AsiaCast

Asia Cast for Saturday 13th October

-Bali Bombers Will Not Appeal for Clemency
-U.S. Award Opportunity for China–Dalai Lama Envoy and
-Gore, U.N. Climate Panel Win Nobel Peace Prize

Three Indonesian militants on death row for their involvement in planning the Bali bombings five years ago said on Saturday they were ready to die and would not seek a presidential pardon.

Imam Samudra, Amrozi and Mukhlas, also known as Ali Gufron, were sentenced to death for the October twelfth, 2002 resort island bombings in which over two-hundred people died. They face execution by a firing squad after the country’s top court rejected their appeal.

The three men have already said in a statement read by their lawyers that they will not seek a presidential pardon and that if they are executed, their death will bring “light to the faithful and burning hellfire for the infidels”.

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China should view the Dalai Lama’s high-profile visit to Washington next week as a chance to listen to the exiled Buddhist spiritual leader who Beijing shuns as a Tibetan separatist, his envoy said Friday.

Despite fierce Chinese lobbying, the Dalai Lama will receive the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian honor that Congress can bestow, on Wednesday after being hosted at the White House by President Bush the day before.

The award ceremony at the Capitol will be the first time Bush will have appeared in public with the Dalai Lama, who has visited the White House only for private meetings.

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Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and the U.N. climate panel won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for helping galvanize international action against global warming before it “moves beyond man’s control”.

Political opponents saw the award as a snub to President George W. Bush who has doubted the science of global warming and rejected caps on emissions of gases believed to cause it, but the White House said it was happy for the winners and praised their work.

Gore, who lost narrowly to Bush in the 2000 presidential election and who some hope will run again in 2008, and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) were chosen to share the $1.5 million prize.

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Recently the Ministry of the Coalition publicized an article at an overseas news website, revealing the most glaring infamous scandal in the history of stock market of the Communist regime.

It involved billions of dollars by a sinister gang controlling the stock market in Zhaogu Right Case, directly targeting at Jiang Ze-Min, Jiao Qing-Lin, Huang Ju, Wu Zhi-Ming and Yu Zheng-Sheng.

An independent analysis says that the exposure of the scandal by the Ministry of Coalition of the regime before the seventeenth Party Congress impacts heavily on the corrupted Jiang’s clans.

More news from Mainland China revealed that the condemning voices from within the Party, calling for the incarceration of Jiang Ze-Min and his clans, become more deafening.

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On the tenth of October, Jia-Mu-Si, the procurator of Heilongjiang Province, confirmed the case of Yang Chun-Lin’s that he was sent by the Municipal Police Bureau on the eighth of October.

Human rights defender, Yang Chun-Lin said that “Human Rights Comes before the Olympics”. He helped forty thousand farmers, whose lands were confiscated by the government in the course of defending their basic rights over the period of a decade or more.

He also spent half a year, having collected signatures of tens of thousands of farmers on the petition.

The local police authority went to harass another representative at home for two consecutive days, Wang Gui-Lin, who acts for the lost-land farmers, was accused of being involved in Falun Gong, and they threatened to ‘reform’ him through hard labour.

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In a show of strength by Burma’s junta tens of thousands of people have been taken to a pro-government rally in Rangoon, as a United Nations envoy returns to south-east Asia to pile pressure on the regime.

Under light rain, the military busied people into Rangoon’s main sports ground before dawn for a three-hour, early morning rally to hear officials glorify the military’s plan to build what it calls a “discipline-flourishing” democracy.

The military has staged similar rallies around the country in recent weeks, but this one was the first major event in the nation’s commercial hub since a deadly crackdown on anti-government protests last month.