Myanmar government planning for another episode of Anti-Muslim riots

Myanmar government planning for another episode of Anti-Muslim riots               Dear Brother, I hope you can share the following news which is the part of a deliberate plan of the Military Junta of Burma to use its long term policy of using religious hatred to create the political environment [...]

Myanmar Muslims prohibited from worshipping and reading of the Quran in residential flats

Myanmar Muslims prohibited from worshipping in residential flats Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Aping a recent diktat against the country’s Christian community, authorities have summoned and warned leaders of Burma’s Muslim community not to worship in residential flats. Rangoon’s Kyauktada Township Peace and Development Council office, as they did with Christian pastors from the city, summoned Islamic [...]

The Association of Religious Scholars (PUM) should acknowledge that at least Malaysiakini and Manjit Bhatia wrote one truth about Myanmar

The Association of Religious Scholars (PUM) should acknowledge that at least  Malaysiakini and Manjit Bhatia wrote one truth about Myanmar It didn’t even dare condemn the Burmese military thugs who rule Burma, whose justice is meted out in the Stalinist/Maoist standard of the end of gun’s barrel. Just look at how much braver Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and Philippines are [...]

Politics and religion a heady mix

Politics and religion a heady mix Malaysiakini letter by Anushka Anastasia Solomon | Sep 3, 08 “… All mankind is of one author, and is one volume…”                                         -For Whom the Bell Tolls, John Donne. I read with interest what Lim Guan Eng said about not wanting Malaysia to be a theocratic society, whether Islamic or [...]

Money, power and sex: what motivates man

Money, power and sex: what motivates man Raja Petra Kamarudin One of the more successful international trading companies is 3M. It is one of 30 companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and is also a component of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index. 3M’s sales for 2007 touched US$24.462 billion while its net income [...]

Universal truth about Politicians

Universal truth about Politicians Source_FUNNY JOKES An old country preacher had a teenage son, and it was getting time the boy should give some thought to choosing a profession. Like many young men, the boy didn’t really know what he wanted to do, and he didn’t seem too concerned about it. One day, while the [...]

General Aung San’s speech: What is politics?

What is politics? Some of us have been going still, consciously or unconsciously, about the same old way of “dirty” politics. But is politics really “dirty”? Certainly not. It is not politics which is dirty, but rather the persons who choose to dirty it are dirty. And what is politics? Is it something too high [...]

Revisiting the political genie in us…

Revisiting the political genie in us… Extracts from_  Malaysiakini letter by Dr David KL Quek | Jul 11, 08 ‘Mankind’s moral sense is not a strong beacon light, radiating outward to illuminate in sharp outline all that it touches. It is, rather, a small candle flame, casting vague and multiple shadows, flickering and sputtering in the [...]

What a circus! What a show! Presented by the rhetoric political clowns

What a circus! What a show! Presented by the rhetoric political clowns “The PWM meter” by W Scott Thompson in Malaysiakini Jul 2, 08 Over four hundred years ago in France, where Catholics and Protestants had waged wars for a generation, the ruling (and Catholic) Valois line of kings came to an end when the [...]

Blog standard: Politics on the web. Authoritarian governments can lock up bloggers. It is harder to outwit them

Blog standard: Politics on the web Malaysia Today Friday, 27 June 2008 Authoritarian governments can lock up bloggers. It is harder to outwit them From Egypt to Malaysia to Saudi Arabia to Singapore, bloggers have in recent months found themselves behind bars for posting materials that those in power dislike. The most recent Worldwide Press [...]

Xenophobia, selfishness and political showmanship prohibit the permanent residents from enjoying the fuel rebates

TQ Dr., for your kindness and consideration for us in writing this letter. But Xenophobia, selfishness and political showmanship of leaders here prohibit the permanent residents from enjoying the fuel rebates. Nowadays racist politicians are so bankrupted of ideas as they could not show off any more to their races as the defender and champion [...]

SPDC’s power transfer to civilians (Cartoons in Burmese)

SPDC’s power transfer to civilians From Khitpyaing     From Burma Digest, “Handing power to the ‘Civilian’ Government”          

DSAI would become PM before this Christmas

DSAI would become PM before this Christmas Malaysiakini (AFP), “I’ll be PM in three years”, says Anwar Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim today confidently predicted he would be prime minister within three years, sketching out the first rough timetable for his dramatic political comeback. “I don’t think we have established a definite clear time-frame when I will [...]

Chinese; Are they too clever, selfish or cowards?

    Chinese avoid confrontation with authorities. Are they too clever, selfish or cowards? Burmese Chinese and Malaysian Chinese are the behaving the same way. Before reading about Malaysian Chinese in the_THE CHINESE, THEIR HOUSES HAVE NO WINDOWS by a Malaysian banker, please  taste back some Burmese Chinese stories/comments.From Irrawady, By Shah Paung November 12, 2007 The junta’s top [...]