FRIEDRICH NAUMANN FOUNDATION FOR FREEDOM |
Muslim and Christians Run Together
May 20 2015 The peace process in the Philippines gets promoted in an unusual way on May 24, 2015 by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF), bringing together Muslims, Christians and indigenous groups to a 5-km long fun run for peace and freedom in Zamboanga City, the heart of the crisis area in the south of the country.
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BURMA |
NLD Leader Calls for Urgent Six-Way Talks
May 26 2015 Opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has called on the government to convene an urgent session of six-way talks to discuss amendments to Myanmar’s constitution, while questioning whether there is a commitment to hold parliamentary elections on time. http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/national-news/14647-nld-leader-calls-for-urgent-six-way-talks.html Give the Rohingya Citizenship, Burma’s Opposition Demands May 20 2015 The Burmese government has so far disclaimed any responsibility for the fate of the thousands of Rohingya refugees adrift on the Andaman Sea. But now the spokesman for the National League for Democracy, Burma’s most important opposition party, has demanded a long-term solution to the problem: giving them citizenship. ‘Humanitarian’ Help Ready for Boat Migrants – Myanmar May 20 2015 Myanmar said Wednesday, May 20, it was “ready to provide humanitarian assistance” to boatpeople, in its most conciliatory comments yet as several Southeast Asian neighbors meet to discuss the boat crisis gripping the region. “A spokesman for the opposition National League for Democracy party on Monday said the minority Muslim group were ‘entitled to human rights’.”
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CAMBODIA |
Sokha Tells Crowd Not to Turn to Small Parties
May 25 2015 Kem Sokha, deputy leader of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, yesterday urged supporters not to leave the party in favour of smaller opposition groups if they want a chance of changing the ruling party at the next election. http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sokha-tells-crowd-not-turn-small-parties |
HONGKONG |
After Occupy, Democracy Activist Gear Up for the Battle of Hong Kong Electoral Reform
May 26 2015 Pro-democracy groups are joining hands again, six months after the 79-day Occupy campaign ended, in a new movement calling for all lawmakers to vote against the government’s political reform package next month. Hong Kong: Endgame for Beijing’s Fake Democracy Plan May 20 2015 The prolonged battle over Hong Kong’s electoral system has entered a new phase with the territory’s government presenting its final proposal for the 2017 elections, which will choose the city’s next Chief Executive. The government is proposing an extremely restrictive ‘Iran-style’ election model with vetted candidates as previously outlined by Beijing last August. That became the trigger for last year’s Umbrella Revolution which saw parts of the city occupied by democracy protesters for 79 days. http://chinaworker.info/en/2015/05/19/10395/
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PHILIPPINES |
Roxas Still Tops LP List for 2016, Says Aquino
May 26 2015 Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas II still tops the Liberal Party list as standard bearer, President Benigno Aquino III, party chairman, said on Monday (May 25). http://cnnphilippines.com/news/2015/05/25/Roxas-still-tops-LP-list-for-2016-says-Aquino.html
How will Philippines Help Asian ‘Boat People’ May 20 2015 At least 2,000 migrants stalked by hunger and violence have been trapped for weeks on boats off Myanmar, the UN said Tuesday, as Indonesia called for a regional effort to tackle the crisis. People-trafficking gangs have either dumped their human cargos from Myanmar and Bangladesh off Southeast Asia’s shores or left them stranded at sea since a recent Thai crackdown disrupted the trade’s normal routes. |
THAILAND |
A ‘Third Force’ Could Bridge Thailand’s Political Divide
May 26 2015 Unless Thailand’s only viable political party can reform itself, the military-coup-prone country will need a third force of “liberal ideas and undertakings” to lead it out of “the jungle of vested-interest politics,” writes former Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya.
Rohingya Needs Citizenship: Kasit May 26 2015 Former Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya has urged Thailand and related countries and organisations to apply lessons learned from the influx of Vietnamese migrants two decades ago to solve the Rohingya boat people crisis. Kasit said Thailand should provide temporary shelter for the Rohingya and seek the help of the Sheikhul Islam Office so they have proper living conditions. http://news.thaivisa.com/thailand/rohingya-need-citizenship-kasit/89313/ Abhisit Denies Plan to Quit Politics if Democrats Lose May 20 2015 Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva yesterday denied that he was planning to give up politics should his party lose the next general election. He had previously said that he would quit politics if the Democrats did not win the majority of votes in the next general election, though he said he did not know when the polls would be held. http://news.thaivisa.com/thailand/abhisit-denies-plan-to-quit-politics-if-democrats-lose/87495 |
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