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The Visual Unit of Biro Penerangan will launch a new tool to disseminate information.
The technology, which we have just acquired is called FoneCode. It will enable people who have camera-phone with internet access to download visual material from the Party.
After the Chinese New Year holiday, we will officially launch this new weapon for election campaign.
Here […]

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Happy Chinese Lunar New Year!
Lunar new year is the festival of spring. The new spring represents the beginning of a new cycle of life.
The spirit of new year carries the renewal of Life. Spring replaces the lifeless winter, and a new colourful and dynamic world is waiting to emerge!
Xin Nian Jin Bu (新年进步)! Wan shi […]

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Thaipusam

Thaipusam is the full moon of the auspicious month of Thai, the 10th month in Tamil calendar.
Although it is not a national holiday, its significance is not less than Deepavali. Public celebration for Thaipusam is even more remarkable and featured more prominently than any other Hindu festivals.
The highlight of Thaipusam has been the mass pilgrimage […]

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Pongal

Happy Pongal! “Thai piranthal vazhi pirakkum!”
Today is the New Year of Tamil calendar. It is the first day of the month of Thai, and the full moon day of this month is called Thaipusam.
I attended the ceremony of Pongal celebration in Tasek, near Ipoh. The function was organized by our KeADILan activist Arjunan. Perak KeADILan […]

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A friend Popho from Seoul sent this picture which she took early morning on Day One of 2008.
Korea is at the most eastern tip of Asian continent. She has captured the first rays of the new year.
Since the ancient time, Korea was known as “the land of the fresh sun”, viz. Chosun or in Chinese […]

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New Year

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A very Happy New Year to my fellow Malaysians!
I wish to specially mention: Happy New Year to the lawyers who marched in Putrajaya! Happy New Year to the unionists and workers who had stood doggedly in the picket line to demand fair working conditions and minimum wage! Happy New Year to the one hundred thousands […]

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Merry Christmas

Seasons greetings to the Christian community:

The children brought up together in godliness scorned the impious decree of the tyrant. They were not afraid of the threat of fire, but standing in the midst of the flames, they sang: “Blessed art Thou, O God of our fathers!”
- Canon of Cosmas of Maiuma

Nativity, He Qi, China
(ACAA)
If […]

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Hari Raya Qurban

Eid Murbarak.
This year end our multiethnic society witnessed the celebration of different festivals together.
Muslims celebrated Eid-ul-Adha or commonly referred to Hari Raya Haji in Malaysia which fell on December 20.
On Dec 22, Chinese celebrated “Dong Zhi” (冬至). The festival is in fact the Winter Solstice. Then it was Christmas on Dec 25.
In some way, all […]

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Hari Rakyat

11 November 1955, Partai Rakyat Malaya (PRM) was founded. Most of its leaders were from the Partai Kebangsaan Melayu Malaya (PKMM), which had been banned by the British colonial power. PRM’s first President was Ahmad Boestaman. The party inherited the radical nationalist struggle started prior to WW2.
For more than five decades, PRM suffered wave after […]

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Anwar held a press conference to greet our Indian community “Happy Deepavali”. He reiterated that he and the entire KeADILan leadership will be attending the peaceful gathering of BERSIH on Saturday 10 November.
I think Deepavali has a symbolic message for BERSIH gathering. Deepavali is the celebration of the Light that conquer the forces of evil […]

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