#malaisie

L’OIM salue l’inclusion des migrants dans le déploiement du vaccin contre la COVID-19 aux États-Unis | Organisation internationale pour les migrations
▻https://www.iom.int/fr/news/loim-salue-linclusion-des-migrants-dans-le-deploiement-du-vaccin-contre-la-covi

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L’Organisation internationale pour les migrations (OIM) salue l’inclusion des migrants dans la nouvelle stratégie nationale de réponse à la COVID-19 du gouvernement américain et son engagement à « faire en sorte que des vaccins sûrs, efficaces et gratuits soient mis à la disposition de l’ensemble de la population américaine, quel que soit son statut d’immigration ». À la lumière de cette annonce, l’OIM appelle tous les pays à adopter des approches similaires d’inclusion des migrants afin de garantir que le plus grand nombre de vies possible puisse être sauvées. « Le vaccin contre la COVID-19 offre l’opportunité que nous attendions, mais seulement si nous l’utilisons avec sagesse et stratégie, en protégeant d’abord les plus à risque, quels que soient leur nationalité et leur statut d’immigration légal », a averti le Directeur général de l’OIM, António Vitorino. « Je félicite les gouvernements qui ont choisi la voie de l’inclusion et de la solidarité pour le déploiement de leurs vaccins ». Selon le pilier COVAX, le mécanisme multilatéral créé pour assurer une distribution équitable des vaccins contre la COVID-19, des campagnes de vaccination ont déjà commencé dans plus de 50 pays. De nombreux pays n’ont pas encore publié leurs stratégies de priorité pour le déploiement du vaccin, mais les États-Unis, l’Allemagne et la Jordanie, entre autres, ont déjà annoncé diverses mesures pour assurer un accès équitable au vaccin, notamment pour les demandeurs d’asile, les migrants en situation irrégulière et les personnes déplacées de force. L’année dernière, des approches similaires incluant les migrants ont été adoptées pour les tests de dépistage de la COVID-19, le traitement et l’accès aux services sociaux en Irlande, en Malaisie, au Portugal, au Qatar et au Royaume-Uni. Pour faciliter des campagnes de vaccination véritablement efficaces et équitables, l’OIM travaille en étroite collaboration avec le pilier COVAX, les États membres, l’Organisation mondiale de la Santé et d’autres partenaires, et recommande aux autorités nationales d’adopter des pratiques permettant de prendre en compte tous les migrants

#covid-19#migrant#migration#etatsunis#grandebretagne#malaisie#portugal#qatar#sante#vaccination#covax#oms#inclusion#santepublique#oim#demandeurdasile#personnedeplacee#migrantirregulier

Migrants in the crossfire of Thai Covid blame game - Asia Times
▻https://asiatimes.com/2021/01/migrants-in-the-crossfire-of-thai-covid-blame-game

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Market vendors refuse to let them buy food. Some banks won’t allow them to enter their premises. Hotels and guest houses double-check that non-Thai speaking Asians who seek to check-in are not from neighboring Myanmar.It all began on December 17 when a 67-year-old Thai working in a shrimp market in Mahachai in Samut Sakhon province southwest of Bangkok tested positive for the Covid-19 virus.Tens of thousands of Myanmar migrants have worked for years in the market and nearby seafood-processing plants, often doing thankless jobs that most Thais are unwilling to do.It’s become clear by now that Covid-19 spread quickly through Mahachai’s cramped and congested living quarters, similar to the ghetto-like dwellings and dormitories where the disease has thrived among migrants in Singapore and Malaysia.
As such, Myanmar migrants are now being blamed for what is being widely described as Thailand’s second viral wave, which is now creeping across the kingdom after months of reporting no community spread.
From a stable low of just over 4,000 cases and 60 deaths until mid-December, Thailand had 10,547 cases and 67 deaths as of January 11, according to the Thailand Center for Covid-19 Situation Administration, a state body managing the pandemic.

#Covid-19#migrant#migration#thailande#singapour#myanmar#malaisie#dortoir#marche#economie#travailleurmigrant

How China Broke the World’s Recycling
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/how-china-broke-the-worlds-recycling

Everyone that recycles needs to watch this.

#Bruno_Manser : Fasten für den Regenwald - Jeûner pour la forêt pluviale

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAqKve4HA6U

Au printemps 1993, le défenseur des forêts pluviales Bruno Manser mettait au défi le gouvernement suisse. Par sa grève de la faim de 60 jours devant le Palais fédéral, il voulait pousser nos élus à voter un arrêt des importations de bois tropical de #Malaisie. Il avait notamment reçu le soutien de Ruth Dreifuss, fraîchement élue au Conseil fédéral. Dans le court métrage « Bruno Manser - Jeûner pour la forêt pluviale » (24 min, 2017) de Clara Puhlmann et Roman Stocker, les protagonistes d’alors s’expriment pour la première fois sur leur rencontre avec Bruno lors de cette action de protestation légendaire.

Livre
▻https://librairie-quilombo.org/bruno-manser-la-voix-de-la-foret

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Bruno Manser, la voix de la forêt
de Ruedi Suter, Black-star
#écologie
2020 | 552 pages | 16,00 €

En 1984, Bruno Manser, jeune suisse opposé à la société industrielle, découvre son paradis perdu : la forêt pluviale de Bornéo et ses habitants, le peuple Penan avec lequel il vivra pendant 6 ans. Face aux tronçonneuses et aux bulldozers des compagnies forestières qui déboisent ce territoire, Manser se lance dans l’activisme et consacre sa vie à la défense de la forêt tropicale et les droits des peuples indigènes. Disparu au cours de son dernier voyage au Sarawak en mai 2000, il est officiellement disparu et présumé mort en 2005...
Ce livre retrace la vie de ce personnage étonnant et hors-norme devenu un héros malgré lui. C’est également un document d’histoire contemporaine sur la génération gâtée du baby boom avec ses espoirs et ses illusions. L’intégralité des bénéfices de ce livre sera reversée au Bruno Manser Fonds.

#activistes
#écologiste
#bois_exotique
#forêt
#déforestation
#peuples_autochtones

Malaysia will not follow US sanctions against 24 Chinese companies, says ambassador, SE Asia News & Top Stories - The Straits Times
▻https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-will-not-follow-us-sanctions-against-24-chinese-companies-say

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Malaysia will not take sides and follow the United States and impose sanctions on 24 Chinese companies the latter accuses of advancing China’s militarisation of the South China, Malaysian Ambassador to China Raja Nushirwan Zainal Abidin told the Global Times in a recent exclusive interview.

#etats-unis #chine #malaisie #sanctions

Migrating Hongkongers lose an exit as Malaysia My Second Home scheme suspended | South China Morning Post
▻https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3101250/migrating-hongkongers-one-less-exit-malaysia-my-second-home

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Hong Kong businessman Craig Tong decided to migrate to Malaysia
under its initiative to attract wealthy foreigners – known as Malaysia My Second Home or MM2H – last September, enticed by the education system and business opportunities.The 37-year-old submitted his application to Malaysia’s Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture, which manages the scheme, in December. In February, after Hong Kong shut schools due to the Covid-19 outbreak, Tong pulled his four-year-old son out of kindergarten and made plans to transfer him to an international school in Puchong, about 21km from Kuala Lumpur. He also rented a 1,300 sq ft apartment nearby, paid a year’s worth of rent in advance and prepared to move this year with his son, wife and elderly mother.
He expected his application would be approved between July and October.
But, months later, Tong is still in Hong Kong,one of an estimated thousands of foreign nationals to have been affected by Malaysia’s sudden decision last month to temporarily suspend the MM2H programme. The government offered no explanation for its decision, other than saying it would suspend the processing of new visa applications and renewals of existing visas to “comprehensively review and re-evaluate the MM2H programme”. It said it would resume the programme next year.Tong has since lost almost HK$66,000 in application and rental fees, as his apartment lease began last month. He felt like he was in limbo, unable to decide what to do next and worried that his son had no school to go to for the next few months.
“My son is staying at home doing nothing,” said Tong. “Should I get my son back to a Hong Kong school first, and when MM2H restarts then I stop school again? I don’t know what I should do.” Tong’s experience is just one example of confusion and crises that foreigners on the MM2H visa have experienced since the Covid-19 pandemic prompted Malaysia to shut its borders in Marc

#Covid-19#migrant#migration#hongkong#malaisie#sante#visa#politiquemigratoire#economie

Un argumentaire pointu contre la normalisation
BDS MALAYSIA, New Straits Times le 6 septembre 2020
▻https://www.bdsfrance.org/un-argumentaire-pointu-contre-la-normalisation

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la meilleure façon d’aider le peuple palestinien est de s’abstenir de normaliser les relations avec Israël et de continuer à boycotter et à imposer des sanctions contre l’État d’apartheid qui a ignoré d’innombrables lois, conventions et résolutions internationales lui demandant de respecter les droits humains des Palestiniens.

#Palestine #Emirats_arabes_unis #Malaisie #BDS #Boycott #normalisation

La cartographie, outil de lutte des peuples autochtones
▻https://visionscarto.net/cartographie-lutte-autochtones-malaisie

Pour prouver aux juges que la forêt est nécessaire à leur existence, des communautés pratiquent la cartographie participative et recensent leurs lieux de culture, de cueillette, d’habitation et de culte. Une façon, aussi, de se rendre visibles et de s’émanciper d’un État qui les infantilise. par Aude Vidal Au bout d’une heure de piste entre les plantations de palmiers à huile, nous voilà enfin sur une route goudronnée, au milieu de la forêt. Les panneaux avertissent de possibles passages d’éléphants et (...) #Billets

Global report: China records most daily cases since March; poverty fears in south-east Asia | World news | The Guardian
►https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/31/global-report-china-records-most-daily-cases-since-march-poverty-fears-
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In south-east Asia, the UN has said decades of progress in tackling poverty could be undone by the economic impact of coronavirus.
While many countries in the region have managed to control the pandemic, it has disrupted trade, and brought travel to a standstill in tourism-dependent countries such as Thailand. Migrant workers who send remittances back home to their families, a major source of income in countries such as the Philippines, have been left stranded and without employment.The UN warned of rising unemployment in countries such as Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia, adding that: “[A] lack of secured income and sufficient social protection could force tens of millions of people into extreme poverty in this region,” it said.

#Covid-19#migrant#migration#indonesie#malaisie#thailande#phillipines#travailleurmigrant#transfert#sante#pauvrete#protectionsociale

L’huile de palme est devenue omniprésente dans le diesel européen - Page 1 | Mediapart
▻https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/230720/l-huile-de-palme-est-devenue-omnipresente-dans-le-diesel-europeen

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« Le diesel européen utilise cent fois plus d’huile de palme que les 40 milliards de gâteaux Oreo consommés chaque année. » Le 2 juillet dernier, la fédération Transport et Environnement, qui regroupe plus de 50 ONG européennes œuvrant pour limiter l’impact des transports sur le réchauffement climatique, publiait ce rapport, dont le titre peut faire sourire. Mais derrière l’accroche, les chiffres sont stupéfiants.

Au niveau européen, l’utilisation de l’huile de palme a atteint cette année un record : elle a augmenté de 7 %, pour atteindre 4,5 millions de tonnes. Un chiffre à mettre en parallèle avec la baisse historique de son usage dans l’alimentation, le secteur traditionnellement le plus gourmand, qui n’en a consommé « que » 2,8 millions de tonnes cette année.

La France produit chaque année 900 000 tonnes d’huile de palme et a connu en 2019 une augmentation de sa production de 30 000 tonnes. Selon l’association écologiste Canopée, « cette hausse s’explique par l’entrée en fonctionnement partiel de la bioraffinerie de La Mède, appartenant au groupe Total ». Une raffinerie qui ne remplirait pas ses engagements environnementaux, selon Greenpeace, puisque Total importe de l’huile de palme vendue par Apical, « un grand exportateur indonésien pointé du doigt pour ses manquements en matière de lutte contre la déforestation ».

75 % de la production française finit dans les moteurs diesels, soit 700 000 tonnes. « C’est grâce à des rapports comme celui-là, grâce au travail des associations que l’on se rend compte de la place totalement démesurée de la voiture dans nos sociétés », ajoute Sylvain Angerand. « Lorsqu’on parle d’huile de palme, immédiatement deux lumières s’allument : Nutella et orangs-outans, se désole-t-il, alors que depuis des années, c’est la voiture diesel qui en consomme le plus. »

Le rapport contribue enfin à combattre l’idée selon laquelle les biocarburants seraient respectueux de l’environnement. Ils seraient au contraire trois fois pires pour le climat et émettraient plus de 80 % de CO2 en plus que les énergies fossiles.

Lien vers ▻https://www.transportenvironment.org/press/100-times-more-palm-oil-eu-diesel-all-oreo-cookies-world

#huile_de_palme #déforestation #Indonésie #Malaisie

(Je viens de m’abonner à Mediapart maintenant que je suis riche.)

High Court finds Najib guilty of all seven charges in misappropriation of RM42m SRC International funds | Malaysia | Malay Mail
▻https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2020/07/28/high-court-finds-najib-guilty-of-misappropriation-of-rm42m-src-internationa/1888749

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Datuk Seri Najib Razak has been found guilty by the High Court today for abuse of power and misappropriating over RM42 million from 1Malaysia Development Berhad’s (1MDB) former subsidiary SRC International Sdn Bhd.

In delivering his judgement to a packed courtroom, High Court judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali said Najib was complicit in the deposits of RM42 million from SRC International in his private account.

“In conclusion after considering all evidence in this trial, I find that the prosecution has successfully proven its case beyond reasonable doubt against the accused, I therefore find the accused guilty and convict the accused on all seven charges,” he said.

Najib Razak, Malaysia’s Former Prime Minister, Found Guilty in Graft Trial - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/world/asia/malaysia-1mdb-najib.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

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Douze ans de prison pour le « kleptocrate » Najib Razak, un haut fait démocratique en Malaisie
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2020/07/29/douze-ans-de-prison-pour-le-kleptocrate-malaisien-najib-razak_6047585_3210.h

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Pour chacun des six principaux chefs d’accusation, le prévenu encourait une peine d’une dizaine d’années : au lieu d’être additionnés, ils ont été fondus en une seule sentence de douze ans. Najib Razak a plaidé non coupable, affirmant avoir été abusé par d’anciens affidés.

The Guardian view on Najib’s rise and fall : a victory for the rule of law | Editorial | Opinion | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/28/the-guardian-view-on-najibs-rise-and-fall-a-victory-for-the-rule-of-law
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Najib faces four more trials related to the theft of billions of dollars from 1MDB. The US department of justice said that the fund’s cash was used to purchase luxury apartments in Manhattan, paintings by Monet and even financed a major Hollywood movie. The DoJ says $680m (£525m) ended up in the prime minister’s bank accounts. This in a country where 40% live on less than £2 a day.

But Najib has stayed active in politics, working behind the scenes. His party, the United Malays National Organisation (Umno), played a decisive role in instigating Machiavellian levels of betrayal to bring down the government that had come to power by defeating him. Umno currently props up the shaky Perikatan Nasional government, made up of Malay-centric parties and rural fundamentalists. Regaining high office, his opponents say, is the only way Najib can save himself from jail.

This would be an awful turn of events. Najib’s Umno was autocratic as well as corrupt, and it let the economy splutter. The party lost office in 2018 after six decades in power. There was a genuine hope that the new multiracial Pakatan Harapan government would be a force for change. But apart from press freedoms and an anti-corruption drive, the hopes of the new government were largely unfulfilled.

#Malaisie #corruption #Najib #1MDB

Saifuddin: Govt will amend Finas Act, social media users can post videos without licence | The Star
▻https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2020/07/24/saifuddin-govt-will-amend-finas-act-social-media-users-can-post-videos-w

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The Cabinet has decided that Malaysians do not need a licence to post their videos on social media, says Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah.

This appears to be a complete U-turn from his explanations on July 23 when he informed Parliament that anyone who wants to post or publish their videos must have a National Film Development Corporation (Finas) licence.

Mieuc que la loi Avia ! #censure #réseaux_sociaux #Malaisie

Why there are so many undocumented migrant workers — Joseph Paul | What You Think | Malay Mail
▻https://www.malaymail.com/news/what-you-think/2020/05/05/why-there-are-so-many-undocumented-migrant-workers-joseph-paul/1863413

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In the wake of the recent raid on migrant workers in the Masjid India area, the Immigration Department seems serious about dealing with the situation of undocumented migrant workers (MW) in the country. It has meticulously identified those who are undocumented and taken them to detention centres where they would be cared for until they can be sent back to their home countries. Since that is not likely to happen in the near future, because of the travel restriction, we would like to suggest that this period be used to identify the root causes of “undocumentedness” which is a problem that the department has been unable to resolve over the last 20 years at least. Unless the root causes are clearly identified and addressed in a transparent manner, the current actions will be yet another exercise in futility.

Popular wisdom has it that the estimated three million or more undocumented MW who are in Malaysia had surreptitiously sneaked into the country or deliberately overstayed their visa and refused to return home. While this vies is plausible, it surely cannot account for the three milllion or more undocumented MW who are here currently. In the case of those who come from countries which have a common border with Malaysia, it is possible and indeed true that many would have sneaked into Malaysia through the many “jalan tikus” which migrant workers, agents, traffickers and others in the MW business (except the immigration authorities) seem to be aware of. However, there are also thousands of others who came by air, landing at official airports like KLIA (not some remote landing strips). Did these persons also sneak through the immigration checkpoints?

There are a number of other reasons why a MW is undocumented:

L’espace public bruisse de haine contre les #migrants en #Malaisie, où ils ont été appelés en masse pour faire des boulots de merde dans un contexte de chômage très faible... Le Covid a fait bouger ces lignes.

Indonesian villagers defy Covid-19 warnings to rescue Rohingya refugees | World news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/26/indonesian-villagers-defy-covid-19-warnings-to-rescue-rohingya-refugees
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Over recent months, governments across south-east Asia have repeatedly turned away boats carrying Rohingya refugees, blaming concerns over the coronavirus.

On Friday the Malaysian prime minister, Muhyiddin Yassin, said the country could no longer take in Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar, warning that the country was already overwhelmed by the Covid-19 outbreak. It has registered more than 8,000 cases to date.

Not only has Malaysia turned boats away but it is reportedly considering fixing the broken boats of migrants it has detained so that they can be sent back to sea again. Sources told Reuters last week that the authorities planned to mend a damaged boat so that 300 recent arrivals could be returned to sea, where they had been stranded for months. Survivors detained in Malaysia said dozens of people had died onboard and bodies had been thrown into the water.

Every year thousands of Rohingya embark on perilous journeys to flee persecution in Myanmar or to escape squalid conditions in refugee camps in Bangladesh. Traffickers prey upon desperate communities, promising the chance of a better life abroad.

It is not clear how many more boats remain stranded, but it is likely that hundreds are stuck at sea.

Amnesty International Indonesia’s executive director, Usman Hamid, said urgent action was needed by governments in the region to prevent further deaths, and he called on Indonesian authorities to protect the 94 refugees rescued on Thursday.

“After all they have been through at sea, what they need the most now is shelter and safety,” he said. “The Indonesian government must provide these survivors with their basic needs and must under no circumstance send them back out to sea.”

In Aceh, Guechik said residents had served the refugees with food and provided clothes. They are now being housed in a building that was previously an immigration facility.

#Rohingya #réfugiés #asile #Malaisie

Campaign of Hate? Fake News and Anti-Refugee Rhetoric in Malaysia - New Naratif
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Anti-Rohingya hate speech, often stemming from fabricated content, began to emerge on social media and messaging apps, which soon erupted into a seemingly organised online campaign against refugees. It has turned some netizens not only against asylum seekers like Abdul Wahid and his family, but also against migrants, especially the undocumented, who have long been a part of Malaysian society.
What Triggered the Hate Speech?

On 16 April 2020, a boat of about 200 Rohingya refugees tried to dock in Langkawi, a holiday island off Malaysia’s coast. The boat was spotted by a Malaysian Air Force jet and promptly turned away by two escorting Navy vessels after giving food to those on board.

In an earlier incident, at least 60 Rohingya refugees died after their vessel, cramped with more than 400 people, was adrift in the Bay of Bengal for two months. The bodies of those who died on the boat were thrown overboard, according to survivors. The passengers had been refused entry into Thailand and Malaysia.

#Malaisie #Rohingya

[Drache Musicale] #malaysian music
▻http://www.radiopanik.org/emissions/drache-musicale/malaysian-music-2

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Folk, #gamelan #malay, music of #indigenous people and Pop Yeh Yeh in #malaysia

REDIFFUFION

#autochtones #malaisie #mal_à_la_tête #autochtones,malaisie,mal_à_la_tête,malay,malaysian,malaysia,indigenous,gamelan
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#Covid-19 #migrant #migration #malaisie #expatries

Top management expats allowed to enter Malaysia from Wednesday | The Edge Markets
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#Covid-19 #migrant #migration #malaisie #expatries #tourisme

Top management expatriates, medical tourists can enter Malaysia
▻https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2020/06/601856/top-management-expatriates-medical-tourists-can-enter-malaysia

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Amid pandemic, migrant smuggling continues; to be much riskier, says Interpol
#Covid-19#migrant#migration#Rohyngia#Malaisie#Bangladesh

▻https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/amid-pandemic-migrant-smuggling-continues-to-be-much-riskier-says-interpol/1863368

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New Delhi, June 11 (IANS) Migrant smuggling incidents involving Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh to Malaysia by sea have increased threefold from March to April 2020, said France-headquartered Interpol on Thursday, urging member countries to be on alert as migrant smuggling continues around the world amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Malaisie : Plus de 260 Rohingyas ont été arrêtés à leur arrivée en bateau
#Covid-19#migrant#migration#Rohingya#Malaisie

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EMBARCATION Un navire des gardes-côtes a repéré un bateau semblant transporter des migrants au large de l’île de Langkawi, au nord-ouest du pays

Meet alextbh, Malaysia’s first queer pop star - i-D
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Initially, Alex’s parents were hesitant about his interest in music. However, considering his early successes, they’ve since been really supportive. He’s faced plenty of other hardships, like that of being an openly gay musician in Malaysia. The LGBTQ+ community is incredibly tight-knit and supportive of each other, but sodomy is still considered a crime — a law that remains from British colonial rule. Last year, the country celebrated 60 years of independence, but the government has made multiple attempts to erase LGBTQ+ culture from that narrative from removing portraits of transgender activist Nisha Ayub and Pang Khee Teik, editor of online forum Queer Lapis, from a commemorative exhibit, to brutal assaults on members of the community, somewhat condoned by an Islamic affairs minister that has spoken out against gay people.

Music serves as an outlet for resistance and a platform for Alex to incite change. He’s become a queer, pop icon, performing on stages throughout Southeast Asia.

How did Malaysia lose its spring? A systemic explanation
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The end of Malaysia’s democratic spring has four fault lines - between Mahathir and Anwar, Anwar and Azmin, Bersatu and PKR, the Malay parties and DAP – and a plague of party hopping.

Pour archives. #Malaisie #coup_d'État #parlementarisme #Malaysia_Baru

Displaced once before, an Orang Asli pleads for Kuala Langat forest reserve
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The plan to develop KLIA and Putrajaya into modern world-class facilities was a landmark moment in Malaysia’s development, but those who lived in the area for generations found themselves summarily displaced.

In the early 1990s, the rubber estate workers of Prang Besar were one such group who had to make way for Putrajaya, while the Orang Asli of Kampung Busut in Sepang was among those whose former homes were bulldozed so that KLIA could be constructed.

The displacement and relocation was a swift affair, and the Temuan villagers were required to uproot themselves to an area 40km away with the promise of a better life in a newly developed area.

Now talk of degazetting a huge 930-hectare swathe of the Kuala Langat Forest Reserve (North) has reawakened the fears of those forced to relocate...

#Orang_Asli #peuples_autochtones #Malaisie

Southeast Asia faces backlash for migrant clampdown - UCA News
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UN warns that forcing migrants into hiding risks spreading Covid-19 in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore

Immigration detention centres become Malaysia coronavirus hotspot | News | Al Jazeera
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Health ministry says detention centres ’high risk’ areas after spike in cases following series of raids during lockdown.