Melbourne, Aug 22: In a startling revelation made by Time magazine, poor children are first kidnapped from Chennai, in southern India, sold out to an adoption agency “Malaysian Social Services” for an amount as low as Rs 10,000-12000, and the agency finally sends them out to Australia to be “adopted” by different families.

More than a dozen “pretty” children kidnapped in Indian slums have ended up being adopted in Australia, the Magazine reported, and quoted the Indian Police as saying that at least 13 kidnapped children were adopted by Australian families in recent months.

Wellington  - New Zealand and Australia have contingency plans to evacuate their citizens from Fiji in an emergency, New Zealand's defence minister said Friday as the Pacific island state's military leader warned his people of hard times ahead.

Minister Phil Goff confirmed after talks with his Australian counterpart, Joel Fitzgibbon, in Wellington the existence of a joint plan to evacuate their people from Fiji if the security situation deteriorated and they were in danger.

"We don't expect the situation to deteriorate," he told reporters, "but we would be remiss in our duty not to have a plan in place."

Pharmaceutical major Lupin has acquired a minority stake in Melbourne-headquartered Generic Health, for undisclosed amount.

Generic Health, markets a wide range of quality generic prescriptions and OTC products. The company has recently acquired Bellwether Pharma and has entered into a strategic alliance with Actavis.

Australia is one of the leading global markets with sales of over Australian $10 billion (including branded generics and OTC), and witnessing a rapid genericisation.

Software exporter HCL Technologies L

Melbourne, Aug 21 : The internet may be considered a dark and dangerous tool, flooded with porn, but according to Google''s new search analysis tool, most Oz web users are looking for a more innocent form of entertainment.

According to Google''s latest data tool ''Insights,'' more Australians search the internet for games than adult content, and Australians overall are relatively responsible web surfers, reports News. com. au.

The tool provides comparisons of search terms over time and broken down by region, which enables users to see not only what search subjects are most popular, but also when and where.

Sydney, August 21 : A study conducted by a prominent U. S. media watchdog, known as the Parents Television Council, has revealed that adultery, teen sex and lust are hot topics on prime-time TV.

The council said that it studied over 207 hours of scripted shows on the five main American broadcast networks, and found that spoken references to non-marital sex outnumbered mentions of marital intimacy by about three to one.

The ratio was four to one for scenes that visually depict or imply sex, said the council.

The study showed once-taboo topics like partner-swapping, threesomes, strippers and prostitution were increasingly becoming common these days.