As technology develops, people can get news and information anytime anywhere, even a kid can get information from his/her surrounding easily nowadays. When I was young, television is usually the way I get news and information. I used to watch cartoons like Sailormoon, Power Rangers and Dragon Ball that shapes my personality to confront with the evil forces without any fear. Other cartoons like Sponge Bob and Teletubbies contains moral values that help to develop my interpersonal skills also. Besides, my parents were also my first educator to teach me the right and wrong things to do. They always remind me not to talk to strangers or accept anything from the strangers because it is very dangerous as there are many human trafficking activities going on at the world out there. My parents also teach me to care and save our earth. They used to tell me about the disasters happened all around the world to raise my awareness. They got this in my mind since I was young because they want to encourage me to take part in any environmental activities. As I grew up later, my main source of information is school. The notice board of every classroom will be updated weekly and students can easily get news and information there. Newspaper clipping homework also helps us to understand the outside world better upon completing the homework. Until today, internet has almost become a part of our lives for most of the people. There are variety sources of information on the internet that keeps me updated everyday, for instance, newspaper online and Facebook. It is very convenient as I can read it anytime anywhere for free. I also like to get the latest news and information through radio stations. They used to have their news broadcasting session during jamming hours in the morning. I also like to get news from lecturers and friends orally. For example, my friends would mention that there is lots of robbery cases happened in a housing area lately, so that we will be more alert to prevent the case from happening to us. Sometimes I will also read the news from newspaper. This is quite a traditional way of getting information but it is still very useful, though.
Friday, February 18, 2011
Friday, February 11, 2011
Mubarak Transfer All Powers But Still Remains 'Head of State'
International News
WASHINGTON, Feb 11 — Hosni Mubarak has transferred all powers of presidency to his vice president, but remains Egypt’s “de jure head of state,” the Egyptian ambassador to Washington said yesterday.
WASHINGTON, Feb 11 — Hosni Mubarak has transferred all powers of presidency to his vice president, but remains Egypt’s “de jure head of state,” the Egyptian ambassador to Washington said yesterday.
Speaking after Mubarak stopped short of saying he was ending his 30-year rule in an address to Egyptians, Ambassador Sameh Shoukry told CNN: “President Mubarak has transferred all authority to the vice president.”
Asked if Mubarak remained the head of state, Shoukry said: “He remains the de jure head of state.” He said Vice President Omar Suleiman “is the de facto president”.
The ambassador said he had been told by the vice president himself that “President Mubarak has transferred all authority to the vice president.”
Suleiman, he said, was “now undertaking all the authority of the president under the constitution.”
Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators in a Cairo square calling for Mubarak’s ouster chanted “Leave! Leave!” after Mubarak’s speech, in which he said he was transferring powers to the vice president.
Taking Own Lives Catching On Among Youngsters Who Just Can't Cope
Local News
Petaling Jaya, 10 Feb - Suicidologist Adnan Omar believes the suicide trend among the young is getting more serious here and is fast catching up with Japan that has a rate of above 30 per 100,000 people.
“The numbers from the National Suicide Registry may not be accurate but the general trend points to the 20-39 age group making up the highest number of suicides,” said Adnan who is head of the Counselling and Psychological Services Centre of Taylor’s University. He also described the teen years as the age of instability. At that stage, adolescents are facing a lot of stress in school, work, breakdown in relationships and also deal with family issues.
The National Suicide Registry Malaysia (NSRM) estimated that between January and August last year, a total of 425 people committed suicide, averaging 60 per month (including undetermined deaths.)
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia’s Professor of Psychology Dr T. Maniam said the country’s suicide rate was estimated at 10 to 13 per 100,000 people which is almost the same rate as the United States.
The Health Ministry has identified those aged between 16 and 25 as being “high risk.”
I think that the younger generation nowadays should be educated on how to release their stress appropriately. Besides, people should also treat a suicide note seriously or it can reinforce a person’s will to commit suicide. Recently, there is a growing trend of people expressing their desire to take their own lives on social networks. Their words should have been taken seriously by their friends. Instead, they treated it as a joke and even dared them to end their lives. I hope that people can be more alert to the people around them, and keep an eye on them if they are found something’s wrong with.
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http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/2/10/nation/8031924&sec=nation
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Friday, February 4, 2011
Egypt's Mubarak Says He Won't Quit Early
International News
CAIRO, 4 Feb - President Hosni Mubarak ruled out resigning immediately to end a violent confrontation over his 30-year-rule, arguing this would bring chaos to Egypt, but the New York Times claims that the Obama administration was in talks with Egyptian officials for him to quit now.
President Hosni Mubarak, the 82-year-old leader said he believed that his country still needed him during an interview with ABC yesterday, after bloodshed in Cairo that killed 10 people.
“If I resign today, there will be chaos,” he said. Asking about calls for him to resign, he said: ”I don’t care what people say about me. Right now I care about my country. I care about Egypt.” He added on: “I was very unhappy about yesterday. I do not want to see Egyptians fighting each other.”
According to New York Times, today the administration of President Barack Obama was discussing with Egyptian officials a proposal for Mubarak to resign immediately.
Under the proposal, Mubarak would turn power over to a transitional government headed by Suleiman with the support of Egyptian military, the newspaper said, citing administration officials and Arab diplomats.
Mubarak has also announced that he would not seek re-election in September, appointed his intelligence chief Omar Suleiman as vice-president, and offered talks on reforms.
However, this announcement has failed to satisfy protestors who are trying to gather thousands of Egyptians on Friday for a fresh demonstration to force Mubarak to quit now.
As the confrontation is turning increasingly violent – protestors in Cairo’s Tahrir Square were attacked by Mubarak supporters on Wednesday – the United States has increased pressure on urging the Mubarak government to take immediate steps towards the political transition.
School Reports Student With 'Inquiring Mind' to Police
Local News
SUBANG JAYA, 2 Feb - Teachers in a school in Brickfields have allegedly lodged a police report against a 17-year-old student who questioned the ‘celebration of independence’ and the tenets in the Rukun Negara.
SUBANG JAYA, 2 Feb - Teachers in a school in Brickfields have allegedly lodged a police report against a 17-year-old student who questioned the ‘celebration of independence’ and the tenets in the Rukun Negara.
Nicol Paul Miranda, a typical Form Five student, has been suspended from SMK Vivekananda. The school also threatened not to release his school leaving certificate which is a requirement to further his tertiary education.
According to Nicol, he was suspended because he questioned why are we celebrating independence when our democracy has not evolved; it is still under the BN regime. Besides, he also questioned the principles of Rukun Negara in his Civics SPM trial examination.
“I questioned why we needed to recite the Rukun Negara’s first principle, Believe in God when places of worship are being demolished.
“I also questioned the second principle, Loyalty to the King and Country because it is not right to force an individual to be loyal,” he told newsmen at PKR’s ‘Tweet-Up’ function yesterday.
“I also questioned the second principle, Loyalty to the King and Country because it is not right to force an individual to be loyal,” he told newsmen at PKR’s ‘Tweet-Up’ function yesterday.
As a result, his trial exam results were not released. He was further suspended for three days.
“They (school) have also lodged a police report against me in Bukit Aman and Brickfields,” added Nicol who is currently working with a Malaysian NGO on human rights issues.
Lembah Pantai MP, Nurul Izzah Anwar who was also present at the function assured Nicol that she would raise the matter with the relevant authorities.
In my opinion, the principal and the school teacher should not have reported their students to the police. Malaysian government used to emphasize the freedom of speech in this country. Moreover, Nicol is a teenager who is courageous enough to stand up for his beliefs, unlike the typical secondary school students who are spoonfed by teachers following directives from the Education Ministry. In addition, being reported to police could have a great impact on a teenager.
In my opinion, the principal and the school teacher should not have reported their students to the police. Malaysian government used to emphasize the freedom of speech in this country. Moreover, Nicol is a teenager who is courageous enough to stand up for his beliefs, unlike the typical secondary school students who are spoonfed by teachers following directives from the Education Ministry. In addition, being reported to police could have a great impact on a teenager.
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Friday, January 28, 2011
Confusion Over Egyptian Blocks On Protest Tools
International News
EGYPT, 28 Jan - The Egyptian government denied taking any action on restriction of web, saying it respected freedom of expression.
EGYPT, 28 Jan - The Egyptian government denied taking any action on restriction of web, saying it respected freedom of expression.
However, Twitter said it is being blocked but said many people have found ways round the restrictions. A Swedish mobile video site also reported that it had been blocked.
Herdict, a project run by Harvard University to collect data about websites that are down, has had many reports about twitter being occasionally unresponsive during the protests. Reports also suggested that Facebook, that has been used as one of the mediums to co-ordinate many of the protests, has been occasionally blocked. Bambuser, a service that used to stream live video from a phone to a website or a Facebook page, had also been blocked by the Egyptian government.
"Blocking is not official policy in Egypt, so block pages are not given to users when a site is blocked," said Ms York.
This is a completely different situation from the modest Internet manipulation that took place in Tunisia, where specific routes were blocked, or Iran, where the Internet stayed up in a rate-limited form designed to make Internet connectivity painfully slow. The Egyptian government's actions tonight have essentially wiped their country from the global map.
What happens when you disconnect a modern economy and 80,000,000 people from the Internet? What will happen tomorrow, on the streets and in the credit markets? This has never happened before, and the unknowns are piling up.
Dog Abuse Video Triggers Online Search for Culprits
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 25 – A case of horrific dog abuse has just surfaced on Facebook. A 15-minutes video showing a man abusing his toy poodle, has been widely spread and circulated on internet. The video can be viewed at http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=499892179113&oid=195559180457890&comments&ref=mf. It appears to have triggered a voluntary ‘online’ investigation by internet users in a joint effort to identify the culprits captured in the clip.
The poodle named “Sushi” was abused for its failure to stand on its hind legs. Websurfers exchanged emails and messages via social netwoking sites like Facebook and Twitter over the weekend to hunt down the man and the woman holding the camera.
The 15-minute-and-eight-second clip shows a young man with partially dyed hair repeatedly hitting the puppy every time it failed to stand up straight on its hind quarters. He also yelled at the toy poodle in Cantonese for failing to obey his instructions. The toy poodle was punished each time it falls on its hind legs by being slapped, punched and thrown across the room. Its head was also slapped by a metal bowl afterwards.
In the video, the man is shirtless, clad in only a pair of blue jeans with a black belt and has several tattoos on both arms and a large ring on his right index finger. The woman holding the camera can be heard calling the man as “dear” occasionally. She tried to stop her boyfriend’s action orally, but her boyfriend her ‘warning’. However, she did not attempt to physically stop him from inflicting further torture on the puppy and continue filming this video instead.
The girl who uploaded this clip on Facebook reported that she discovered this clip in a pendrive she found at Suria KLCC. Her action has immediately triggered an uproar among the online community. This clip also drew the attention of Singapore’s SPCA which appealed for more information regarding the clip through Facebook.
The public urged the authorities to take action against the heartless animal abusers. An official from Malaysian National Animal Welfare Foundation (MNWF) told The Malaysian Insider that the organisation was aware of the incident and was looking into it.
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