Asean rights pact ‘ignores migrant workers’

Asean rights pact ‘ignores migrant workers’
Malaysiakini news Nov 22, 07
Migrant rights groups in Southeast Asia have slammed Asean leaders for signing a charter that ignores the issue of migrant workers. 
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The charter establishes the regional bloc as a rules-based legal entity, creates a single market and production base, and allows for the free flow of business [...]

Revisiting the political genie in us…

Revisiting the political genie in us…
Extracts from_  Malaysiakini letter by Dr David KL Quek | Jul 11, 08
‘Mankind’s moral sense is not a strong beacon light, radiating outward to illuminate in sharp outline all that it touches. It is, rather, a small candle flame, casting vague and multiple shadows, flickering and sputtering in the strong winds [...]

Foreign workers’ Visa probe: ACA detains 20 persons including Malaysia Immigration’s two DGs and several Datuks

Deputy D-G and kin also held
Sunday,July 13,2008
KLANG: Immigration Department deputy director-general Yusof Abu Bakar and a close relative have been remanded for five days by a magistrate’s court here to assist the ACA in a graft probe.
Yusof, 54 and the relative were brought before the court at about 11.20am.

ACA catch: Yusof being led to the [...]

Chinese leader pledges (FOREIGN)media freedom (ONLY) during Olympics

BEIJING (AP) – A top Chinese official reiterated Beijing’s pledge Friday to give foreign journalists unfettered access during the Olympic games, despite skepticism by human rights advocates and continued harrassment of reporters in China.
Li Changchun, the fifth-ranked official in the country, is encouraging foreign journalists to report “extensively” on the games, the China Daily newspaper [...]

As Olympics Approach, Oppressive Grip Tightens

 
By Ally Wang, Mimi Li, and Shaoshao Chen
Jul 09,2008
NEW YORK—In less than 30 days, Beijing will kick off its opening ceremonies for the 2008 Olympics. While China prepares for its appearance on the world’s center stage, the Tibetans, Uighurs, Falun Gong practitioners, and political dissidents of China will undoubtedly suffer 30 days of persecution and [...]

Tibet exile says 209 died in anti-China protests

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Chinese crackdown in Tibet has killed at least 209 anti-government protesters and turned the mountainous province into a virtual prison, the speaker of the self-proclaimed Tibetan parliament-in-exile said on Friday.
 
“According to information which we checked and double- checked, the latest number of people killed is 209,” said Karma Chophel, speaker of [...]

Amnesty seeks ‘missing’ Tibetans

More than 1,000 Tibetans detained during protests against the Chinese government in March remain unaccounted for, Amnesty International says.
In a report, the human rights group said there were reports that detainees had been beaten and deprived of food.
Ahead of the Olympic torch relay through Tibet, Amnesty asked China to “shine some light” on the situation.

If Tibet Buddhists are banned, all the Buddhists around the world should boycott Beijing Olympics

If Tibet Buddhists are banned,
all the Buddhists around the world
should boycott Beijing Olympics
 
By Chris Buckley 
LHASA, China (Reuters) – Tibet’s exiled Dalai Lama remains a spiritual leader but is politically anathema, a senior monk in Lhasa told foreign reporters on an official visit that underscored tensions in the mountain region.
Lobsang Chopel, a senior monk at [...]

Chinese authorities in revenge attacks on Tibetan monks

Tourists are reportedly trickling back in to Tibet, four months after China effectively closed the area to foreigners.
That followed violent protests in Lhasa in March and unrest in the ethnic Tibetan areas of the neighbouring provinces of Gansu, Sichuan and Qinghai. But one man who has had access to the region is Dr John Powers.

Tibetan monasteries empty as China jails monks to silence Olympic protests

Jane Macartney in Beijing

Chinese authorities tightened security around Tibet’s main monasteries and banned visits to a sacred site on the edge of the capital, Lhasa, for fear of a fresh outburst of unrest on the Dalai Lama’s birthday.
Few monks remain, however, in the province’s three most important monasteries. Many have disappeared, their whereabouts a [...]

China warns of Muslim terrorist threat ahead of Olympics

BEIJING (AFP) — China insisted on Thursday it faced a serious terror threat in its Muslim-majority far northwest ahead of the Olympics, as it announced 82 “suspected terrorists” had been detained there this year.
The 82 belonged to five groups that “allegedly plotted sabotage against the Beijing Olympics,” the official Xinhua news agency reported, citing the [...]

If Chinese Mongolians are banned, all the Mongolians around the world should boycott Beijing Olympics

If Chinese Mongolians are banned
all the Mongolians around the world should boycott
Beijing Olympics
]Reuters
Tuesday,July 8,2008
By Ben Blanchard
HOHHOT, China, July 8 (Reuters) – In China’s pre-Olympics crackdown on dissent two communities have received considerable global attention — the Tibetans and the Muslim Uighurs of Xinjiang.
But dissidents and rights groups say the government is targetting another ethnic group [...]

If Chinese Muslims are banned, all the Muslims around the world should boycott Beijing Olympics

If Chinese Muslims are banned
all the Muslims around the world should boycott
Beijing Olympics
 

By VOA News
16 June 2008
The people of Xinjiang in far western China, including millions of ethnic Uighurs, have been advised to stay home during their Olympic torch relay on Tuesday “for safety reasons.”
A top sports official in Xinjiang, Li Guangming says safety concerns [...]

China detains 82 Muslims, wrongly accusing as terrorists

China detains 82 Muslims
wrongly accusing as terrorists

BEIJING (AFP) – Chinese police have this year detained 82 suspected terrorists in the nation’s Muslim-populated far northwest who were planning to attack the Beijing Olympics, state media reported on Thursday.
The 82 belonged to five groups that “allegedly plotted sabotage against the Beijing Olympics,” Xinhua news agency [...]