Kampung pulo endangered themselves by living on the river bank, AHOK the governor seems to be cruel but im on his side 10000% he is the only leader in this country. He stands firm by the law.. sometimes it is easier to write a love hate article then to reallocate hundred families and give them a beautiful apartment to live and human standard place to live.
Sometimes it is easier to critize whats to do and whats not. The fact that previous governor tried to evict kampung pulo for 20+years it means that something is not right and they were not capable of doing that.
Today ahok and tito kapolda metro jaya make a history
“Taweechai Wichakham, 40, Soonthorn Phiphuannok, 50, Somsri Marit, 41, and Chatchawal Prabbamrung, 46, were convicted and sentenced for firing a 40mm grenade that exploded in front of the Big C store on the evening of Feb. 23, 2014” –
Dredging is needed, as are strong maintenance programs. What’s still not clear to me is why dredging requires wide access roads on both sides of the river turned canal.
To dredge a river you can do it from the inside, with a barge. As is done in other parts of Jakarta.
Regardless which side one is on either for ad-nauseum the word “Rohingya” is real or not or never ending “Citizenship” cleamour , etc., what you said is exactly spot on.
In fact the “boats” are also eye-catching bright coloured ones looking super-preserved as if those pictures were taken by Spielberg himself.
There is no doubt those boat trips just as much as currently wildly “viral” train trips are immensely photogenic and no one will ever know the circumstances of their departure or identity or intention of “human traffickers”. How much is genuine and spontaneous and how much is staged?
The only guy who would know the answer to that question is sadly no longer around. Eric Blair (1903-50)
[…] importantly, he is also unable to listen, hear, read or see the signals coming from within UMNO. This could be fatal. Powerful segments within UMNO are genuinely concerned that Prime Minister […]
[…] but an unintended outcome of how the ruling party has been running the country. She terms this Politok – a combination of ruling party politics and amok. Individuals and groups that the ruling […]
[…] Nasional – Malaysia’s longstanding ruling coalition – maybe pleased to see the demise of Pakatan Rakyat, Malaysia’s most successful opposition coalition. It justifies their bets […]
Go to Thailand Information Center (TIC) on 6th floor of Chulalongkorn University central library, short walk from Sam Yaan subway station. Photocopy will take an hour or two.
The dissertation is about those innovative human rights clauses in the 1997 People’s Constitution regarding criminal law and the rights of the accused which apparently were never implemented or brought into use by the police.
Police reform is certainly never a topic raised by any Thaksin-clan administration, with Thaksin himself having risen from the police ranks.
Many are pressing for police reform now, but there are obviously powerful vested interests in the police force which are against this and the first attempt was abandoned by Prayut.
So the writer has it backwards, a coup-based reform government and not a Thaksin-based government would be the most likely time for these reforms. 🙂
The quality of Rohingya propaganda has improved noticeably over the past year, an indication of new players. The boats coincided with the onset of their international lobbying season – Oslo, Security Council, Arab Foreign Ministers etc. Oslo taps them into the Nobel network and access to experienced professional activist/propagandists so they can better target Western audiences, as well as their more traditional appeals to Pan Islam solidarity. There’ll be a Nobel Prize as clickbait. Uppsala seems strangely quiet, I’d expect them to jump on the train soon. Rohingya propaganda is being faithfully reproduced by captive client agencies, even UNHCR is parroting the meme that the boat exodus will resume when the weather permits. I don’t doubt it. Jakarta gave them what they wanted and the US agreed to accept them, a new pull factor. NM goes hard on the human rights issue, and rightly so, but does readers a disservice by not examining the motives and maneuvering of the Rohingya leadership/s.
The Grey Wolves came under suspicion in the first days after the bombing because they were at the front of the attacks on the Thai consultate in Turkey and according to respected Bangkok-based security specialist Anthony Davis the organisation had to some degree taken up the cause of Uighurs.
Links between the those behind the bombing and Turkey have firmed. So too have links to the Uighur movement that was infuriated by Thailand’s deporation of 109 Uighurs to China in July. However it seems the Turkey link may have more to do with a hybrid group perhaps involved in human trafficking of Uighurs than the Grey Wolves, although there is still a lot unknown publicly.
[…] Geoff Wade has published a very good piece about the controversies that followed the recent death of Malayan communist leader Chin Peng. Wade makes a number of illuminating points. He argues, rightly I think, that the matter of Chin Peng reflects social fissures and political cleavages in modern Malaysian society. The torrent of vilification has been mixed with hagiography. Was Chin Peng a traitor or freedom fighter? Should he be erased from history – or regarded as Malaysia’s Aung Sang? Wade’s article goes a long way to revealing Chin Peng as a real historical agent, rather than spectral bogey man or nationalist hero. I was especially impressed by Wade’s analysis of how the Malayan communists reacted to the failure of the Malayan Union. This narrative is perhaps not as well known outside Southeast Asian departments of history as it should be… The Union plan had been hatched up in London not long after the fall of Singapore when much of Southeast Asia was occupied by the Japanese. Its authors were members of the ‘Malayan Planning Unit’. In some respects, the Union plan was a means to harmonize the different semi colonial entities of Southeast Asia – in short as a single colony. It is important to realize that ‘End of Empire’ also meant retrenchment. While the Indian nationalists would at last get their way, Malayan rubber and tin were too valuable as dollar earning commodities to give up… So the Union plan can be seen as a means to streamline a crucial colonial resource. The other ingredient of the Malayan Union that Wade highlights is that the British were hoping to engineer a ‘peninsula Malayan polity’ and eschew a Malay dominated one. (Remember that it was British colonial administrators who had created these divisions in their modern form in the first place.) This was naturally anathema to the new Malay nationalist movement that was spearheaded by UMNO – and to the Malay rulers. Although British indirect rule had long rested on the political exploitation of the Malay sultans by British advisers, the experience of the Japanese occupation had hardened colonial minds against the Malays. After all it was the Chinese dominated communist party that had inspired armed opposition to the Japanese. In the immediate post war period UMNO’s demand for ‘special rights for Malays’ looked impertinent. Wade points out that the Malayan Union was politically congruent with Malayan Communist Party’s policy of ‘open democratic struggle’ by ‘the unity of the three races’. When UMNO and the Malay Rulers brought the Union crashing down (to be replaced by a federal concept that reassured the rulers) Chin Peng and his comrades were almost as dismayed as the humiliated British colonial administrators… Wade makes this intriguing point: […]
I can only agree with HRK not to use the term genocide too loosely! Certain action that may be termed ‘genocidal’ do not equal wholesale genocide as under the Nazis.
On a different level it is certainly ironic that a ‘former PM of Malaysia’ advocates to throw Myanmar out of ASEAN because of the Rohinggya issue when it was precisely he who, against all opposition, got Myanmar in in 1997! I doubt that at that time the treatment of this group was much different from now!
Drop the superiority complex to begin with when you’re in someone else’s country, not least because the natives themselves have one. But it’s their bloody country, warts and all.
The Chinese govt can stop behaving like neocolonialists (sans gunboats till the last minute) too. A big ask nowadays for a nominally Red China turned big boss laoban dealing with a nominally socialist military ruled Burma turned nominally civilian staging a nominally democratic transformation.
There is mutual benefit to be had, not just between the elites and laobans. Try to regain the trust and sense of kinship.
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Floods and forced evictions in Jakarta
Kampung pulo endangered themselves by living on the river bank, AHOK the governor seems to be cruel but im on his side 10000% he is the only leader in this country. He stands firm by the law.. sometimes it is easier to write a love hate article then to reallocate hundred families and give them a beautiful apartment to live and human standard place to live.
Sometimes it is easier to critize whats to do and whats not. The fact that previous governor tried to evict kampung pulo for 20+years it means that something is not right and they were not capable of doing that.
Today ahok and tito kapolda metro jaya make a history
God bless u all my leaders!
Were the Grey Wolves behind Bangkok bombing?
“Taweechai Wichakham, 40, Soonthorn Phiphuannok, 50, Somsri Marit, 41, and Chatchawal Prabbamrung, 46, were convicted and sentenced for firing a 40mm grenade that exploded in front of the Big C store on the evening of Feb. 23, 2014” –
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/politics/681260/life-terms-for-lethal-grenade-attack-on-protest.
Truth be told, my first suspicion were the terror-prone Red/Black Shirts. And I never heard of The Grey Wolves till lately.
Floods and forced evictions in Jakarta
Dredging is needed, as are strong maintenance programs. What’s still not clear to me is why dredging requires wide access roads on both sides of the river turned canal.
To dredge a river you can do it from the inside, with a barge. As is done in other parts of Jakarta.
Myanmar and the world’s next mass atrocity
Regardless which side one is on either for ad-nauseum the word “Rohingya” is real or not or never ending “Citizenship” cleamour , etc., what you said is exactly spot on.
In fact the “boats” are also eye-catching bright coloured ones looking super-preserved as if those pictures were taken by Spielberg himself.
There is no doubt those boat trips just as much as currently wildly “viral” train trips are immensely photogenic and no one will ever know the circumstances of their departure or identity or intention of “human traffickers”. How much is genuine and spontaneous and how much is staged?
The only guy who would know the answer to that question is sadly no longer around. Eric Blair (1903-50)
Dear Malaysia: Mahathir is no messiah
[…] importantly, he is also unable to listen, hear, read or see the signals coming from within UMNO. This could be fatal. Powerful segments within UMNO are genuinely concerned that Prime Minister […]
In Malaysian politics, keep calm and amok on!
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More bad news for Malaysia’s democracy
[…] Nasional – Malaysia’s longstanding ruling coalition – maybe pleased to see the demise of Pakatan Rakyat, Malaysia’s most successful opposition coalition. It justifies their bets […]
Princess Pa’s thesis
Go to Thailand Information Center (TIC) on 6th floor of Chulalongkorn University central library, short walk from Sam Yaan subway station. Photocopy will take an hour or two.
The dissertation is about those innovative human rights clauses in the 1997 People’s Constitution regarding criminal law and the rights of the accused which apparently were never implemented or brought into use by the police.
Police reform is certainly never a topic raised by any Thaksin-clan administration, with Thaksin himself having risen from the police ranks.
Many are pressing for police reform now, but there are obviously powerful vested interests in the police force which are against this and the first attempt was abandoned by Prayut.
So the writer has it backwards, a coup-based reform government and not a Thaksin-based government would be the most likely time for these reforms. 🙂
Myanmar and the world’s next mass atrocity
The quality of Rohingya propaganda has improved noticeably over the past year, an indication of new players. The boats coincided with the onset of their international lobbying season – Oslo, Security Council, Arab Foreign Ministers etc. Oslo taps them into the Nobel network and access to experienced professional activist/propagandists so they can better target Western audiences, as well as their more traditional appeals to Pan Islam solidarity. There’ll be a Nobel Prize as clickbait. Uppsala seems strangely quiet, I’d expect them to jump on the train soon. Rohingya propaganda is being faithfully reproduced by captive client agencies, even UNHCR is parroting the meme that the boat exodus will resume when the weather permits. I don’t doubt it. Jakarta gave them what they wanted and the US agreed to accept them, a new pull factor. NM goes hard on the human rights issue, and rightly so, but does readers a disservice by not examining the motives and maneuvering of the Rohingya leadership/s.
Princess Pa’s thesis
The last I heard was our current beloved primeminiser is a supporter of the prince in the succession game of thrones.
Surveying Singapore’s snap elections
The incumbent PAP will lose more votes this election.
Were the Grey Wolves behind Bangkok bombing?
The Grey Wolves came under suspicion in the first days after the bombing because they were at the front of the attacks on the Thai consultate in Turkey and according to respected Bangkok-based security specialist Anthony Davis the organisation had to some degree taken up the cause of Uighurs.
Links between the those behind the bombing and Turkey have firmed. So too have links to the Uighur movement that was infuriated by Thailand’s deporation of 109 Uighurs to China in July. However it seems the Turkey link may have more to do with a hybrid group perhaps involved in human trafficking of Uighurs than the Grey Wolves, although there is still a lot unknown publicly.
Princess Pa’s thesis
“Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn in LOCKSTEP with a certain former Prime Minister” ??? WHERE is the EVIDENCE for that ?
Princess Pa’s thesis
Really? I’m not able to get into Thammasat library. They don’t like me there. So, what does Princess Pa’s thesis say?
Chin Peng and cleavages in Malaysian society
[…] Geoff Wade has published a very good piece about the controversies that followed the recent death of Malayan communist leader Chin Peng. Wade makes a number of illuminating points. He argues, rightly I think, that the matter of Chin Peng reflects social fissures and political cleavages in modern Malaysian society. The torrent of vilification has been mixed with hagiography. Was Chin Peng a traitor or freedom fighter? Should he be erased from history – or regarded as Malaysia’s Aung Sang? Wade’s article goes a long way to revealing Chin Peng as a real historical agent, rather than spectral bogey man or nationalist hero. I was especially impressed by Wade’s analysis of how the Malayan communists reacted to the failure of the Malayan Union. This narrative is perhaps not as well known outside Southeast Asian departments of history as it should be… The Union plan had been hatched up in London not long after the fall of Singapore when much of Southeast Asia was occupied by the Japanese. Its authors were members of the ‘Malayan Planning Unit’. In some respects, the Union plan was a means to harmonize the different semi colonial entities of Southeast Asia – in short as a single colony. It is important to realize that ‘End of Empire’ also meant retrenchment. While the Indian nationalists would at last get their way, Malayan rubber and tin were too valuable as dollar earning commodities to give up… So the Union plan can be seen as a means to streamline a crucial colonial resource. The other ingredient of the Malayan Union that Wade highlights is that the British were hoping to engineer a ‘peninsula Malayan polity’ and eschew a Malay dominated one. (Remember that it was British colonial administrators who had created these divisions in their modern form in the first place.) This was naturally anathema to the new Malay nationalist movement that was spearheaded by UMNO – and to the Malay rulers. Although British indirect rule had long rested on the political exploitation of the Malay sultans by British advisers, the experience of the Japanese occupation had hardened colonial minds against the Malays. After all it was the Chinese dominated communist party that had inspired armed opposition to the Japanese. In the immediate post war period UMNO’s demand for ‘special rights for Malays’ looked impertinent. Wade points out that the Malayan Union was politically congruent with Malayan Communist Party’s policy of ‘open democratic struggle’ by ‘the unity of the three races’. When UMNO and the Malay Rulers brought the Union crashing down (to be replaced by a federal concept that reassured the rulers) Chin Peng and his comrades were almost as dismayed as the humiliated British colonial administrators… Wade makes this intriguing point: […]
Princess Pa’s thesis
TU has a number of copies available . No need to buy from ProQuest.
Myanmar and the world’s next mass atrocity
I can only agree with HRK not to use the term genocide too loosely! Certain action that may be termed ‘genocidal’ do not equal wholesale genocide as under the Nazis.
On a different level it is certainly ironic that a ‘former PM of Malaysia’ advocates to throw Myanmar out of ASEAN because of the Rohinggya issue when it was precisely he who, against all opposition, got Myanmar in in 1997! I doubt that at that time the treatment of this group was much different from now!
Chinese life in Myanmar today
The Chinese can do plenty.
Drop the superiority complex to begin with when you’re in someone else’s country, not least because the natives themselves have one. But it’s their bloody country, warts and all.
The Chinese govt can stop behaving like neocolonialists (sans gunboats till the last minute) too. A big ask nowadays for a nominally Red China turned big boss laoban dealing with a nominally socialist military ruled Burma turned nominally civilian staging a nominally democratic transformation.
There is mutual benefit to be had, not just between the elites and laobans. Try to regain the trust and sense of kinship.
Chinese life in Myanmar today
Are you saying the Chinese can’t do anything?
Intolerance, Islam and the Internet in Burma
Thanks to this website who have taken the time to the information to all of us.