Please globalize the universaties for real progress

Please globalize the universaties for real progress
Borrowing the words of the American social reconstructionist George Counts, who wrote of the need to reconstruct society through education, I propose that we seriously engage in a national dialogue on the beauty of diversity in our public universities.
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DSAI can forgive, not forget

DSAI can forgive, not forget
Malaysiakini interview
Steven Gan & K Kabilan | Aug 14, 08
Please read my article, which I wrote yesterday, requesting DSAI to consider forgiveness
 
Anwar Ibrahim said he was willing to forgive his enemies for his woes in the past decade should he become prime minister, but he will never forget.

“It’s not easy to [...]

Dear DSAI, use your liberty for the liberation of Burmese political prisoners

 
Dear DSAI,

once you become PM,
please kindly use your liberty
for the liberation of
all the Burmese political prisoners
 
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi unveils ‘Loot Lat Yae’ campaign, asks voters to save country.
 
Daydreeming after reading Athi Veeranggan’s Malaysiakini news article on Aug 14, 08
Burmese Democratic leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has picked ‘Loot Lat [...]

Xenophobia

Originally the word xenophobia comes from the Greek words xénos, meaning ‘the stranger’ and ‘the guest’ and phóbos, meaning ‘fear’. Thus, xenophobia stands for ‘fear of the stranger’, but usually the term is taken to mean ‘hatred of strangers’1. Xenophobia can be understood as “an attitudinal orientation of hostility against non-natives in a given population”.2

In [...]

Is the Bill of Guarantees under the Multimedia Super Corridor discarded?

Is the Bill of Guarantees under the Multimedia Super Corridor discarded
Court order against Raja Petra riles bloggers
Shafee latest challenger to RPK’s online stature

 

ANALYSIS
By Shannon Teoh
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 14 — The court order requiring controversial blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin (RPK) to reveal the identities of readers who commented on some articles he posted has stirred up the [...]

Apartheid

Apartheid, social and political policy of racial segregation and discrimination enforced by white minority governments in South Africa from 1948 to 1994.

 
The term apartheid (from the Afrikaans word for “apartness”) was coined in the 1930s and used as a political slogan of the National Party in the early 1940s, but the policy itself extends back [...]

Fuel price protestors face new charges

Aug 13, 2008 (DVB)–Eight students and human rights activists arrested during protests against fuel price hikes last year have had five further charges added to their original charge of sedition, said their family members.
The student activists and Human Rights Defenders and Promoters network members will now be charged under sections 143, 145, 147, 295(a) and [...]

KNU commemorates Martyrs’ Day

Aug 13, 2008 (DVB)–The Karen National Union pledged to continue its struggle at a ceremony to mark the 58th annual Karen Martyrs’ Day, which was held yesterday on KNU brigade 7 territory.
The ceremony started with a military parade by 150 Karen National Liberation Army soldiers and brigade 7 provincial chairman Pada Ahto read out a [...]

UN Human Rights Envoy Cancels Press Conference

By VIOLET CHO
Wednesday,August 13,2008
The new UN Human Rights Special Rapporteur on Burma canceled a press conference in Bangkok on Wednesday, a sign that his first trip to Burma yielded little practical results, say activists.
Tomas Ojea Quintana arrived in Rangoon on August 3 on his mission to Burma and scheduled a press conference after he left [...]

“Courage in Journalism” Award for Burmese Woman

By MIN LWIN
Wednesday,August 13,2008
A Burmese woman journalist, Aye Aye Win, has been awarded the International Women’s Media Foundation “Courage in Journalism” prize for 2008.
The Foundation said it had chosen Aye Aye Win, 54, for the award because of her coverage of such events as last September’s demonstrations, in the face of great danger to herself. [...]