BEIJING - China has punished three policemen for detaining and fining two young lovers 5,000 yuan ($660) for hugging in public on the Chinese version of Valentine’s Day.
The couple paused to embrace while taking a stroll along a river in Jinshi in the central province of Hunan, the Shanghai Daily said.
“As we hugged each other, three policemen came and separated us so they could ask questions. They brought us to the police station and didn’t free us until we paid a 5,000 yuan fine. Full Story - Upscale Magazine - Buy Heron Cigarettes Online - Frederick’s of Hollywood

MOSCOW - Russian police have detained a 45-year-old municipal worker for stealing a bridge.
The 5-meter span metal bridge disappeared from a river crossing in the Ryazan region, east of Moscow. Full Story - Playgirl Magazine - Buy Merit Cigarettes Online - Buyer Zone

SUMMERVILLE SC - It was raining and lightning was popping when Greg Schneider went out to check the mail shortly before 6 p.m. Thursday.
That’s about all Schneider, 37, remembers after a lightning strike burned a 2-inch hole in his favorite Ducks Unlimited baseball cap.
Schneider wound up sprawled on his back on the front lawn of his house on Alwyn Boulevard. Full Story - Genesis Magazine - Tareyton Cigarettes - Cambridge SoundWorks

CONCORD NH - A man who said he had been harassed by police in Troy stole a bulldozer and rammed the town police station early Friday, heavily damaging the building, police said.
“He hit it three times,” State Police Sgt. David Griffin said. “He took out the whole front, which included the main entrance to the police department.”
Stanley Burt, 34, who has had numerous run-ins with the local police, is charged with criminal mischief and reckless conduct with a deadly weapon, as well as driving and probation violations. Full Story - Video - Military Trader Magazine - Vantage Cigarettes - Casual Male XL

ASPEN, Colo. — Julius Caesar lay dead and Brutus was talking to his co-conspirators about swords and blood when he paused and excused himself, saying “I seem to have stabbed myself.”
Aspen actor/director Kent Hudson Reed accidently cut his leg open with the knife he was using in an outdoor performance of “Scenes From Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar” on Wednesday.
He tried to carry on, “but my boot was filling up with blood and I was flubbing my lines, wondering if I was going to pass out, wondering if the audience could see the blood.” Full Story - Martha Stewart Living Magazine - Capri Cigarettes - Fig Leaves

New Delhi: India’s tobacco exports are likely to touch Rs16,050 million towards the end of current fiscal, from Rs15060.20 million in last fiscal, as growers get ready to export more than 60% of their produce in view of domestic tobacco’s rising demand in countries like Russia, Vietnam, UK, Germany and Belgium.
According to a study carried out by Assocham on ‘Prospects of tobacco to exports for current fiscal’, domestic tobacco sector in the past few years has come out of ressession, impact of which would be favourable, leading to higher tobacco exports. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions

Japan Tobacco Inc., the world’s third-largest cigarette maker, will seek more takeovers from 2009 to build on the 7.5 billion pound ($15 billion) purchase of Gallaher Group Plc, President Hiroshi Kimura said.
Further acquisitions “would be realistic from 2009,” Kimura said in an Aug. 29 interview. The integration of the British maker of Benson & Hedges cigarettes, purchased in April, will be completed in two years, he said.
Kimura, 54, is seeking to expand overseas as cigarette consumption falls in the Tokyo-based company’s home market, which accounts for 76 percent of sales. Japanese tobacco revenue slumped 13 percent in the first quarter as the nation’s population declined and anti-smoking campaigns increased. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions

FRANKFURT - EU health commissioner Markos Kyprianou aims to ban tobacco companies from sponsoring Formula 1 automotive racing, according to an interview by Financial Times Deutschland.
‘Formula 1 is a symbol,’ Kyprianou told the newspaper.
‘We have to reduce tobacco advertising as much as possible so that we can eliminate the influence on young people.’ Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions