Maid Added Menstrual Blood To Improve Relationship

Maid Added Menstrual Blood To Improve Relationship

Indonesian maid, Indra Ningsih, aged 26, accused of adding menstrual blood to her employer’s food in order to improve their relationship. He is now facing trial in Hong Kong court.


In some southeastern Asian countries, menstrual blood is thought to have special powers. So she mixed menstrual blood into a pot of vegetables as a sort of guaranteed panacea for improving relations between herself and her employer.

This action was discovered completely by chance. Her female employer, Mok, entered the kitchen of her home and found the maid acting rather strangely. She caught her throwing something into the trash bin, which turned out to be a used sanitary napkin.

When she looked into the pot of vegetables, she noticed something “suspicious” floating around mixed with the vegetables and water.

Indra has not yet entered a plea.

Icebox Preserves Fishermen

Icebox Preserves Fishermen

Two Burmese men survived 25 days at sea in a giant icebox after their fishing boat sank southeast of Indonesia.

They drifted hundreds of miles in shark infested waters before a Coastwatch plane spotted them off Australia.

They were eventually found about 60 nautical miles away in the Torres Strait, off Queensland, reports The Sun.

After being winched to safety, they told rescuers they had been forced to crew a 10m long Thai fishing boat.

When their vessel started to sink, the two survivors climbed into the icebox as other crew searched desperately for something to grab from the wreck.

It is believed the men survived by drinking rain water that gathered at the bottom of the box and by eating scraps of fish that were also in the container.

Emergency Management Queensland helicopter pilot Terry Gadenne told Channel 7 the men were ecstatic to see rescuers.

"When they got up they sculled two litres of water each within seconds. It's a bloody big ocean to be drifting around in," he said.

It is believed 11 other Burmese crew and seven Thais were on board but no others have been found.

Indian doctor couple among winners

Indian doctor couple among winners

An Indian couple providing medical care and education to tribal people, a Philippine governor crippled by polio and an unconventional Japanese publisher are among winners of this year's Magsaysay awards, its foundation announced on Thursday.

The Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation named Prakash and Mandakini Amte for the community leadership award. The couple, both medical doctors, run a hospital and school for the Madia Gond tribals in a remote part of central India.

The awards, seen as Asia's equivalent of the Nobel prize, also honoured Ahmad Syafii Maarif, the head of Indonesia's powerful Muhammadiyah group, Thai prosthetic limb manufacturer Therdchai Jivacate and Sri Lankan social worker Ananda Galappatti.

Grace Padaca, governor of the Philippine province of Isabela, received the award for government service. Crippled by childhood polio, she defeated a powerful political dynasty in the 2004 elections and was re-elected last year.

Akio Ishii received the award for journalism, literature and creative communication arts, the foundation said. Ishii is the head of publishing house Akashi Shoten, which has about 2,800 books in print that place discrimination, human rights and other difficult subjects in Japan's public domain, the foundation said.

The award for public service was given to the Centre for Agriculture and Rural Development Mutually Reinforcing Institutions, of the Philippines.

The awards, named for a popular Philippine president killed in a plane crash, were set up in 1957 by the trustees of the New York-based Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

More than 250 people and 17 groups, including the U.S. Peace Corps and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, have been recognized by the foundation since the first awards in 1958.