BURMA |
NLD Leader Seeks International Help to Amend Constitution June 17 2014 The leader of the opposition National League for Democracy, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, has called on the international community to support her campaign to change a military-drafted constitution that bars her from becoming president and help prepare “a fair playing ground” for elections next year. Myanmar democracy icon and oppostion leader Aung San Suu Kyi paid a courtesy call on President Dr Ram Baran Yadav at the President House, Sheetal Niwas today. On the occasion, the two leaders held discussion on democracy, development and mutual relation between Myanmar and Nepal, the Office of the President said in a statement. |
CAMBODIA |
Over 100,000 Cambodian Migrant Workers Flee Thailand June 16 2014 Fearful of a crackdown on undocumented workers, thousands of Cambodian migrants clutching children and towing their possessions in sacks and plastic bags, milled into a train station. They crammed inside in an orderly fashion– mostly nervous and solemn — as they waited for the train that will take them back to Cambodia. |
HONGKONG |
Hong Kong’s Chalk Girl Released from Protection Order
January 20 2015
CALD Individual Member and Founding Chairman of Hong Kong Democratic Party, Martin Lee, lawyered for the release of a girl who chalked up flowers. http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/wall-01192015170459.html
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INDONESIA |
Farmers Association Endorses Jokowi at Monday Gathering June 18 2014 Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) presidential candidate Joko Widodo accepted the endorsement of the Indonesian Farmers’ Association (HKTI) on Monday at the organization’s anniversary celebration at Balai Kartini convention center in South Jakarta, despite Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party candidate Prabowo Subianto’s longtime association with the group. New Survey Finds Race Getting Tighter Nationwide opinion polls conducted by two independent pollsters have found that the July 9 presidential election is going to be a tight race.
The Jakarta-based Pol-Tracking Institute and the Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI) have found that the gap between the Gerindra Party-led coalition’s Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa and the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P)-led coalition’s Joko “Jokowi” Widodo-Jusuf Kalla is now only between 6 and 7 percent with the Prabowo-Hatta ticket continuing to gain momentum. Jokowi Expect Big Win in Hometown Presidential candidate Joko “Jokowi” Widodo continued his campaign tour in Bandung, West Java on the seventh day of campaigning on Wednesday.
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PHILIPPINES |
Travel Ban Imposed on Enrile, Revilla, Gigi June 18 2014 The Sandiganbayan issued the hold departure orders (HDO) on the two senators a day after similar orders were released by the anti-graft court’s Fifth Division for Sen. Jinggoy Estrada, businesswoman Janet Lim Napoles and 13 others. |
SRI LANKA |
Buddhist-Muslim Unrest Boils Over in Sri Lanka June 16 2014 In some of the worst religious violence in Sri Lanka in decades, three people have been killed and 78 injured in riots between Buddhists and Muslims in this southwestern coastal town after months of rising tensions, officials said Monday.
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TAIWAN |
DPP: government’s free-zone policy was not transparent, lacking of comprehensive economic planning June 17 2014 The special article governing the Free Economic Pilot Zones (FEPZ) poses several problems because most of the draft contents are empty, as it was described by Chair Tsai Ing-wen during an expanded policy meeting held in Greater Taichung from June 9 to 10. According to Chair Tsai, the arguments surrounding the FEPZ is not just about whether Taiwan is “liberalizing” or “locking itself up”. She emphasized the need to discuss and review whether the government did the right preparations when it conducted the strategy planning for FEPZ. http://dpptaiwan.blogspot.com/ DPP Tells Beijing to respect HK Rights The DPP’s remarks came hours after China warned Hong Kong that there were limits to the territory’s freedom and said that it should adhere strictly to the law ahead of a planned pro-democracy protest that could end up shutting down part of the territory’s Central District. |
INTERNATIONAL |
LI President Calls for common Global Policy to Protect Migrants June 16 2014 LI President Dr Juli Minoves has called for a common international policy to protect migrants while meeting with the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights of Migrants at the UN Human Rights Council. The meeting at the UNHRC was a part of the Second Liberal International Human Rights Parliamentarians Meeting, which takes place annually in Geneva, Switzerland. |
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