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The world s oldest person turned 116 on Friday as local health chiefs in Japan launch a study to find out why he and many of those around him have lived so long. HT Image Jiroemon Kimura, who was born in 1897, was expected to celebrate his astonis stanley cup hing milestone with friends and family, and receive a visit from the mayor of his home city of Kyotango in the west of the country. Kimura is one of 95 people who will be 100 years old or more in the city s 60,000-strong population. The centenarian does not smoke and has made it a practice to eat only until he is 80% full, a local official told AFP. He drinks only a modest amount of alcohol, a local report said. Kimura s motto in life is to eat light and live long , said the official. Kyotango now wants to find the secret of his longevity and has launched a research project. We would like to research the eating habits of not only Mr Kimura but also about 50 other old people over 100 years old in the city, stanley cup the official told AFP. We are intereste stanley cup d in what they eat and how much. We are especially keen to research on how much salt they consume. The city of Kyotango, near Kyoto, is sandwiched between the Sea of Japan East Sea and a mountain range. It is naturally blessed with good seafood and farm products, the official said. We are also interested in knowing what kinds of local food they like to eat and if this helps them live so long, he said. The city plans to compile a recipe book based on the study and unveil Mgwg 5 dead as French reconnaissance plane crashes in Malta
A Malaysian parliamentary forum has highlighted the continuing dissatisfaction among the Indian community a year after a Hindu Rights Action Force Hindraf rally to voice their problems was suppresed. HT Image Participants at the forum chaired by Charles Santiago, a lawmaker from Klang Valley, said neither the ruling Barisan Nasional nor the opposition Pakatan Rakyat have addressed the issues of poverty, unemployment, low wages and poor education facilities that face the Indian community. They said that the rally by the Hindraf last year helped turn the tide against the ruling BN alliance, reducing its majority in parliament, and denying it control of five of the 13 states in the March elections. However, their ire is as much against the opposition PR alliance, to which a majority of ethnic Indians were perceived to have voted. According to them, the opposition alliance, which benefited from the vote swing, is also dragging its feet on resolving Tamil working class issues like poor education facilities and low wages, adidas samba The Star newspaper said on Tuesday. Tamil language newspaper Makkal Osai, in a special report, highlighted the Hindraf rally that attracted 10,000 people, but was declared illegal and forcibly dispersed by the police as a means of showing dissent and anger among the Indian community against the BN government. A year a salomon fter the rally, five of its organisers, M Manoharan, Vasanth Kumar, P Uthaya Kumar, Ganabati Rau and S Kengadharan are still in stanley cup |
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