Posted on April 30, 2008 by sanooaung
MUHAMMED (PBUH) THE LAST PROPHET
MUHAMMED THE LAST PROPHET “__Part 1
MUHAMMED THE LAST PROPHET “__Part 2
MUHAMMED THE LAST PROPHET “__Part 3
MUHAMMED THE LAST PROPHET “__Part 4
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Posted on April 29, 2008 by sanooaung
Request to the YB Home Minister to help us from becoming undocumented illegal foreigners
YB Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar
Malaysian Home Minister
Putra Jaya
Re: Request to the YB Home Minister to help us from becoming undocumented illegal foreigners.
Dear YB Datuk Seri,
MyPR, was only introduced in June 2006 but government announced, ordering us to change our ICs [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2008 by sanooaung
The Breach of Social Contract that Leads to
The Dawn of the Revolution in Burma
SAN OO AUNG in BURMA DIGEST
In the book Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes, wrote in 1642 about a minimalist state which was strangely similar to the present day Myanmar and SPDC Junta. Let’s compare that Leviathan State with the Myanmar under successive Military Dictators.
1. The [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2008 by sanooaung
Asian Values & Western Values
As San Oo Aung in Burma Digest
Most of the western countries had progressed from the struggles to just meet their biological needs of food, shelter and security to the social progress to meet their psychological needs of social values such as Human Rights and Individual Freedoms.
“ASIAN VALUES” apologists claim that certain [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2008 by sanooaung
Displaced People’s Socio-Medical Sufferings
Dr. San Oo Aung in Burma Digest
Common medical problems in refugees
Apart from physical wounds or starvation, a large percentage of refugees develops symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or depression. These long-term mental problems can severely impede the functionality of the person in everyday situations; it makes matters even worse for displaced [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2008 by sanooaung
Open letter to the European Commission, and European leaders
Feb 20th, 2006
Dear Your Honours,
We all thank the EU for the strong stand against the Burmese Government. But recently, we are sad to see the signs of policy shift of EU against Burmese Junta and their ministers. We understand that all the politics are fluid and constantly [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2008 by sanooaung
Internally Displaced Persons or IDPs
As KO TIN NWE in Burma Digest
Also known as Internally displaced people.
“A refugee is a person, who owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality, and is unable [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2008 by sanooaung
Let’s show our hatred to SPDC
As SHWE BA (BURMA DIGEST)
For everything there is a season,
And a time for every matter under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down, [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2008 by sanooaung
No light at the End of the Tunnel for Most of the Refugees
AS SHWE BA (BURMA DIGEST)
20th June is World Refugee Day and many people around the world are celebrating the International Refugee Day in recognition of the millions of refugees around the world displaced internally or across the border, by conflict, persecution and other [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2008 by sanooaung
Dilemmas of Revolutionaries
As SHWE BA in Burma Digest
Revolution!
What is revolution? What is the aim and objective? What are the Tactics and Strategies for revolution?
Violence or nonviolence? What is the goal? What is the plan for the final push, knock-out strike or lethal last assault to grasp power? What is the plan to control the country [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2008 by sanooaung
Torch the Beijing Olympics
Extracts from Manjit Bhatia’s article in the Malaysiakini
MANJIT BHATIA, an academician and writer, is also research director of AsiaRisk, a political, economic and risk analysis consultancy in Australia. He specialises in international economics and politics, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific.
I just saw an advertisement for Visa on television featuring Jackie Chan.
Now [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2008 by sanooaung
DSAI’s older Hard Talk with Stephen Sackur
Anwar Ibrahim
What will the future hold for Anwar Ibrahim’s political career?
In a HARDtalk interview on May 10th, Stephen Sackur talks to Malaysia’s former Deputy Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim.
Click here to watch the full interview
For more than two decades Malaysian politics was dominated by one man – former [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2008 by sanooaung
‘Free Tibet’ flags made in China
BBC News
Known as the Snow Lion Flag
Introduced in 1912
Banned in mainland China
Police in southern China have discovered a factory manufacturing Free Tibet flags, media reports say.
The factory in Guangdong had been completing overseas orders for the flag of the Tibetan government-in-exile.
Workers said they thought they were just making colourful [...]
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Posted on April 28, 2008 by sanooaung
BBC Hard Talk with Dato Seri Syed Hamid Albar
BBC Hard Talk before becoming an Anti_Foreigner Minister
In a HardTalk programme first broadcast on Thursday 13 September 2007, Sarah Montague talks to Malaysian Foreign Minister Dato Seri Syed Hamid Albar.
Click here to watch the interview
Malaysia has just marked fifty years of independence, and there’s much to celebrate.
Living [...]
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