Source: CNN WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND, JUNE 1, 2001: Protesting the use of Maori words and Polynesian culture in a new computer game, three New Zealand Maori tribes are considering taking legal action against Danish toy company Lego. New Zealand barrister, Solomon Maui, has asked Lego to suspend sales of the game, saying it infringed the Polynesian people’s intellectual property rights…
GO TO SOURCE NEW YORK, U.S.A., June 2, 2001: A web site run by militant Hindus in Queens and Long Island was recently shut down by its service provider because of complaints that it advocated hatred and violence toward Muslims. But a few days later, the site was back on the Internet. The unlikely rescuers were some radical Jews in…
GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, INDIA, June 2, 2001: A range of tobacco-based products has made India the “number one oral-cancer country,” according to the Indian Society of Tobacco and Health. They also contributed to around 4.5 million cardio-vascular-disease cases and 3.9 million chronic obstructive pulmonary-disease cases. Of the range of cheap tobacco-based products on sale across India “gutkha” is…
GO TO SOURCE KAUAI, HAWAII, June 4, 2001: Kalyani Giri, correspondent for Hinduism Today magazine, is preparing a story on HPI. If you would like to help her with comments, observations or suggestions for improvement on the service, please email her at “source.”
GO TO SOURCE KATHMANDU, NEPAL, June 4, 2001: King Dipendra died early Monday of a wound received in the massacre after being in a coma all weekend. Officials clamped a curfew on Kathmandu to quell growing rage over what many in Nepal saw as a failure to explain the massacre that claimed most of the royal family. Pressure grew on…
GO TO SOURCE KATHMANDU, NEPAL, June 01, 2001: King Birendra of Nepal was cremated here along with his wife, Queen Aishwarya, and six other members of his family about 20 hours after they were all shot and killed by Birendra’s eldest son crown prince Dipendra at the Royal Palace on Friday night. In a bizarre – -but perfectly constitutional —…
GO TO SOURCE KATHMANDU, NEPAL, June 4, 2001: The assassination of the royal family members in Nepal is taking a strange turn as the Nepalese government issues a statement that the tragedy occurred when an automatic rifle went off “accidentally,” according to this report, which is fairly comprehensive. Other news reports suggest that the government is in a very difficult…
GO TO SOURCE PARIS, FRANCE, June 1, 2001: French Christians are bracing for problems resulting from the passage this week of a controversial new law aimed at controlling the activities of dangerous religious sects, but also likely to affect ordinary churches. Some churches were already considering removing the word “evangelical” from their names, the president of the French Protestant Federation…
GO TO SOURCE KAUAI, HAWAII, May 20, 2001: Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami embarks August 10 on a two-week travel-study pilgrimage through Northern Europe and Russia with 70 devotees and monks. Along the way, Subramuniyaswami will be attending major functions of the Hindu community in London; Hamm, Germany; Oslo, Norway; Stockholm, Sweden; and Copenhagen, Denmark. The chariot festival at Hamm is expected…
GO TO SOURCE KATHMANDU, NEPAL, June 3, 2001: Dozens of stories are now appearing in the world press on the assassination of the Nepalese royal family. This New York Times report is one of the more complete. The king, queen and royal family were cremated yesterday. The report reads in part, “The bizarre massacre of most of Nepal’s royal family…