South Asia

NOVANEWS Posted by: HNBulletin After the hacking operations #OpIsrael, #OpUSA & #OpPetrol, now Anonghost launched #OpBurma and according to video the Cyber Attack will target Burma on 15-08-2013. There is not any hit list of the targets; just they will lineup everybody on 15. Hackers released their Official Members and Intro for #OpBurma: This is our war now. OpBurma By AnonGhost team. Expect Us. Official members of AnonGhost : Mauritania Attacker – Virusa Worm – SpitFir3 – Deto Beiber – BL4ckc0d1n6 – Dr.SàM!M_008 – Kais Patron – Ian Surgent – M3GAFAB – Gbs Aremiey – Mr Domoz – Tak Dikenal – Chahid inj3ctor – b3ta – AnonxoxTN – Spec Tre – PsyferR – Raka 3r00t – Gh0st_3xp10!t – PirateX – kopra1337 – Bl4ck Jorozz – Riad Spamer –VirUs AsEr AlrOoh – Younes Lmaghribi – Zaky – Joker Inside...

NOVANEWS        (Mayupress) The sectarian unrest is no new strange human tragedy in Arakan, the northern province of Burma where minority Muslim Rohingyas have been attacked by Buddhists for quite again and again. The persecution of the stateless Rohingyas had started for decades of years. The Muslims make up nearly five percent among more than 53 million populations. And the largest group of Burma’s Muslims is generally known as the Rohingyas, who mainly live generations to generations in the western state of Arakan or Rakhine. Elsewhere rape or murder is a crime, and there are laws to deal with a rapist or murderer, according to an analyst*. I am sure in Burma there must be instances of a Buddhist committing such crime against a Buddhist. Usually none bothers to find out what relig...

NOVANEWS In an emergency meeting, the Indonesian president made preparations to deploy “cloud seeding” helicopters to create a rainstorm that could put out the massive forest fire currently engulfing thousands of hectares in Singapore. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.(Photo by Suzanne Plunkett – WPA Pool/Getty Images) INDONESIA — A raging fire burning in Singapore has caused smoke to affect the nearby and neighboring population of humans and wildlife. Singapore’s smog levels are critical as they have reached 400, which means that the elderly and others are at risk. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced during a recent meeting that he is going to ”immediately mobilize all of the countries resources” to exterminate the massive forest fires on the island of Sumatra. Howe...

NOVANEWS I'm absolutely delighted to announce that I've been contracted to The Guardian to write my own column, Earth Insight, on the newspaper's pioneering environment website. As you can imagine, this is pretty amazing and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to raise awareness of the key issues I write about to a mainstream audience. The Guardian is the world's third most popular newspaper website, with a daily readership of 4.6 million people worldwide, and a readership base which just keeps getting larger every year (by about 13 per cent). So one could hardly wish for a better mainstream platform. Via my Earth Insight column, I'll be doing exclusive reporting, muckraking commentary, and detailed transdisciplinary analysis, informed by my systemic and holistic approach to environmental ...

NOVANEWS   In Singapore, up to 2,000 activists lead by local bloggers staged a rally against recently introduced licensing rules for news websites, including breaches of “racial or religious harmony”, which protesters see as an attack on freedom of expression.   People gather to listen to bloggers speeches during a rally at a free-speech park called Speakers' Corner in Singapore on June 8, 2013 (AFP Photo / Roslan Rahman) RT A crowd with posters denouncing “internet censorship” gathered on Saturday in Speakers’ Corner at Hong Lim Park to demand the withdrawal of the policy. The peaceful demonstration in the Southeast Asian city-state was organized by a group of bloggers called “Free My Internet.” The message of the gathering - “the government must trust us, and stop treati...

NOVANEWS Tim King Salem-News.com A fascinating and important event to help people understand the Genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Burma. A view to a kill... Rohingya Muslims have been slaughtered for the past year in Burma. Lux Capio Photography Agency (LOS ANGELES) - The Myanmar Muslim Genocide Awareness Convention happens this Sunday in Los Angeles. Matt Rains and Alia Mehboob of Lux Capio Photography Agency, will show their incredible photographs at this special event, taken during recent trips to Burma, now known as Myanmar. Lux Capio Photography Agency These images reveal the darkness that has enveloped an erratic SE Asian country, long ruled by a military junta, regarded internationally as a pariah state, which is now recognized by the United States as a 'democracy'. Rar...

NOVANEWS Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has indicated her intention to run for the presidency, with elections due to be held in 2015. Addressing world leaders and heads of business at a major forum, the Nobel Peace laureate called for the amendment of the military drafted Burmese constitution which prevents her from leading the country. Burma's current constitution blocks anyone with spouses or children who are overseas citizens from leading the country, which affects the democracy activist whose two sons are British. Suu Kyi told the forum she wants to run for president and she is "quite frank about it".

NOVANEWS   Over 350 garment workers have lost their lives in the collapse of the factory where they were working in the Rana Plaza complex in Savar, just north of Dhaka. As this is written, around 900 are still listed as 'missing' and with every minute that passes the likelihood of them being added to the 350 becomes more certain. The owner of the RanaPlaza, Sohel Rana, a man described as politically 'connected' is still being sought after it came to light that his building was knocked up on the cheap without having to abide by costly regulations. The owners of the factory which was on the higher floors of the 8 storey building have been arrested. The building developed huge cracks and vibrations were felt and creaking and bangs were heard the day before the collapse. The workforce we...

NOVANEWS Malaysia’s ruling coalition Barisan Nasional (BN) lead by United Malays National Organization (UMNO) has won 133 seats in the country’s 222-member parliament, with a loss of 7 seats. It’s UMNO’s 13th consective victory since the country’s independence in 1957. The opposition coalition, Pakatan Rakyat, headed by US-Israeli darling Islamist Anwar Ibrahim, once a deputy prime minister in Dr. Mahathir Mohamad administration, won 89 seats with a gain of 7 seats. Anwar Ibrahim was sacked over major disagreements on how to steer Malaysia’s economy during the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Anwar Ibrahim, like all other US-Israel puppet politicians, refuses to read the writings on the wall. He cried foul and blamed country’s Election Commision for his three-party coalition’s defeat. “It’s ...

NOVANEWS Reuters Reuters/Reuters - Quazi Mohammad Ahsanullah, father of Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, holds a photograph of his son inside his residence at Uttar Jatrabari in Dhaka October 18, 2012. REUTERS/Andrew B …more   Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis … Relatives of Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul … DHAKA (Reuters) - The father of a Bangladeshi man accused of attempting to blow up the New York Federal Reserve Bank denied on Thursday that his son was involved and said he was the victim of a "racist conspiracy". Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, was arrested on Wednesday and faces charges of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to provide material support to al Qaeda. "This is nothing but a conspiracy. There is still a racist consp...