Posts Tagged ‘Indonesia’

AHRC tells the Canada-based Sri Lankan intellectual to stop distribution of false and defamatory material and a death list

by Wong Kai Shing

(January 05, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka Guardian) We reproduce below a letter written by the executive director of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) regarding false and defamatory material published on a website maintained by Dr. Chandre Dharma-Wardana against the AHRC. Dr. Dharma-Wardana, according to information found in Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia is a Sri Lankan-born academic...

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A Tamil cultural debate

by Dharman Dharmaratnam

(January 05, Toronto, Sri Lanka Guardian) The Kanthamurukesanar Tamil cultural center and certain patrons of the Murugan Temple at Birchmont Road in Scarborough Toronto recently backed efforts of the Karunanidhi administration in Tamil Nadu in 2008 to shift the date of the Tamil new year from April, as observed for centuries, to January to coincide with the Indic harvest...

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The ‘Chindia’ paradigm

by Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka


(November 30,Singapore City, Sri Lanka Guardian) As Asia basks in the glow of the emergence of China and India and benefits from it (economists have even coined a term, ‘CHINDIA’, for this win-win strategic perspective), opinion makers and the media in Sri Lanka are engaged in an unhealthy and needless game of polarisation....

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A way to gain fuller international support

In this picture taken on July 1, 2006, a member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) home guard walks down the main street of the rebel-held town of Kilinochchi. Sri Lankan troops have engaged Tamil Tiger forces on the outskirts of the northern rebel capital Kilinochchi, killing...

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Against the Kleptocratic State

by Izeth Hussain

(November 03, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) In my article Kleptocracy and 18A in The Island of September 28 I pointed out that unless we get rid of the kleptocratic state and move towards its polar opposite, the meritocratic state, the expectation that we can outmatch the performance of Singapore and the East Asian countries will remain bizarre. In this article I want to argue that the kleptocratic state provides an important part...

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The never-ending party for the Lion King; the ever-growing hunger pangs for his subjects

The King wants to plant 1.1 million saplings to celebrate his enthronement as the Lion King. Who did this accounting? Why not just one million? I got it. He wants to surpass President Premadasa’s one million housing venture. There are no lions in Sri Lanka and even leopards are as rare as barking deer in Bandarawela. It takes...

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Partnership for peace

Democracy assists development (providing feedback loops); development stimulates pressures for democratisation; underdevelopment or mal-development generates resistance to closed regimes.

by Dr. Dayan Jayathilleka

(October 28, Singapore City, Sri Lanka Guardian)
Was the war worth fighting to a finish? Was it a good thing that a crushing defeat was imposed on the LTTE? Is Mahinda...

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DBP blamed for Malay language decline

By Joe Fernandez

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Malay language expert Raymond Tombung Boin wants the on-going Bulan Bahasa Kebangsaan (BBK) – National Language Month – to be a wake-up call for Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP or Language and Literary Agency).

The agency, according to him, has failed to arrest the continuing decline of the Malay language over the years from “poetry and grace” to something unimaginable. Ironically, DBP has in the process become a...

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Indonesia, Laos : Transit hubs for illegal immigrants

Indonesia and Laos too serve as transit hubs in addition to Thailand, for illegal immigrants and fleeing LTTE members heading West or Down Under, informed sources told the Sunday Observer....

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A Portrait of New Sri Lankan Cardinal

God’s Invisible Hand: The Life and Work of His Eminence Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith

by Commodore Shemal Fernando, RSP, USP, MSc

(October21, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) "My soul glorifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour" are the words that sprang from the heart of Mary, our Heavenly Mother, at a time...

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