Foreign workers to put under house-arrest at Apartheid Xenophobic Iskandar, Malaysia-Singapore development project

Iskandar may house foreign workers in gated areas
Tuesday May 27, 2008                         
By NELSON BENJAMIN
JOHOR BARU: A study will be done to see if there is a need for special gated colonies to house foreign workers for the Iskandar Malaysia development project.
Comment: I hope the reader is familiar with the following two notorious words_

Apartheid
Xenophobia

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Don’t forget cyclone victims in Myanmar, pleads foundation

Don’t forget cyclone victims in Myanmar, pleads foundation

KUALA LUMPUR: Victims of the cyclone in Myanmar are in dire need of humanitarian aid, and Malaysians have been asked not to forget about them when making donations.
Lee Mun Keat, 48, an administrative officer attached to the Kuala Lumpur branch of the Buddhist Tzu-Chi Merits Society Malaysia, said [...]

Let’s start a global struggle (in Burmese)

 Let’s start a global struggle (in Burmese)
 
ကမၻာလံုးဆိုင္ရာလႈပ္ရွားမႈ စတင္ၾကပါစို ့

ဒီစာကို Select ေပးၿပီးေရးပါ…ေန ့စြဲ -ေမလ ၂၆၊ ၂၀၀၈
ေလးစားအပ္ပါေသာ
ျပည္တြင္းျပည္ပရိွညီအကိုေမာင္ႏွမအေပါင္းတို ့ခင္ဗ်ား
ရန္ကုန္ျမိဳ ့ ဆီဒိုးနားေဟာ္တယ္ မွာက်င္းပျပဳလုပ္ျပီးသြားတဲ့ အလ်ဴရွင္မ်ား အစည္းေ၀း – Donors Meeting – အျပီးမွာ ေလေဘးဒုကၡသည္မ်ားအေျခအေနဟာ အလြန္ကိုဆိုး၀ါးေနဆဲျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ပုသိမ္မွာရိွတဲ့ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားဟာ ေနရပ္ကိုအတင္းအၾကပ္ျပန္ပို ့တာခံေနရပါတယ္။ ဖ်ာပံု၊က်ိဳက္လတ္နဲ ့အျခားျမိဳ ့နယ္မ်ားမွာရိွတဲ့ ေလေဘးဒုကၡသည္မ်ားဟာလည္း မျဖစ္စေလာက္အကူညီတခါနစ္ခါလာေပးတာကလြဲလို ့ဘာတခုမွမရရိွေသးပါဘူး။
နဂ်စ္မုန္တိုင္းက က်ေနာ္တို ့ျပည္သူ သိန္းေပါင္းမ်ားစြာရဲ ့အသက္ကို တမဟုတ္ျခင္းေခ်ြခဲ့ပါတယ္။ မေသလို ့က်န္ခဲ့တဲ့ ၂သန္းနီးပါးျပည္သူေတြကေတာ့ ကုလသမဂနဲ ့အာဆီယံနိင္ငံေတြရဲ ့တေျဖးေျဖးျခင္းညင္းသတ္တာကိုခံရေတာ့မွာပါ။
ျပည္သူလူထုမွာအကာအကြယ္မဲ့ေနပါျပီ။

Cartoons from Irrawaddy News Magazine

International Aid With Tough Conditions Attached

Myanmar Embassy Fire May Delay Visas for Cyclone Relief Workers

By Michael Heath
 
photo:Xinhua
 
May 27 (Bloomberg) — International aid workers seeking permission to enter Myanmar to help survivors of Tropical Cyclone Nargis may be delayed after a fire at Myanmar’s embassy in Bangkok, the United Nations said.
The fire “prompted the closure of the visa section and created a fresh obstacle for the aid community,” the UN’s [...]