Here’s a haunting documentary to look out for. Some 500,000 to 1 million Indonesians were butchered in the mid-1960s. The synopsis from the official website:
Directed by anthropologist Robert Lemelson and edited by two-time Academy Award winner Pietro Scalia, “40 years of silence: An Indonesian tragedy” is a moving feature length documentary film about one of [...]
Spotted in a Bloomberg report after the recent Air France crash:
The plane maker (Airbus) recommended in September 2007 that airlines replace the Thales SA speed sensors, known as Pitot tubes, on single-aisle A320-series planes as well as the A330 and A340. Air France said June 6 it waited until April to begin installing the new [...]
2345: 14 of them have been brought to the Kelana Jaya lock-up.
2334: Blog reader anony-mouse reports:
I had great piece of cake…! Tian was at the police station too. Irene Fernandez was in a car that came by the station twice, but did not alight.
2228: Of the 16, three have been freed because they have documents. [...]
I couldn’t resist that headline, sorry.
Looks as if the Singaporeans are eager to take relations with Malaysia to a new level. Either that or they have gone completely potty - about orchids, that is.
They have named “a tall and robust hybrid” of orchids Dendrobium Najib Rosmah in conjunction with the couple’s visit to the Singapore [...]
The plight of refugee children in Malaysia is a sad one. They are among the forgotten children in our land.
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