Malaysiakini: Investigate Jais over former mufti’s arrest

Malaysiakini: Investigate Jais over former mufti’s arrest
 I refer to the Malaysiakini report Storm over arrest of religious scholar.
It does appear that Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin, the former mufti of Perlis, has support against his ill-informed arrest by the Jabatan Agama Islam of Selangor (Jais).
Whatever may be the political underpinnings of this arrest, as commentators have [...]

US delegation in Myanmar for rare junta talks

US delegation in Myanmar for rare junta talks
A delegation of senior US officials arrived in Myanmar today for Washington’s highest-level talks with the reclusive military regime in 14 years.
The Obama administration’s move to engage the junta appears focused on pushing for free and fair elections next year, although analysts say the rapprochement is as much [...]

LKY’s speech in US draws flak online in China

BEIJING, Nov 3 — Singapore’s Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew’s comments that the United States should remain engaged in East Asia have drawn criticism on the website of

China starts building Myanmar oil pipeline project

BEIJING, Nov 3 — China’s CNPC started building a crude oil port in Myanmar on Oct 31, the China Petroleum Daily reported today, part of a pipeline project aimed at cutting out the long detour oil cargoes take through the congested Malacca Strait.

S’pore school system ‘key to harmony’

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 3 — Malaysia should emulate Singapore’s single stream school system so as to produce a population that “no longer spoke and acted on racial sentiments”, former information minister Datuk Seri Zainuddin Maidin said in a news report published yesterday.