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THE WORLDS...busiest port

2006-06-07T09:25:00.000-07:00

Busiest port (by cargo volume)In 2004 a total of 393 million tonnes (866 billion lb) of cargo passed through the port of Singapore, making it the world's busiest. Containerised cargo accounted for 223 million tonnes (492 billion lb), with oil (129 million tonnes or 284 billion lb) accounting for the second largest portion. The remainder consisted of 'conventional' and non-oil bulk cargo. imagine that??

OUR port doesnt even reach 5 million tonnes a year
Port of manila

THE WORLDS...smallest fish

2006-06-06T23:43:00.000-07:00

Wait wait wait..all my life i thought that the worlds smallest fish is actually located in the PHILIPPINES!!!

Wel its not! Researchers have found one of the smallest known fish on record in the peat swamps of the INDONESIAN island of Sumatra. And its called Paedocypris genus can be just 7.9mm long at maturity. kala ko DILIS hahaha!

But they warn long-term prospects for the fish are poor, because of rapid destruction of Indonesian peat swamps.
The fish have to survive in pools of acid water in a tropical forest swamp.
"This is one of the strangest fish that I've seen in my whole career," said Ralf Britz, a zoologist at the Natural History Museum in London, UK.
"It's tiny, it lives in acid and it has these bizarre grasping fins. I hope we'll have time to find out more about them before their habitat disappears completely."
The new fish was discovered by Maurice Kottelat (from Switzerland) and Tan Heok Hui from the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research in Singapore, while working with colleagues from Indonesia and with Kai-Erik Witte from the Max Planck Institute in Germany.
Ralf Britz helped analyse the animal's skeleton and the complex structure of the pelvic fin.

HUMAN THREAT!! **Earthlings read pls**

Paedocypris can sustain their small bodies grazing on plankton near the bottom of their water pools.
To keep their size down, the fish have abandoned many of the attributes of adulthood - a characteristic hinted at in their name.
Their brain, for example, lacks bony protection and the females have room to carry just a few eggs.
The males have a little clasp underneath that might help them fertilize eggs individually.
Being so small, the fish can live through even extreme drought, by seeking refuge in the last puddles of the swamp; but they are now threatened by humans.
Widespread forest destruction, drainage of the peat swamps for palm oil plantations and persistent fires are destroying their habitat.
Science may have discovered Paedocypris just in time - but many of their miniature relatives may already have been wiped out.
There have been claims for even smaller fish but some researchers dispute whether the specimens measured were truly adult forms.

THE WORLDS.....Tallest building

2006-06-06T22:50:00.000-07:00

The taipei 101..Cool eh? Its the tallest buliding at the moment it is located at Hsinyi dist., Taipei, Taiwan; also known as the Taipei Financial Center. With 101 stories and reaching 1,671 ft (509 m) high, Taipei 101 became the world's tallest building when it was topped out in 2003, surpassing the Petronas Towers; construction, which began in 1999, was completed in 2004. Designed by C. Y. Lee & Partners, the multiuse steel-and-glass skyscraper echoes a traditional Chinese pagoda with its soaring podium base, eight tiers of eight stories (a number that is a homophone for prosperous growth in Chinese), and narrow pinnacle tower and spire. A 18-ft (5.5-m), 882-ton (800-metric-ton), ball-shaped damper located near the top counteracts swaying during earthquakes and typhoons. The damper ball is the first and was designed specificaly for the taipei 101. Taipei 101 is part of the city infastructure modernization including bridges,universities and ofcourse the taipei 101 for the financial ditrict.

By the way our tallest building is PBcom tower 52-stories, is a joint development of Filinvest Asia Corporation (FAC) and the Philippine Bank of Communications. FAC is a joint venture between FDC and Reco Herrera Pte. Ltd., an investing vehicle of the Government of Singapore Real Estate Ltd. Located along Ayala Avenue in Makati, PBCom Tower is a PEZA-accredited information technology zone. It is now home to call centers such as India's Daksh E-services, business processing outsource companies such as Citibank and multinationals like American Express, Schering, Sony Life, AIG and New York Life.