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Bhutan is formulating policies forthe construction industry toemploy green technology andpractices, said Lyonchhoen Jigmi YThinley, while speaking to world leadersand other members at the Delhi sustain-able development summit in India overthe weekend.

Lyonchhoen, in his keynote address,also informed participants that aprocess is underway to augmentBhutanese school curricula promotingeco-literacy among students within zero-waste and green schools.

The theme of the three-day summit,organised by the energy research insti-tute (TERI), is ‘Beyond Copenhagen:New Pathways to SustainableDevelopment. India’s prime ministerManmohan Singh inaugurated the sum-mit.

“Growth is the imperative and, fortoo long, we have pursued it withoutbeing clear about the purpose and endstate of development,” said Lyonchhoenat the summit. He said that no limit is

set on how much and for how longgrowth is to continue and whether sucha continuous process is sustainable in afinite world.

Sharing his personal experiences,Lyonchhoen said that the first time hegazed at the Himalayas was in 1989. “Iwas awed and inspired by the majestyand grandeur of this unbroken range ofsnow-clad mountains... It was easy tobelieve then that these were indeed theabode of the gods. Yesterday was theworst,” he said, referring to his flight toNew Delhi on February 4. “Thereappeared to have been no snowfall in theHimalayas this year even at theseheights and the Tibetan plateau beyond.Much of the range looked like a highwall of grey and jagged outcrop ofrocks. The gods seem to have abandonedtheir home.”

The prime minister also shared howBhutanese, high in the vulnerablemountain kingdom, live, see and feel thedisconcertingly rapid changes. “Climatechange, I believe, isn’t only about whatscientists report, it’s as much, if notmore, about what we actually experi-

ence and from which we suffer,” he said.He said that there was a need to

open our eyes to the high price of socialdislocation and environmental devasta-tion that has been paid to achieve GDPtargets. “Let us accept that this power-fully dominant indicator is based on theseriously flawed belief that unlimitedeconomic growth is necessary to pro-mote human well being,” he said.

Participants at the summit will alsofocus on the formulation and delin-eation of strategies to move the sustain-able development agenda forward. Thesustainable development summits haveglobal support from over 60 countries,with participation from heads of gov-ernment and ministers, and a host ofother dignitaries comprising Nobel lau-reates, development practitioners, scien-tists, academics, and corporate leaders.

According to media reports in India,a unique feature of this year’s summitwould be the closed-door in-camera ses-sion to come up with clear plans androadmap for the next Conference of theParties to be held in Mexico City at theend of 2010.

Chinese police have shutdown what is believedto be the country’sbiggest hacker training site.

Three people were alsoarrested, local media report-ed.

The three, who ran BlackHawk Safety Net in CentralChina’s Hubei province, aresuspected of offering othersonline attacking programmesand software, a crime recentlyadded to the Criminal Law. Atotal of 1.7 million yuan(US$249,000) in assets werealso frozen.

According to the provin-cial public security depart-ment of Hubei, the closure ofthe website had its roots in aprevious Web attack andvirus dissemination case inthe city of Macheng in 2007,when police found some ofthe suspects caught weremembers of Black HawkSafety Net.

Hubei province namedBlack Hawk Safety Net as thelargest hacker training site inChina, which openly recruit-ed members and disseminatedhacker techniques throughlessons, trojan software andonline forum communica-tions.

Since it was established in2005, the site had recruitedmore than 12,000 VIP mem-bers and collected more than7 million yuan in membershipfees. More than 170,000 peopleregistered for free member-ship.

Police said more than 50officers have been investigat-ing the case.

They seized nine Web

servers, five computers andone car, and shut down all thesites involved in the case,according to the provincialpublic security department.

“I could download trojanprogrammes from the sitewhich allowed me to controlother people’s computers. Idid this just for fun but I alsoknow that many other mem-bers could make a fortune byattacking other people’saccounts,” said a 23-year-oldmember of Black HawkSafety Net in Nanjing of EastChina’s Jiangsu province,

who on condition of anonymi-ty.

“It is not very difficult todo simple hacker tasks. Somehacker members areteenagers who dropped out ofschool and make money bystealing accounts,” he said.

A 20-year-old college stu-dent who registered withthree different hacker train-ing sites said a hacker train-ing course costs from 100 to2,000 yuan.

“Basically students weretold how to steal accounts anduse trojan programmes.

Sometimes trainers show ushow to write programmes,”he said.

“But now it’s very difficultto become a registered mem-ber. Some well-known hackertraining sites have not beenaccessible since November,”he said.

According to a reportreleased by the NationalComputer NetworkEmergency ResponseCoordination Centre ofChina, the hacker industry inChina caused losses of 7.6 bil-lion yuan in 2009.

China shuts down ‘biggesthacker training site’

China has closed what it claims to be the largest hacker training website in the country andarrested three of its members, domestic media reported on Monday

The Star/ANNDay 4 of opposition leader

Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’ssodomy trial was sidetrackedafter the defence applied for HighCourt judge Justice MohamadZabidin Mohd Diah to recuse him-self.

Anwar’s lead counsel KarpalSingh brought up the issue assoon as the case was called at9:58am, on the grounds that thejudge’s previous ruling in relationto the closed proceedings of thetrial’s second day “brings to sur-face an element of real danger ofbias”.

Anwar had filed the applica-tion to disqualify the trial judge at9am at the High Court criminalregistry.

Anwar claimed that MohamadZabidin has not adjudicated uponthe applications made by hiscounsel “with an open mind”.

Last week, Karpal had appliedfor the judge to cite Malay dailyUtusan Malaysia for contempt ofcourt over its coverage.

Justice Mohamad Zabidinruled that the court would not ini-tiate contempt proceedingsagainst the newspaper as it wasnot done in court.

“However, the lawyers canlodge a police report to initiate afull investigation,” he ruled.

PKR communications directorJonson Chong later lodged apolice report against the newspa-per for “publishing false news”.

Monday’s proceedings wereexpected to kick off with themuch awaited cross-examination

of Anwar’s accuser and the onlywitness to have taken the stand sofar, Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan.

Last week, Mohd Saiful testi-fied that the PKR adviser hadtried to come on to him.

He also claimed, when askedby lead prosecutor Solicitor-General II Datuk Mohd YusofZainal Abiden, that he hadidolised Anwar as a child and wasinterested in working for himbecause he was a charismaticleader.

Mohd Saiful said his friendRahimi Osman had called him inearly March to come to his office –Anwar’s office – in Section 16,Petaling Jaya, for a chit-chat.

“At that time, he asked me if Iwas employed or had any work.When I told him that I was notdoing anything, he asked me if Iwanted to be Anwar’s assistant ashe claimed they were facing ashortage of staff,” he said.

On his move to resign from hisjob, Mohd Saiful said he had sentan e-mail to Anwar on June 27.

“After a few hours, Anwarcalled and scolded me. He askedme to meet him at his office inSection 16. I was scared but Iwent to see him as asked,” hesaid.

Mohd Saiful said he toldAnwar his reasons – he was notdisciplined and had always cometo work late, and he was less qual-ified than other staff.

However, he said the real rea-son he resigned was that, “I wasnot willing to be treated in such amanner any more.”

Saiful Bukhari Azlan, a former aide to Malaysian opposition leaderAnwar Ibrahim, third from right, is seen with court members at theentrance of Desa Damansara Condominium, where the allegedsodomy took place, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, Feb. 4,2010. More lurid sex allegations were heard behind closed doorsThursday at the sodomy trial of Anwar, who has dismissed thecharges as a government conspiracy to stop him from seizingpower. (AP)

Anwar tries to getjudge disqualified

Wu Yiyao China Daily/ANN

Bhutan pushes for eco-literacy in schools Phuntsho Choden Kuensel/ANN

West Bengal state Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, in white, addresses a public rally to protest against price hike andpolitical terrorism, in Calcutta, India, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. According to a local news agency, Indian Prime Minister ManmohanSingh met chief ministers of states in New Delhi Saturday and said the worst of food inflation is over and the situation willease soon. (AP)