KUALA LUMPUR: A bereaved family held a funeral service and cremated a body they thought was their father then learned he was still alive, a newspaper reported.
“We do not know who we cremated,” Subramaniam Nadarajah was quoted as saying in the New Straits Times daily. Nadarajah and his two sisters went to a hospital mortuary at Sunget Petaniand identified a body there as that of their missing father, Nadarajah, the newspaper reported. On Tuesday, 200 people attended his funeral, followed by the cremation. A few hours later, a friend of Subramaniam’s said he spotted the father at a Hindu temple. The family rushed to the temple and found their father, praying. SALZBURG (Austria): Austrian police sent to roundup what eyewitnesses described as a “large pig” on a motorway near here on Friday and found a baby hippopotamus lumbering across the central reservation.
The 250kg beast, who would feel more at home romping around tropical African waterholes, had fallen out of a trailer being towed along the road by an Italian animal trader.
Officials gave chase and with the help of the owner managed to coax the hoofed mammal back into the vehicle.
TOKYO: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation has developed a tiny new transistor that can be used to build smaller, speedier computers and provide clearer pictures on television sets.
The new “quantum wire transistor” uses wires one tenth the thickness of conventional transistors, and can be used to perform calculations at six times the speed possible with existing electronic mobility transistors, said an NTT spokesman. WASHINGTON: Virtually all asthma attacks are triggered by allergies, a US research has shown.
The study is challenging a widely held belief. Many experts have long believed that asthma attacks in children and youth are usually caused by allergies, while in grownups they are usually thought to have other causes.
HARARE: Hundreds of black apartheid opponents on Monday observed mass hunger strike by refusing food in South African prisons across the country demanding fair trials or release, South African radio has reported.
‘The majority of detainees now in jail for more than two years have never been put on trial or, officially informed of the charges.
Article extracted from this publication >> February 24, 1989
