impact Khachardzan’s quality of life, Shahnazaryan said the most urgent is the lack of a potable-water network — a problem the community has had to contend with since the 1990s.

 

A large proportion of Khachardzan’s 400 residents are refugees. The community’s main occupation is cattle breeding. Khachardzan (which means “cross statue”) is named after the numerous historic cross stones found throughout the village.

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President Serzh Sargsyan received the Secretary General of the CSTO Nikolay Bordjuzha

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 President Serzh Sargsyan received today the Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Nikolay Bordjuzha.

At the meeting, Nikolay Bordjuzha presented to the President of Armenia the results of the 11th session of the CSTO interstate commission on military-economic cooperation held in Yerevan and spoke about the local anti-drug Canal-Caucasus action being conducted on October 1-4 in Armenia. The Secretary General of the CSTO spoke also about issues related to the activities of the Organization’s Academy in Yerevan.