Week of 02 – 08 of December 2017

March 19, 2018 9:46 am Published by Leave your thoughts

 

Cambodia’s exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy has committed treason by inciting soldiers to defy orders, Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Wednesday, and he will face new legal action over the comments.

Read more:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cambodia-politics/cambodias-sam-rainsy-to-be-sued-over-
treasonous-call-to-soldiers-pm-idUSKBN1E00L3

Around 1,000 people marched through Hong Kong Sunday, December 3, led by some of the city’s high-profile democracy campaigners including Joshua Wong, in what they billed an “anti-authoritarian” protest.
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For the second consecutive year, American magazine Foreign Policy named Sen. Leila de Lima as one of the leading global thinkers of 2017 for publicly denouncing President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal war on drug behind bars.

Read more:
http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2017/12/05/
1765537/de-lima-again-hailed-leading-
global-thinker

Almost all Indonesians, or 98.2 percent, favor President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, and most of them want him to continue leading the country, a survey by Indo Barometer shows.
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With Cambodia’s former opposition leader Kem Sokha languishing in a remote jail for more than three months now, international organisations and parliamentarians have renewed their calls for his immediate release and for the reversal of the controversial dissolution of his Cambodia National Rescue Party.
Tributes to Taiwan’s former dictator Chiang Kai-shek will be removed across the island after lawmakers voted in favour of the mandatory axing of symbols of its authoritarian past.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/
taiwan-moves-to-erase-authoritarian-legacy-
with-new-laws-9473522

CALD NEWS YOU CAN USE
Week of 02 – 08
 of December 2017

BURMA
In China, Suu Kyi cites Burma progress

Dec 02, 2017
http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2017/
dec/02/in-china-suu-kyi-cites-burma-
progress-2/

CAMBODIA
Cambodia’s Hun Sen Vows to Hold Elections
Despite Dissolution of Main Opposition Party

Dec 06, 2017
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/
elections-12062017162136.html

MALAYSIA 
Gerakan to pursue ‘contempt of court’ proceedings
against Guan Eng over land sale claim

Dec 03, 2017
https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2017/12/310245/
gerakan-pursue-contempt-court-proceedings
-against-guan-eng-over-land-sale

PHILIPPINES
LP lawmakers urge Duterte gov’t to conduct
‘impartial’ probe of Dengvaxia mess

Dec 05, 2017 
http://www.interaksyon.com/immunize-it-from-politics-
lp-lawmakers-urge-duterte-govt-to-conduct-
impartial-probe-of-dengvaxia-mess/

VP poll recount to begin in February 2018
Dec 05, 2017
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/nation
/635450/vp-poll-recount-to-begin-in-february-2018/story/

 

SINGAPORE
Why is PAP encouraging India to use our
naval base against China?

Dec 04, 2017
http://yoursdp.org/news/why_is_singapore_
encouraging_india_to_use_our_naval_base
_against_china/2017-12-04-6209

TAIWAN
DPP to propose revising labor changes
Dec 04, 2017
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives
/2017/12/04/2003683402

THAILAND
Surin’s death a huge loss for Democrats
Dec 04, 2017
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/
detail/opinion/30333108

INTERNATIONAL
In brief: ALDE Party Congress 2017 in Amsterdam
Dec 05, 2017
https://www.aldeparty.eu/news/brief-alde
-party-congress-2017-amsterdam

ALDE Party President Hans van Baalen
Statement on the passing
of Dr Surin Pitsuwan, founding Chairperson of CALD

https://www.aldeparty.eu/press-releases/statement-
passing-dr-surin-pitsuwan-founding-chairperson-cald

 

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