BBC:Laughter defying Burma’s junta

Andrew Harding reflects on his friendship with Burmese comedian Zarganar who, despite repeated imprisonment, continues to make jokes about the country’s military rule.
It has been an unusually busy few weeks in the Burmese gulag.
A sudden flurry of show-trials. A brisk and generous apportioning of life sentences.
And now the prison vans have begun scattering the guilty [...]

Hajj – A Google Earth View

Hajj – A Google Earth View 

Readers to please note – This is not a piece of writing on “How to perform Hajj”.
This is only a small effort to explain, through images taken from Google Earth and Panoramio, the sequence of the Hajj alongwith locations involved and their importance.
Every lunar year in the Islamic month of Dhul-Hijjah (aka Zil-Hajj) [...]

Hajj

Hajj
 
The Hajj (Arabic: حج‎) is a pilgrimage to Mecca (Makkah). It is the largest annual pilgrimage in the world.[1] It is the fifth pillar of Islam, an obligation that must be carried out at least once in their lifetime by every able-bodied Muslim who can afford to do so. It is a demonstration of the solidarity of the Muslim people, and their submission to Allah.[2] 
 
 
 

I Look I See by Yusuf Islam

Land Called Paradise by Kareem Salama

Land Called Paradise by Kareem Salama
 

Eid present: Watch and Listen during Eid

     Watch and Listen during Eid
‘Eid blessings to all! May Allah bless us with His mercy!
‘Eid Song by Sami Yusuf

Are RELA also paid for dead and injured illegals they captured?

EID MUBARAK

HAPPY EID AL ADHA

Eid al-Adha

From:wikipedia
Eid al-Adha (Arabic: عيد الأضحى ‘Īd ul-’Aḍḥā, Urdu: بقرعید) or the Festival of Sacrifice is a religious festival celebrated by Muslims and Druze worldwide in commemoration of the willingness of Ibrahim (Abraham) to sacrifice his son as an act of obedience to Allah. The devil tempted Ibrahim by saying he should disobey Allah and spare [...]

Tenaganita: Let’s not have another foreign maid/worker tragedy

Give UN refugee policy more thought

Country Data Report for MYANMAR, 1996-2007

Country Data Report for MYANMAR, 1996-2007 
If cannot read the graphs, sorry, please read the original website here
Relevant links: 
www.govindicators.orgwww.worldbank.org/wbi/governance/ 
The data and research reported here do not reflect the official views of the World Bank, its Executive Directors, or the countries they represent.  The WGI are not used by the World Bank Group to allocate resources or [...]

Worldwide Governance Indicators

Worldwide Governance Indicators
 
 
Based on a long-standing research program of the World Bank, the Kaufmann-Kraay-Mastruzzi Worldwide Governance Indicatorscapture six key dimensions ofgovernance (Voice & Accountability, Political Stability and Lack of Violence,Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law, and Control of Corruption) between 1996 and present. Sometimes referred to as the “KK“, “KKZ” or “KKM“ indicators, they measure the quality of governance in over 200countries, [...]