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Now is the summer of Britain’s discontent
The BBC news at 7:00 this past Tuesday morning had a number of stories - each redolent of the despair that grips British public life.An opener was the global threat posed by the successful test of a North Korean ballistic missile and the US response that “war cannot be ruled out.”Having mooted a global nuclear Armageddon, the bulletin plunged into British national miseries: the results of an investigation, which, said the BBC reporter, “could scarcely be much worse,” into police failure to assist victims of harassment; another indictment of police by the survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire for not arresting any of those deemed responsible for the inferno; an expected collapse of the government’s determination to restrict public sector pay rises to 1 percent; yet another alleged...
July 09, 2017

Now is the summer of Britain’s discontent

Mahathir’s comeback renews Malaysia’s opposition in looming polls
JOSEPH SIPALAN AND PRAVEEN MENONPrime Minister Najib Razak won Malaysia’s last general election, despite losing the popular vote. Since then, he has been embroiled in a corruption scandal that has been investigated in a half-dozen countries.Yet the avuncular leader with an aristocratic pedigree was still expecting to cruise to another election victory in polls due by mid-2018, maintaining his coalition’s record of unbroken rule since independence in 1957.Now, all bets are off.That’s because his former mentor and prime minister for 22 years, Mahathir Mohamad, who turns 92 next week, has agreed to join a fractured opposition alliance and head the government again if it wins. He would be the world’s oldest prime minister if that happened.Mahathir, along with Najib’s former deputy,...
July 08, 2017

Mahathir’s comeback renews Malaysia’s opposition in looming polls

Elizabeth Piper
British PM May finds it lonely at the top, but battles on - for now
It’s lonely at the top for British Prime Minister Theresa May but she’s holding on - for now.May faced calls to quit from inside and outside her ruling Conservative Party after losing its parliamentary majority in an ill-judged election that she did not need to call, plunging Britain into the worst political instability for decades.She has struggled since then to unite her government on policy and to assemble a new team of aides - one Conservative lawmaker described it as “career suicide” to agree to serve a leader whose days in office may be numbered.But party sources say moves to oust May are now on hold after senior figures agreed she should be the one to at least make a start on two years of Brexit talks that are likely to stretch her government and possibly the public’s...
July 07, 2017

British PM May finds it lonely at the top, but battles on - for now

Japan’s Abe vulnerable after party’s dismal Tokyo poll showing
A stunning defeat for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling party at the hands of a novice political group in the capital has revealed the fragility of his support and shown that voters can desert him - if there is a credible alternative.Abe surged back to power in 2012, pledging to revive the stale economy and bolster defense. He has led his ruling bloc to three more landslide victories in national polls since then.But those victories were less robust than met the eye, since record or near-record low voter turnout allowed Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to rack up seats with support from a quarter or less of eligible voters.On Sunday, the party got a chilling glimpse of just how vulnerable it could be if a viable opposition force emerges to attract unhappy voters. That...
July 06, 2017

Japan’s Abe vulnerable after party’s dismal Tokyo poll showing

Crimes against humanity in Myanmar
The Myanmar government has announced that it will not grant visas to members of a fact-finding mission appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council to investigate alleged human rights violations, such as murder, displacement, looting, rape, and the burning of houses and places of worship by members of the Myanmar army and security forces against Rohingya Muslims. The Myanmar government’s position in this regard was made clear in statements issued by different officials, including the country’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who holds the portfolio of the ministry of foreign affairs. She ordered foreign ministry officials not to grant visas to UN mission members saying that Myanmar has disassociated itself from the UN resolution because it is not in keeping with what is...
July 05, 2017

Crimes against humanity in Myanmar

Toward a cleaner society
How often do we pick up a newspaper or read in other news outlets about instances of public corruption? And we wonder how it is allowed to happen. In the annual study released by Transparency International (TI), the Corruption Perceptions Index indicates that corruption continues to add to the economic woes of societies globally. The study offers a score of individual countries and how corrupt their public sectors are seen to be.Two thirds of the 176 countries ranked scored below the median, indicating a major affliction with corruption. With such daunting numbers showing that public institutions need to be more transparent, and powerful officials more accountable, there is much to be done to arrest the tide against the proliferation of this disease.Corruption is a globally recognized...
July 05, 2017

Toward a cleaner society

Lynching of Muslims in India evokes deafening silence
IT was fascinating to see the leaders of the world’s largest and most powerful democracies rub shoulders and do much backslapping, hand-pumping and mutual fawning in Washington this past week. It was even cornier and overly sugary affair than Modi’s much photographed ‘bromance’ with Obama. This isn’t the first US visit by the Indian leader of course; it is his fourth pilgrimage to the land of the free, which he has grown rather fond of over the years. Perhaps because the hosts had declared him a persona non grata and denied him visa for more than 10 years for his role in the 2002 Gujarat pogrom that killed more than 2,000 Muslims. The curbs were lifted months ahead of what looked like his imminent ascent to the top job. That didn’t prevent his hitting it off with Trump’s...
July 04, 2017

Lynching of Muslims in India evokes deafening silence

Why Muhammad Bin Salman?
A NUMBER of Arab viewers commented on a BBC Arabic talk show with a strong reaction to the appointment of Prince Muhammad Bin Salman as our new Crown Prince. The host conveyed their comments to me, adding his own.I laughed as I said to brothers from Iraq, Egypt, Palestine and Yemen: What is happening here is exclusively and inclusively an internal affair. It concerns the government, the royal family and the Saudi people. No one else has the right to intervene.To the Iraqi viewer, I said: Imagine if we, in Saudi Arabia, had a say on who should win or rule Iraq. You would have considered this a flagrant interference in Iraqi affairs. Your government was so angry with our ex-ambassador, Tamer Alsabhan, for commenting on Iranian influence and intervention and for protesting the massacres of...
July 04, 2017

Why Muhammad Bin Salman?

Terrorism in the Grand Mosque
EVERY time the world believes that terrorist groups have reached the bottom point of criminality, a new incident comes up to prove that they are capable of falling to unprecedented low levels.This is exactly what happened when a terrorist suicide attack was thwarted near the Al-Haram Al-Sharif (the Grand Mosque) in Makkah on the eve of the last nights of the holy month of Ramadan. The attack took place at the holiest place and at the holiest time, yet, all this did not deter the terrorists from carrying out their dirty and criminal activity.To continue to treat such groups as “stray” groups that have lost their way or that these groups have “good intentions” but are “brain-washed,” is an essential part of the problem because the subject is not a single individual case.The...
July 03, 2017

Terrorism in the Grand Mosque

‘Uncharitable’ advice on cleaning workers
A RECENT incident in the holy month of Ramadan got me thinking of an unholy trend that is beginning to emerge among people, more so among the faithful. I said to myself that I have to write about this incident, which ironically, I mostly encountered in the last ten days of Ramadan. The incident was that I have had to argue with a man in a traffic signal while he gave me unsolicited advice. The incident began with the other person objecting to me giving a cleaning worker some money as charity. If this had been one-off then I would have brushed it off as a single person’s view. But what is tragic that this objection, though random, is increasing in numbers.I sympathize with the cleaning workers on the street, who work to keep our streets clean. And I see it as a charitable act to provide...
July 03, 2017

‘Uncharitable’ advice on cleaning workers

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