Asia Cast

Asia Cast for for Thursday 29th November

In this Bulletin…
- Bush accused of snubbing small pacific countries
- Indonesia launches new campaign to plant 79 million trees and
- Military force deployed to attack farmers in Fujian, China

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More than 80 ethnic Indians have been charged with illegally gathering in Malaysia, after a weekend of protests in the capital, Kuala Lumpur.

Activists appeared in several courts around the country to deny the charges, and many were freed on bail.

Thousands of Hindu activists took to the streets to protest at what they regard as decades of discrimination by the mainly Malay-Muslim government.

One of the rally’s organisers vowed to continue fighting for Indian rights.

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US President George Bush has been accused of failing to treat leaders of small Pacific countries with the courtesy other world leaders are given according to the congressman for American Samoa.

Eni Faleomavaega, the US Congressman who represents American Samoa, made the comments in an interview to the East-West Centre last week, the Fiji Times reported.

He said the US president focused American’s Pacific policy solely on Australia and New Zealand.

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Indonesia has launched a new campaign to plant 79 million trees ahead of next month’s UN climate change conference in Bali.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono admits to negligence in the past and said to state news agency Antara, he has planted saplings on the outskirts of Jakarta.

The drive is part of a global campaign to plant one billion trees launched at UN climate change talks in Nairobi last year.

Participants from 189 countries are expected to gather in Bali in next month to discuss a new deal to fight global warming. The existing pact, the Kyoto Protocol, runs out in 2012.

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The US Defence Department made a formal complaint to China over its decision to turn away a US aircraft carrier from Hong Kong.

The USS Kitty Hawk was sailing towards Hong Kong last week for the Thanksgiving holiday but the Chinese turned the ship away, offering no explanation.

The Pentagon has lodged a formal protest over the incident, describing it as “baffling and regrettable”.

It is also angry over China’s recent decision to turn away two US minesweepers seeking refuge in Hong Kong from a heavy storm.

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And now for our original SOH news direct from China
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According to The Epoch Times, a reporter recently received Mayday letters from three thousand, eight hundred villagers in Ti ting village of Fujian Province.

It described that on the 2nd November, more than two hundred public security police arrested villagers and openly vandalised their private properties.

They violently seized houses, land, and bashed and detained over thirty villagers.

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Villagers said that the leading party and government cadres colluded to rob everything by force and deceit.

Ti ting village’s anguish arose from all directions after being ransacked by the communist bandits.

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On the 26th November, the Chinese Communist Part officials celebrated the first photograph of the moon that was sent back from the “Chang-Er Number One” satellite.

But contrary to the high profile official celebration, an analysis showed that the photo sent back from “Chang-Er”, resembled a moon photo on Google. If the photograph from “Chang-Er” is rotated by 20 degrees, it’s found to be identical to the photograph of the moon on Google.

Netizens on Google stated that the photo even ‘fooled’ the Prime Minister and the President.

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