Asia Cast

Asia Cast for Sunday 07th September

In this Bulletin…

-The Chinese Communist Party severely restricts Muslim holy Ramadan activities in Xinjiang;
- The Chinese communist regime sends thousands of police to suppress massive conflict in Hunan province; and
- 200 people trapped under rubble after a rockslide in Egypt.

-But first, here’s our SOH focus on China
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According to Chinese resources, the Muslim Ramadan will start this week, the Chinese Communist authority has strengthened monitoring in Xin jiang province, which has caused the condemns by the overseas Uighur organizations.

Aksu Government Network of Xinjiang said on September 4 that, “Ramadan is approaching, the Communist committees government of Yingmai li county, Shaya town strictly forbids the Mosque to supply accommodation to people from other places, not allowing to broadcast audio and video tapes, to use loudspeakers, to hit Na Gela Drums and engage in activities.”

The spokesman of the World Uighur Congress, DiliXiati, said, that This restriction of the Uygur people of the Ramadan activities in this years holy month, is a serious violation of belief of freedom, and has also intensify the local conflict.”

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The Chinese communist party is reported to have sent thousands of soldiers and police to suppress conflict in the central province of Hunan.

Up to 10,000 people took to the streets in Jishou to demand money back from an allegedly fraudulent fundraising firm, a Hong Kong-based rights group said.

In another protest in the eastern port of Ningbo, 10,000 workers clashed with police, the group added.

Social unrest is common in China.

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At least six people have been killed and a dozen others are missing after a landslide triggered by heavy rains buried homes in the southern Philippines, officials said.

More than 100 residents whose homes were destroyed took refuge in a chapel, while one survivor said there could be many more missing in the town of Maco, in the Compostela Valley.

District chairman Jovencio Anquera said the landslide came after three days of continuous rain, burying at least 13 houses and also knocking out power supplies.

Police, soldiers and workers of a nearby mining company have arrived at the scene to dig for survivors.

Last year, 10 people died in a landslide in the same area, also caused by heavy rain.

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It’s believed that at least 200 people are believed to be trapped under rubble after a rockslide in Egypt, with residents saying rescue efforts have been slow.

At least 24 people have been killed and 36 injured by the massive rockslide at a shantytown in northern Cairo.

The huge rocks, some weighing several tonnes, fell down onto the overcrowded shantytown overnight.

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In Haiti, after hundreds found dead when the latest in a battery of storms crushed the country, residents say aid is coming in too slowly.

The death toll has topped 500 and many desperate residents have not eaten since Tropical Storm Hanna lashed the poorest country in the Americas.

Ike has now strengthened again into a dangerous Category 3 hurricane as it churns westward across the Atlantic on a path that would take it through the Bahamas toward Cuba, the United States National Hurricane Centre said.

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