[WEEK 4] INTERNATIONAL NEWS: The Egypt Protest ended.

Mubarak stepped down, the end of martial law, the terminations of emergency laws, the rights of freedom and justice, build a responsible non-military government and let them manage the whole Egypt resources, these are all the Egyptians demanded for. Their wish has finally realized. The Egypt revolution which began on 25^th of January and has been struggled between the Egypt government and its resident for around 2 weeks has finally come to an end.

The Chaos ended after the Vice President Omar Suleiman announced on 11th February that the president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak who had been ruling over the country for 30 years, found guilty for the political corruption, would be stepping down from his position and turning power over to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.

After all these, the Egyptians were celebrating it at Cairo. While for those who support Hosni Mubarak were really disappointed. The international community has made an evaluation of this issue. Some of them think that it is good and some think that it is bad. However, most of the countries think that the protest must be carry on peacefully, and hoping to have some reforms. They also expressed their concern about the situation. On the other hand, I’m glad that our country Malaysia did a good job on the evacuation process. None of the Malaysian was hurt or involved in the demonstration. All the Malaysian, especially the students in Egypt and from our country has been evacuated safety.

Even though this issue has finally came to an end, but who will be taking over Mubarak position and is there any possibility of the protest will happen to the Egypt government again? 

[WEEK 4] LOCAL NEWS: Another teen’s suicide case.

After ‘Alviss Kong suicide case’, there are always similar suicide cases happening around us, and most of them are teenagers. Yesterday, 11^th of February, a 22 year-old guy from Penang who attempted to commit suicide was jumped off from a building.

This happened 6am early in the morning, after the guy had a quarrel with his girlfriend for 2 hours continuously. His girlfriend abruptly ran out from the house and attempted to jump from the 8^th floor. He immediately persuaded his girlfriend and he had successfully saved the girl at last. Unexpectedly, he suddenly rushed out from house and immediate jumped across the wall. He then died from fatal head injuries on the spot.

So far, no one has find out the reason why he jumped off. According to his parents, he didn’t act abnormally before he committed suicide. He didn’t have actions like those in previous cases; he didn’t leave message or express any last words through facebook. “My brother and his girlfriend were in a 9 months relationship, they had argument and were about to put an end on this relationship 2 weeks ago.”  His elder brother revealed. Few witness were regretted that they didn’t stop them from quarrel before this happened. In addition, he was suspected to be drunk because according to the building’s cctv, he needed his friend to support him while waiting for the lift.

In addition, the parents also stated that the ex-girlfriend of their son is not welcome to the funeral. They are blaming the girls on ‘indirectly’ killed their son.

 I really wonder why the teenagers nowadays don’t appreciate their life. What they did is really disappointed their parents and their loves one. 

[WEEK 3] LOCAL NEWS: Floods at South Malaysia.

 

Due to the continuous heavy rain in the past few days, floods hit a few states in South Malaysia again on 1^st of February. This time, it came at the very wrong time, while most of the Chinese is welcoming their Chinese New Year.

The Floods affected those who are staying in Johor Bahru, Segamat, Melaka, Kuantan and Seremban. They were forced to be involved and to face this critical situation. So far, there are around 4 millions of victims that had been evacuated. Unfortunately, 4 were killed.

Segamat was the most affected area. Its water level has reached 10 feet. Most of the main roads, railway and shop lots were flooded. In addition, there was neither supply of electricity nor water, the street then became empty and quite. There was even a lack of the Chinese New Year atmosphere.  Besides that, the Railway station services were interrupted due to the flood, the train line which travels from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur and Kelantan were canceled. Therefore, those who were about to return to their hometown were forced to delay their trip. The deputy prime minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin described that this is an unusual phenomenon if it continues to rain, this disaster will probably exacerbate.

Fortunately, the water level had gone down and the rain has become lesser. I’m glad that the evacuation plan went well. Hundreds of relief centers that had set up at these states were giving a helping hand to those flood victims. Some of the victims stated that: It was blessed that this flood was not as serious as the one year 2006. Hopefully those who were involved will still enjoy celebrating this Chinese New Year with their love ones happily even it is a ‘wet Chinese new year’. 

[WEEK 3] INTERNATIONAL NEWS: Indonesia pop star jailed for porn tapes.

 

Following by the Hong Kong artist- Edison Chan’s storm in a teacup, here comes another similar case happened at Bandung, Indonesia. The Indonesia pop singer, Nazril ''Ariel'' Irham has been sentenced to three and a half years in jail and and fined him $25,000 under a controversial pornography law.  

Police said earlier a friend of Irham's had taken the sex tape off his computer and posted it on the Internet. Irham denied it was him on the tape. He surrendered to the police on 22^nd of June last year but authorities have not charge his celebrity girlfriends, Luna Maya and Cut Tari.

The 6-8 minutes long sex tapes of him with his celebrity girlfriends, spread wildly on the internet and in a case that led to a wide crackdown on Internet porn in the country and after this, it was exclaimed that at least 32 artists was involved as well. Most of them are artists and some are celebrities but apparently that it has more women involved compare to the Hong Kong Artist last time.

This scandal has been a tremendous shock to Indonesian and bringing the big and negative impact to this conservative Muslim country of Indonesia. A 33 years old woman stated that:” I have 3 daughters. Therefore, I think that porn is even more harmful than drugs for me.”

In my opinion, Irham as a public figure, I think he should know that how he acts will actually affects some of the people, especially his Fans to mimic his behavior. Therefore, he should have behaved himself and never decrease the social values and image.