1. "Roy Ngerng found to have defamed Prime Minister Lee - CNA 07 November 2014"
So it has been decided. That Mr Ngerng has defamed PM Lee and there will be NO trial where possibly some little known details on CPF will be revealed in examination and cross-examination of witnesses or whoever.
Maybe the information contained in the CPF Website and all the various explanations since the saga started are already very comprehensive and easily understood by most of the CPF members.
2. "Malaysia transgenders win anti-cross dressing court case - AFP Nov 07, 2014"
Interesting development. A three-judge appeals court panel ruled that the provision of southern Negri Sembilan state that bars Muslim men from dressing as women was unconstitutional, saying it "deprives the appellants of the right to live with dignity".
I wonder if the state of Negri Sembilan will appeal this case to a higher court.
If people really treat these transgender as described by Human Rights Watch, a US-based group that they face systematic and constant repression, harassment, mistreatment, social ostracism and "risk arrest every day"; this is a good way forward.
3. "Leaders of Japan and China to hold first summit: Reports - AFP 07 November 2014
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping are to hold their first summit next week, reports said on Friday (Nov 7), after presiding over two years of animosity between Asia's two biggest economies.
The countries have "agreed to arrange a summit next week" in Beijing on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, Japan's national broadcaster NHK said.
Tokyo has long been pressing for such a meeting but Beijing has resisted, with the two sides locked in a territorial dispute and still at odds over World War II history. As a condition for the meet, China, which has painted Abe as a dangerous revisionist, had reportedly been demanding that he swear not to repeat a visit to a Tokyo shrine that honours fallen soldiers, including a number of war criminals.
It has also been calling for Japan to acknowledge the existence of a dispute over the Tokyo-controlled Senkaku islands, which it calls the Diaoyus, where paramilitary vessels from both sides have sparred over recent years.
Neither side's official pronouncements made any reference to a summit."
Well, they finally, maybe, will meet!
Lessons for me are:
1. Japan WILL NOT be fully trusted by its neighbours as long as some of its politicians are STILL INSISTING that it was a victim of WWII instead of being the aggressor that it so publicly recognized by the international communities as one!;
2. as had been alluded to many times by learned academics, critics and politicians, when Germany apologised and publicly repented as well as recording the same facts in their history books, the Germen are respected and welcomed by the world. Yes, there are still some Nazi and nationalists still believed Germany did not commit any big crime; the rest of the population accepted it was the aggressor, made mistakes, paid its dues and must move on from there. Everything about Germany is cool with most human kind! Not sure the Japanese!;
3. will something concrete come out of the meeting between President Xi and PM Abe? I doubt so if Abe is NOT prepared to concede anything. He won't and he can't as he has this family baggage that he carried with him. His grandfather was a high ranking official in the war cabinet I believed. He, like President Putin, believes deep down in his heart that his beloved Japan had been Wronged by the world. That it was merely fighting for survival and that it was actually trying to liberate the people in then Asia from their pathetic existence with Japan's advance technologies and higher intelligence and all that!
Anyway, it is good that they talk, assuming the talk will take place!
So it has been decided. That Mr Ngerng has defamed PM Lee and there will be NO trial where possibly some little known details on CPF will be revealed in examination and cross-examination of witnesses or whoever.
Maybe the information contained in the CPF Website and all the various explanations since the saga started are already very comprehensive and easily understood by most of the CPF members.
2. "Malaysia transgenders win anti-cross dressing court case - AFP Nov 07, 2014"
Interesting development. A three-judge appeals court panel ruled that the provision of southern Negri Sembilan state that bars Muslim men from dressing as women was unconstitutional, saying it "deprives the appellants of the right to live with dignity".
I wonder if the state of Negri Sembilan will appeal this case to a higher court.
If people really treat these transgender as described by Human Rights Watch, a US-based group that they face systematic and constant repression, harassment, mistreatment, social ostracism and "risk arrest every day"; this is a good way forward.
3. "Leaders of Japan and China to hold first summit: Reports - AFP 07 November 2014
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping are to hold their first summit next week, reports said on Friday (Nov 7), after presiding over two years of animosity between Asia's two biggest economies.
The countries have "agreed to arrange a summit next week" in Beijing on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, Japan's national broadcaster NHK said.
Tokyo has long been pressing for such a meeting but Beijing has resisted, with the two sides locked in a territorial dispute and still at odds over World War II history. As a condition for the meet, China, which has painted Abe as a dangerous revisionist, had reportedly been demanding that he swear not to repeat a visit to a Tokyo shrine that honours fallen soldiers, including a number of war criminals.
It has also been calling for Japan to acknowledge the existence of a dispute over the Tokyo-controlled Senkaku islands, which it calls the Diaoyus, where paramilitary vessels from both sides have sparred over recent years.
Neither side's official pronouncements made any reference to a summit."
Well, they finally, maybe, will meet!
Lessons for me are:
1. Japan WILL NOT be fully trusted by its neighbours as long as some of its politicians are STILL INSISTING that it was a victim of WWII instead of being the aggressor that it so publicly recognized by the international communities as one!;
2. as had been alluded to many times by learned academics, critics and politicians, when Germany apologised and publicly repented as well as recording the same facts in their history books, the Germen are respected and welcomed by the world. Yes, there are still some Nazi and nationalists still believed Germany did not commit any big crime; the rest of the population accepted it was the aggressor, made mistakes, paid its dues and must move on from there. Everything about Germany is cool with most human kind! Not sure the Japanese!;
3. will something concrete come out of the meeting between President Xi and PM Abe? I doubt so if Abe is NOT prepared to concede anything. He won't and he can't as he has this family baggage that he carried with him. His grandfather was a high ranking official in the war cabinet I believed. He, like President Putin, believes deep down in his heart that his beloved Japan had been Wronged by the world. That it was merely fighting for survival and that it was actually trying to liberate the people in then Asia from their pathetic existence with Japan's advance technologies and higher intelligence and all that!
Anyway, it is good that they talk, assuming the talk will take place!
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