Week 4!!!

International news

Religious mob burns churches

  Indonesian Muslims burned the churches and struggled the local police as the religious violence cases happened at their nation. The torrent of angry Muslims burn down the two churches and ransacked a third in the Temanggung  city.

  Antonius Bawengan, a 58 years old Christian man who was adjudicated for the five years in jail as he was distributing the handbills that insulting Islam. Based on this issue, the furious Muslims were making excessive demands about death penalty for Antonius Bawengan.

  The protesters started their radical plan by destroyed the Catholic schools, churches and battled the police. International human rights activists reproached the bloody attack on the Ahmadiyah Muslim sect in West Java and they requested the instant investigation about the reason why the police failed to cease the lynch mop.

  Ahmadiyah spokesman Zafrullah Ahmad Pontoh named the protesters as “sadistic” and appealed to Yudhoyono for protection.

  Everyone has their choices to choose their own belief or religion. However, we should not insult or comment other religion as everyone has their reason why they believe in their religion. We have to learn to respect each other cultures, religions and all the differences.

  From my point of view, I do not agree the violence toward the nation. Everything is judging by the laws, we have to follow the law. Although the penalty is not satisfied but there is another way to solve the problem besides violence. Violence could not solve the problem!

Local news

Girl kills self after Facebook post

   A form five student died after she falling down from the second floor of her school. The tragedy happened the next day after she posts a status in her Facebook wall about she wanting to end her life. 

  During the school day, Sally Lee Qian Chun suddenly walked out from the laboratory during her Chemistry lesson on the first floor after that she went to her class which at second floor. “She sits on the corridor ledge where facing her classroom and she fell backward. She suffered with the serious head injured.” Said witnesses.

  Sally’s relatives were wondering why she commit suicide as Sally seems happy during Chinese New Year. However, it was another story for Sally in Facebook. She had posted several suspicious comment on her wall and mentioned that this year would be the last year for her to celebrate Chinese New Year.

  Sally commented on her Facebook about her failed relationship and she also reaffirmed her attempt to end her life. Sally’s comment drew some taunts in Facebook and some Facebook users even asked her to go through of what she wanted to do. Sally even reminded her friends about buying her a teddy and also a coffin. Sally ‘s parents were too emotional during the interview.

   This is the second case of teenager suicide in Malaysia because of their relationship problem. Both cases have some common points are they will post their suicide plan on Facebook wall, there is no sign for them before they going to suicide and both the reason is because of their failed relationship.

   Most of the people will think that they are innocent and stupid as you end your life because of a girl or a guy. I can sure that both of them disappointed toward the world but do they ever think of the people who love you? They could have very long journey to continue but why they willing to give it up? Suicide is the way who use by loser to solve the problem. They think that suicide will give them freedom and no more pain and sad for them but how about your family and your friend?  They wont sad or suffer on your death? Every problem have the ways to solve it, however end your life is not the ways!

week 3 !!

 International news

Mubarak sends in army

   Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has assembled the army and he also announced a curfew in all 28 governorates in the country. The reason of this decision is due to the protesters rampaged through the street of the major cities.

 

   In the capital Cairo, the protestors destroy the infrastructures to show their anger. They poured the mosques, throwing the stones and torching the police stations as the police try to catch them by batons, firing tears gas and rubber bullets.

   As the prevail of violence, Mustafa al-Fekki, National Democratic Party (NDP) member and the chairman of parliament’s foreign affairs committee have mentioned that the security forces alone would not stop the revolution in Egypt, the reformation was more necessary.

   Mubarak and his government have shown no cue of concession to the protesters who want the political reform. In another development, the internet still maintains the cut off situation in Cairo. Cell phone text services were all stopping function and this appeared as a step to disrupt the organization of demonstrations.

   These are all about the HUMAN RIGHT. People need a better protection and they expect that the government at least will listen to their opinions so that there will be no inner-war. The protesters did everything to hold their human right. They hoped that the government will listen to them, reconsider, and if possible or necessary reform the government structure. However, the violence action of them turned everything into disasters and became a tragedy not only for the country and also their family right now. But from my point of view, the most important thing is the protesters should have think another good and safe ways or methods to show their rights instead of madly destroying everything around them.

Local news

A bigger win for Barisan

  Barisan National has preserved their seat at Tenang state with an increased majority of 3,707 votes; the bigger success election for Barisan reiterates its grip on the Johor stronghold.

 
   Barisan’s success was a notation for its improvement during the election from its 2,492 majority votes in the 2008. Former Rengit Assistant District Officer Mohd Azahar Ibrahim who put a lot of effort on his campaign which obtained 6,699 votes. However, PAS’s Normala Sudirman was obtained 2,992 votes. There were 142 spoilt votes discovered in the election.

   In addition, Barisan won in the three of the four of Chinese area voting station and it has successfully reduced the winning chances of PAS. Besides that, Felda schemes and Malay villagers also giving the huge support for Barisan. Due to the Indian voters swung back to Barisan, this action causes the increased majority for Barisan in the two Indian areas from 260 votes in 2008 to 365. However, there were some complaints about the vote buying.

 
   Congratulation to Barisan National for the great victory during the election. Although I do not understand well about all the local party’s function and the election’s rules but who cares? The most important thing is the party can help the citizens and let the Malaysians get benefits in their life. The party who won the election has the responsibility to help the citizen ensure their authority.

 
   I glad that Malaysia is a democratic and peaceful country. We choose the party by ourselves and let the party lead us to a better future. Furthermore, a good and responsible party is important to our country. In the future, I will definitely be one of the voters; I hope that I can make a right choice for my state and country.

Portait of myself

  What is news? Is everything that is published on the pages newspapers considered the news? Of course not! News is an information that happened recently and is conveyed in the form of media through television, radio, and the print media. Besides , a person , a thing or an incident that is interesting enough to capture the attention of people can also be reported as a news.

   Everyone knows news in a different way. For me, the first time I get to know about news was when I stayed with my grandparents during my school holidays. My grandparents lived at a place, which is considered as a rural area and so there was less fun activities for them to plan when they stay at home. My grandparents have a special habit which never changed since I've known them. They will turn on television on time at 8pm every evening to watch Mandarin News on tv2. For a five years old child like me at that point of time, it baffled me of what they were doing. It was a weird habit, I thought. So I asked them: “is there any interesting about the show? Why both of you are so obsessed with this show?” My grandparents laughed and explained to me that the show was all about the news that covers the whole world so that they will get to know what is happening outside there. They watched this show to know all about what had happened on our world.  I said to my grandparents : ‘I also want to know what happened on our world.” So starting from that moment, I sat next to my grandparents everyday when the ‘show’ started and watched together although sometimes I do not really understand what the host who talk about the news is talking about, but I can see the videos and pictures on the television know what was happened around us. But I do not practice this habit after my holidays ended.

  I went back to my home and stayed with my parents. As my parents do practice this habit so I did not follow the habit again. However, this do not stop me to know news from everywhere in our world. I started reading newspaper since primary school and that was the time I started learning vocabulary. My parents bought me  newspapers everyday so that I can read the news now but with another media, a print media. I read Chinese newspaper named Sin Chew Daily, my parents encouraged me to read more news not only about the entertainment news but the local news and international news as it will broaden my knowledge and will be useful in my future. But somehow I still do not understand what is politic news all about.

  Day by day, I grew up and became a teenager. I will watch television and listen radio to know about news. When I am inside the car, my dad will turn on the radio and listen about the news. Most of the time I listen to the radio because I want to listen to some hit songs but this also another way to know news. After that, I used Internet well to know about news. I read the news and watched the video from my friends profile on Facebook to know what had actually  happened around us. I found that this was an interesting way to know the world well. As we can share and discuss together about the news we know. So I will continue to know news with all these ways.

Week 2!!

International news

Oprah Winfrey finds sister she didn’t know she had

  The famous talk show host-Oprah Winfrey has found her sister. When Oprah Winfrey was a little child who was eight years old, her mother has given up her half sister for adoption. That was about 50 years ago.

  Winfrey was excited when she introduced her newly discovered sister to the audiences on Monday and she explained how determine her sister wants to find her birth mother. Winfrey mentioned her sister; Patricia was the miracle of all miracles. However she doesn’t mention any other information about her sister, Patricia. Patricia has put in lots of effort to look for her real family; her wishes came true when she met Winfrey during the Thanksgiving holidays in November.

  When Patricia was born in 1963, the little Winfrey was living with her father and she doesn’t know that her mother was pregnant. Patricia was staying in the foster home until she was adopted at seven years old. However she never gave up finding her family.

  One day, Patricia knew about the story of Winfrey’s mother which about of her children who had since died. All the information of the story was matched with her own adoption. Patricia found Winfrey’s dead sister daughter and they had a DNA test and make sure their relationship.

  Oprah Winfrey became rich since she started her famous talk show “The Oprah Winfrey Show”. Now, she is known as the richest women in the whole world. At first, I taught that her newly found sister appear in her life for a bad intension to cheat her money. However, the DNA proof that they are the real sibling. Then, I know that I was wrong. They can meet each other after almost 50 years that is truly amazing! Based on their interview, I feel touched and I can feel that they love each other as Patricia does not want Winfrey to get hurt about her assisting. Hope that both of them can live in harmony as sisters.

Local news

Misbun delays meeting with BAM president

  National coach Misbun Sidek has decided to delay the meeting with the Badminton Association of Malaysia ( BAM ) president DAtuk Seri Nadzmi Mohd Salleh. Based on this sudden situation, the BAM’s council who need to attend the meeting is impossible to make any decision.

  Reported by one of the members of council, they made a decision to get Nadzmi to make a stand over the problems surrounding Misbun. Nazmi said that Misbun had sent a message to him, the content of the message is Misbun preferred to have a meeting after the Malaysia Open. Nadzmi mentioned that he would respect Misbun’s decision and meet him after the Malaysia Open.

  Misbun become the man of the spotlight when he tendered his resignation on December 31. However, the BAM exco has demanded Misbun to re-consider his decision.When asked any decision would be made, Nadzmi said that they would make a careful consideration and had a serious discussion about Misbun’s resignation. Besides that, he promised there will be a pleasant decision on this matter.

  Based on the resignation of Datuk Lee Chong Wei’s coach Misbun Sidek, he was pulled a big shocker for all the Malaysian. We proud of the all achievement of the Datuk Lee Chong Wei on the badminton competition. However, we also appreciate that he so lucky to have an excellent coach to give him all the useful advice and he was successfully pulled him to become a world number one excellent player of badminton.

  Besides that, Datuk Lee Chong Wei also hope that Misbun can continue to coach him and he admitted that Misbun ‘s resignation had disturbed his concentration on the championship in Taipei. I believed that Datuk Lee Chong Wei and Misbun should have a very close relationship so that it will create a huge effect for the Datuk Lee Chong Wei if Misbun resigns. However we still do not know what had happened between Misbun and BAM president but we hope it would be the happy ending.

Week 1 !!

International news
Aussie towns expected to face once-in-200-year floods

The nervous citizens of the Australia expected to face for the once-in-200-year floods. Australia’s government said that this serious flood would bring their country into the critical time, as the crisis of the flood could be the costliest natural disaster ever in their country. The hub of Horsham is expected to be the worst hit area as more than 40 villages have already been influence. At least 31 citizens had been killed by the flood at Queensland. Many properties of the citizens had been destroyed by the deluge includes their houses and cars. In economic, there would be a heavy economic cost toward the damage of the entire infrastructure. There would be a big affect toward the government and the local citizens.

I feel upset and anxious when I read the news. I couldn’t estimate how much natural disaster has happened in our world. People lost their lovely home, property; family and might lost their lives. However, human are weak creature, as we cannot change our destinies and also stop the disaster from taking your life. I feel so lucky to born in a disaster free country but I cannot predict anything to happen in the future. Besides that, is that any guarantee that we can stay healthy and safe until we are old? It is no! The only thing that we can do is to appreciate life given by God and to enjoy everything great on our earth and go through our life.

Local news

RM1.6b for Felda community.

Malaysia’s prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak announced that an allotment of RM 1.6 billion will giving to the Felda settler community for their development national in 2011. Besides that, prime minister also announced a RM 8.5 million allotment from Felda for expand the infrastructural programme. The programme including the 500 houses that given to the second generation Felda settler which allotted RM 17,000.  The prime minister said that the allotment for the Felda settler can help them to extricate themselves from being the part of the 40% of people with low income and can categorized the Felda settler into the moderate income group in Malaysia. Prime minister also mentioned that all the Felda settler not only have to remember what the benefit they enjoy now but also have to make sure they would continue to bring the benefit for their community and the country.

From my point of view, the allotment for the Felda settler is leading them to a brighter and better future. They can develop their community well without worry about the money and at the same time to change their life from becoming the low incomes group. I feel proud of our country and hopefully we can stride forward to become a prosperous and developed country by giving aid and help for the difficult position group.