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Hard work, no fame for bodybuilders |
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 Contestants pose during the Ms Quench ‘body shape’ contest in Yangon on July 2. Pic: Hein Latt Aung
AUNG Swe Naing, the winner of the Mr Crusher bodybuilding contest in Yangon on July 2, is very satisfied with his body, but he’s not so happy with the negative attitudes that he says are curtailing growth of his chosen sport in Myanmar.
“The biggest reason why there is so little interest in bodybuilding in Myanmar is because people from our society are very selfish,” he said
“Most people involved in bodybuilding do not want to share their techniques with others. At the same time, they feel satisfied with what they know and they have not been interested in gaining new knowledge about the sport, so it’s not as developed in Myanmar as it should be,” he said.
Another reason why bodybuilding might not be popular is the current fascination with slender and supple bodies like those of South Korean celebrities seen on television.
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Parents main culprit in children’s obesity, says foundation |
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 Children look at a pile of fruit and vegetables during a news conference organized by Formosa Cancer Foundation on June 17. Photo: Chu Pei-hsiung, Taipei Times
A dietary behavior study conducted by the Formosa Cancer Foundation (FCF) a couple of months ago found that the majority of obese children in Taiwan’s elementary schools have parents who are yielding too much to their child’s dietary decisions. The survey shows that over 60 percent of parents with obese children allow their children to choose what food they eat. Only 13 percent of the parents actually encouraged their children to eat fruit and vegetables when their child refused to eat them, and 30 percent put snacks in their child’s schoolbag for them to munch on between meals. Twenty percent of the parents with obese children believed their child’s Body Mass Index (BMI) to be at a normal level, despite the conspicuous corpulence of their child, and nearly 20 percent of them did not even know the meaning of the term BMI.
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Daredevil rescue workers earn fame for Taiwan |
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 A member of the International Headquarters Search and Rescue, Taiwan, descends a building with a rope in Taiwan as applicants look on from the ground. (Takio Murakami)
TAIPEI--From all walks of life they come, Taiwan's bravest and toughest, the men and women volunteers who risk their lives in disaster zones, sporting the national flag on their red uniforms.
Up to 3,700 citizens, from company owners and public servants to researchers and students, are on standby for the International Headquarters Search and Rescue, Taiwan (Taiwan Rescue).
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Over 30 underage minors held captive in labor supply agency camp |
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TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: At least 37 underage minors were found to have been held illegally in an East Jakarta labor camp run by a migrant worker placement agency (PJTKI), according to recent findings announced on Monday.
The National Board for the Placement and Protection of Indonesian Overseas Workers, or BNP2TKI, identified the placement agency only as PT T.M.A, adding that the underage minors were illegally held captive at the agency's training center in Batu Ampar, East Jakarta, and the case had been unraveled following a raid.
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