December, 2010

• 2 December

  Deceits, Plots, Insults: America Laid Bare

  

  Diplomatic communiqués released by Wikileaks shine unprecedented light on the US and how it sees the world By Jerome Taylor, Cahal Milmo and David Usborne, US Editor The doors to a previously hidden world of diplomatic intrigue and insults were dramatically thrown open last night as the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks published its vast tranche of secret American diplomatic communiqués. The …

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• 2 December

  November 29, 1947 resolution partitioning Palestine.

  

  United Nations lost its soul and justice collapsed. At the turn of the last century Palestine, now turned into Israel, was part of the Turkish Ottoman Empire. About 95 percent of the population in 1896 were Arabs who owned ninety percent of the land. It was such a peaceful place that there was hardly anyone spoke loud and using a …

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• 2 December

  Live Webinar: “Interest-Based Finance and Global Warming: Making the Connection”

    How does interest-based finance contribute to global warming? And how does Islamic finance provide an alternative? We explore these and other topics in this 40 minute presentation and follow up with your live Q&A.   Cost: FREE  Where: The comfort of your desk  When: 6pm Dubai time, Sunday, December 12, 2010 What You Get: 40 minute presentation with slides Live Q&A Guidance …

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• 2 December

  Malaysian Scholarships 2011

  The Scholarship Division of the Ministry of Higher Education provides several scholarship programmes to international students to pursue their higher education in Malaysia. The financial aid provided by the Scholarship Division, MOHE are: i) Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan The Malaysian Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan are awarded by the Malaysian Government to the nominated students from the Commonwealth countries …

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• 1 December

  PM speech at Eid reception.

  Transcript of speech given by the Prime Minister at No 10, Downing Street, 22 November 2010. Thank you very much for that, and can I say how incredibly welcome you all are. There are really three things I want to say tonight. The first is that I think we should be a country that celebrates and looks up to faith, …

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November, 2010

• 29 November

  Saudi Arabia urges US attack on Iran to stop nuclear programme, By Ian Black and Simon Tisdall

  Embassy cables show Arab allies want strike against Tehran Israel prepared to attack alone to avoid its own 9/11 Iranian bomb risks 'Middle East proliferation, war or both'   "Embassy cables reveal the US, Israel and Arab states suspect Iran is close to acquiring nuclear weapons despite Tehran's insistence that its programme is designed to supply energy. Photograph: Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters"] …

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• 28 November

  Sri Lanka – the “beach-head” for A Tamil Homeland – Ven. Walpola Piyananda, Chief Sangha Nayake of America

    There are over 100 million ethnic Tamils scattered throughout the world without a “motherland” they can call their own. This has instilled in the Tamil consciousness an unfounded sense of low self-esteem. Tamil academics decided the way to remedy this situation was to establish a “beach-head” for a national ethnic identity; their own country. Ven. Walpola Piyananda in his …

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