internasional news: 2013

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Australia Senator rejected and expelled from Malaysia

Senator Australia Ditolak dan Diusir dari Malaysia

Photos released by the Office of senator Nick Xenophon suggests that Australia is sitting while detained at airport immigration Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysia hold demonstrations has been involved since Xenophon that presented the opposition.

KUALA LUMPUR, KOMPAS.com-A senator from Australia, Nick Xenophon independent stronghold, denied entry because Malaysia is regarded as a threat to the security and harmony of Malaysia.

Xenophon Malaysia immigration officer was arrested on arrival at Kuala Lumpur Airport, Wednesday (16/2), and will be immediately deported to Melbourne, Australia, in the evening.

"I was told that I was a threat to security, and I am not allowed to enter the country," said Xenophon told Reuters news agency by telephone.

Malaysia's official news agency, Bernama, mentioning, Xenophon was arrested at the terminal special cheap flights (low cost carrier terminal) at 06.50 pm local time so get off the plane that brought him from Melbourne.

Named Add, upper House member of Parliament were arrested because Australia is known to have a history of "disrupting the harmony of the country", according to article 8 paragraph (3) of the Immigration Act of Malaysia.

Shocked and disappointed

News of the arrest of one of the members of the legislature it was surprising the Government of Australia. Australia's Foreign Minister Bob Carr called Malaysia's move "surprising and disappointing".

"Senator Xenophon's Detention is surprising and disappointing move from a country that has always had a strong diplomatic relations with Australia," said Carr.

Carr also claimed to have ordered officials to Australia immediately sought the liberation of Xenophon and demanded an explanation over the incident has been completed.

"It's really strange and very unusual," said Xenophon, who profess to intend meeting with Malaysia opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim, in a visit this time around.

Xenophon and several other members of the Parliament of Australia will also meet with officials of the Office of the Prime Minister of Malaysia, the Electoral Commission, and activist groups are demanding reform of the Clean election rule in Malaysia. However, the visit of the members of Parliament were cancelled after the arrest of Xenophon.

No free legal

Malaysia's immigration Director-General Datuk Ahmad Alias in official statements say, Xenophon denied entrance to Malaysia because he had attended a demonstration prohibited in Kuala Lumpur, in April last year.

"Malaysia is a free and democratic country, but there is no one who is free of the law. The authorities will take appropriate action against the person who is supposed to have violated national laws, "said Aka.

Minister of Malaysia Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein added, the detention decision Xenophon in no way politically motivated. He also asserted, the status of Xenophon as a senator at all just makes it special in the eyes of law of Malaysia.

"As long as the decision (detention) was done according to the law, his status as a senator does not make him special," said Hishammuddin, Named was quoted as saying.

Xenophon acknowledges, as observers last year, on April 28, he was present in the demonstration Clean 3.0 in Kuala Lumpur. At the time, he was present at the invitation of Anwar Ibrahim and acting as an observer of the election system in Malaysia.

Net movement, which also was held in 2007 and 2011, demanding a thorough reform of the electoral system in the country.

The demonstrations ended ricuh when the protesters tried to ignore the police blockade. Police then fired tear gas to disperse the demonstrators.

Now, Xenophon returned to Malaysia to ensure freedom in the coming elections. Malaysia will hold elections no later than the end of next June.

The detention sparked immediate protest the Xenophon among Malaysia's opposition. Anwar himself mentions the detention as "an abuse of power that is very rough".

"I want to remind the Prime Minister Najib Razak that he's not entitled to treat the guests as the enemy just because they were being critical of his Government," said Anwar.

Lim Chee Wee, President of the Malaysian Bar Association lawyer, said detention of Xenophon's "shameful events" and "absurd". Lim warned, Governments should Malaysia apologises unreservedly to the Australia's senators.

The Government of Malaysia has always been claimed to have carried out the election freely and fairly.

However, the activist thinks there are still a number of shortcomings in the case of voter registration, the purchase of votes, media reports and a Government that is considered one-sided. (Reuters/AFP/AP/DHF)

Buron Five Days, Morales Didor Die

KOMPAS.com- Texas police finally shot and killed Alberto Morales that five days after the piercing buron a detective. The police, wrote the AP on Saturday (16/2/2013), find the information if Morales is not far from Lake Grapevine in North Texas.

As a result, the hunt against Morales ended with desingan bullet that repeal criminal lives. When police officers besieged him in a House, Morales refused to give up. "We are happy because the hunt against Morales finally has been completed," said Saouthlake police chief Steve Mynett.

The adventures of Morales into the talks in Texas. Because, the 42 year old pesakitan was stabbed detective Jaime Pardines with sharp pieces of glass from his glasses. Pardines injured in the neck, back, and in the lungs. Although, after getting treatment in the Hospital of Dallas, have been allowed to go home. Pardines

On Monday (11/2/2013), the hunt against Morales began when he ran away from police escort at the Wal-Mart parking lot in Grapevine. The area is near the International Airport, Dallas Fort Worth, Texas. Pardinas Detective with some other true detective in charge moved from Houston to Morales Nevada. In a Nevada prison, Morales his plan would Crouch 30 years because a verdict of sexual crimes.

Queensland began to Seek Tourists from Indonesia

BRISBANE, KOMPAS.com — this became the Indonesia Slama excursions for tourists from Australia, now state of Queensland began to turn to the opposite direction more tourists from Indonesia who is travelling abroad.

According to a report on news.com.au site Sunday (17/2/2013), Queensland tourism operators will be 12th visit to Jakarta this week to take part in the first trade mission in order to attract more tourists visiting Indonesia to Queensland. In Jakarta, they will meet with about 150 Tourism Bureau, the media and other agencies engaged in the field of tourism.

According to Minister of Tourism Queensland Jann Stuckey, the value of tourist visits from Southeast Asia including Indonesia to Queensland would be worth about 700 million dollars in the year 2020. Special visitors from Indonesia, Stuckey hopes the visit directly to Queensland will rise sharply following the opening of direct flight by Garuda, the route Jakarta-Bali-Brisbane this coming June.

"There is tremendous growth potential in Indonesia, particularly in business travel and tourism market. This was the basis for Tourism Queensland's first trade mission to Indonesia, "Stuckey said in a statement.

According to reports in Australia Compass correspondent l. Literature Wijaya, Queensland which some mild tropical regions have long been the bone pungung for Tourism Australia. The main tourist areas such as the Gold Coast, Brisbane, and the Great Barrier Reefs, Cairns became a major tourist destination for tourists from Asia, such as Japan. For a tourist destination in Indonesia, which is usually in a group, Queensland is one of the main chain of visits in addition to Melbourne and Sydney.

Monday, February 25, 2013

Bomb in Pakistan Kills 43 People

AAMIR QURESHI/AFP Residents gathered at the site of a suicide bomb attacked the procession of Shia minority group in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on Wednesday (21/11/2010) night. Brutal action that killed at least 16 people.

KOMPAS.com- A bomb blast killed 47 people, including women and children and injuring more than 200 people in North-West Pakistan, Wednesday (16/2/2013), police and officials said.
The bomb was remotely-controlled it exploded in the town of Hazaras, a Shiite-dominated area residents on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, which is rich in oil and gas. "At least 47 people were killed and at least 200 people injured. The death toll may rise.It is a bomb which is controlled remotely, "said Wazir Khan Nasir, a senior police officer in Quetta told AFP.
"It was a sectarian attack, the Shiite community is so on target," he added.
Important officials of the province Akbar Hussain argued that Durani told AFP the dead included women and children. "We think the number of victims will increase. We announce the readiness of hospital at home, "he said.
Durani said the bomb was planted near a pillar of one building in a single market. "The building collapsed due to the force of the bomb blast, several people were trapped inside," he said.
Officials and witnesses say an angry mob mwngepung that location is credited the explosion and did not allow police, aid workers and journalists from entering that location. "They got angry and started to protest, some of them threw stones and police," said Durani told AFP.
"Some of them carrying weapons and opened fire warnings, and now they allow police, aid workers go to that location," he added.
An AFP photographer counted 30 bodies in just one hospital.
Baluchistan, which borders Iran and Afghanistan to be sectarian violence hotspots between Sunni and Shia residents, which is one-fifth of 180 million inhabitants of the country.
At least 92 people were killed and 121 wounded on 10 January, when two suicide bombers detonated a bomb at a crowded Club snooker in one location in the city of Quetta, which has a Shiite majority.

Secretary General Of The UNITED NATIONS Attended The Peaceful Realization Of The Congo

PHIL MOORE/AFP M23 strong rebel forces allegedly received assistance from the Government of Rwanda.

KOMPAS.com- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will attend the signing of a peace celebration in the Congo. According to Spokesman Martin Nesirky, yesterday, Ban Ki-moon would attend on February 24, 1995 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Actually, wrote the AP, that delayed signing process a month ago. According to Ban, the delay was due to a procedural issue, not the difference of views. Congo peace includes various aspects pertaining to at least eight countries: Congo, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, South Africa, and Tanzania.

The peace agreement is a great program to complete a conflict of the area. At the very least, Uganda is still negotiating peace with rebel group M23.

Avoid Media, Spokesman Of The Presidency Of Egypt Withdrew

Hindari Media, Jubir Kepresidenan Mesir Mundur

BBC Indonesia/Reuters the figures give the press after the meeting that description held Al-Azhar University in Cairo.

KOMPAS.com- Egypt's Presidency spokesman Yasser Ali chose retired from Office. "I chose to withdraw due to avoid violence by the media," said Yasser Ali as Al-Ahram news page on Wednesday (16/2/2013).

Actually, Yasser Ali claimed to have been asked back time and time again to the President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi. Yasser Ali is a figure behind the success of the presidential campaign Morsi.

Now, Ali's new position in information and Decision Support Center (IDSC) Cabinet. According to MENA news, Yasser Ali became Chairman in IDSC.

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Kelompok Bersenjata Suriah Culik 300 Orang

BBC map of Syria showing the location of the town of Al-Shaddada.

KOMPAS.com-More than 300 people kidnapped by armed groups in Western Syria for two days in a series of sectarian kidnapping, said one group of monitors and residents on Saturday (16/2/2013). A wave of kidnappings that most victims are women and children, began Thursday when about 40 civilians from the majority Shiite villages and Kafraya Fua was kidnapped by armed groups in the province of Idlib. A few hours later more than 70 people from the villages and the cities of Sunnis kidnapped as retaliation by armed men near the Shiite villages.
Next, dozens of people from the opposition Sunni cities including Sarmin, Saraqeb resistance group and controlled and Maaretal Binesh-Numan was captured by armed men, said Syria propemerintah Observatory for human rights. "In two days, the number of people abducted rises to more than 300 people," says Director Rami Abdel Rahman Observatory told AFP by telephone.
The majority of the insurgents are fighting the Government's Sunni residents, while the ruling tribes and many of his supporters comes from the minority Alawi sect, one part of the Shia.
A 29-year-old resident of Fua said abduction-abduction began when a group of gunmen abducted more than 40 Sarmin people mostly from Fua and Kafraya from one passenger bus headed for Damascus. He said dozens of Sunnis kidnapped civilians as retaliation, although most of the women and children and then freed.
Residents, who spoke without prepared his name mentioned-abduction abduction say among hostile villages was regular occurrence and usually ended with the exchange of the victims.
Abduction-kidnapping increased in Syria since the beginning of the rebellion nearly two years, due to the situation of insecurity and lack of food rations in the midst of the financial crisis.

Lee Kuan Yew Left The Hospital

Singapore, KOMPAS.com -Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's first Prime Minister, left hospital on Sunday after being treated since Friday's health problems were related. Though already left the hospital, but the charismatic figure of 89 years old that remains in the supervision of doctors and medical team.

The AP Office Sunday (17/2/2013) report, Lee was rushed to hospital Friday after suffering bouts of transcient ischaemic, where blood flow to the brain is stopped for a few moments. The condition is usually associated with an abnormal heartbeat.

A statement from the Singapore Prime Minister's Office said Lee was allowed home from hospital and is resting at home. Lee got the treatment related to an effort to prevent the occurrence of pengumpalan blood.

The founder of the ruling people's action party in Singapore has managed to turn Singapore from a country whose airport slums into a modern metropolis. Lee became Prime Minister of Singapore in 1959 and reigned for 31 years. His son, Lee Hsien Loong now becomes acting PM Singapore.