MoU: Kenapa Umno mahu mengemis idea CPC

Harakahdaily

KUALA LUMPUR, 12 Sept: PAS mendakwa Parti Komunis China (CPC) tetap berbahaya dan parti itu sejak dahulu sehingga sekarang konsisten menolak fahaman komunis.

Ahli jawatankuasa PAS Pusat, Idris Ahmad (gambar) berkata, Umno bagaimanapun cuba menghalalkan tindakan mereka mengadakan perjanjian persefahaman (MOU) dengan Parti Komunis China pada 5 Ogos 2011.

Beliau berkata demikian sebagai mengulas kenyataan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Razak bahawa Umno baik dengan negara komunis sekarang kerana mereka telah meninggalkan ideologi lama mereka.

Najib berkata demikian ketika berucap pada Majlis Rumah Terbuka Malaysia Aidilfitri-Merdeka 2011 di Bukit Mertajam, semalam.

"Apakah Parti Komunis China tidak merbahaya kerana Umno mengadakan hubungan langsung, walaupun ia tetap komunis? Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak yang cuba hendak menghalalkan tindakan Umno, dengan mengatakan “kita baik dengan negara komunis sekarang kerana mereka telah tinggalkan ideologi lama mereka".

"PAS istiqamah daripada dulu sampai sekarang menolak fahaman komunis. Sedangkan di dalam Umno pernah berlaku penangkapan "tiga Abdul" kerana menjadi tali barut komunis Russia (KGB).

"Setakat hari ini tidak ada ucapan pemimpin PAS yang menyokong komunis dan ditangkap menjadi tali barut komunis walaupun pemimpin Umno pernah menuduh PAS lebih merbahaya daripada komunis," kata beliau dalam kenyataan kepada Harakahdaily.

Idris menegaskan, tidak menjadi kesalahan jika kerajaan Malaysia menjalinkan hubungan baik dengan Negara China namun bukan dengan Parti Komunisnya sehingga berhasrat menghantar genarasi muda untuk belajar dengan parti itu.

"Jika hubungan antara kerajaan Malaysia dengan Kerajaan China tidak mengapa, masalahnya Umno mengadakan hubungan dengan Parti Komunis China pada 5 Oktober 2010. Malahan hendak menghantar generasi muda Umno dari kalangan Putera dan Puteri Umno untuk belajar dengan Parti Komunis China. Ini dinyatakan dengan rasmi oleh Tengku Adnan Mansur selaku Setiausaha Agung Umno," katanya.

Beliau menyifatkan tindakan itu sangat berbahaya kepada generasi muda dan negara kerana berkemungkinan mereka akan mencedok idea daripada Parti Komunis China untuk digunakan dalam Umno.

"Bukankah tindakan ini merbahaya kepada generasi muda Umno? Apakah modal lapok perkauman dan bangsa sudah tidak relevan sehingga hendak pergi mengemis dengan Parti Komunis China untuk mendapat idea baru dalam Umno.

"Rakyat mesti memandang ini adalah perkara yang merbahaya kepada negara jika perkara ini berterusan terutama kepada generasi muda, kerana Umno hendak hantar orang muda pergi belajar dengan Parti Komunis China," katanya.

http://bm.harakahdaily.net/index.php/berita-utama/5359-mou-kenapa-umno-mahu-mengemis-idea-cpc

Mengapa Umno adakan MoU dengan Komunis China

Harakahdaily

KUALA LUMPUR, 3 Sept: AJK PAS Pusat, Idris Ahmad berkata, Umno telah mengadakan perjanjian persefahaman (MoU) dengan Parti Komunis China pada 5 Ogos 2011.

Malahan, katanya ada usaha untuk menghantar Pergerakan Pemuda dan Puteri Umno untuk mempelajari daripada Parti Komunis China.

“Sekiranya MoU ini dibuat oleh Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS) atau DAP atau PKR, maka sudah tentu sebelum turun daripada kapalterbang akan disumbat ke Kamunting.

“Apakah Komunis China, berbeza dengan komunis Malaya? Bukankah Parti Komunis Malaya bernaung di bawah Parti Komunis China?” soalnya dalam kenyataan kepada Harakahdaily.

Komunis, jelas beliau ideologinya tetap sama tidak kira di mana tempat.

“Kenapa Umno hipokrit?” soalnya lagi.

Menurutnya, jika benar anti komunis kenapa menghantar pulang 11 pejuang Uighurs ke China, walaupun dibantah oleh Suruhjaya Tinggi PBB bagi Orang Pelarian d Kuala Lumpur sedangkan mereka menentang kerajaan komunis China kerana menceroboh wilayah mereka di Xinjiang Julai 2009.

“Inilah sikap hipokrit Umno dalam apa jua isu.

“Isu Palestin Umno tunjuk hero, tetapi dalam masa yang sama, Apco Yahudi dibayar RM77 juta setahun,” katanya.

Beliau berkata, Umno melalui bantuan media mereka yang tidak ada etika kewartawanan dan tidak takut dosa dan pahala dengan sewenang-wenangnya menuduh PAS menyokong komunis.

Katanya, orang pekak dan buta pun tersenyum apabila Umno menuduh PAS menyokong komunis.

Tambahnya, tidak ada rekod PAS berbaik dengan komunis sedangkan Umno menjemput Parti Komunis China menghadiri Persidangan Agung Umno dan yang terbaru mengadakan MoU dengan Parti Komunis China.

Pemimpin Umno juga, ujarnya pernah ditangkap menjadi agen komunis di negara ini walaupun pemimpin Umno pernah menuduh PAS lebih merbahaya daripada komunis.

Namun, katanya kerja-kerja untuk berasmara dana dengan komunis tidak pernah dilakukan oleh PAS.

Jsuteru, kata beliau ucapan Mohamad Sabu hanya untuk menutup tahap kepuasan hati terhadap Najib merudum kepada 59 peratus, daftar pemilih SPR yang kotor dan kenaikan harga barang keperluan harian.

http://bm.harakahdaily.net/index.php/berita-utama/5202-mengapa-umno-adakan-mou-dengan-komunis-china

Amerika bidas M'sia kerana usir pelarian Uighur

Amerika bidas M'sia kerana usir pelarian Uighur

Sep 1, 11 2:05pm

Dua wakil rakyat Amerika Syarikat hari ini membidas Malaysia kerana mengusir 11 etnik Uighur kembali ke negara China dan menggesa Beijing untuk mendedahkan tempat kumpulan itu kini berada.

Wakil Republikan Chris Smith dan Senator Demokratik Sherrod Brown, yang mempengerusikan bersama Suruhanjaya Kongres Eksekutif mengenai China yang mengkaji dasar Beijing, juga menggesa Malaysia agar tidak mengusir lima lagi pencari suaka politik Uighur yang masih dalam tahanan negara ini.

"Secara tragik, lelaki Uighur yang dihantar pulang itu menghadapi ancaman sebenar penderaan, ditahan dan dizalimi di China," kata Brown dalam satu kenyataan.

"Kerajaan China telah lama melancarkan kempen penindasan di Xinjiang yang melanggar undang-undang antarabangsa dan ternyata mempunyai jiran-jiran yang membantu mereka melasanakan dasar-dasar yang menindas itu," katanya.

Smith sehubungan itu, menggesa China untuk "menghormati pencari suaka dan mengiktiraf status pelarian" oleh Pesuruhjaya Tinggi bagi Pelarian Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu (PBB) dan "memastikan hak-hak asasi dan kebebasan untuk semua rakyat."

Minoriti Islam di China

Uighur adalah bangsa minoriti berbahasa Turki dan sebahagian besar mereka beragama Islam. Mereka mendiami kawasan barat laut Xinjiang China.

Kebanyakan mereka mendakwa ditindas dari segi agama dan politik oleh China. Menurut mereka, kerajaan China juga kini menggalakkan penghijrahan besar-besaran oleh majoriti Han China supaya budaya Uighur dilenyapkan. China mendakwa kerajaan telah berusaha memperbaiki keadaan kehidupan di kawasan terpencil itu.

Sebelum ini, seorang pegawai polis Malaysia mempertahankan keputusan pengusiran yang dibuat pada 18 Ogos lalu dengan mendakwa kumpulan etnik Uighur itu dihalau kerana terlibat dengan sindiket penyeludupan manusia.

Kemboja dan Pakistan juga baru-baru ini telah mengusir pencari suaka Uighur, manakala pihak berkuasa Thai pada bulan Ogos lalu telah menyerahkan seorang lelaki Uighur kepada pihak berkuasa Cina di Bangkok, dakwa beberapa aktivis yang dalam buangan.

http://malaysiakini.com/news/174570

Hantar pulang 11 pejuang Islam Uighurs dibantah

Harakahdaily

KUALA LUMPUR, 2 Sept: Tindakan kerajaan Malaysia menghantar pulang 11 pejuang Uighurs Islam yang lari meninggalkan negara asalnya iaitu China dipertikaikan oleh banyak pihak termasuk Majlis Peguam Malaysia.

(Pejuang Uighurs adalah beragama Islam dan bercakap bahasa Turkic dan tinggal di Utara China iaitu di wilayah Xinjiang. Mereka sedang berjuang menuntut hak mereka dari kerajaan komunis China.)

Ini kerana, ia bertentangan dengan akta Anti-Trafficking in Persons dan Anti-Smuggling of Migrants Act 2007.

Uighur adalah pejuang beragama Islam yang bangkit menentang kerajaan China Komunis kerana menceroboh wilayah mereka di wilayah Xinjiang pada Julai 2009.

Tindakan menghantar balik mereka bermakna menyerahkan pejuang Islam ini kepada kerajaan China Komunis yang memburu mereka.

Bagi Majlis Peguam, langkah yang patut dibuat oleh kerajaan adalah mendakwa mereka jika bersalah bukannya menghantar pulang ke negara asal mereka.

Pada 18 Ogos lalu, kerajaan Malaysia telah menghantar 11 pejuang Islam Uighurs yang menentang kerajaan China kembali ke negara asalnya.

Menurut Menteri Dalam Negeri, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein, 11 pejuang Uighurs ini terlibat dalam pemerdagangan manusia dan dikehendaki oleh kerajaan China komunis.

Sehingga kini tidak diketahui apakah nasib mereka apakah masih hidup atau sudah mati.

Bantahan juga dibuat oleh Suruhanjaya Tinggi PBB bagi Orang Pelarian di Kuala Lumpur kerana mereka juga dinafikan hak untuk bertemu dengan 11 Uighurs ini.

Ini kerana, proses sedang dibuat untuk mengesahkan mereka sebagai pelarian dan berhak untuk mendapatkan naungan di bawah badan PBB itu.

Namun belum sempat proses itu selesai, 11 pejuang Uighurs ini dihantar pulang oleh kerajaan atas kehendak kerajaan China Komunis itu.

Ekoran itu, PBB membuat bantahan terhadap tindakan kerajaan Malaysia itu.

Mereka bimbang nasib 11 Uighurs itu akan berhadapan dengan seksaan dari pihak berkuasa China kerana penentangan mereka terhadap kerajaan itu.

Ekoran itu juga, pihak berkuasa China didesak agar menyatakan di mana mereka sekarang dan apakah nasib yang menimpa merekaselepas tindakan kerajaan Malaysia itu.

Pejuang hak asasi manusia berkata, tindakan menghantar pulang mereka oleh kerajaan Malaysia ini bertentangan dengan hak asasi manusia.

Mereka juga mendesak kerajaan Malaysia agar jangan sekali-kali menghantar pulang lima lagi pejuang Uighurs yang ditahan oleh kerajaan Malaysia selepas itu.

http://bm.harakahdaily.net/index.php/berita-utama/5196-hantar-pulang-11-pejuang-islam-uighurs-dibantah

China bans Ramadan, continues clampdown on Uyghur Muslims

Eurasia Review

BEIJING, Aug 12: China is placing restrictions on its Muslim Uyghur population during the fasting month of Ramadan, following a string of violent attacks in its northwestern region of Xinjiang.

Chinese Muslims face unnecessary restrictions from the authorities especially during Ramadan

Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the Munich-based World Uyghur Congress, said Ramadan, which runs roughly from Aug. 1 to 30 this year, has brought a fresh clampdown on Muslims in the wake of violent attacks in the Silk Road cities of Kashgar and Hotan.

The group has said that more than 100 Uyghurs were detained in the wake of an attack on a market in Kashgar last weekend. Most of those detained as suspects were committed Muslims who attended mosque and whose wives wore veils, residents say.

Raxit said the chief restriction lies in a ban on mosques from advertising Ramadan-linked events or in encouraging people to observe the month-long fast.

“If any religious figure discusses Ramadan during the course of religious activities, or encourages people to take part, then they will lose their license to practice,” Raxit said.

“The more serious cases will result in arrests for incitement to engage in illegal religious activity,” he said.

Ramadan restrictions

During Ramadan, Muslims who are able should take no food, water, or cigarettes during daylight hours. Restaurants in Muslim countries close during the day, re-opening to break the fast after sunset.

However, government campaigns in previous years have forced restaurants to stay open, and required Uyghur government cadres throughout Xinjiang to sign “letters of responsibility” promising to avoid fasting, evening prayers, or other religious activities.

Officials have also targeted Muslim schoolchildren, providing them with free lunches during the fasting period.

Raxit said similar restrictions were in place for government cadres, who risk losing pensions and other benefits. Private companies are offering lunches to Uyghur Muslims, and any who refuse to eat could lose their annual bonus, or even their job, he added.

According to the Beijing-based Uyghur Online website, the government of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) has announced a ban on any religious activities during the Muslim holy month.

The restrictions were being imposed “to preserve social stability,” the website reported.

An employee who answered the phone at a local government neighborhood committee office in the regional capital Urumqi, which saw deadly ethnic rioting in July 2009, confirmed the restrictions.

“Fasting during Ramadan is a traditional ethnic custom, and they are allowed to do that,” she said. “But they aren’t allowed to hold any religious activities during Ramadan.”

And she added: “Party members are not allowed to fast for Ramadan, and neither are civil servants.”

Mosque guidelines

An employee who answered the phone at a mosque in Urumqi said people from out of town are banned from attending mosques in Urumqi for prayers during August.

Left: The Id Kah mosque in Xinjiang, China

Everyone attending prayers has to register with their national identity card, he added.

“They have to register,” he said. “[After prayers] they aren’t allowed to [congregate and] talk to each other.”

Foreigners have been barred from entering mosques in the region, mosque officials said.

A Uyghur resident of Beijing said students under 18 are forbidden from fasting during Ramadan.

And an employee who answered the phone at a Muslim restaurant in Urumqi said it would remain open all month.

Kashgar prefecture Communist Party chief Cheng Zhenshan vowed to fight “separatists,” “religious extremists,” and “terrorists” with “iron fists,” following the weekend violence in the Silk Road city that left at least 14 people dead and 40 others injured.

The attacks in Kashgar and those in the nearby city of Hotan two weeks ago in which 20 people were killed are the bloodiest violence in a year in Xinjiang, where Muslim Uyghurs chafe under Chinese rule.

Deadly riots in Xinjiang’s regional capital of Urumqi left at least 200 dead in July 2009 following clashes between Han Chinese and Uyghurs.

Chinese commentators say the slew of recent attacks in Xinjiang show that Beijing’s policy on ethnic minorities has gone badly wrong.

http://en.harakahdaily.net/index.php/berita-utama/world/3329-china-bans-ramadan-continues-clampdown-on-uyghur-muslims.html

China didesak tarik balik larangan hak beragama

Harakahdaily

KUALA LUMPUR, 13 Ogos: Dewan Pemuda PAS Malaysia (DPPM) mendesak Kerajaan China untuk menarik balik larangan dan perintah yang jelas melanggar hak beragama dan asasi manusia dalam beribadat di Wilayah Urumqi Xinjiang.

Keua Lajnah Antarabangsa DPMM, Dr Raja Ahmad al-Hiss berkata, larangan yang terkini adalah larangan menunaikan ibadah puasa, bertarawih dan apa jua aktiviti keagamaan sepanjang Ramadhan ini dengan memaksa mereka menandatangai satu dokumen persetujuan atas larangan tersebut.

“Malah LA DPPM merasakan tindakan pihak berkuasa China yang memaksa umat Islam Urumqi yang memaksa syarikat-syarikat swasta di sana untuk membekalkan makanan tengah hari buat pekerja beragama Islam hatta mengugut untuk diberhentikan kerja atau bonus sekiranya mereka berkeras untuk terus berpuasa adalah satu tindakan yang menjijikkan,” ujarnya yang juga Naib Ketua DPPM.

Beliau menyatakan demikian di dalam memorandum bantahan yang dihantar kepada Presiden Hu Jintao, Presiden dan Pemerintah Republik Rakyat China melalui duta besar negara itu ke Malaysia, Chai Xi
di kedutaan negara itu, di sini, petang semalam.

Di samping itu, tambahnya, para pelajar Islam di sekolah dan pusat pengajian tinggi juga disediakan juadah makan tengah hari buat mereka.

Selain itu, tokoh-tokoh agama juga diugut untuk ditarik balik kebenaran atau tauliah memberikan kuliah dan ceramah agama sekiranya terus menerus menjalankan aktiviti dan penyampaian ilmu agama sepanajang Ramadhan ini.

Sehinggakan, katanya umat Islam juga dihalang untuk memasuki masjid untuk beribadah sekiranya tidak mempunyai bukti pengenalan dan dipaksa mendaftar ke pihak berkuasa untuk beribadah di masjid.

Bagi LA DPPM, tambah beliau larangan itu jelas bertentangan dengan ketamadunan sejagat dan bersongsangan dengan nilai-nilai kemanusiaan dan tatsusila manusia.

“Oleh itu kami mendesak agar larangan ini ditarik semula serta-merta dan pihak berkuasa Urumqi perlulah kembali kepada nilai-nilai sejagat dan memperbanyakkan dialog peradaban bagi menyelesaikan masalah yang timbul,” ujarnya.

LA DPPM juga, katanya mengutuk tindakan tindakan pihak berkuasa China yang telah bertindak keras terhadap kebangkitan rakyat Urumqi sehingga mengakibatkan 18 terkorban dan 31 tercedera dalam pertempuran pada awal Ramadhan baru-baru ini.

Tegasnya, pihak DPPM tidak teragak-agak untuk menggerakkan seluruh dunia Islam bagi membela nasib umat Islam Uighur yang telah dinafikan hak beragama dan kebebasan mereka dan penindasan berterusan pihak berkuasa China.

http://bm.harakahdaily.net/index.php/berita-utama/4888-china-didesak-tarik-balik-larangan-hak-beragama

Biri-biri lahirkan anak anjing

ANAK anjing dan induk biri-biri yang melahirkan mamalia itu di wilayah Shaanxi, China.
KIRI: Anak anjing milik Naiying berbulu seperti biri-biri.

---

XIAN, China - Pakar-pakar veterinar menyatakan ia mustahil, tetapi seorang petani, Liu Naiying menganggap kelahiran anak anjingnya sebagai satu keajaiban, lapor sebuah akhbar semalam.

Naiying mendakwa, anak anjing itu dilahirkan oleh seekor biri-biri betina peliharaannya di ladangnya dekat sini, wilayah Shaanxi, tengah China.

Menurut petani tersebut, badan anak anjing itu dipenuhi bulu seperti seekor biri-biri tetapi mulut, hidung, mata, tapak kaki, dan ekornya menyerupai anjing, malah mamalia itu juga gemar bermain bersama anjing-anjing lain.

"Saya sedang menggembala biri-biri baru-baru ini apabila melihat seekor biri-biri menjilat anaknya yang baru lahir. Saya terkejut melihat anak biri-biri itu menyerupai seekor anjing," kata Naiying.

Kini, ladangnya dikunjungi oleh ramai penduduk setempat dan luar daerah yang mahu melihat sendiri anak anjing pelik itu.

Mengulas mengenai kes itu, seorang saintis di sebuah pusat penyelidikan haiwan tempatan, Yue Guozhang berkata, anjing dan biri-biri merupakan dua spesies berbeza.

"Mustahil biri-biri boleh bunting dengan anak anjing. Namun, ia seekor anak biri-biri yang ganjil," katanya. - Agensi.

http://www.kosmo.com.my/kosmo/content.asp?y=2011&dt=0327&pub=Kosmo&sec=Dunia&pg=du_02.htm

Sheep giving birth to a dog?

Posted by admin on March 26th, 2011

A sheep gave birth to a dog on a farm in China, claims its owner Liu Naiying, who has had people flocking to see the woolly “lamb-puppy”. Liu says he came across the lamb-dog in one of his fields shortly after it was born. Pic: The mother lamb and the ‘lamb offspring dog’

And by “born”, he means his sheep was licking the creature and therefore it was sporting that moist, “fresh from the womb” look.

“I was herding the sheep, and saw a sheep licking her newborn lamb on the grassland. The lamb was still wet,” he said.

“When I went up close to check on the lamb I was shocked because it looked so weird, like a cross between a sheep and a dog.”

“I was a bit frightened, as I’ve been raising sheep for 20 years and had never seen such a creature.”

Though it has wool like a lamb’s, the creature’s mouth, nose, eyes, paws and tail are most definitely dog-like.

Liu says the creature even plays like a puppy.

Vets, oddly enough, have stepped in and pointed out that it’s impossible for a sheep to give birth to a dog, but that hasn’t stopped the lamb-dog tourists rocking up to the farm in Fugu County, Shaanxi Province, in their droves.

According to people at Xi’an City Animal Husbandry Technology Centre who know about these sorts of things, it’s most likely that Liu’s animal is simply an abnormal lamb.

metro.co.uk

http://www.kl-today.com/?p=15627

Pemilik upah lelaki rosakkan Lamborghini miliknya

BEBERAPA orang yang diupah merosakkan kereta Lamborghini Gallardo di Qingdao, wilayah Shandong, China.

---

BEIJING - Seorang ahli perniagaan China mengupah sekumpulan lelaki dari Shandong untuk merosakkan kereta Lamborghini Gallardo miliknya yang berharga AS$804,301 (RM2.45 juta) dengan menggunakan tukul di Qingdao kelmarin.

Tindakan itu dibuat selepas beliau sangat kecewa dengan perkhidmatan servis pengedar kereta terbabit yang gagal menyelesaikan pelbagai kerosakan yang dialami Lamborghini miliknya.

Ahli perniagaan itu turut mendapati terdapat kerosakan yang dilakukan seseorang ke atas kereta miliknya di bahagian depan dan kerangka kereta sport itu semasa ia sedang dibaiki.

Orang ramai yang lalu lalang terkejut apabila melihat sekumpulan lelaki merosakkan kereta mewah itu yang sering rosak sejak dihantar kepada tuannya pada Oktober tahun lalu.

Selepas bertengkar dengan pengedar dan beberapa orang wakil kanan pengedar kereta Lamborghini, ahli perniagaan tersebut mengambil keputusan bahawa satu-satunya cara untuk melindungi haknya ialah dengan merosakkan kereta itu pada Hari Hak-Hak Pengguna Sedunia. - Agensi

http://www.kosmo.com.my/kosmo/content.asp?y=2011&dt=0317&pub=Kosmo&sec=Dunia&pg=du_02.htm

Telur direbus guna air kencing

RATUSAN telur direbus dengan menggunakan air kencing di wilayah Zhejiang, China dengan menggunakan resipi berusia ribuan tahun lalu.

---

BEIJING - Sebuah kedai di wilayah Zhejiang, timur China menjual telur yang direbus dengan air kencing budak sekolah dan ia merupakan resipi tradisonal berusia ribuan tahun, lapor sebuah akhbar semalam.

Chef makanan tradisonal, Lu Ming berkata, dia mahu mempromosikan semula makanan tradisional itu sehingga ke peringkat antarabangsa.

"Air kencing tersebut dikumpul daripada pelajar sekolah lelaki yang berumur 10 tahun, mereka kencing di dalam sebuah tong dan kami mengambil air itu pada setiap hari.

"Telur-telur itu akan direbus dalam air kencing tersebut dengan kulitnya," katanya.

Menurutnya, telur tersebut berasa sedap dan berkhasiat untuk menyembuhkan demam selain meningkatkan konsentrasi serta menghilang rasa mengantuk. - Agensi

http://www.kosmo.com.my/kosmo/content.asp?y=2011&dt=0314&pub=Kosmo&sec=Dunia&pg=du_05.htm

China charges subversion for protest repostings

AP – In this photo taken on Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011, police officers stand watching people gathering in front …

By ANITA CHANG, Associated Press Anita Chang, Associated Press – Wed Feb 23, 9:34 pm ET

BEIJING – China filed subversion charges against Internet users who reposted a call for protests as the authoritarian government enforced its crackdown against any Middle East-style democracy movement, activists said.

In addition to well-known activists who apparently remained in custody after being taken away ahead of the planned protests on Sunday, at least three people were detained on charges of "inciting subversion of state power," according to the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy. China often uses the vaguely worded charge to lock up outspoken government critics.

In a nod to social stability concerns, China's Vice President Xi Jinping on Wednesday urged greater outreach by the ruling Communist Party to handle issues related to education, employment, health care and housing.

This is to resolve social conflicts, maintain social stability, and promote social harmony," Xi said, echoing remarks over the weekend by president and party leader Hu Jintao.

State media also quoted a top government adviser as dismissing the possibility of a Middle East-style revolution in China as "ridiculous and unrealistic."

"It's fair to say that many problems are being solved," Zhao Qizheng was quoted as saying by the Xinhua News Agency.

The detentions indicated Beijing would not tolerate any dissent, even by people merely reposting information gleaned from overseas websites.

Liang Haiyi, an unemployed 35-year-old woman in the northeast city of Harbin, was taken away Saturday after putting information about the call to protest on Chinese websites or chatrooms, said lawyer Liang Xiaojun, who was not representing Liang but had spoken to her ex-husband about the case.

She was questioned and taken away in handcuffs, and her ex-husband has received an official notice saying she has been charged with subversion, said the lawyer, who is not related.

"I don't think she's broken any law, she only reposted someone else's writings on the Chinese Internet and it wasn't her own writing," Liang Xiaojun said. "Anyone overseas can see these materials."

Also detained for spreading word of the planned protest online were Hua Chunhui, from Wuxi city in eastern China, and Chen Wei from Suining city in the southwest, the Hong Kong rights group said a statement Wednesday.

A police officer surnamed Lan at the Tanduqiao police station where Hua was reportedly held said she knew nothing about the case, and phones at the Suining police department where Chen was reportedly held rang unanswered.

Though only a handful of people responded to the protest calls this past weekend, the unidentified organizers renewed the appeal to gather peacefully in parks or near monuments at 2 p.m. on Sundays. For the protest-shy, it said people could participate by simply taking an "afternoon stroll" at the appointed time and place.

Because of China's pervasive Internet censorship, few people were likely to know about the campaign. Twitter and Facebook, instrumental in Egypt's protests, are blocked in China. Tech-savvy Chinese can circumvent controls using proxy servers or other alternatives, but few of the country's Internet users seek out politically subversive content.

Apparently undeterred, organizers said in an online posting that sustained action was needed to show Beijing that its people expect accountability and transparency absent from the current one-party Communist system.

"We invite every participant to stroll, watch or even just pretend to pass by. As long as you are present, the authoritarian government will be shaking with fear," said the announcement posted Tuesday on U.S.-based Chinese-language news website Boxun, which is blocked in China.

The source of the online campaign, which first circulated on Boxun, was not known and activists have said they weren't sure what to make of the call for a "Jasmine Revolution" — the name given to the Tunisian protest movement. Would-be demonstrators were urged to shout, "We want food, we want work, we want housing, we want fairness" — a slogan that highlights common complaints among Chinese.

Ahead of the called protests this past weekend, human rights groups estimated several dozen to more than 100 activists were detained by police, confined to their homes or were missing.

Several apparently remain in custody, including prominent lawyers Jiang Tianyong, Teng Biao and Tang Jitian, and writer Gu Chuan. All of their cell phones were switched off, which is common when activists are taken away by authorities.

Beijing police did not immediately respond to a fax asking whether they had any of the activists in custody.

China employs a wide-range of extra-legal measures to silence independent voices, including house arrest, 24-hour surveillance, and coerced stays in government guest houses or other locations. Such actions are especially common around politically sensitive occassions such as the opening of the national legislature's annual session early next month.

___

Associated Press writer Christopher Bodeen contributed to this report.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110224/ap_on_re_as/as_china_protest_calls

Bawa pendakwah China ke Malaysia

Ismail Hashim

Badan-badan Islam disaran berusaha membawa pendakwah dari Negara China terutama golongan Ahong yakni imam yang mempunyai kepakaran dan pengalaman luas di dalam mengamalkan kehidupan beragama untuk tujuan dakwah kepada masyarakat Cina di negara ini.

Penyandang Pertama Kursi Pengajian Melayu Kerajaan Malaysia di China, berpangkalan di Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU), Prof Dr Awang Sariyan (gambar) berkata, Islam yang dibawa ke negara itu sekitar pertengahan abad ke 7 oleh Sahabat Nabi Muhammad bernama Saad Abi Waqas diterima baik oleh Maharaja China dewasa itu.

Menurutnya, sehingga kini jumlah umat Islam di negara Asia Timur itu sekitar 70 juta dengan nilai keIslaman dan syiar agama yang hebat seperti pintu gerbang ke kediaman mereka yang bertulis Basmallah dan Allah Muhammad.

Prof Awang menyampaikan ucapan itu dalam majlis Syarahan Sarjana Pelawat anjuran Pusat Pemikiran dan Kefahaman Islam di sebuah pusat pengajian tinggi di Shah Alam, 16 Februari lalu.

Ucapan sekitar dua jam bertajuk Kembara Bahasa di China; Memupuk Kerjasama Ketamadunan Melayu-China itu banyak memberikan input baharu kepada khalayak pendengar dengan bentuk penyampaian beraudio visual.

Turut hadir di dalam majlis itu adalah ketua jabatan, pensyarah kanan, pensyarah dan staf yang kelihatannya sangat berpuas hati dengan pendedahan maklumat termasuk hubungan Malaysia China, perkembangan agama dan kemajuan Bahasa Melayu mutakhir.

Prof Dr Awang Sariyan adalah Penyandang Pertama Kursi Pengajian Melayu Kerajaan Malaysia di China, berpangkalan di Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) sejak awal 2008.

Sebelumnya Pengarah Jabatan Bahasa DBP, Profesor Bahasa di UPM dan di UM; tenaga akademik UIAM, Universiti Brunei Darussalam dan UPSI; Profesor Tamu Pusat Pengajian Asia Tenggara, Universiti Frankfurt, Jerman dan Universiti Sumatera Utara; Perunding Seberang Laut Kementerian Pendidikan Singapura.

Presiden Persatuan Linguistik Malaysia (2000-2008) dan anggota Kumpulan Perihatin; pernah aktif dalam Majlis Bahasa Brunei Darussalam-Indonesia-Malaysia (MABBIM) dan Majlis Antarabangsa Bahasa Melayu (MABM).

Penyampai lebih 200 ucap utama, syarahan, kertas dasar dan kertas kerja di dalam dan di luar negara (Australia, Belanda, Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Jerman, Kampuchea, Korea Selatan, Perancis, Rusia, Republik Rakyat China, Singapura, Sri Lanka, Thailand); penatar kurus bahasa dan penulisan profesional; penulis lebih 50 judul buku bahasa, pendidikan, kamus serta Profesor Adjung UPSI.

Menjawab satu soalan, Prof Awang berkata, kedatangan Islam pada abad ketujuh itu diterima baik sehinggakan Maharaja China menaja pembinaan banyak masjid sebagai lambang agama Islam.
Kerana itu, ujarnya, bagi mereka yang pertama kali menjejakkan kaki ke negara itu, jangan terkejut jika melihat terdapat colok gaharu diletakkan di mimbar-mimbar masjid dan ukiran binatang di tempat ibadat.

"Colok gaharu dan ukiran binatang itu adalah budaya masyarakat China yang sedikit pun tidak mencacatkan aqidah umat Islam," tegasnya.

Beliau berkata, terdapat perbezaan besar antara orang China yang datang ke Melaka bersama gerombolan Laksamana Cheng Ho yang membawa Islam dengan mereka yang dibawa datang ke Tanah Melayu oleh penjajah Inggeris.

Katanya, Laksamana Cheng Ho atau dalam Bahasa Chinanya disebut sebagai Zheng He adalah seorang pahlawan utusan Maharaja China yang datang ke Melaka adalah seorang Islam.
Cheng Ho pula jelasnya mengikut kajian absah, merupakan seorang pahlawan hebat yang mempunyai susur galur darah keturunan Saidina Hassan, cucu Rasulullah SAW. yakni anak kepada Saidina Ali dan Fatimah.

Bercakap tentang Ahong, beliau berkata, setiap orang daripada mereka mempunyai kelayakan hebat kerana mereka diwajibkan mengikuti Pengajian Agama Islam selama tiga tahun.

Mereka mempunyai kemahiran berbahasa etnik termasuk Bahasa Arab yang fasih, jelasnya, mereka juga merupakan penghafaz Al-Quran yang dilatih khas bagi memenuhi keperluan agama dan umat.

Tamadun China sangat hebat dengan usianya melebihi 5,000 tahun dengan 56 kumpulan etnik berbanding dengan tamadun Melayu yang baharu berusia 2,000 tahun, jelasnya.

Dalam pada itu, beliau berkata, interaksi tamadun Malaysia China bukan hanya berlaku pada 1974 tetapi bermula sejak Zaman Han Shu pada 140 S.M. ekoran pelayaran utusan Maharaja Wu Di ke India melalui Tanah Melayu.

Hubungan China dengan alam Melayu melonjak ke peringkat lebih tinggi sesudah munculnya Dinasti Tang (618-907M) dan Empayar Sriwijaya di alam Melayu pada abad ke-7.

Dalam majlis itu, Prof Awang banyak mengemukakan saranan bernas antaranya; penyelidikan hubungan Malaysia/alam Melayu dengan China dalam pelbagai aspek, ketamadunan seperti politik, ekonomi, kebudayaan, bahasa dan falsafah/pemikiran dari zaman dahulu hingga kini berdasarkan sumber China dan Melayu sendiri.

Begitu juga dengan perkembangan Islam di Tanah Besar China dan kaitannya dengan pengIslaman di alam Melayu, kajian-kajian perbandingan dengan pelbagai aspek dalam tamadun China dan Islam termasuk budaya dan bahasa.

http://www.harakahdaily.net/v2/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=30923:bawa-pendakwah-china-ke-malaysia&catid=99:seni-budaya&Itemid=143

Hydrolyzed leather meal

21 CFR 573.540 - Hydrolyzed leather meal.

Code of Federal Regulations - Title 21: Food and Drugs

Linked as:

Read more: http://cfr.vlex.com/vid/573-540-hydrolyzed-leather-meal-19713058#ixzz1EHyiAEkK

Text

---

TITLE 21 - FOOD AND DRUGS

CHAPTER I - FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

SUBCHAPTER E - ANIMAL DRUGS, FEEDS, AND RELATED PRODUCTS

PART 573 - FOOD ADDITIVES PERMITTED IN FEED AND DRINKING WATER OF ANIMALS

subpart b - FOOD ADDITIVE LISTING

573.540 - Hydrolyzed leather meal.

(a) Identity. Hydrolyzed leather meal is produced from leather scraps that are treated with steam for not less than 33 minutes at a pressure of not less than 125 pounds per square inch.

(b) Specifications. The additive shall conform to the following percent-by-weight specifications: Moisture, not less than 5 percent nor more than 10 percent.

Crude protein, not less than 60 percent.

Crude fat, not less than 5 percent.

Crude fiber, not more than 6 percent.

Chromium, not more than 2.75 percent.

(c) Use. It is used or intended for use as a source of protein in swine feeds in an amount not to exceed 1.0 percent by weight of the finished feed.

(d) Labeling. The labels and labeling shall bear, in addition to the other information required by the Act: (1) The name of the additive, hydrolyzed leather meal.

(2) Adequate directions to provide finished feeds complying with paragraph (c) of this section.

Read more: http://cfr.vlex.com/vid/573-540-hydrolyzed-leather-meal-19713058#ixzz1EHyz0ZUT

http://www.ask.com/bar?q=hydrolyzed+leather&page=1&qsrc=2891&dm=all&ab=4&u=http%3A%2F%2Fcfr.vlex.com%2Fvid%2F573-540-hydrolyzed-leather-meal-19713058&sg=P9vvF7joF%2Bo4zJwIMlMyHZOJCfifAwfJEEBPbPJKvkc%3D%0D%0A&tsp=1298009047874

China on alert for leather protein in milk supply

By ALEXA OLESEN, Associated Press Alexa Olesen, Associated Press – 43 mins ago

BEIJING – China has warned dairy producers that inspectors are on alert for fresh milk tainted with the industrial chemical melamine and another toxic substance extracted from leather scraps.

Both additives — melamine and hydrolyzed leather protein — would make dairy products made with watered-down milk appear to have normal amounts of protein. Infant formula tainted with melamine killed six children in China in 2008 and sickened more than 300,000.

The Ministry of Agriculture said in a undated notice posted to the website of the State Council, China's Cabinet, that authorities will carry out 6,450 random checks on fresh milk this year — underscoring official concerns that dairy producers may still be trying to use illegal and dangerous methods to boost the protein content of their milk.

All the tests will check for melamine and 30 percent will look for hydrolyzed leather protein.

In March 2009, the Chenyuan Dairy Company in central China's Zhejiang province was shut down by authorities after leather protein was found in its products, the official China Daily newspaper reported Friday. It didn't say if anyone was sickened in that case.

Peter Leedham, a China-based food testing executive, said leather protein emerged as a dairy additive in the wake of the deadly melamine scandal.

"When the melamine issue broke and everybody started being able to detect melamine in milk, unscrupulous producers tried to find an alternative way, something that supplemented the protein in milk, so what they used, very cleverly, was the hydrolyzate of bovine leather," Leedham said. "Because it's actually protein and derived from a cow, it's almost impossible to detect as an additive."

Leedham, the managing director of Eurofins Technology Service in Suzhou, a city close to Shanghai, said it's not clear how widespread the problem is.

To find out if the substance has been added to dairy, authorities look for telltale leather-curing residues. The protein extracted from cow leather is not known to be dangerous to human health, but the curing chemicals are, Leedham said.

The China Daily newspaper said the chemicals could be fatal for children in high does and put adults at risk for osteoporosis.

The Ministry of Agriculture said in a statement posted to its website on Thursday that spot checks on 7,406 batches of fresh milk last year were all free of melamine and signs of leather protein.

But powdered, rather than fresh milk, has been the main source of melamine contamination. Last year China seized 2,132 tons of melamine-tainted milk powder that was manufactured in 2008 or earlier.

China ordered all contaminated dairy, including infant formula, yogurt and other products, burned or buried, but the government did not carry out the destruction itself. Some people apparently stockpiled the tainted products.

Leedham said leather protein was also more likely to show up in milk powder and other processed dairy than in raw milk.

"I would have thought that the adulteration, if it happens, would happen in the processing later on," he said. "If it's going to be used as a fraudulent way of increasing protein levels, then the big benefits would be in the food processing downstream and it would be much easier to add hydrolyzed protein to a powder mix than to liquid milk."

He also said 6,450 tests in one year didn't seem sufficient for a country China's size.

____

Associated Press researcher Zhao Liang contributed to this report.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110218/ap_on_re_as/as_china_tainted_milk

Huge solar flare jams radio, satellite signals: NASA

AFP/NASA/Ho – A NASA image of an erupting solar flare. A powerful solar eruption that has already disturbed radio communications …

– Thu Feb 17, 4:59 am ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) – A powerful solar eruption that has already disturbed radio communications in China could disrupt electrical power grids and satellites used on Earth in the next days, NASA said.

The massive sunspot, which astronomers say is the size of Jupiter, is the strongest solar flare in four years, NASA said Wednesday.

[Related: Solar flare to create light show on Earth?]

The Class X flash -- the largest such category -- erupted at 0156 GMT Tuesday, according to the US space agency.

"X-class flares are the most powerful of all solar events that can trigger radio blackouts and long-lasting radiation storms," disturbing telecommunications and electric grids, NASA said.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory saw a large coronal mass ejection (CME) associated with the flash that is blasting toward Earth at about 560 miles per second (900 kilometers per second), it said.

[Related: Planet Tyche: New member of solar system?]

The charged plasma particles were expected to reach the planet's orbit at 0300 GMT Thursday.

The flare spread from Active Region 1158 in the sun's southern hemisphere, which had so far lagged behind the northern hemisphere in flash activity. It followed several smaller flares in recent days.

"The calm before the storm," read a statement on the US National Weather Service Space Weather Prediction Service.

"Three CMEs are enroute, all a part of the Radio Blackout events on February 13, 14, and 15 (UTC). The last of the three seems to be the fastest and may catch both of the forerunners about mid to late ... February 17."

Geomagnetic storms usually last 24 to 48 hours, "but some may last for many days," read a separate NWS statement.

"Ground to air, ship to shore, shortwave broadcast and amateur radio are vulnerable to disruption during geomagnetic storms. Navigation systems like GPS can also be adversely affected."

The China Meteorological Administration reported that the solar flare had jammed shortwave radio communications in southern China.

It said the flare caused "sudden ionospheric disturbances" in the atmosphere above China, and warned there was a high probability that large solar flares would appear over the next three days, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

In previous major disturbance of the Earth's electric grid from a solar incident, in 1973, a magnetic storm caused by a solar eruption plunged six million people into darkness in Canada's eastern-central Quebec province.

The British Geological Survey (BGS) said meanwhile that the solar storm would result in spectacular Northern Lights displays starting Thursday.

One coronal mass ejection (CME) arrived on February 14, "sparking Valentine's Day displays of the Northern Lights (aurora borealis) further south than usual."

"Two CMEs are expected to arrive in the next 24-48 hours and further... displays are possible some time over the next two nights if skies are clear," it said.

The office published geomagnetic records dating back to the Victorian era which it hopes will help in planning for future storms.

"Life increasingly depends on technologies that didn't exist when the magnetic recordings began," said Alan Thomson, BGS head of geomagnetism.

"Studying the records will tell us what we have to plan and prepare for to make sure systems can resist solar storms," he said.

Play Video Space Video:NASA snaps pics of comet in Valentine fling AP

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110217/sc_afp/usastronomytelecomnasachina_20110217095946

Kanak-kanak miliki 26 jari

LAI YADI MIN mempunyai tujuh jari pada setiap kakinya dan 12 jari tangan.

BEIJING - Seorang kanak-kanak berketurunan Cina berusia setahun yang tinggal di Okkalarpa Selatan di Yangon, Myanmar, Lei Yadi Min mempunyai 12 jari tangan dan 14 jari kaki, lapor sebuah akhbar kelmarin.

Kanak-kanak itu kini menunggu pengesahan rasmi daripada Guinness of World Records bagi kategori bilangan jari tangan dan kaki yang paling banyak.

Dia memiliki tujuh jari pada setiap kaki dan enam jari tangan.

Secara keseluruhannya, Min mempunyai 26 jari.

Dia bersaing dengan dua rakyat India masing-masing berusia lima tahun dan 15 tahun yang memiliki 12 jari tangan dan 13 jari kaki dengan jumlah keseluruhan 25 jari. - Agensi

http://www.kosmo.com.my/kosmo/content.asp?y=2011&dt=0214&pub=Kosmo&sec=Dunia&pg=du_08.htm

Pisau tertusuk di bawah mata

GAMBAR X-ray menunjukkan sebilah pisau yang tertusuk di bawah mata Ren Hanzhi.

BEIJING - Seorang budak lelaki di China, Ren Hanzhi bernasib baik apabila beberapa doktor berjaya menarik keluar pisau yang tertusuk di bawah matanya dalam satu pembedahan, lapor sebuah akhbar semalam.

Pisau itu tertusuk di bawah mata Hanzhi semasa dia mengupas sebiji buah epal di Zhumadian, tengah China di wilayah Henan, China baru-baru ini.

Selepas ditusuk, darah mengalir menyebabkan dia dihantar ke sebuah hospital sebelum dipindahkan ke sebuah lagi hospital.

Ketua doktor bedah, Peng Liwei kemudian berjaya menarik semula pisau sepanjang 20 sentimeter itu.

Budak berusia 13 tahun itu kini dilaporkan sedang menjalani pemulihan selepas dia dibedah. - Agensi

http://www.kosmo.com.my/kosmo/content.asp?y=2011&dt=0204&pub=Kosmo&sec=Dunia&pg=du_06.htm

China restricts reports on Egypt protests

AP – A Chinese paramilitary policeman, right, waves to a photographer to stop taking pictures at the Egyptian …

By TINI TRAN, Associated Press Tini Tran, Associated Press – Wed Feb 2, 9:52 pm ET

BEIJING – The protests in Egypt are about free elections and overthrowing a longtime dictator? Not according to China's state media, which is painting them as the kind of chaos that comes with Western-style democracy.

The recent uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia are no doubt giving pause to many authoritarian regimes around the world, but nowhere else appears to be as determined to control the message as China.

Chinese censors have blocked the ability to search the term "Egypt" on microblogging sites, and user comments that draw parallels to China have been deleted from Internet forums. The People's Daily, the flagship newspaper of the Communist Party, carried only a short report Thursday saying Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak would not stand for re-election.

While there is little chance the protests could spark demonstrations in China, the extent to which the long-ruling Communist Party is censoring the story underscores how wary it is of any potential source of unrest that might threaten its hold on power.

"Of course, the government doesn't want to see more comments on (the protests), because stability is what they want," said Zhan Jian, a professor with the Media Department at the China Youth University for Political Sciences.

Elsewhere, authoritarian leaders from Madagascar to Iran have put their own spin on the Egyptian and Tunisian protests to justify their staying in power.

In some countries, including Saudi Arabia, Equatorial Guinea and North Korea, the media strategy seems to be to ignore the protests, with little or no coverage. Others have used the media to reinforce their message.

State-controlled television in the Ivory Coast has shown looting in Tunisia, explaining that is the cost of the country's leader stepping down. The unstated context: the Ivorian president is refusing to leave office two months after losing an election.

In Zimbabwe, media loyal to longtime President Robert Mugabe have portrayed the protests as anti-imperialist, an uprising against Egypt's leader because he is close to the U.S. "This is exactly what happens when sovereign governments sup with the devil," the state-run Daily Mail said.

But Zimbabweans can still cluster around TVs in sports clubs and bars, which have been switched from the usual sports programs to blanket coverage of the protests on Al-Jazeera and other satellite news channels.

Not so in China, where CNN and BBC are not widely available, and many are getting only the government version of events.

Those accounts have focused on the chaos and ignored protester complaints about autocracy and corruption, both sensitive topics in China. The reports have also highlighted the government's dispatching several chartered planes to rescue hundreds of stranded Chinese.

Online, searching for the term "Egypt" on microblogging sites, which draw millions of users, brings up the message: "According to relevant laws, regulations and policies, the search results are not shown."

Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei gave the government's routine denial of online censorship Tuesday, saying: "China's Internet is open."

But Twitter and Facebook are blocked in China, and sensitive topics are regularly scrubbed from websites by the country's extensive Internet monitoring system, known as the Great Firewall.

China's attempts to restrict debate and sanitize reports echo its handling of earlier mass protests, said Jeremy Goldkorn, who runs Danwei.org, a website that tracks the media and Internet in China.

"It's almost the same reaction as when there were the color revolutions in Eastern Europe," he said. "The aim of it is to discourage people from making parallels with China and ... from seeing this as part of a global people power movement."

An editorial in the Global Times, a state-run newspaper, said such uprisings won't bring true democracy.

"As a general concept, democracy has been accepted by most people. But when it comes to political systems, the Western model is only one of a few options. It takes time and effort to apply democracy to different countries, and to do so without the turmoil of revolution," the paper said Sunday.

Two days later, the same publication took a swipe at the United States for backing authoritarian governments in order to uphold its interests in the Middle East, saying that "contradicts their so-called democratic politics."

China's message to its own people is clear, Goldkorn said.

"The Chinese government's take is that chaos is harmful for a developing country: 'Look what happens when people go in the streets,'" he said. "The Global Times frames everything as 'This is the danger of Western-style democracy.'"

___

Associated Press writers Lova Soarabary in Antananarivo, Madagascar; Rukmini Callimachi in Abidjan, Ivory Coast; and Angus Shaw in Harare, Zimbabwe, contributed to this report.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110203/ap_on_re_as/as_china_egypt_censorship