BATU AKIK RED BORNEO KALIMANTAN

Pamor batu mulia di Martapura, Banjarmasin, Kalimantan Selatan, semakin populer, terutama dengan mekunculan batu Red Borneo yang mempesona. Batu yang juga dikenal sebagai Ruby Kalimantan tersebut belakangan ini menjadi magnet baru di Martapura. Hingga kini batu Red Borneo sangat diburu oleh para kolektor dan pencinta batu akik. Apalagi belum lama ini batu Red Borneo menjuarai kontes batu nasional di Jakarta, dan dihargai Rp 1 miliar. Batu Red Borneo hanya ditemukan di Kalimantan Selatan, di Kabupaten Banjar, dan tidak ditemukan didaerah-daerah lain. Oleh karena itu batu Red Borneo juga sering disebut Batu Merah Borneo.  Nama yang biasa disematkan pada batu ini adalah Natural Rhodonite. Batu ini adalah batu solid yang memiliki...

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Boaz dan Busthomi mendapat perhatian khusus dari pihak luar

TRIBUNNEWS.COM, JAKARTA - Pemain Indonesia Boaz Salossan dan Ahmad Busthomi mendapat perhatian khusus dari pihak luar yang menyaksikan pertandingan Indonesia vs Turkmenistan. Pertandingan ini ternyata dipantau oleh pelatih pengurus klub Sime Darby yang jauh-jauh datang dari Negeri Jiran, Malaysia. Sime Darby adalah tim yang bermain di kompetisi sepakbola Malaysia di kasta Liga Perdana. Sime Darby mengutus langsung Pelatih Ismail Zakaria, mantan pelatih Selangor FC dengan ditemani Manajer Tim, Zainal untuk menyaksikan pertandingan di Stadion Utama Gelora Bung Karno, Senayan, Jakarta. Dua pria ini mengamati langsung jalannya pertandingan dari awal hingga akhir. Dari pengamatan itu, Zakaria mengaku tertarik dengan Boaz dan Busthomi serta berhasrat mengontrak dua pemain di posisi striker dan...

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Chinese medicine may be effective in battling certain symptoms of Parkinson's disease, and lessening side effects

HONG KONG: Chinese medicine may be effective in battling certain symptoms of Parkinson's disease, and lessening side effects from the drugs used to treat the condition, according to a new study. Researchers at Hong Kong Baptist University said Gouteng, a traditional Chinese herb used to treat hypertension, helped patients better communicate and made them less prone to depression and sleeping difficulties. "There is no cure for Parkinson's right now, but the study showed Chinese medicine can help treat the disease," a university spokesman told AFP on Thursday. Parkinson's is a progressive motor-system disorder which usually affects people over the age of 50, although it can strike earlier, often causing severe symptoms including body trembling,...

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Amy Winehouse released only two albums in her life

NEW YORK (AP) —  Amy Winehouse released only two albums in her life, one of which sold more than a million copies, won five Grammys and sparked a retro soul movement that hasn't yet stopped. The small output, in inverse relation to her outsized talent, made her death Saturday in London all the more tragic. Fans will only be able to imagine the unrecorded singles, the never-to-be concerts and the comeback album that didn't come. It's a sadly familiar script in pop music, the history of which is checkered with greats and would-be greats snuffed out too early in life. Almost as soon as news of Winehouse's death broke and spread across social media, fans were inducting her into the unfortunate pantheon of music talents gone too soon. Many noted that Winehouse, 27, shared the same age at...

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