European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 12, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday april 12 2007 stars and stripes o pages Rob a Fisherman trades at a Market monday As life returns to Normal on the earthquake and tsunami affected Island of Gizo in the Solomon islands signs of normalcy Back on tsunami hit islands by Seraiah Foley the associated press Gizo Solomon islands shops along the Solomon islands battered coastline reopened Mon Day As Aid began trickling to the regions outer atolls a week after an offshore earthquake sent Walls of water slamming into the coast vendors Selling fruit and vege tables returned to their stalls along the main Street of Gizo is land for the first time since the quake rumbled the Solomons Western province on april 2 killing at least 35 peo ple and leaving homeless the disaster destroyed several coastal villages and sent thou Sands of people scrambling to the Hills too frightened to return to their Lowland Homes but monday fishermen Selling their daily catch returned to i Zos open air marketplace the first sign that residents were be ginning to overcome their fear of the sea the main source of food and income Here for centuries i think that a really Healing thing for the people Here because its the first sign of life getting Back to Normal red Cross spokeswoman Susie Chippendale said meanwhile after a slow Start the International Relief Aid that has been flowing into Gizo since wednesday began filtering out to the regions More Remote communities Many of which have received Little or no assistance red Cross boats braved Stormy seas to deliver food water and medical assistance to several out lying islands while helicopters shuttled Between Gizo and other far Flung atolls on the rugged isolated Island of a Wongga villagers rowed dug out canoes to a red Cross Relief boat and loaded up with Rice water and clothing huge patches of Coral Lay exposed and dying around a Wongga after last weeks quake making boat land Ings More difficult than usual children ran Down onto Black Sand beaches to Greet the arriving boats which carried tons of Rice hundreds of liners of fresh water and clothes official counts of the dead missing and injured still vary Muller said 33 bodies have been recovered and two people re main missing the Aid group world vision set the count at 39 All agree the number is unlikely to jump significantly but some villagers have been burying the dead As they find them and the True toll May never be known Malaysia requests More of dogs do sniffing gift by Sean Yoong the associated press Kuala Bumpur Malaysia two labradors that have be come celebrities in Malaysia for sniffing out massive stashes of counterfeit dds will have their stint extended to help authorities hound movie pirates an official said tuesday Lucky and Flo on loan from the motion picture association of America were originally scheduled to stay in Malaysia for a month but they now will be based Here for the foreseeable fun said Paa senior operations executive Neil Gane the Extension was requested by the malaysian government which found the help of the dogs in their operations to be very successful and wants More time with Lucky and Flo to Evalu ate whether it should train its own canines to perform similar work Gane said the labradors will mainly participate in More malaysian raids but they also could be deployed to other countries for anti piracy operations from time to time Gane said he declined to identify which countries were being considered citing Security reasons malaysian movie pirates have reportedly placed bounties on Andy Michael Buchan from motion picture association of America right and Trainer David Mayberry show two Black Labrador sniffer dogs Lucky and to after they sniffed out boxes containing pirated optical discs during a demonstration in Spang Malaysia in March Lucky and Flo who have so far helped uncover million pirated dds and cd Worth nearly million in raids on warehouses shops and offices that served As storage centers for pirated discs Lucky and Flo Are the worlds Only dogs trained to detect a chemical used in making discs the Paa has said malaysian officials say they have been useful because they found discs that might otherwise have gone unnoticed in locked rooms and concealed compartments according to the malaysian government 5 million discs were seized in More than raids nationwide last year and 780 people were arrested the Paa says its members which include Paramount Pic Tures Warner 20th Century Fox and Universal lost Bil lion to Asi Pacific movie pirates in 2006 4 serbians convicted of 95 killings Afghanistan bans Al Nazeera show Belgrade four Parami tries seen in a video gunning Down bosnian muslims near Srebrenick in 1995 Wece Cuti Victel of War crimes civilians on tuesday user Nasu War court it was me country first court ing related to the systematic Dillings of up to m Srebrenick final months of War in Bosnia f guilty tuesday were seen in a video mat surfaced in june 2005 when it was shown Attres War primes trial of former president before the tribunal for the former Yugoslavia the members of a  known As the scorpions Tang bosnian Muslim civilians from a truck with their hands tied and Lin my them up on a Hillside before spraying them Afghanistan government or dered a afghan to station suspend broadcasts of Alja zebras English language programs the stations director said tuesday a statement from Lemar to said thie ministry of information and culture which oversees Media in Afghanistan did not provide reasons for the order Tib station contested the order be fore me on tuesday the Lemar statement said the ministry sent a let Ter to the attorney generals office stating that Aijaz Eera is inflicting a killer blow to the cultural order and the Legal authority of the government Qatar said it also had received a letter which stated that the suspension was a licencing Issue has nothing to from the associated press saudi women express optimism for future even As changes come slowly by Karen Elliot House the Wall Street journal Riyadh saudi Arabia last fall women Here were permitted for the first time to enrol in Law school in a country Doest let women drive or reveal their faces in Public the change has some Young female students almost Giddy with optimism you can do anything when you study says Jamila Shalhout 20 we Are going to help women know their adds her classmate Sara Alary of 19 looking like an american College girl in Tennis shoes with no laces everything is going to it cant change soon enough for Fatima Mansour who sits in jail in the City of dam Mam with her 1yearold son after her father died a few years ago Man sours Hal Brothers declared themselves her guardians even though she was married they accused her husband of lying to the family about his tribal background before the marriage As her guardians they took her to islamic court and persuaded a judge to Force her to divorce her husband he has the couples other child a 4yearold daughter and Mansour wants to rejoin him but to do so now that they have been divorced would make her guilty of adultery a grievous crime Here she re fuses to go Back to the Home occupied by the Hal Brothers who ended her marriage and there is no other place for the court to Send a woman for her Protection so even though there Are no charges against the 33yearold Mansour she Waits in jail a monthlong visit Here finds mounting pressures for liberalization pockets of sur prising change and optimism perhaps naive among younger women that their lives will be far Freer saudi women pressing for change focus chiefly on increasing career opportunities not on challenging this sex separation the Issue int about working so much As creating the proper protected environment in which women can says Haifa a a Kallail Dean of Effat College in Jidida King Abdullah issued a Royal decree last year that women must be encouraged to work in All Fields the decree said govern ment ministries should form women sections so that women can represent them selves at government offices rather than have a brother or father or husband do so so it is seen As Progress Here that women now can work As salespeople at Al Faisal a mall in Riyadh even though there con fined to a floor for women shoppers Only King Abdullah has tried to help says Basmath Mosleh Omair Gen eral manager of the women business Cen Ter at the Jidida chamber of Commerce his ministers support Fadia Saud Alsaleh Dean of the Prince Sultan University College for women a Pri vate school in Riyadh where classes Are taught in English is convinced that the government has changed completely its perspective on women we Are expecting More changes for she says so we have to run for those changes and be ready when they perhaps one of those future changes will permit the women now entering Law school to someday use their Law educations fully As it stands now though women will be Able to earn Law degrees these degrees wont permit them to actually represent clients in a courtroom that remains impossible because the judges Are men