Happy Merdeka, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Please use your liberty to promote ours and freedom of Daw Suu

    Happy Merdeka, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad  Please use your liberty to promote ours and freedom of Daw Suu    Merdeka means Independence but we Burmese and especially I have the pleasant memories once we heard the word Merdeka. We even had a “Pavlov” like reaction when we hear this word Merdeka.

ASEAN LEADERS ARE BARKING AT THE WRONG TREE WITH THE WRONG CAUSE AND WRONG OBJECTIVE

ASEAN LEADERS ARE BARKING AT THE WRONG TREE  WITH THE WRONG CAUSE AND WRONG OBJECTIVE   ASEAN leaders are complaining about the convenient way to solve the Rohingya problem. But for the Rohingyas or Burmese Muslims or Christian Chins/Karens/Kachins and Buddhist Mons/Shans/Burmese etc AND the NLDS  and political opponents and armed rebel groups_ Whether the SPDC would accept [...]

STOP HATRED, STOP TRYING TO DIVIDE; FOR A LONG LASTING PEACE, PROGRESS, AND PROSPERITY

 

MIZZIMA:Obama’s grandfather’s connection to Burma

By Mizzima News The grandfather of United States’ president-elect Barack Obama served in Burma during the Second World War, according to a report by the Times. Hussein Onyango Obama, the paternal grandfather of Barack Obama, served as a cook with the British army in Burma during the Second World War, revealed yesterday’s article. The Kenyan [...]

Asean’s day dream or nightmare

Asean’s day dream or nightmare Malaysiakini’s article by Josh Hong  Extracts only At an academic conference some years ago in Seoul, South Korea, Chua Beng Huat, a sociology professor at the National University of Singapore, remarked that Asean as a regional grouping had achieved nothing over the last few decades.

Irrawaddy:Junta Orders Major Air Force Base Relocated

By:MINN LWIN The chief Air Force base in Burma, Mingalardon Air Force Base, has been ordered to relocate to Seikpyingone in Meiktila Township in central Burma, according to sources at Mingalardon Air Force Base.  “We got the order in late November to relocate to the new Air Force base from the military office in Naypyidaw,” [...]

AP:Journalists caught in crackdown by Myanmar junta

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — A court in military-controlled Myanmar has imprisoned two journalists for seven years each for undermining the country’s ruling generals after being caught with a U.N. human rights report. The court in a northeastern suburb of Yangon on Friday sentenced Thet Zin, editor of the local Myanmar-language journal Myanmar Nation, and Sein [...]

Housemanship can drive you crazy

COMMENT: Many consultants are arrogant and used to bully the housemen. Consultants, esp. in third word countries like Malaysia, almost always used to bully housemen till they are almost crazy. Instead of current 36 ++hour duty, should consider shift duties. Some consultants are lazy and their super ego drive them to shout and blame the younger doctors. Look even last health [...]

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 [...]

I Look I See by Yusuf Islam

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 [...]

One in three of Malaysia’s workforce is foreign

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