10-year-olds HK pass UK high school exams

HONG KONG (AFP) – Two Hong Kong 10-year-olds reared on a punishing schedule of study and swimming have sailed through British high school exams, fuelling debate over the "Tiger Mother" approach to parenting.

Twins Estephe and Perrine Corlin scored straight "As" in the maths papers of the International General Certificate of Secondary Education exams, which are normally taken by 16-year-olds.

The boy and girl's Malaysian-born mother Rosalind Corlin said their achievement was down to a gruelling schedule tailor-made for success -- echoing Amy Chua, the Chinese-American author of "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother".

The Yale University law professor has sparked worldwide debate with her book extolling the benefits of no-nonsense parenting over the more relaxed style of child-rearing common in the West.

Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook Fan Page Hacke

Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook fan page seems to have been hacked, with the hacker posting a message calling on the company to transform into a "social business."

The message, seemingly posted on Facebook from Mark Zuckerberg's account, was quickly removed (together with the fan page), but not quickly enough to go by unnoticed, receiving more than 1,800 "likes" and hundreds of comments in the process.

The message read: "Let the hacking begin: If facebook needs money, instead of going to the banks, why doesn't Facebook let its users invest in Facebook in a social way? Why not transform Facebook into a 'social business' the way Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus described it? [LINK] What do you think? #hackercup2011"

Facebook made no statement about the incident, but if Zuckerberg's fan page was indeed hacked, it's a big deal. If the Facebook CEO (more accurately, the PR team that's handling the page for him) can't keep his Facebook account safe from intruders, who can?

We've reached out to Facebook about the incident and will update the post when we hear back.

Google need 6200 worker in 2011

SAN FRANCISCO – Google Inc. plans to hire more than 6,200 workers this year — boosting its work force by at least a quarter — in the biggest expansion yet by the Internet's most profitable company.

The hiring spree comes as President Barack Obama emphasized the need for more jobs during his State of the Union address Tuesday night. Google CEO Eric Schmidt was among a group of business leaders who met with Obama last month to discuss ways to bolster the economy.

But Google's push to further expand its work force, which grew by 23 percent last year, may not be well received on Wall Street. The Internet search leader's spending has annoyed some investors who prefer a more frugal approach in hopes of fatter returns.

Malaysia New lab mosquitoes to fight dengue

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Malaysia released about 6,000 genetically modified mosquitoes into a forest in the first experiment of its kind in Asia aimed at curbing dengue fever, officials said Wednesday.

The field test is meant to pave the way for the use of genetically engineered Aedes aegypti male mosquitoes to mate with females and produce no offspring or ones with shorter lives, thus curtailing the mosquitopopulation. Only female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes spread dengue fever, which killed 134 people in Malaysia last year.

Jimmy Buffett falls off stage at Australia concert

SYDNEY – Singer Jimmy Buffett fell off a stage at the end of a concert in Sydney and was rushed to the hospital.

Australia's Daily Telegraph reports that audience members saw the 64-year-old fall face first off the stage and hit his head.

Buffett's manager then took the stage and urged fans to leave the auditorium, the Hordem Pavillion.

The singer was brought to Sydney's St. Vincent's Hospital.

Wednesday night's concert was Buffett's fifth and last in Sydney on his current tour.

Source-yahoo news