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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]