Of 6% Malaysian Government Tax on ASTRO monthly bill

Dear All

Have you all seen your latest Astro bill? Do check carefully. Notice
the 6% Government Tax?

Not very much some of you may say and would just pay. But think - take
that amount, multiply by 12 months and continue to pay so long as you
remain a viewer of Astro. A bigger picture ! multiply the amount you
pay for 12 months by the millions of Astro subscribers in our Land !

Stop oppressing the Christians

By Emmanuel Joseph
MALAYSIA: I rarely read the Bible in Bahasa Malaysia. The only time I do read is when I help prepare the liturgy for Sunday Mass. My church has one of the readings in Bahasa, to be more inclusive of our Sabahan, Sarawakian and Indonesian brothers and sisters who attend. So banning the Bible in Bahasa does not really affect me personally as a Christian.

Taib: Sarawak assembly to be dissolved on Monday

Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud says he will contest in
the upcoming Sarawak elections but will likely
step down as chief minister mid-term.

KUCHING: Sarawak Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud announced that the state assembly would be dissolved on Monday (March 21), paving the way for state polls.

The country’s longest serving chief minister, who has helmed the state since 1981, also said that he would contest the upcoming state elections but would step down as chief minister mid-term.

Closest full moon of 2011 on March 19 – high tides – Saturn

Today – March 19 – features the closest full moon of 2011. Some are calling it a supermoon. As a result, you might look for higher-than-usual tides along the ocean coastlines throughout the world.

What’s more, the bright point of light in the vicinity of tonight’s moon is the planet Saturn, the 6th planet outward from the sun.

Buzzing news from abroad - this will spread like fire on dry bush

In a flat above a restaurant in Covent Garden, an investigative reporter called Clare and a tribesman from Borneo covered in tattoos prepare to transmit their daily revolutionary radio broadcast deep into the Borneo jungle.

David Cohen, The Evening Standard  

“Rather than hide, we’ve decided to come out fighting”: Clare Rewcastle Brown and Peter John Jaban are revealing their identities as the campaigners behind Radio Free Sarawak