Posted on July 23, 2008 by sanooaung
By JIM GOMEZ / AP WRITER
Tuesday,July 22,2008
SINGAPORE — Burma’s junta has indicated it will oppose any effort to give a Southeast Asian human rights body the power to monitor or investigate rights violations in the region, diplomats said Tuesday.
A high-level panel of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations started work Monday to set up the [...]
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Posted on July 23, 2008 by sanooaung
My PROTON article in Malaysiakini, published in 2002:
Probe Proton bugs
The news of Mitsubishi Motors chief quitting and taking responsibility for the 33 years of cover-up about defective vehicles made me think about Proton.I am 100 percent sure Proton would not emulate this honorable action. Our “Asian values and Malaysian Values” are different from the Japanese values. [...]
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Posted on July 23, 2008 by sanooaung
See No Evil, Speak No Evil
DISQUIET
- – -Speaking of the concerns expressed by the US State Department on the current investigations , Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Dr R is reported as having defended the application of the Rule of Law in this country.
Dr R had indicated that he wished to enter into a debate on [...]
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