Archive for November, 2006

Even more WWF Smackdown-related deaths

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

After the news was first broken about Reza, the first known death related to WWF Smackdown in Indonesia, reports started to pour in about similar incidents.
Kiki, a little boy living in Ciputat, Jakarta city, died on 17th November 2006 after treated for 3 days in Bakti Husada hospital. The exact age of the boy is […]

Shirin Ebadi, Islam and Women Rights

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Shirin Ebadi, the Nobel peace prize winner 2003, is among prominent moderate Muslim I admire. Not only has she got the gut to speak up her mind what she thinks right against the conservatives and/or radicals of her fellow Muslims, be they Iranian c…

WWF Smackdown : Boy (9) tortured, killed

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

Restu, Iyo, and Li are three middle school students who loves watching the populer WWF Smackdown TV shows. In this show, wrestlers glorifies violence in various cool fighting moves. Although the shows are violent, the wrestlers always ended up safe and sound with no injury.
It’s because it’s all just tricks indeed. But when you’re watching […]

Blogger Indonesia of the Week (63): Maylaffayza

Thursday, November 16th, 2006

A brainy Celebrity, a down-to-earth blogger

I’ve spent a long enough time in India to complete the whole levels of studies during which I never pulang kampung (go home) to see my family and friends. If you ask why, well, it’s something to do w…

Newmont’s boss in lawsuit

Saturday, November 11th, 2006

Richard Ness, President Director of Newmont Minahasa Raya (NMR), was in news today as the accused in Newmont’s pollution case in Teluk Buyat, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. The state attorney, Purwantha SH, found clear and convincing evidence that the accused has polluted the environment in Teluk Buyat (Buyat Bay) in violation of many laws.
In NMR’s operation, […]

Keith Ellison the First American Muslim Legislator

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

Keith Ellison has made American political history. As the victorious Democrat in Tuesday’s mid-term elections for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, Ellison is the first African American Congressman from the Midwestern state of Minnesota and …

Blogger Indonesia of the Week (62): Yusuf Asyari

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

Reaching out people through Blog

“With this blog, I hope to be able to reach out and get in touch with our people, andestablish good communications by enabling dialogue between the government and its people.” This intro word is what you’ll find w…

Bush as Dangerous as Bin Laden: British Survey

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

Many people from the third world countries — where Muslims are in majority or not such as India– think that America under Bush and/or Republican in particular are very dangerous to the world peace as far as US foreign policy goes. But none of tho…

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