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News on this day from The BBC World Service Newshour program. Brazil's financial crisis, fighting in Kosovo, Anwar Ibrahim's sex scandal in Kuala Lumpur and fears the Great Barrier Reef was dying. Not a good day to get out of bed if you were living in Brazil at the time.News on this day from The BBC World Service Newshour program. Brazil's financial... more
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Who owns a word? In Malaysia, the question over who owns the word "Allah" has led to the firebombings of six churches. "Allah" Means God in the Malay language, but Muslims insist that Christians should not use it. A Malaysian High Court recently ruled that Christians could use "Allah" in printed literature, just not in Christian literature, because that could be confusing. Still some Muslims are unhappy with the ruling, and hence, firebombings.
So far no one has been hurt.
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Ranney and Sarah visit Malaysia's oldest anglican church during the day of the bombings.Ranney and Sarah visit Malaysia's oldest anglican church during the day of the... more
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Who owns a word? In Malaysia, the question over who owns the word "Allah" has led to the firebombings of six churches. "Allah" Means God in the Malay language, but Muslims insist that Christians should not use it. A Malaysian High Court recently ruled that Christians could use "Allah" in printed literature, just not in Christian literature, because that could be confusing. Still some Muslims are unhappy with the ruling, and hence, firebombings.
So far no one has been hurt.
From: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/01/10/malaysia.church.bombings/index.htmlWho owns a word? In Malaysia, the question over who owns the word "Allah"... more
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(trailer for documentary, Please Don't Say My Name, www.pleasedontsaymyname.org)
"One day I was on a bus with a Burmese friend, a former monk, who had just learned that a small protest was breaking out in Bago. Bago was on the way to our destination, and soon a convoy of about 30 military trucks snaked by our bus. Two child soldiers sat on top of one, maybe 10-12 years old, manning rifles as big as themselves. They were so close I could have touched their uniforms. My companion grabbed my camera and shoved it in my hands: "Take it, take the picture of the soldier boys!" he whispered frantically.
As I took the camera from him I looked up and caught the eyes of the bus driver, who was watching us in the rearview mirror. If any soldiers saw me snap that photo, it would not have been my head but that of the bus driver."
Security vs Story--journalist Karen Zusman talks about the ethical concerns related to reporting on stories in Burma and Malaysia.
Watch video clips and read more: http://hub.witness.org/pleaseDontSayMyName
Learn about the plight of Burmese refugees who are sold to human traffickers by the Malaysian government: http://www.pleasedontsaymyname.org(trailer for documentary, Please Don't Say My Name, www.pleasedontsaymyname.org)... more
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My friend Sin Yi fled Burma when the Burmese military junta started coming to his village and forcing boys like him to join the army.
"They stop us at the bus station or on the street and by gun point they say to us:
'Come, you must join the army. If you don't join we will kill you. Come, join...'"
Aye Aye Cho told me she left Burma because the junta used to come to her village and separate the women from the men.
"Then they would come and take any woman they wanted to sleep with them in a little hut for the night."
"If you refused to go with them you had to pay them instead. One night they came for me, I told them to come back later and I would pay them. But I didnt have any money, so that night I ran from one bush to the other. I ran away from Burma."
"In Thailand i had friends who told me to go to Malaysia where I would be safe."
"Sadly," she told me, "I listened to these friends."
Unfortunately, what Sin Yi and Aye Aye Cho found waiting for them in Malaysia was equally as tragic as what they left behind.
Burma is bleeding well beyond its borders.
To date there are more than 2,100 political prisoners in Burma, including Buddhist monks and one Nobel Peace Laureate (Aung San Suu Kyi). Military and civilian officials are involved in the unlawful conscription of child soldiers and wide-spread acts of forced labor inside of Burma. And scores of people are perishing due to the extreme poverty caused by the regime's mis-use of power and by its handling of the Cyclone Nargis crisis.
Yet there is another Burma-related tragedy, which until now has not been widely told.
In April 2009 the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee published the results of a year-long investigation into allegations that the Malaysian government has been complicit in the human trafficking of people seeking refuge from the extreme persecution they faced in Burma. Once in Malaysia, through a highly organized process between police, immigration officials and traffickers, the refugees are sold to prostitution rings and fishing trawlers.
Please Don't Say My Name is an audio documentary; it stems from my friendship with a small group of Burmese refugees who work together in a restuarant in the heart of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I spent a year and a half getting to know them and in early 2009 I traveled to Kuala Lumpur to record their stories. Many of them have been sold to traffickers by Malaysian Immigration Officials--and some of them were arrested while I was there.
The audio-only documentary is one hour in length; the interviews are intimate in tone and record many aspects of their lives both inside and outside of work, prison, detention camps and RELA immigration raids highlighting their continued vulnerability in Malaysia--as well as their ability to create family-like bonds despite the severity of their circumstance.
Listen to the whole doc or just to selected clips, and read a photographic essay.
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www.pleasedontsaymyname.orgMy friend Sin Yi fled Burma when the Burmese military junta started coming to his... more
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LUCY LIEW BIOGRAPHY
Lucy Liew, born in Sarawak ( Island of Borneo ), Malaysia , of Chinese-Melanau descent, is a graduate of the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore and a Commonwealth Foundation Fellowship winner, with a post-graduate diploma in printed textiles from the West Surrey College of Art & Design ( England ). Liew was awarded a San Jose City Branch Library Project in 2004 ( California ). Her work has been featured internationally in numerous solo and group exhibitions, as well as in various private collections around the world and corporate collections including Bank of America, Kuala Lumpur International Airport and Petronas National Oil Corporation. Liew's work is also in the permanent collection of the National Art Gallery in Malaysia .
Liew has developed her own signature, adopting the traditional native art motifs of Borneo as a language to express her themes. Over the years her subject matter has taken a variety of forms, both figurative and abstract; but at the heart of all Liew's work is the celebration of beauty in life and nature. In her recent work the artist has begun to approach these themes on a grander scale to create multi-panel works and larger canvases. Liew's figurative works are about her journey of discovery as a woman coming from an Eastern culture integrating with life in America . These works focus on the universality of the human spirit.
Liew currently resides and works in San Jose , California . When she is not painting, she holds workshops and teaches art in her studio, Lucy Liew Art.
Phone:408.835.2875
E-mail: lucy@lucyliewart.com
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http://current.com/items/90304241_a-target-of-corporate-crime-shares-his-story-about-crime-justice.htmLUCY LIEW BIOGRAPHY
Lucy Liew, born in Sarawak ( Island of Borneo ), Malaysia , of... more
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