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Wellington: A lock of hair from Napoleon Bonaparte has sold at US$ 130 in auction in Wellington, New Zealand, recently. A collector from England, has won the auction and got the historic thing.

The thing has the historic value because the lock of hair was cut from Napoleon’s head in the morning he died. Other Napoleon’s memorabilia, that were also sold at high prices, included a diary of British officer who supervised Napoleon in prison, which was completed with the conversations with Napoleon, and a metal painting.

The Ambassador of the United States (US) for Indonesia, Cameron R Hume, asserted that his country was ready to assist the development of education in Indonesia with the funds amounting to 160 million US dollars.

"The support has been signed by President Obama and President Yudhoyono in a meeting in Canada in a few weeks ago," he said, at Surabaya, 1 July 2010, Thursday night.

In the break time in US Independence Day commemoration (Fourth of July) in Surabaya, he said that form of activities in case of the education development would be determined by Indonesia-US Joint Commission.

"Indonesia-US Joint Commission that will formalize the activities, but the principle shape depends on what are prompted by the Indonesian government," he said, accompanied by U.S. Consul General in Surabaya, Carryn McClelland.

Still, he said, education cooperation has actually been running between Indonesia and the U.S., including the teaching program by 20 English teachers from the U.S. on a number of schools in East Java.

"There is also a University of Hasanuddin (Hasanuddin University) in Makassar, which requires cooperation of biological marine education with a university in Los Angeles”, he said.

Beijing police have arrested more than 100 people involved in online gambling syndicates that operate in the bamboo curtain country, China. Police in Beijing, Thursday, said nine of them had been made suspects. Police said the syndicate had a network in 21 provinces and districts. Syndicates that make a system that allows Internet users all over the country to access the portal gambling offshore, and thus they can access the casino games in an instant of time, such as Baccarat and roulette through online video.

In Beijing in this year alone, internet system has recorded 52 000 syndicates placing bets worth 2.1 billion yuan (about 308 million U.S. dollars). China tightens supervision of the Police and take strong action against perpetrators of online gambling. In a separate case, police in Provnisn Liaoning, northeast China, earlier this week said, they have taken stern action against a large number of players of online gambling, which made a bet before the start of football since the World Cup. Police in the province have arrested 40 members of the gang, and found the money at stake valued at 100 million yuan between November 2009 and March 2010. Police said the syndicate was using an internet portal that allows overseas users to make bets ball. The members of the syndicate was using a pseudonym and did not know the identity of each other clearly.

Sauda, the widow of a retired TNI soldier threatened one-year prison sentence in the case of land disputes in the Road Otista, Bandung, West Java. This dispute involves Sauda with Kimiati aka Mok Kim Mok Hoeng, Suryadi Senjaya Tjiong aka Jit Seng and Jaka Sendjaya Koen aka Jit Jiong who now inhabit the house on the land.

Sauda now could only lay limp in the treatment room Rajawali Hospital Bandung. In the midst of his health condition which continues to decline, 67-year-old widow has to be prepared to accept the decision of the Supreme Court for reconsideration claiming proven legally and convincingly perform fraudulent actions grant letter. This case stems from a lawsuit filed by Sauda to Kimiati Mok, Suryadi Senjaya, Jaka Sendjaya Housing and the Head Office of the City of Bandung. Land held three defendants were declared to belong to the evidence Sauda grant letter dated July 3, 1960. But in its development, instead turning Sauda reported Suryadi and friends of the suspected counterfeit note that grant. Suspicion is strengthened and the High Court decision was Jabar. Sauda now have to prepare one-year jail sentence. Yesterday the team went to legal counsel Sauda Kejari Bandung office to request a stay of execution.