Recap The Malaysian political wheel was splashed with shades of yellow and green last Saturday when an unprecedented turnout for Bersih 3.0 claimed downtown Kuala Lumpur, congesting street after street as groups of protesters from around the country converged on Merdeka Square. Upwards of 250,000 people are said to have attended. Despite an abrupt end …
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Malaysia: ‘Street Rally Guide For Beginners’ Published Before Bersih Protest (PICS)
A Malaysian friend of mine caught glance of a great piece of social media flutter today on Facebook that is just begging to be posted here. Suaram, a human rights organization in Malaysia, has published a 'Street Rally Guide For Beginners' just in time for the much-trumpeted Bersih 3.0 sit-in protest planned for Merdeka Square …
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Myanmar: And the Sanctions Come A’tumblin’ Down
International media has been afire with Myanmar news this month, also known as Burma, beginning with pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's landslide victory in by-elections on April 1st, leading up to the suspension or easing of financial and/or travel restrictions on Myanmar by Australia, the EU, the US and most recently Canada. The choice of …
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Songkran: Thailand Water Festival Do’s and Don’t’s
During my recent trip to Bangkok, exiting my hotel at the end of Sukhumvit Soi 3, where Little Arabia hands the sidewalk back over to Thailand, it was a feat of wit and dexterity to out-maneuver the gauntlet of often freezing water being discharged from hoses, water pistols and occasionally chucked from buckets. Little children …
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How Sanctions Are Affecting Iranians in KL — And Why Nobody Cares
Stroll down the painstakingly polished corridors of the Pavilion shopping mall in the heart of Kuala Lumpur, and you'll undoubtedly brush past crowds of Iranians: the men donning their perennial five o'clock shadows, the women with their excitedly applied make-up. But unlike most of the other Middle Eastern faces around and outside the main entrance …
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Justin Calderón 